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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

What if you trade at the wrong time? So, I was trying to pass my first prop-firm challenge. My trading system was actually pretty decent giving me 64% winrate with RR 1/3. But I lost my challenge. I didn't know why because my live broker account gave me +9.13% of profit monthly . Most of my trades

i having problem related to receiving code through sms when i was registering as an seller on mql5

Dear MQL5 Support Team, I am experiencing a persistent issue with the built-in AI Assistant in MetaTrader 5. My system details: Platform: MetaTrader 5, build 6257 Operating System: Windows 10 Provider: MQL5.community Model: MQL5 Lite Endpoint: https://api4.inferdeck.net Error message: 503 Service

Is a seller allowed to write in a Market product description that anyone who finds an important bug will receive the EA for free as a reward, after the bug is fixed

Hello. The Signals service appears disabled on my account. In MetaTrader 5 → Tools → Options → Community, the "Signals" checkbox is greyed out and cannot be enabled, on several different computers and also on a fresh Windows Server install. Market and MQL5.community login work correctly with the

Any new software inevitably contains bugs that are not alwayspossible to detect even under the most rigorous in-house testing. Wetherefore attach great importance to all user reports about issues inour programs and try to answer each one of them. In order to improve feedback from MetaTrader 5 end...

Hello MQL5 Community, I would like to open a discussion about time synchronization in MetaTrader 5, especially when developing Expert Advisors that depend on trading sessions, daily closing times and scheduled trade management. Last month, I experimented with the date and time settings on my PC. I

(MT5 mobile App) New interface of "Bulk order" button too large to block to view important data-- big influence to traders to view the money and design when to close ALL ORDERS in a second Hi MT5 IT Team Recent day, I notice there is stupid change or update in your MT5 mobile setting for bulk

Welcome to the MQL5 community, I am facing a serious technical problem with my account and I need help from the community or moderators. My account email address is: <email was deleted by moderator> This is my problem: 1. I registered my account using Google login, so I don't have a traditional

Fundamental Architectural Overhaul (New filters, spread/commission & dynamic logic), Strict Parameter Optimization & Walk-Forward Analysis, Hybrid Approach (Light structural changes + robust multi-regime optimization), Not feasible; scalping and swing logics require completely separate EAs

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

The Service Desk option offers NO SERIVCE. Every request is simply routed to a virtual assistant which is of no help in financial matters. Is there a way to contact them

Hello, Where can I request an official SHA-256 digest for the MetaTrader 5 build 6316 x64 terminal64.exe distributed through LiveUpdate? I also need ordered EURUSD Bid/Ask tick history from MetaQuotes-Demo for 11 November 2026, from 14:00 to 14:22 UTC. What is the official way to retrieve it and

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

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

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

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

Hello! In the Marketplace at mql5.com you can download a demo version that only works in the strategy tester . Many clients do not consider the Strategy Tester as a valid proof and have doubts about the robot's efficiency. Can I place a link to the trading robot demo version in the product

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

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

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

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

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

Which strategy is best to close profitable positions

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

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

Hello everyone, I’m investigating an initialization failure during automatic Market validation of my MT5 Expert Advisor, The 500 Calabash EA, version 1.65 . test on EURUSD,H1 (hedging) tester stopped because OnInit returns non-zero code 1 disconnected there are no trading operations The validation

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

Hi everyone, i run a grid style EA on purpose on some of my accounts, with a stop loss on every position. In September it still went deep into floating loss within about ten days. The balance looked fine the whole time, only the equity showed it. Looking back, my accounts were simply too small for

Hello, We are preparing two local MT5 Strategy Tester runs on build 6230 using “Every tick based on real ticks” (Model 4). Both use RoboForex Demo ECN hedging, EURUSD and USDCHF, and the historical period from 17 August 2020 through 13 August 2021. The planned difference is the fixed execution

I have a free Expert Advisor on the MQL5 market place, a link to the EA is attached to the end of this post. One user commented that he is receiving an installation error when he tries to install the EA. The EA has been on the marker place for over 1 year now and from all the clients who have used

Hello. In a newly installed terminal, WebRequest() returns 1009 and GetLastError() returns 5203 for one domain. Another terminal on the same VPS reaches the same domain without any problem. I tested with a simple GET script on a live chart, and the results are below. Terminal A (build 6295 , newly

Hi, I am totally new in MT5 Python API and I hope, my question is quite trivial - I couldn't find anything: How to install a MT5 listener so the Python script gets notified, once a trade was closed by a S/L or limit order? Is there a sample somewhere? Which functions to use? Thx

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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've developed a new SuperTrend indicator. It works the same as the ProRealTime version where you can set the 'Nbr Periods' and 'Multiplier' values. Bear in mind that because of differences between brokers that in places it may change direction earlier or later than the ProRealTime version if you...

been asked for this a couple of times by pm,so here it 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

Previous Day High, Low and Close Levels : Draws the previous day High, Low and Close as horizontal levels on the chart, with optional history for several past days, extension of today's levels to the right and price labels. Author: Theophilus Adebomi Adeniyi

Position Tool - TradingView-style Long/Short position calculator : TradingView-style Long/Short position tool for MT5: drag the Entry, Stop and Target lines and get lot size, risk, reward, R:R and margin instantly. Author: Oleksandr Duiko

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: Building a Bar Replay Tool in MQL5 . This article shows how to build an interactive bar replay tool in MQL5 for MetaTrader 5 that reveals historical candles one by one without exposing future data. You will implement custom candles with DRAW COLOR CANDLES, an event-driven

Check out the new article: MLP (Multilayer Perceptron) Inside an MQL5 Expert Advisor: Training on Historical Data Without Python or Weight Files . The article shows how to move the GridSurvivor Expert Advisor’s MLP filter from offline training in Python to fully embedded training in MQL5. The

MA Toolkit : MA Toolkit: a compact moving average indicator written from scratch. Choose SMA, EMA or LWMA for a fast and a slow line, see the fast line colored by its slope, and get optional crossover arrows, alerts and an info panel. Author: Theophilus Adebomi Adeniyi

Check out the new article: The Chimp Optimization Algorithm: From ChOA to BChimp . The Chimp Optimization Algorithm (ChOA) mimics primate group hunting with a division of roles, and its binary variant, BChimp, applies this mechanism to feature selection problems. We implement a continuous core in

Check out the new article: Distributed Tracing for Expert Advisors: A Native OpenTelemetry (OTLP) Exporter in MQL5 . This article builds a four-layer MQL5 tracer that works without gRPC or protobufs: OTLP/HTTP JSON via WebRequest, SHA-256–backed ID generation, a nanosecond-formatted clock, and a

Check out the new article: Diebold-Mariano Test in MQL5: Does Your Indicator Actually Forecast Better Than a Random Walk? . The article implements the Diebold–Mariano test in pure MQL5 with HAC long‑run variance and the Harvey–Leybourne–Newbold small-sample correction, and adds the Clark–West

New article Applying the Monte Carlo method for optimizing trading strategies has been published: Before launching a robot on a trading account, we usually test and optimize it on quotes history. However, a reasonable question arises: how can past results help us in the future? The article describes

History Export from the Strategy Tester (Bars and Ticks) : Exports bars of any timeframe and, optionally, every tick from the Strategy Tester to CSV, without the chart's 100,000-bar limit. Reports gaps inside trading sessions. Places no orders. Author: Robit Napit

Order Block Zones Indicator : Order blocks from the chart timeframe or a higher one, shaded on the chart and followed bar by bar: fresh until price comes back, tested after that with every return counted, broken once a close goes through. Sizes are measured in average ranges, so the defaults fit any

Algo: EMA Trend Cross on Closed Bars — XAUUSD M30 : Free educational EA — a single-position trend-following EMA crossover system for XAUUSD M30, released as open source for beginners to study trade ownership guards, preflight order validation, risk-based lot sizing, and server-time session

Check out the new article: Creating a Cairo-Inspired Graphics Library for MetaTrader 5 (Part 8): Paint, from Solid Colors to Gradients . Gradients are introduced by making the source a polymorphic paint: the rasterizer calls ColorAt(x, y) for each pixel. This enables solid, linear and radial fills

Check out the new article: Why Backtested Scalpers Diverge in Live Trading (Part 1): Building an Intelligent Friction Guard for Dynamic Spread and Micro-Volatility Filtering . The article addresses the backtest–live gap in scalping by formalizing market friction and screening trades at quote time

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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

Hi traders, several times traders from forums ask if there is an indicator simply showing the current pair's spread. I already programmed such an indicator for my own use and decided to contribute it to the community. Feel free to comment! By the way, it's also posted @ codebase.mql4.com Indicator...

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

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