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Agent manager not working?

Hi! I 'm trying to use the cores of my own laptop from my VPS . Both have MT5 terminal open . Went to Agents Manager on laptop to set up the agents and get the IP address + ports . So should be fine . Then added them in MT5 terminal on VPS (agents tab) , but once an optimization launched, these

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ICM historical tick data (as provided by MetaQuotes) for backtesting in MT5

Hi! IC Markets apparently receives historical tick data for its instruments from Metaquotes (according to their support chat at least). Though, ICM recently reduced their historical tick data on their servers to 2024 onwards. Being interested to use ICM historical tick data ( instead of

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editing ticks.dat files

Hi, I'd like to edit ticks.dat files in the /bases/.../ticks/ folder to reflect the start/end month of my .tkc files (I've merged two different historical periods for a broker). Is this possible in a way or another

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Request for development - single tests displaying ready-to-use charts

Hi MetaQuotes team, A request for development hopefully for a next update in the near future. Currently, when right clicking on an optimization result to run a single test, MT5 displays the trades on the chart with a standard display/template, and not all indicators are on it. It would be so much

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Trading non USD Forex pairs to diversify a portfolio?

Hi! I'm considering to build a portfolio of diversified forex pairs to be traded with an EA, my account currency being USD ( IC markets and Eightcap as brokers) E.g. I'm thinking of EURUSD, GBPUSD as main pairs and AUDCAD, NZDCHF for diversification purposes as an example. Though, wouldn't this

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How to view and call external libraries?

Hi! A couple of questions on libraries, if I may ask: 1/ in mql5 editor or on the website how can I have a view on all external libraries, their description, functions, etc...? 2/ how can I add one manually, and in script (I guess the include statement in mql5 editor)? 3/ which part of the MQL5

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Optimization inputs steps and robustness

Hi all, I'd like to get feedbacks from advanced traders/EA developers regarding the max number of inputs steps (total number displayed in the bottom right part of the Inputs sheet when optimizing) allowing to have robust setfiles, i.e. without overfitting (aside out of sample data testing) . E.g

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Request for extended strategy tester report

Hi, Could Metaquotes add the holding times statistics to the strategy tester xml files (and possibly all other relevant missing information)? There is a mismatch between the report and what can be exported. Thanks in advance

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Avg/max holding time in tester report

Hi all, As opposed to the documentation: https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/algotrading/testing_report do you see reasons why the strategy tester report doesn't contain the avg/max holding time? Is it a matter of versions? Would be useful to display it (when testing ex5 files), any

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Irrelevant arrows/deals in strategy tester - visualisation mode

Hi all, When testing/visualizing the outcomes of a EA, I observe irrelevant arrows/deals being displayed on the chart. - I'm pretty sure they are not related to relevant deals, as OnTradeTransaction doesn't display any message (even basic) in the journal at the corresponding times. - Also, on the