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With all the new EA, indicators, etc. being added on the marketplace, there is a need for a much better filtering option, as going through hundeads of pages is simply exhausting

My friend developed an Expert Advisor (EA) that sends notifications to Telegram. However, after installing it on a new VPS, the EA was no longer able to send notifications, while it continued to work normally on the previous VPS. After investigating the issue, I noticed that the two VPS instances

Summary Two related improvements for traders who keep many accounts in MetaTrader 5 for Android (prop firm evaluations, funded accounts, personal and demo accounts): Account groups : create named groups and filter the Accounts screen by group. All open positions : a read-only view of open trades

Hello, I am experiencing a technical issue with a paid MetaTrader 5 Virtual Hosting subscription. Environment: Broker server: OANDATMS-MT5 Hosting server: VPS Frankfurt FRA3 01 Local MT5 terminal: build 6157 Date: November 9, 2026 Problem: I migrated six charts containing six Expert Advisors to the

Hello everyone, I'm having a problem with my MQL5 VPS (ID: 6894764, London LD6 05). The VPS previously worked perfectly with another MT5 trading account. After switching to my new Xlence demo account (server: Xlence-Demo1), I can no longer synchronize my Expert Advisors to the VPS. Every

Good Morning I've been trying to change my password since yesterday, but it's impossible. I receive the first email with the link to change it, but once I click the link and the page opens saying the password has been sent, that email never arrives. I created another account with a different email

2–3 consecutive losses, 4–5 consecutive losses, 6 or more consecutive losses, The number does not matter. I stop when my drawdown limit is reached, I keep trading as long as the signals meet my system’s rules, I have no fixed rule. I decide based on the situation

Hello MetaQuotes Team and MQL5 Community, I am conducting a read-only data validation project using MetaTrader 5 (MetaQuotes-Demo server) , primarily with the EURUSD symbol. I need clarification regarding the server timezone and daylight saving time (DST) rules to ensure accurate interpretation of

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

Hi friends, Is it normal that MQL5 VPS stops functioning for days???? Please help me get it working again. Thanks fo your great help. Nillscash ----------

Hello, Anyone managed to pass Automatic validation of MT4 EA for the past 20 hours? No matter what EA, and I tried many EAs, all gave this error: test on EURUSD,H1 strategy tester report not found I tried to pass again a version which was passed before and also have the same error

Hello, On the MetaQuotes-Demo server, XAUUSD shows a repeated stale price on the first H1 bar after the daily break (01:00 server time): - 2026.11.04 01:00 - real low 3914.40 - 2026.11.05 01:00 - low printed as 3914.40 again (price was far above, around 4100) - 2026.11.06 01:00 - low printed as

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Ondas de wolfe : This is an indicator that identifies Wolfe waves and plots them Author: Ismael Santiago Robles Serpa

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: Native MQL5 Prometheus Exporter: Real-Time Observability for Live Trading Models . This article shows how to build a fully native MQL5 metrics pipeline for a live EA without DLLs or sidecar processes. It implements counters, gauges, and histograms, safe text/label

Check out the new article: Probabilistic Sharpe Ratio and Minimum Track Record Length from Deal History . The article delivers a practical PSR/MinTRL workflow in MQL5: construct returns from deal history, compute SR/skew/kurtosis, and evaluate normal CDF/quantile via rational approximations with

Check out the new article: TradeMux as a Quant Backbone: Connecting Institutional Python Pipelines to Different Terminals and Brokers . The article describes TradeMux as a bridge between a Python pipeline and the MetaTrader 5 terminal for the seamless transfer of trading decisions without

Check out the new article: Beluga Whale Optimization (BWO) Algorithm . A candidate for our ranking table is Beluga Whale Optimization, a metaheuristic based on three behavioral patterns of the beluga whale: pair swimming, hunting using Lévy flight, and population renewal through whale fall. During

MSB Pro ALGO Position Risk Monitor for MT5 : Free MT5 position risk monitor displaying stop-loss risk, account risk percentage, positions without SL and individual position risk directly on the chart. Author: Kemal Mustafa Ozkan

Previous Day and Week High Low Levels : Previous day high and low, previous week high and low and today's open as horizontal lines with small price labels, on any timeframe. Author: Dragos Mihai Ofrim

Previous Day and Week High Low Levels MT4 : Previous day high and low, previous week high and low and today's open as horizontal lines with small price labels, on any timeframe. Author: Dragos Mihai Ofrim

Trading Session Boxes: Tokyo, London, New York MT4 : Draws the Tokyo, London and New York sessions of the last few days as boxes from each session's high to its low, with the high and low printed on the chart. Session hours are set in server time. Author: Dragos Mihai Ofrim

Trading Session Boxes: Tokyo, London, New York : Draws the Tokyo, London and New York sessions of the last few days as boxes from each session's high to its low, with the high and low printed on the chart. Session hours are set in server time. Author: Dragos Mihai Ofrim

Candle Timer with Spread and Swap Countdown MT4 : Countdown to the close of the current bar, the live spread in points and the time left until the next server midnight, when brokers roll positions over and charge swap. Author: Dragos Mihai Ofrim

Candle Timer with Spread and Swap Countdown : Countdown to the close of the current bar, the live spread in points and the time left until the next server midnight, when brokers roll positions over and charge swap. Author: Dragos Mihai Ofrim

Check out the new article: James-Stein Shrinkage: Estimating Many Numbers at Once, and Testing What It Buys . This article implements a James–Stein and empirical Bayes shrinkage library in MQL5, validates it against hand-checked arithmetic and a Python reference, and applies it to ten years of H1

Check out the new article: Integrating MQL5 with Data Processing Packages (Part 11): Multi-Timeframe Causality Detection using Granger Analysis . This article implements a multi‑timeframe Granger causality monitor for MetaTrader 5. A Jupyter notebook tests predefined timeframe pairs, selects lags

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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