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What happens to EAs when the chart freezes on MT5?
Hi, I run on my MT5 platform some EAs on several charts. To be more precise, I have 17 charts opened with an EA on each of them. All of this EAs have been written by myself, I have already re-writen some of the code to make them lighter/faster. The problem is that the charts and the "trade tab"
How to distinguish a good EA from a luck period?
Hello, I've been developing EAs for some years now. I have always tried to make an EA that can work on any forex pair. I've always thought that a good EA should be able to make profit regardless of what forex pair it was running. This is what I usually do: Have an idea, write EA, make some
Goldminer Indicator for MT5
Hi, The Goldminer Indicator is a pretty old and well know indicator for MT4... there are several versions of it around the internet. I was looking for a version the runs on MT5 but I couldn't find any. Does anyone have it? I tried but I could not convert it from mql4 to mql5 :( If needed, here is
Are market products activations counted per computer or per metatrader installation?
Hi, As the title says: if I buy a product from the Market and I have 3 metatrader instances installed on a computer and activate the product on each of the instances. Will it be counted as 1 activation (same computer)? Or it will be counted as 3 activations (3 different metatrader installations)
Question about putting EAs on the Market
Hi, I was trying to upload to the Market a free EA that does not open any trades automatically, but does help users to open/close/control their trades. For example, a EA that puts trailing stops on trades that are already running, using only mouse clicks (there are buttons for that on the chart). Or
MT4 not using server resources
Hi, I am currently using some systems (indicators and EAs, both bought and developed by myself) that are very hardware intensive. I have some powerfull hardware at my disposal, because I work at a ISP. I have a dedicated server on a data center only for my MT4 platform (it's a intel xeon E5-2609
What's your opinion on optimization? I need some advice.
Hi, I've been working on a EA for some months and got some very interesting results without optimization. Below is a graph using fixed 0.01 lots from 2012 to 2017 on EURUSD: The problem is that in 2012 there was a situation where my account could have easily reached a margin call (I mean, it reached
Custom Indicator not attachting to chart on MT4 Build 1090 on Windows 10
Hi, I have a couple VPS running some MT4 terminals. Everything works fine. OS are Windows Server 2008 R2. I installed MT4 locally on Windows 10 to test some strategies. To my suprise a lot of indicators I already use on VPS will not attach to any chart on MT4 running on Windows 10. MT4 Build 1090
Indicator won't load on local computer (it works on VPS)
Hi, I have a VPS running Windows Server 2008 R2 with 4 MT4 terminals (from 2 different brokers). On VPS I can run any indicator or EA (developed by me or downloaded from the internet). Now I installed a MT4 terminal on my local computer running Windows 10 to test some strategies, but a lot of
VBE - Volatility Based Envelopes
Hello, Does anyone have a indicator based on VBE (that is not Keltner's Channel) to share? I know Keltner's are based basically only on ATR, but I am looking for something a little more complex. This papers explain a little better what I am looking for: 1- Simple explanation