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From your experience. What tools are the most useful since developed by John Ehlers?

Hi. From your experience. What tools are the most useful since developed by John Ehlers? Regards.

Hi everyone, In an EA using Protrader I have a Dictionary type, that I can store key | value where value can be any type, inclusive arrays. So, I can do something like this: Dictionary<string, bool[]> positionParcial;positionParcial = new Dictionary<string, bool[]>();positionParcial.Add(_ordId,...

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Why do metatrader crash with loops?

Hi, on metatrader, if you code: while (1>0) {} The program does not run and crashes, but why this happen? I see that in other languages there is no problem with this kind of loop. Thanks for answer

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Draw text vertically when overfloat outside screen

Hello, I am working on a script that draw text label vertically. The text start from the High of a bar. My problem is that when a bar is near the high of the screen (on a strong uptrend), the text is NOT show up at all. I have to squeeze the chart vertical range so text is show. I think, MT4 shows...

Discussion of article "An Example of Developing a Spread Strategy for Moscow Exchange Futures"

New article An Example of Developing a Spread Strategy for Moscow Exchange Futures has been published: The MetaTrader 5 platform allows developing and testing trading robots that simultaneously trade multiple financial instruments. The built-in Strategy Tester automatically downloads required tick...

Indicators: VHF adaptive ADXm

VHF adaptive ADXm: Short description. Author: Mladen Rakic

Indicators Incomplete showing. Please advise

Hello Everyone, While I am doing chart analysis I realized that MA, BB and some other indicators does not show on back history bars (even if I downloaded all History data for years , and Activated chart history bars to maximum) it happens when I am using EMA 500 or above, BB 99 or above any...

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Error - Real Account positions

Id like your help please. My app isn't correctly sync with my real account. These positions aren't my real positions in my real account. (see attached file) Only the last one is correct. The others are closed positions but are there yet. How could I fix that?

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How to remember if the order was closed by ****

Is it possible to know if the order was closed by 1. normal tp/sl 2. Manual close 3. closed by **pip 4. closed by profit dollers. etc..... Is it possible to put mark (comments?) when CloseOrder? If it is possible to leave a foot print, I think I can know the order was closed by 1 or 2 or 3. Any good...

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Need help with some coding in indicators

Hi I am trying to add 2SD 2 Standard deviation for the price ratio of two correlated pairs for example AUDUSD/NSDUSD , but getting zero result since it is not taking into array as the same way as it does in expert adviser. Please guide me where I am wrong. These are the lines I am trying to get the...

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Reversal patterns: Testing the Double top/bottom pattern

Traders often look for trend reversal points since the price has the greatest potential for movement at the very beginning of a newly formed trend. Consequently, various reversal patterns are considered in the technical analysis. The Double top/bottom is one of the most well-known and frequently used ones. The article proposes the method of the pattern programmatic detection. It also tests the pattern's profitability on history data.

Gap - a profitable strategy or 50/50?

The article dwells on gaps — significant differences between a close price of a previous timeframe and an open price of the next one, as well as on forecasting a daily bar direction. Applying the GetOpenFileName function by the system DLL is considered as well.

Using limit orders instead of Take Profit without changing the EA's original code

Using limit orders instead of conventional take profits has long been a topic of discussions on the forum. What is the advantage of this approach and how can it be implemented in your trading? In this article, I want to offer you my vision of this topic.

Movement continuation model - searching on the chart and execution statistics

This article provides programmatic definition of one of the movement continuation models. The main idea is defining two waves — the main and the correction one. For extreme points, I apply fractals as well as "potential" fractals - extreme points that have not yet formed as fractals.

EA remote control methods

The main advantage of trading robots lies in the ability to work 24 hours a day on a remote VPS server. But sometimes it is necessary to intervene in their work, while there may be no direct access to the server. Is it possible to manage EAs remotely? The article proposes one of the options for controlling EAs via external commands.

100 best optimization passes (part 1). Developing optimization analyzer

The article dwells on the development of an application for selecting the best optimization passes using several possible options. The application is able to sort out the optimization results by a variety of factors. Optimization passes are always written to a database, therefore you can always select new robot parameters without re-optimization. Besides, you are able to see all optimization passes on a single chart, calculate parametric VaR ratios and build the graph of the normal distribution of passes and trading results of a certain ratio set. Besides, the graphs of some calculated ratios are built dynamically beginning with the optimization start (or from a selected date to another selected date).

Modeling time series using custom symbols according to specified distribution laws

The article provides an overview of the terminal's capabilities for creating and working with custom symbols, offers options for simulating a trading history using custom symbols, trend and various chart patterns.

Reversing: The holy grail or a dangerous delusion?

In this article, we will study the reverse martingale technique and will try to understand whether it is worth using, as well as whether it can help improve your trading strategy. We will create an Expert Advisor to operate on historic data and to check what indicators are best suitable for the reversing technique. We will also check whether it can be used without any indicator as an independent trading system. In addition, we will check if reversing can turn a loss-making trading system into a profitable one.

Using indicators for optimizing Expert Advisors in real time

Efficiency of any trading robot depends on the correct selection of its parameters (optimization). However, parameters that are considered optimal for one time interval may not retain their effectiveness in another period of trading history. Besides, EAs showing profit during tests turn out to be loss-making in real time. The issue of continuous optimization comes to the fore here. When facing plenty of routine work, humans always look for ways to automate it. In this article, I propose a non-standard approach to solving this issue.

MQL5 Cookbook: Getting properties of an open hedge position

MetaTrader 5 is a multi-asset platform. Moreover, it supports different position management systems. Such opportunities provide significantly expanded options for the implementation and formalization of trading ideas. In this article, we discuss methods of handling and accounting of position properties in the hedging mode. The article features a derived class, as well as examples showing how to get and process the properties of a hedge position.

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I need a programmer for Price grid EA

I have an idea that I want put into an EA, simple price grid function but with a few unique functions. Pricing is negotiable. It would simply involve pending orders and stop losses

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EA or script for placing Pending Order on fibo levels

Hi, I need script or ea that can place pending orders on manually drawn fibo lines. I need 2 levels of buy limit and sell limit. Please refer to the picture above. Thanks

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I need experts programmer

I have an template with two indicators. One gives a dot signal and other gives an arrow signal. Signals come at different time. But I am suppose to trade when both signal appear the same time. I need and indicator that can give an alert when both signal appear the same time

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Deep Learning Neural Network artificial intelligence indicator

I'm looking for a developer who knows AI. no first timers please or simple i can do it. i need past projects on the same field that was done by the developer The indicator project should cover the following:it will be splitted into 3 things backtest, testing , forecast1. backtest will read the...

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Martingale EA based on counting particular Nos and length of Consecutive Candles

Counts (Nos) of preset consecutive candles of the same color type (bullish or bearish) Then open buy when (Nos) of candles are green (bullish) or sell Red (Bearish). (e.g. if (Nos) of consecutive candles set to 2 then ea will wait for 2 consecutive Bullish or Bearish candle to close...

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Looking for a trading system strategy based on moving averages & Indicators that works on M30, H1, H4, Any Pair,

Dear all programmer... I need a good moving average cross over strategy for forex trading system which work in time frame M30 TO H4, Any pair. Which Strategy show when i buy or sell. Another indicator which show the moving average strategy is correct direction. if all the conditions...

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I need a mtf MA Dashboard indicator

Dear all programmer... I need a dashboard indicator...showing some condition from a different multi time indicator,,, and if all the conditions same direction, it will alert signal, and send to android,,

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I need a mtf MA Dashboard indicator

Dear all programmer... I need a dashboard indicator...showing some condition from a different multi time indicator,,, and if all the conditions same direction, it will alert signal, and send to android,,

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Envelopes based robot

Robot based on envelopesI need a robot that open buy trade when following conditionsare met:1. there is a candle completely (at least one pip) above upper band2. price move at least one pip above highest candle above upper bandbuy trade is closed when:1. take profit is reached. When take profit is...

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Script or indicator for creating screenshot/take picture

I need a script/indicator for creating pictures. With a certain file name. I am using the charts to insert them in my excel sheet. There are some indicators, but the file name different everytime. For example: GBPJPY._Period62_2018-12-12_23-04-40. My excel sheet covers 28 pairs. All...

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Ninja Route MT5

Ninja Route MT5 is a combination of numerous strategies that develop during machine learning processes using historical data of the major pairs. Each strategy involves a unique set of sophisticated price actions that optimize to gain advantages under various conditions of the market. Connecting all the strategies into one complete system provides a significant advantage on the overall performance and enhances long-term safety. Machine learning is a field of computer science that uses statisti

AccountQuickReport

The script creates account summary report in a separate window. The report can be created for all deals and on deals for selected financial instruments. It is possible to specify a time interval of calculation and save report to htm-file. The script creates account summary report in a separate window. The report can be created for all deals and for deals of the selected financial instruments. It is possible to specify a time interval of calculation and save report to htm-file. Input par

Triton

This robot is designed for major currency pairs and trades three strategies. 1- swing, 2- gap, 3- support and resistance. It uses the algorithm for analysis of price data and finds the best parameters. Trades are filtered by results of analysis of daily and monthly chart for the last 10 periods. The Swing strategy can be used on TF H1 or M30, or also on M15 or M5 (more trades but higher risk) The Gap strategy is recommended on M30 or H1 The Sup./Res. strategy is recommended on M30, H1

CreateGridOrdersTune

A script for opening a grid of orders If you need to quickly open several pending orders (Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy Stop, Sell Stop) on a certain distance from the current price, this script will do all the routine for you! Allow AutoTrading before running the script. Usage: Run the script on a chart. Input Parameters: Language of messages displayed (EN, RU, DE, FR, ES) - language of the output messages (English, Russian, German, French, Spanish). Price for open - open price. If set to

Hamster Scalping mt5

Hamster Scalping is a fully automated Expert Advisor with no use of martingale. Night scalping strategy. The RSI indicator and an ATR-based filter are used for entries. The advisor needs a hedging account type Real operation monitoring as well as my other products can be found here: https://www.mql5.com/en/users/mechanic/seller General Recommendations The minimum deposit is $100, use an ECN account with the minimum spread, default settings reccomend for eurusd m5 gmt +2. Please use max spread

LCF Theta Vector

LCF Theta Vector is based on custom variation of RSI indicator in assistance of vector algorithm and built-in AUTO_OPTIMIZER module that allows for dynamic adaptation to current market conditions (no user calibration needed) - the specific result is chosen on the basis of several different coefficients. EA can be run on different symbols and timeframes but for reducing demand on computing power, internal parameters are narrowed and it is highly recommended to run it on this pairs and time frames

Grid Hero

Grid Hero is a fully automated EA that uses a revolutionary Grid algorithm (P.A.M.A.) together with a signature synergy of Price Action trading and an Artificial Instinct Self-Adaptive Processing Unit. Grid Hero was strictly developed, tested and optimized using the "Reversed Sampling" development methodology based on "In-Sample" phase (2012 to 2017) and "Out-Of-Sample" phase (2004 to 2011). It has passed 13 years back test of real tick data and real variable spread (with commission) from 2004

Quatron

This robot is designed for major currency pairs and trades several strategies.It uses the algorithm for analysis of price data and finds the best parameters. Trades are filtered by results of analysis of daily and monthly chart for the last 10 periods. This is not a scalping robot. It will be traded at all brokers with quotes accurate to points. Your broker must allow hedging. Default settings can be used for EURUSD,

Hamster Scalping

Hamster Scalping is a fully automated Expert Advisor with no use of martingale. Night scalping strategy. The RSI indicator and an ATR-based filter are used for entries. Real operation monitoring as well as my other products can be found here: https://www.mql5.com/en/users/mechanic/seller General Recommendations The minimum deposit is 100 USD, default settings reccomend for eurusd m5 gmt +2. Please use max spread 10 if you will not have orders change it to 50. Use a broker with good execution

Grid King

A Small Christmas Gift: Every Purchase Before Christmas will receive a free 3-month trial for 2 of my other EA's And you get to choose for which EA's :-) Grid King takes a new approach to grid trading. The main focus when developing the EA was safety, by eliminating the margin-call risk which is usually associated with most grid systems on the market. It also strives to achieve much higher returns than the average grid system, by spreading risk amongst multiple pairs and strategies which al

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