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Creating multiple numbered variables and storing in arrays.

Lets say you have an array that stores 100 lot values . And you have 100 inputs of different lots. You have to create 100 inputs input Lot1; input Lot2; . . input Lot100; and then have to store them in the array LotsArray[ 0 ]=Lot1; LotsArray[ 1 ]=Lot2; . . LotsArray[ 99 ]=Lot100; I would do this

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Formulate Dummy MT5 making EA thinking it runs in backtest instead of live.

Hello 1) I have seen some websites selling top ranked MQL5 EAs for 30USD and I heard from some people they work perfect. 2) I have been told that given mql5 market EA can work during backtest without purchase they can formulate a dummy MT5 where the EA thinks it is in testing mode but it is actually

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Suggestion for Spacing between Graphical Objects of type OBJ_TEXT

Hi everyone I have written a code to create 2 graphical objects of type OBJ_TEXT as per the picture bellow The first object is an arrow (using Wingdings Font Type) placed at the last low and right bellow it is a text. My question is the following . What is an efficient way to determine the spacing

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Multi-Symbol optimisation MT5, Possible?

Hello I am getting into a discussion if the above is possible. I am not talking about the option "All Symbols in Market Watch " but instead running iteration of the various inputs on different symbols (on a single-symbol EA) with the Symbol being one of the things changing in each pass. The purpose

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Web requests, allowed URL and forgetting www

Assume I want to get data from page https://www.abc.com using web requests However in the Allowed URL user input https://abc.com because when copy pasting from browser the www gets neglected. The web-request fails in this case as the web request returns -1. My understanding is Allowed URLs list

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How to optimize a Grid/Martingale ?

Hi all The Grid strategy has a number of stages 1) The entry strategy when no trades are active 2) Closing the initial trade in profit (Using TP / Trailing Stop) 3) Opening additional trade when the previous trade is in loss 4) Closing the basket of trades when their average profit is in profit

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Escape Function Order when Order Takes Too Long

bool tradeAttempt= false ; Print ( "attemp " +pSybmol); tradeAttempt= trade.Buy(LotUsed,Sybmol,bid, 0 , 0 ,comment); Print (tradeAttempt+ " " +trade.ResultRetcode()+ " " +trade.ResultRetcodeDescription()); Hi everyone This a simple part of code that place a Buy Market Order that opens the

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Collect Symbols Last Tick Prices in Multicurrency EA

Hi I wish to find the most efficient way to perform this in MT5. The way I am looking is to check every x seconds(eg 5) and record the prices of every symbol I selected from a single chart EA. The problems with that are obvious. - I will miss any ticks that occurred during those x seconds in each

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MT5 News Filter using Calendar Functions

Hi everyone I would like some feedback on my code or how I can make it more efficient as it uses several conditionals and loops. I wanted to create a multicurrency news filter for when 30 minutes before and after the current time there is an important news event. For each news event I need its Time

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Improving Speed of Code Execution

Hi everyone I am writing an MT5 multi-currency EA that uses several indicators. Rather than create Handles and Arrays for each Indicator/Currency I created functions to easily get the values for each indicator that I use in the OnTick on every new candle. It takes however rather long to calculate