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Reality Check

Hello all, it's been a while but I'm still plugging away. I would like to verify something that might seem incredibly basic, but just for the sake of argument, humor me. IF you have backtested a strategy properly including sample size, excluding time periods you can't actually trade in real life

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Forward tested EA. What now?

Hey all, I have forward tested an EA that is supposedly meant to pass prop firm challenges. As far as it's performance in my test, it did what it said that it would do and so far as that test shows, it would have passes the prop firm challenge. My questions is, is there any reason to believe that it

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EA printing values that shouldn't be there

Ok, I threw the following code together just to look at the output I get from my indicator. It should print 0.0 at all times unless it sees a trade signal from the indicators buffers. However, it's printing out values at all times and never 0.0. There are no errors in the compiler or in MT5. I've

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Coding for the strategy tester

Hey all, I'm getting near to what I hope is the final stretch of my indicator and EA. Now, is it automatically going to work with the strategy tester or is there something I need to do to make it work

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iCustom giving unexpected values

Hello all, I am trying to make an iCustom call to the REX indicator to retrieve the rex line and the signal line. I even looked at the REX source code to confirm that index 0 and 1 are the correct indices. I've followed all of my variables down through my code and printed them and everything seems

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Problem accessing particular buffer information

Ok, so this is the latest in my ongoing endeavor to learn MQL and to write my indicator. I have indeed more or less learned how prev_calulated and rates_total and buffers work. More or less. A big thank you to Vlad for the time he took to give me some code to analyze. It really helped me understand

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Got my code going, but not like I was hoping.

Ok, I'm working on a simplified indicator that I plan on using in my EA. First off, I am not looking for it to be done for me. If you like, give me a hint and I'll try to figure it out. What I have done: I have watched the*** videos on making an indicator for MT5. In fact, the framework of my

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Change Meta Editor Color Theme

Hey all, I saw a blog post that said you can change Metaeditors colors by editing a config ini file. However, I see no ini files at all in my MT5 directory. Anyone know anything about this

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Looking for a friendly coding critique

Hello all, I have been working on learning how to code an EA from scratch. I started in MQL4 and then moved it over to MQL5. I've made some mistakes and reworked it several times. And I'm posting for a critique of my coding style and ability. DISCLAIMER: NO I am not looking for anyone to code or

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Function firing when it shouldn't

Alright, I started a new thread because it's a different topic. My EA uses an indicator to determine a bias toward long or short. When the bias changes it fires the order function. This is the only place that the order function is called in my code. However, I have found that several times the order