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Consider this specific MT5 scenario: An EA opens a buy position. The user closes it manually, but the entry condition remains true. On the next tick, the EA is allowed to open another position. Assume there are no other positions or pending orders, and the user has not disabled automated trading

Build 6294: WebRequest() and TLS sockets fail on every HTTPS host that requires SNI (1009 / 5203, 5272) Since build 6294, WebRequest() fails for every HTTPS host that requires SNI (Server Name Indication), while hosts that serve their certificate without SNI still work. The same EA and the same

I have been testing my trading strategy on an MT5 demo account for the past three months, and the testing had been running smoothly until last night, when the account was unexpectedly blown due to what appears to be a critical bug. As shown in the attached evidence, my GBPUSD trades were closed at

Title: MQL5.community authorization failed (401) on fresh MT5 installation – same account works on VPS Hello everyone, I'm experiencing a problem logging into my MQL5.community account through MetaTrader 5 on my Windows 10 laptop. The problem: Whenever I open MT5, I receive the following errors in

I cannot log in to MQL5.community from MetaTrader 5 on my VPS, although the same account works on my home PC. Journal on the VPS (every attempt, a few seconds after start): MQL5.community authorization failed MQL5 Market failed connect to server MQL5 Market failed to load products What I have

MetaQuotes has launched new MQL5.community information channels on Facebook, X.com (Twitter), and Telegram. These channels provide daily publications of relevant technical materials from the MQL5.com Articles and CodeBase sections. They are designed to promptly update developers on algorithmic

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Hello, Please confirm the historical timestamp and trading-session rules for EURUSD and USDJPY on MetaQuotes-Demo from September 1 through November 4, 2026. Our Python export uses MetaTrader5 package 5.0.6231 and terminal build 6296. For both pairs, we found one-tick, flat M15 and H1 bars at raw

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Good afternoon, I am having an issue resetting my password and I realized I never even received the initial password email and purchased a product . Reset emails never arrive (whitelist + spam checked). I can see the purchase while logged in but I need the password to activate in MT5. Account is

Environment: Windows 11 x64 build 26200, MetaTrader 5 x64 build 6302. Reproduced on the same PC in two MT5 installations, Alfa-Forex and FxPro, each with a separate data folder. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a saved custom profile containing multiple charts and graphical objects. 2. Close the terminal

The major update has brought two important changes significantly enhancing the MetaTrader 5 experience. The new section of advanced trading statistics can help improve results, while the built-in payment service can simplify account top-up. In addition, we have laid the foundation for additional

Dear MetaQuotes Ltd., I operate a Japanese-language FX information website. We would like to ask for your permission to display data from the MetaTrader 5 Economic Calendar on our website, and to ask about any conditions that apply. **What we would like to display** - For about 12 major economic

Hello traders, I have been working on algorithmic strategies for XAUUSD (M15 timeframe), and one of the biggest challenges I face is controlling drawdown while maintaining solid profitability. In your experience: - What risk management techniques work best for gold? - Do you prefer fixed lot or

I was testing a daily loss lock in the Strategy Tester (100,000 account, 5% daily limit = 5,000, lock set at 90% of the limit). With "1 minute OHLC" the lock fired late: the day closed at 105% of the limit. With "Every tick based on real ticks" it locked at 90.0% (−4,501), exactly as designed. The

Hi everyone, I’m working on an automated interpretation of a trendline trading approach in MQL5 and would appreciate technical feedback on how to validate its behavior in the MT5 Strategy Tester . The strategy inspiration comes from Tori Trades’ video, “Once you master this strategy, trading becomes

Shinigami ask me to put my latest indicators and templates.. so if you are new for reading this thread, please use this indy and template because this is what i use now after download this zip file, just go to page number....... (i forgot, sorry ) the rule is using h1 1. if 2 SMMA WEIGHTED CLOSE...

Good day dear forum members. After reading the forum a bit, I came across several threads on arbitrage and pair trading . Judging by the threads, some are interested and some are trying it. I used to dabble in this topic a long time ago, but my knowledge was not enough. Now I am a complete mess in

We run a small MT5 stack with a 1 % daily loss cap. It had been in place for months and we trusted it. Replaying our own history, a day where every stop gaps at its instrument’s 99th percentile reaches 13.84 % of equity . Not 1 %. The cause is simple once you see it: the limit counts the stop, not

Modifying A Good Trading Strategy Prematurely. Strategies will often go through a losing period but the issue comes down to knowing when a change has occurred. Many traders will try to tweak indicators, add filters or change entry rules after a few losing trades. This can cause overfitting of your

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How do you measure the real impact of economic news on an EA? I've been researching how automated trading systems behave around economic releases, and I've noticed that simply classifying events as Low, Medium or High impact doesn't tell the whole story. Two High-impact events can produce completely

Over the years, I’ve tested and observed many Expert Advisors, especially on XAUUSD. And there’s something that keeps repeating itself again and again. Most EAs that show amazing backtests on gold rely on some form of martingale or grid logic. At first glance, everything looks perfect: high win

What kind of vps do you use? Maybe some cheap and reliable advice for 5-10 terminals

Has anyone actually used an EA for passing their prop firm challenge and maintaining their prop firm accounts over a long period of time? If so, do you have proof? Trade history on myfxbook, for example? Thanks

Hi all, Recently i tried to optimize a strategy, i choose the fast genetic optimization since the number of passes where high. I used the system resources and also the MQL5 cloud network at the same time. Local optimization is working fine, but the cloud optimization is failing. In the Journal the

Hello everyone, I wanted to share some lessons learned about parameter optimization, hoping to get your feedback and maybe some ideas to improve. 1. Walk- forward optimization beats simple single-period optimization. A strategy that looks great on one year of history often breaks on the next six

Please somebody help me with this. I know that this is a simple and basic ,maybe even stupid question to ask ,but it still give me a headache. Anyway , here it is: What is a tipical(average,expected whatever you want to call it) spread on XAUUSD preferably on ECN type accounts. Of course ,i know it

I'm trying to figure out if I can have a list of all my trades for the same utensils separate rather than one bulk position in the tool box/terminal box. Is this even possible? Thanks

Hi, I have recently started learning MQL5 language and all the tutorials are only focused on Forex market. I have been trading Futures contracts(manually) with <Deleted>. So, my question is If i keep learning Mql5 language, will I be able to develop EA for Futures market(with <Deleted>)? Thank you

What is your Preffered Syle of trading? Swing Day Or Scalping? What EA would you prefer for developers to make you assuming All of the work and are profitable

Hi, Can someone please let me know how to use Metatrader5 to trade in stocks in NSE and/or BSE stock markets in India? Thanks, Amitabh

Hello, Can any one please suggest me the best indicator for binary options trading? Thanks...

I used to use metatrader4 when I was messing with Forex, but I have funds that I'd like to use out of my stock porfolio to trade one particuarl stock which goes up and down $1-2/day pretty much all the time. I'd like to set metatrader up to say, sell at a certain price, then buy at $2.00 lower, then

Dear all, I am trying to import historical data (M1) to MT5 from my Tradestation account. I have export the data in csv format and below there are some rows as example: "Date","Time","Open","High","Low","Close","TotalVolume" 1/2/2008,03:01:00,3841.00,3842.25,3840.25,3841.75,184

Does anyone here trade Nasdaq? What leverage do you get from your broker

Does anyone here trade BTC

Hi All How do I add the NSE Indian Market- Stocks and Futures into the MT5 market watch. Thanks a ton for your help. Regards Praveen

what is the procedure to add symbol from NSE to MT5 marketwatch and start trading NSE option trading and back test

If BTC/USD has support at $68,000 and resistance at $70,000, what type of group or person would keep dumping at $70,000 when they make very little profit from a buy at $69,000

For the past weeks I've been developing an EA based on SMC, multitimeframe liqquidity-sweep: Stats are good IMO, DD < 10%, good sharpe ratio, etc... But I question myself about this being more stable? Such as diversifying. My main problem is choosing a variety of pairs, i.e: EUR/USD GPB/USD USD/JPY

I want to demo Options board on MT5 but cant find ANY one who offers it? Where can i try the MT5 options board? Who is currently demo/ real trading with MT5 options platform? its ridiculous i cant find ANY information on how to actually do it/ who offers it. Its almost as if it doesnt exist/ noone

After a lot of bought EAs, prop challenges and backtests that looked great, I ended up with a short checklist I now go through before I pay for anything. Backtests weren't the problem. They just never told the whole story. Here's my list. Curious what you'd add or disagree with. 1. Deposits dressed

Hi everyone, there were a few threads here lately about backtest vs live. Most ask why the two differ. I'd like to ask something a bit different: how do you notice it early enough? What I do with my EAs is pretty simple. I run the backtest over the same weeks as the live trades, on my broker's

I do most of my development runs on M1 OHLC because it's fast. Before I release anything I rerun the finished EA on real ticks. On EAs that wait for a setup and give the trade room, the two modes usually land close together. On anything with a tight target they can be far apart. In 1 minute OHLC

Why didn't my EA get triggered during the NFP news release, even though it doesn't use a news filter? Can anyone help me understand why this happened

Hello. i have gold ai made via Ai finally got it working, now i need help tweaking settings so we become rich. Its expert advisor for gold that follows stop limits and follows price until a thresh hold is met for trade. So far back testing ends in account wipe. please help

If this topic is not allowed please delete it. I am only asking purely for educational reasons. Not for intent. It was the case that since 2016 there was not solid proof that MT5 ex5 cannot be converted to MQL5 . In fact there were so many scam services offering that. This is what I would also say

The given errors are: 'iMA' - wrong parameters count ThreeMA_Strategy_EA.mq5 76 22 'iMA' - wrong parameters count ThreeMA_Strategy_EA.mq5 77 22 'iMA' - wrong parameters count ThreeMA_Strategy_EA.mq5 79 22 'iMA' - wrong parameters count ThreeMA_Strategy_EA.mq5 81 23 'iMA' - wrong parameters count

Hello. An MT5 EA returns only "there are no trading operations" in automatic Market validation: EURUSD H1, XAUUSD D1, GBPUSD M30 and EURUSD M1 (hedging). There is no detailed Expert journal in the report. The exact submitted EX5 trades locally on MetaQuotes-Demo, XAUUSD D1, with factory Inputs, real

I've recently noticed an issue where now my EA is not able to execute any orders. Every time it tries to place an order it says that "unsupported filling mode" and then when looking closer into it, it will say give an error saying "Ordersend error 4756". I am not sure at all why this is happening

Good Afternoon ! I Always use M1 and 1 minute OHLC in tester configuration windows for optimization an its ok until 2026 june, I update Metatrader to version 5 build 6140 now 2026 august and now I have to set timeframe to same as I set in tester parameter window. Example "Mean Reversion.Ex5" example

A pattern I see in many EAs: read SymbolInfoSessionTrade for today, take from % 86400 and to % 86400, and compare them with the current time of day. It breaks when a session crosses midnight. The returned 'to' can be later than 24:00 (a session from 21:00 to 08:00 the next day), so to % 86400

Any EA that works with fixed session times (Tokyo fixing, London open, New York close) needs the broker's GMT offset, the difference between server time and UTC. Live, TimeTradeServer() - TimeGMT() gives it. In the Strategy Tester it does not: the documentation says that during testing TimeGMT() is

Please help me understand: I am running the tester strategy with an expert of the MT5 market on gold with four different brokers Dukascopy, Swissquote, FP-Market and Ava-Trade and I get completely different results. In particular with Swissquote and Dukascopy the result from 01.01.24 to today is

Hi all My EA is different in teser and prop firm account. Please help On 7 Sep, 2026, the no. of lot increase by 1 in tester , but not in prop firm account Prop firm account The function is as follows: int LastLotCnt() { int re; long l_timecurrent = TimeTradeServer (); double

Hello, We run MetaTrader 5 build 6182 (distributed by our broker). The build 6230 update has been downloaded by Live Update but not yet applied. We need written, documented answers to the following. Please cite official documentation where it exists. 1. Installer behaviour The installation help

Everything about pivot indicators you may find in this thread. Besides there are some usefull links as well: - how to trade with pivot (manuals) is here . - some trading system based on pivot https://www.forex-tsd.com/forum/trading-systems/1158-pivot-system - pivots, camarilla, high/low etc.... is

I am continuing posting information about indicators. So, we have information about Stochastic indicator https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177239 We have the thread about Momentum indicator https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/176430 Now something about Parabolic SAR. OverviewThe Parabolic Time/Price System,...

Why the version of MT5 backtest speed such slow, I pend it over night(~8 Hours), only 1 pass finished but I have brought a new cpu, the usage of CPU keep only 11%

RSI indicator We are continuing discussion about the indicators. We have the following thread: Parabolic SAR indicator Momentum indicator Stochastic Oscillator Divergence Indicator Now we are talking about RSI. "Technical Analysis from A to Z": Overview The Relative Strength Index ("RSI") is a

My intention of the code below is to display 3 periods of moving average lines for the range of bars specified by chart window width. Although first period of line is drawn properly, succeeding 2 period lines fail to draw due to CopyBuffer error (4806 : Requested data not found). I cannot figure out

Repainting indicators look perfect in history and useless in live trading. Here is a check anyone can run without any tools. 1. Screenshot the last 20 signals today. 2. Wait for 3 new bars - do not reload the chart. 3. Screenshot again and compare. If an arrow moved, disappeared, or appeared late

Hi! I'ld like to be able to draw some rectangles that are gonna mark support and resistances zones that may take lots of bars to be crossed, thus being relevant for a lot of time. In my tool, I do that by extending the final points of the rectangle to a whole new year in the future: The problem is

Does anyone have a large collection of oscillators (works best in a trading range) that he/she put together? Maybe we could start a thread where all oscillators are gathered. And let's go a little beyound RSI and Stochastic

Why is it that MT5 has a white flicker when you change timeframes while MT4 operates smoothly? Is it because the charts in MT5 are not preserved and are rebuilt every timeframe switch? How does this affect the objects in the charts? Is there a way, or can you make a way to make the chart engine the

Most of the repainting complaints I see in this section come down to one assumption, not to the detection logic or the buffer handling. MetaTrader hands OnCalculate its price arrays oldest to newest. Not series, not reversed, not newest first. Index 0 is the oldest bar currently loaded, and index

Hi, i'm trying to create an indicator with claude ai help, and it's almost works well, this code is intended to draw a plot arrow into the particular candle as a signal based on stochastic level the only issue i face is the signal only appear on previous candle that already formed, meanwhile for the

I'm looking for someone that feels the have developed a good working Kalman Filter Model to use in the fx market

Hi everyone, I am looking in vain for the code of this MESA projective indicator to be placed on the price that draws in the future the length of the cycle; Has anybody worked on that or know where to find it? I am looking for this indicator able to: take advantage of the adaptative cycles from J

My breakout EA work on different currency pairs need an indicator to help to avoid false breakout. May be consider the volume or anything else is OK. Please advise. Thanks Peter

We are continuing discussion about the indicators. We have the following thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/175886 https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177239 https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177358 https://www.forex-tsd.com/forum/debates-discussions/9785-rsi-indicator https://www.mql5.com/en/forum https...

Check out the new article: Building AI-Powered Trading Systems in MQL5 (Part 13): Letting the Assistant Execute Trades Behind an Approval Card . We extend an MQL5 AI assistant from read-only tools to safe trade execution with a human-in-the-loop gate. The article defines action tools for placing

Quantum XAUUSD Silver Trader : Multi-indicator EA for Gold (XAUUSD) and Silver (XAGUSD): RSI, ADX and MA signals, adaptive ATR trailing stop and built-in capital protection. Author: Cristhian Alexander Gaibor Cuasquer

New article New Article Publishing System at the MQL5.community is published: We present you a new article publishing system at the MQL5.community. In the new system, we have tried to make the whole process of article writing clear and comfortable by breaking it into several steps. At each step we

G7 Account Inspector Pro - Institutional Prop Firm Risk Auditor and Performance HUD : Institutional on-chart account inspector, behavioral signature analyzer, EA vs manual breakdown, and prop firm drawdown auditor with 1-click HUD. Author: Sophea Khin

G7 Institutional SMC Radar and AI Dashboard : A premium, on-chart analytical dashboard that automatically scans for ICT Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps (FVG), and calculates real-time AI confluence scores for Smart Money traders. Author: Sophea Khin

G7 FVG OB Confluence AutoTrader and Institutional SMC Dashboard : G7 FVG OB Confluence AutoTrader is a professional Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Expert Advisor and on-chart analysis utility for MetaTrader 5. Engineered for Gold (XAUUSD), Forex, and Indices, it detects high-probability institutional

MT5 Risk Reward Calculator : A free MT5 script to calculate position size, risk amount, and risk-to-reward ratio visually on the chart. Author: Jony Islam

Rolling VWAP Deviation Regime Filter : A regime-classification oscillator that measures how far, and how persistently, price deviates from a rolling volume-weighted VWAP in standard-deviation units, separating trending conditions from ranging ones. Author: Habeeb Olamide Abdulazeez

MSNR Key Levels MTF : MSNR KeyLevels MultiTF draws Malaysian SNR key levels from M5, M10, M15, H1, H4 and D1 at the same time, on any chart you have open. A built-in control panel lets you switch each timeframe on and off with a single click, so you go from a clean chart to full higher timeframe

Alternative Data: Capturing the Predictive Power of Big Data for Investment Success (Wiley Trading) Shift the balance of power from company to investor through intensified use of data Alternative Data opens a gateway to the future of investing, using Open Halo technology to provide real-time

G7 Pro Trade Manager and Prop Firm Equity Protector Auto-BE Trailing Stop 1-Click HUD) : G7 Pro Trade Manager & Prop Firm Equity Protector is a professional on-chart trading assistant for manual traders and prop firm accounts (FTMO, FundedNext, The5ers). It features a clean obsidian HUD dashboard

Order Blocks Zones SMC : Order block indicator for MT5 on Gold (XAUUSD), forex and indices: the last opposite candle before a move that breaks a swing becomes a zone, fresh, tested and broken states, closed bars only. Open source code. Author: Cristhian Alexander Gaibor Cuasquer

New article MetaTrader 5 on Linux is published: In this article, we demonstrate an easy way to install MetaTrader 5 on popular Linux versions — Ubuntu and Debian. These systems are widely used on server hardware as well as on traders’ personal computers. Author: MetaQuotes

Broker Rollover Spread Logger and EA Guard : Tracks live midnight rollover spread spikes against a self-calibrating daytime baseline and outputs a binary iCustom guard flag (Buffer 0) so EAs can pause entries during liquidity drains. Author: Nazim Yurtcan

Risk and Stop-Loss Calculator : When I first started scalping, I had a problem: during periods of high volatility, it sometimes took too long to calculate exactly 1%, and I’d end up setting an incorrect stop-loss or using a position size that was too low or too high. But with this calculator, I can

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Hi everyone i have a problem i bought a new vps and i cant login my mql5 account on the mt5 i have logged in my trading account but mql5 account login is giving error login failed and in journal it says mql5.community authorization failed i have tried everything Microsoft WebView 2 reinstalled mt 5

Hi All, I am trying to set up an outlook email under TOOLS>OPTIONS>EMAIL but am having issues I keep getting the error " Mail: login to smtp-mail.outlook.com:587 failed", I have also tried using smtp.office365.com:587 instead of smtp-mail.outlook.com:587 but it still comes back with the same error

I have 4 MT4 terminals, with 15 charts per terminal. I've been updating my trading system lately. One of the measures I took was to reduce the number of indicators on each chart, thinking that this would make my system snappier. To this end, I coded one indicator to have multiple buffers and display

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Programmatically placed arrow objects work but interfere in readying the chart. The common function below, in hopes to disabled it, can't handle dismissing it. ObjectSetString ( 0 ,sName, OBJPROP_TOOLTIP , "" ); In the object you drawn manually for example, this is what you see,. I have indeed seen

Hello, I need help retrieving missing EURUSD M1 history for an MT4 Strategy Tester backtest. My setup: Broker: OANDA U.S. Platform: MT4 running in Windows 11 through Parallels on a Mac. Required history: September 1–October 23, 2026, including September for indicator initialization. In my October

Hello, Do you listen any music while you trade? I have tried with many different kinds, but I think classical music is the most appropriate to remain discipline focus and calm . Any replies are appreciated. Let's start

Hello, I am preparing my first MetaTrader 4 Expert Advisor for the Market (draft product ID 201415) and the automatic validation fails. I would like to understand how the validator tests MT4 Expert Advisors. Version 1.30: the report shows 22 errors on NZDUSD,H1: "not enough money for buy 0.20

Platform: MT4, desktop and iPhone Server: MetaQuotes-Demo Symbol/timeframe: XAUUSD, M15 Candle: October 27, 2026, 22:00 server time Open: 2.04 , High: 4061.68 , Low: 2.04 , Close: 4061.43 The same spike appears on both devices and a newly opened demo account

I am writing mql script to look for any change in the file and if it detectes any change in the file then it performs some trading function But after the mql "FileOpen "call desired file becomes unusable by other application even with "FILE_SHARE_READ" flag. What I am doing wrong or this is how Mql...

Hello, I am looking for an official MetaEditor distribution for MetaTrader 4 to compile and investigate my own MQL4 program in an isolated Windows environment. I would appreciate clarification on the following questions: Is there an official, fully offline MT4 installation package that includes

Hi bros, yesterday I had an idea, pick all the best trend following default indicators on TradingView and made a super TS with the conjunction. Claude from Anthropic did the excellent job. Here is the .mq4 file and a example image

Hi guys. Can an EA be programmed to recognize when a user manually opens or closes a trade from the chart