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Hello house, I am developing a strategy for trading wide intraday gaps on stocks gaps, The type of gaps I am particularly intetested in are the type that appear like minus aigns all over the chart, the price is static for a period of time amd then suddenly takes a leap ans stays put again

Hi everyone, I should start by saying that I’m quite a beginner, so please forgive me if the question might seem a bit silly. Let's take an example: I have an account with 10k dollars, contract size = 1, and leverage = 1:25. I want to open a position on US30 with a 490 pip stop loss, with 1% risk

Hi, Here I have the code that I want to check when ma8 cuts ma21 from bellow I want to place the buy order and when ma8 cuts ma21 from the top I want to place the sell order, How can do these two in if statements that I leave them empty in the code? #property strict

Hello! I am new to metatrader and this question is probably easy to answer for you guys but when I log in using various demo accounts I never have any symbols. Therefore i cannot do anything. I used one of the account from Vt Markets with their MT5 version and it's all good. But I would like to be

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

Is there a way to set a specific time for platform to execute an order automatically? For example, at 12:15pm to sell 0.2 of usd/jpy

Hello everyone, I have a question, hopefully someone can help me. If I open the market overview and want to select a new column under columns such as "Volume", "Order Volume" or "Buy Volume", the program lets me display this column but the display is empty. Does anyone know how I can display this

Recently, while tidying up my old laptop, I accidentally stumbled upon a folder lost in the wilds of directories. I clicked on it. And there it was. Nostalgia. A darkness of pictures, gif-files, screenshots and all kinds of windows of multi-coloured GUI and controls.... All written by me in MQL4/5

Hi all, I downloaded and tried to compile Serhii Ivanenko's Simple Hedge Panel (https://www.mql5.com/en/code/1771) but am getting an error. I've contacted the author w/o reply & am trying to read up to fix this myself. I've never coded before though so am on the basics (what is a function, what is a

When using function ChartScreenShot, it return true but I don't find any image file (PNG). Thanks in advance for your help

Could someone tell me how to remove the asset headers from the window tile? Regards, Juan

Hi, my indicator is generating Notifications which i can then trade manually. Is there an EA in the market that can auto trade the notifications in MT4 ? Please assist. Thanks ckm

The new MQL5 Community website at http://www.mql5.com keeps developing. We invite all of you to make your contribution to this development. The new MQL5 is the evolutionary continuation of MQL4. The new language is characterized by the support of object oriented programming, by a higher code

Because the exchange changed servers, the signal was disconnected. My account currently has followers, what should I do

Hi, I want to implement an automated EA that do rollover contracts few fays before expiration, using symbol name and SYMBOL_EXPIRATION_TIME I know when i decide to rollover, the piece that i'm missing is how to "guess" what is the n next expiry contract name, let each hour I check if I enter to

I am trying to switch my MT5 to a new mail server and I am getting weird errors when I test the email settings. I had no problem connecting to this mail server and sending emails via SMTP from several other applications, so I am pretty sure it works correctly. MT5, on the other hand, encounters

I will use this topic to post reported bugs to Metaquotes in a centralized place. Please DON'T POST here without contacting me in private firstly. I don't want this topic to become garbage and polluted by useless discussion. So contact me first please, we will check together if the bug is confirmed

Hello, I'm trying to calculate the minimum amount to open a position in some assets and I can't find the formula. For example, I have $10,000.00 and I want to divide it into two equal parts to invest in two different assets. What is the maximum lot size I can buy for each? Taking EURUSD as an

Hi, I tried to use your copy trading system. I used my own account as the signal provider and used 5 other accounts to do copy trading from that signal provider. Everything run well the first 3 days. However, in the last 2 days, all 5 accounts went crazy. They made all wrong transactions and made me