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Hello Moderators and Support Team, I am trying to register as a Seller to publish my products on the Market, but I am not receiving the SMS verification code on my Kuwaiti phone numbers (+965), and the Telegram bot says no code is available after sharing my contact. Could you please help me verify

Hello all. Does anyone have any recommendations for me on ways to improve the amount of money made each day using the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester Agent? I just started 5 days ago and I feel like I should be making more money per day then what I'm seeing. Is there something I'm missing? It seems

Summary: Since some build between 5833 and 6140, the Strategy Tester returns real_volume = 1 for bars of any timeframe other than the tested chart timeframe. tick_volume is still correct, and so is history before the test start date. On the chart timeframe itself, real volume is correct. Build 5833

Is it worth it anymore to sell EA's and Indicators in this AI age, Yes, No

Hello, I'm developing a Python application using the official MetaTrader 5 Python package and need clarification about historical trading data available on the MetaQuotes-Demo server. Could you please clarify: How far back can history_orders_get() and history_deals_get() retrieve records on this

Just like I said in the subject. What do you check to ensure that an EA works before buying

Hello MetaQuotes team, Could the team responsible for MetaQuotes-Demo market history confirm the authoritative conversion from native MT5 timestamps to actual UTC for 2021–2026? We need reproducible historical/live alignment while retaining MetaQuotes as our data source. Please distinguish a

We've launched Code Base- the library of codes on the MQL5.community website.You are welcome to publish custom indicators, Expert Advisors andscripts for the MetaTrader 5 terminal. You can also download any codes,as well as rate them. The number of votes, and the average rating willbe shown for...

Platform: MetaTrader 5 for Windows, build 6230 Installation: Portable mode Affected symbols: PETRJ430 and PETRJ415 (B3 options) Problem description The Depth of Market (DOM) windows for symbols PETRJ430 and PETRJ415 suddenly stopped appearing when opened independently. Both symbols continue to

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

Hello, Since build 6230 the built-in MCP server lets an AI assistant read an Expert Advisor's input parameters with get_expert_advisor_parameters. It works well for standard EAs, self-compiled EAs and EAs protected with Cloud Protector. It does not work for Expert Advisors purchased from the

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

A bug recently appeared in the mql5.com Forum wherein clicking "reply" as to an original post (OP) fails to quote/capture the content of the OP. This first appeared yesterday (10/12/2026) while navigating the Forum. I have repeatedly deleted my browser cache and temp files, restarted my browser, and

We are validating an existing private, offline XAUUSD research archive from MetaQuotes-Demo. We need source-backed historical economics for a USD-denominated hedging demo product, before any historical net result can be accepted. The requested source-label period was 2026-10-02 00:00 inclusive

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

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

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

I've been thinking about market regimes lately and I'm starting to question how we normally build EAs. Most strategies are basically built around the assumption that the market behaviour we see in the backtest will continue to exist in the future. But we all know that isn't always the case. A trend

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

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

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 run an LLM-driven intraday scalper on MT5 (demo). Over 60 closed trades it lost $212, and commission alone was 40% of that loss. Before asking "how do I make it profitable", I spent two weeks trying to establish whether it has any directional edge at all. It does not — and I want a sanity check

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

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies Test version of MQL5 Copilot in beta 3647 Renat Fatkhullin , 2023.03.23 23:11 In today's beta version 3647, we've included the first version of Copilot, a feature to enhance the editor's ability to write code. The settings

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

Hi Here is the code I use for my money management. - Actually it shouldn't be called MM, as it is only calculates how many lots can I buy so that when I hit my stop loss I only loss a certain percentage of my account. I think though that is one of the crucial aspects of forex- trading - as it leads...

HI,Which strategy is best for BTCUSD

I want to say that my nick 'newdigital' is not connected with digital filters. But I started this thread to discuss and explain about trading strategies based on the digital filters only. And to understand how to implement those filters. All about digital filters you may find

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

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

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

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

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

SP500 and NASDAQ Indexes are not up to date and have been disabled for some time now. Is anyone else experiencing this

Hi @ all, i´m new with MT 5 and wanted to know if its possible to trade on sim/demo account other markets than forex? For instance, NQ, SP500, etc. For now i only see forex markets to choose from. Any ideas? Thanks

I wanted to know whether one of the new pre-trained time-series models can run inside MetaTrader 5 itself, without Python, DLLs or WebRequest, so that it also works in the Strategy Tester. It can. These are my notes on IBM's Granite TTM-R2 (Tiny Time Mixers, Apache-2.0), with the numbers I measured

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

MQL5 Cloud Network: inconsistent OnTick stream under real-tick modeling Technical reproduction report | 14 October 2026 | MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester Issue summary A non-trading diagnostic Expert Advisor (TickParityDiagnostic_V4.mq5) produces materially different OnTick event sequences in

I have discussed a couple of times in threads about EAs and if they have any real edge or not. But what is really considered an edge? Is it a combination of indicators that on historical prices of a specific market can predict the direction of price most of the time? Will it suffice to have a

Running 2 EAs on MT5 via VPS. Recently had one go quiet for about 3 days — no crash, no errors in Experts or Journal, smiley face still there, terminal connected. It just stopped taking trades. I only found out because I manually check the accounts every few days. Could easily have been longer

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

We are preparing an MT5 Expert Advisor whose genuine trading strategy is designed exclusively for metadata-verified XAU/USD, using internal M15 data. We do not intend to trade unrelated FX instruments, generate artificial validation trades, or alter risk controls specifically for the Strategy

Hi, i'm intended to create an EA with AI Assistant (MQL5 model), but before there are somethings i wanna know first: Can I build complex EAs with MQL5 Lite, or does its capability depend on the prompts I give it? Can I continue working on my prompt in the same chat room on another day once I've

Hi all, In early October 2026, I went through the product pages and public signal track records of ten of the best-selling scalping and martingale-type EAs on the MQL5 Market, and checked every figure twice. I'm not naming any sellers — patterns matter more than people. Here is what kept repeating

Hello MetaQuotes Support, We need to determine whether an MQL5 Expert Advisor can enforce a strict 14,400-second wall-clock deadline when an in-progress file operation does not return. Could you please clarify: Are FileOpen, FileWriteString, FileFlush, FileClose, FileMove, FileCopy, FileReadArray

If an EA needs Japanese bank holidays, for example to trade the Tokyo fixing on gotobi days or to stay out of thin Tokyo mornings, there is no need for a calendar file or WebRequest: the holidays follow fixed rules and can be computed. This is the code I use. It covers the equinox days for

Hello everyone, I would like to ask for advice from developers who have experience publishing Expert Advisors on the MQL5 Market, especially EAs designed for a specific symbol and using external data/APIs. I have developed an Expert Advisor specifically for XAUUSD (Gold) . The EA is not a

I have successfully installed and used the MetaTrader5 package on Ubuntu without any difference on Windows. Here are the instructions. 1. Install Wine with the following command (skip if you already installed) sudo apt install wine 2. Install the MetaTrader 5 platform for Linux according to the

Good day, This is a public technical question. It is not a private support ticket. A response is not guaranteed. A response from other participants remains to be seen. supporting us until authorship is officially assigned to MetaQuotes and The statement binds the built-in iMA to exactly this build

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

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%

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...

Hi, I read that using ArrayCopy on the same array could cause data corruption when the initial source index is lower than the target index, due to the left-to-right copy. I tried, but no data corruption was detected. Can I be sure this won't happen under any circumstances? Here a simple script

Hello Friends! I tried to convert an indicator from MQL4 to MQL5. the indicator named: Swing Cloud and I don't know what is wrong with MQL5 code. In uptrend the cloud should be below the price and in downtrend the cloud should be above the price. Here is on MT4 it print the cloud in the correct

I have an indicator that combines the drawing of colored arrows and colored lines. The logic for determining colors and the colors themselves are exactly the same for both arrows and lines. Does each colored plot need to have its own color buffer? Or is it possible to use one color buffer for all

Is it possible to work with txt, csv or other files in the testing strategy? If so, how

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

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

All the indicators which are helping the detection the trend please post here. The first indicator is sinTrend. The value of about zero is the float, the trend is started if the value of indicator is equal or above 0.0015 or minus 0.0015, the value of above 0 is uptrend, below 0 - downtrend

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

Fibo Levels indicator. Fully forecasting.

I've run accross this FFT cycle indicator in the past couple of weeks. It is very interesting to say the least. I would like to know if anybody else has any experience with this type of cycle analysis. I've know of Hurst, Clyde Lee, and Brian Millard. Brian Millards' work is among the best I've...

Hi All, Do you have an indicator in mind that you think would make your life easier or more productive, what would it be? I might be able to write it for you. Let me know it's details and if it's needed for mt4 or mt5 and if I can write it, I will give it to you for free

Check out the new article: Implementing an LLM Agent with SQL Memory in MetaTrader 5 . An LLM agent with SQL memory in MetaTrader 5 — an architecture that eliminates the main limitation of traditional LLM Expert Advisors (EAs): the loss of context between queries. Each agent decision is recorded in

OHLC Reality Check - at what stop distance does your backtest start lying? : Opens a virtual bracketed trade on every M1 bar, walks it forward on the real tick history, and reports for a sweep of stop distances how often 1-minute OHLC modelling would score the trade the wrong way round. Author: Petr

SessionReopenEA : Gold has a daily maintenance break on the CME. The first hour after it rises more than chance explains, in every calendar year of an 11-year sample - while every other hour of the day measures flat. One trade per session, a volatility-scaled server-side stop, no averaging or grid

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

Check out the new article: Beyond Clone and Commit: The Advanced Side of MQL5 Algo Forge . We map the parts of Algo Forge that impact day-to-day MQL5 work: opening repos in MetaEditor, README translation, Units, branch/tag protection, browser patching, packages, and CI on a Windows host. The article

DailyLossGuard — Hard Daily Loss Protection : DailyLossGuard — Hard Daily Loss Protection (Prop-Firm Challenge Essential) The #1 reason funded challenges fail is breaking the daily loss rule. DailyLossGuard enforces it automatically: it tracks your daily P/L every tick against your limit (% of

Scalper EA for End-of-Weeks on BTC : Awesome Expert Advisor for Metatrader 4 Author: Rodrigo S. Franco

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: A Spiking-Semantic Approach to Spatiotemporal Identification (S3CE-Net) . We invite you to explore the S3CE-Net framework and its SSAM and STFS mechanisms, which accurately process spiking events while taking causality into account. The model is

Check out the new article: Price Action Analysis Toolkit Development (Part 87): Searching Chart History with Recorded Double-Bottom Samples . This stage connects structural validation with reference matching for double bottoms. The Expert Advisor scans completed history, filters pairs by the current

ATR Monitor — Daily, Weekly and Monthly Range : Displays daily, weekly and monthly ATR, the current high–low range, the range as a percentage of ATR, and price movement from each period's open. Author: Nima Foroozanfar

ATR Monitor — Daily, Weekly and Monthly Range : A compact panel that compares the current daily, weekly and monthly ranges with ATR and shows price movement from each period's open. Updates on ticks, with adjustable position, size and scale. Author: Nima Foroozanfar

Check out the new article: Beyond Tick Volume: Measuring Market Activity from the Waits Between Quotes . Tick volume mostly reflects the time of day and is only complete when a bar closes. We build a per‑quote, live activity gauge from the waits between quote changes, remove the intraday rhythm, and

Check out the new article: MetaTrader 5 Machine Learning Blueprint (Part 23): Feature Screening . Permutation tests that assume exchangeable observations miscalibrate feature screens for overlapping financial labels, yielding a tenfold false‑positive inflation on EURUSD. This article implements a

ASQ Safe Scalping v1.20 : A free, open-source breakout scalping Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5 by AlgoSphere Quant. It implements a strict seven-condition entry system where every condition must align simultaneously before any trade is taken. Author: Muharrem Rogova

Prop Daily Loss Meter : Shows how much of the daily loss limit of a prop firm account is already used, and how much is left. Read-only indicator. Author: Amedeo Nustriani

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

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

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

Hi, I'm using a custom moving average indicator. After updating to build 1491 Metatrader 4, the indicator goes missing from the chart whenever I start MetaTrader. When I reapply the template, it sometimes shows all the indicators I saved, but other times it only shows one . 1. All indicators are

Hi there I installed Metatrader 4 and add an EA to the chart. I am able to configure the settings for the EA and save to a set file But when I request the settings of the Expert advisor after config, I get this screen. The EA does not take any orders. It works on another laptop. What do I miss on

You may have already noticed that the most interesting things now happen mainly on the MQL5.community . MQL4.com is about to be switched to the data archive mode. Only Book and Documentation sections will remain on MQL4.com by November. Besides, the entire MQL4.com Forum content is to be transferred

Custom indicator Heiken Ashi no longer shows up on the chart after auto compiles at the initial load of terminal after the version update Strategy Tester also shows the following errors regarding Heiken Ashi. 0 01:10:42.456 2025.06.01 22:00:00 PlutusV2613 EURUSD.FX,M1: HA Error: Indicator not ready

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Hello, I am posting this in the MQL4 section since there is no MQL5 section to post it in. I am creating a simple chart overlay in MT5 to visually compare two symbols. However the chart overlay indicator does not update in real time it only updates on the close of the bar. Does anyone know what

New article How to Copy Trading from MetaTrader 5 to MetaTrader 4 is published at mql4.com: Is it possible to trade on a real MetaTrader 5 account today? How to organize such trading? The article contains the theory of these questions and the working codes used for copying trades from the MetaTrader...

hi, using MT4 b745 on wine 1.7.32 i386 ubuntu for using an expert i need to add an url into /tools/options/Expert advisor/ there is already the builtin 'http://www.mql5.com' listed when i right-click on '+' nothing happen for adding a new url, so i double click on the previous url's field:...

Greeting , Can anyone help me please with programe lines (code base) to add to my EA -mq4 file simply , I only want the EA to open trades only if RSI value between 65 and 35 for example or 70-30... etc , it would be really appreciated sorry I don't have experience in programming

this script converts the chart's ticks into any Second(s)timeframes !!! the Script works only for XAUUSD, you can modify it to work with other pairs or other names of Gold pair. Example custom periods: S5 S10 S15 S20 S30 S45 S50 Once the Second(s) chart is generated, you can apply almost everything