Hi, In the last few days MQL5 has "locked" my funds and won't allow any withdrawals.  I have sent a message to them but no reply yet. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks Gary

I am new user and I am testing few EAs. I have been able to optimize the EAs and received good results during back testing. I saved the input parameters and tried to run them again the other day and received completely different back testing results when testing again with the same settings. Any

Can anyone code or have any idea how to send trade details from MT4 to a Telegram channel. This is the sort of thing I am talking about. Thanks.

I would like to know if it only happened to me! this morning I opened the mt4 and the indicators downloaded from the market, bought or free, no longer work. I try to stick them in the chart and nothing happens, yet I log in to my account and so it's all right. They don't even work in the strategy

I had been trading forex for a long time now and I had been a victim of this topic at some point. In this article, I will highlight few reasons most traders blow their accounts often and what had helped me improve in trading. 1. Most traders are irritated by loss and as such will do everything

Do you have interest or hobby outside trading ?, or some jokes and humor for other forumer ? or maybe something else ?, Well, why don't show it here. Life is NOT all about trading or programming, and so is this topic, and you must participate in this topic ;D.

Imagine my surprise on Friday last weekend when i woke up to withdraw my funds from Mql5 and there were no payment options available for withdrawal !. First they took down PayPal last month and now no webmoney or epayment withdrawals. And i have since sent service desk a message on Friday but no

I'm sure many of you have heard all kinds of talk about the high likelihood of the upcoming financial crisis, but regardless. I just wanted to know, for example during the 2008 crisis, did timeframes like M5 trend far more than they do now, across the major pairs? I'm asking because my current

Hi there, My MT4 account was sending data to my Excel RTD spreadsheet perfectly. Now, several days later, it doesn't want to connect. Both arrows stay grey and my account number doesn't appear. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks

I use three templates on one mt4 platform. My challenge is that after doing some technical analysis (trendlines) on a template and switch over to another, the trend lines disappear when i return back to it. Please how can I resolve this? I need to see my analysis when I return to the chart. Thank

Hello everyone :) I'm looking for tips or knowledge about Flash Crash. I had an account with an EA that used Grid and martingale. At 6 months I increased the account from 1k usd to 3k usd. Earlier this year in January we had a flash crash on JPY. Unfortunately due to my mismanagement with EA my

Hi, suppose to be in this scenario: You have to test if the price has break an horizontal price line and you have to detect if the price/trend is coming from top or from bottom... How can I do this ? If I have to do it by watching the graph it is really simple but how can I code it ? What can be the

Hi everybody, I'm a newby and i work with MT5. I'l developping my own EA and i need in somme situations to close only the lowest position. That mean i have to identify and select it and i don't know how to do that. Actually to close a position i use this : for(int i=PositionsTotal()-1; i>=0; i--)

We are pleased to announce that today we have launched our new service - MQL5.com Market. With this new service, all traders who use the MetaTrader 5 terminal can buy MQL5-programs: trading robots, indicators, scripts and libraries. The Market is launched in two steps. Starting today, anyone can...

I have opened my account in mql5 which has been more than 6 months and has not been opened yet, I have completed all the document and multi, still my account is still unapproved, Please Solution

Hi, Could you help explain how we can connect MT5/MT4 platform with broker to place the trades. We tried using trader copier/trade commander but now want to avoid the trader copier. Is there any way, we can directly place trade to our broker by using meta trader. We heard that zerohub provide such

In this thread we will build our own Bollinger Band strategy by combining our heads together. Let's discuss: DISCUSS: - what do you think is the best way to recognize RANGED and BREAKOUT? - what other indicators complement the Bollinger Band? - what is in your experience the best timeframe for...

I was affraid to open this thread. Why? because it is difficult to manage many threads on one forum. Anyway - I will try :) So, we are talking about SIGNAL SYSTEMS

Hi everyone, I am looking for a way to use the alert window to enter or sell as described, you can help with some script or pointing here on the forum of how to use. Best Regards, cf32EA1l

Some people say that it is the best signal system in the world. It is very famous system and it was developed in the interesting way: Russians recognized this system for MetaTrader some years ago and this western trading system was not very profitable (I am talking about MetaTrader only) but had as...

Hi at all, I am studying the 2ma simple strategy in detail, to understand what it can do, how much, where and how ... mathematically, graphically, economically ... assuming that, at the theoretical level: buy signal: when the smaller MA breaks bull the bigger MA;...

This thread won't be about a question or problem, but rather about the anouncement of the presentation and documentation of an exciting trading concept. I plan to do a series of postings here in order to keep you guys updated. Anybody who has an opinion on the topic, please don't hesitate to comment...

Hello everybody, I've tried to download the history data from MT5 for having a good history, but the quality model is very low. Have i to download tickstory even for MT5? Thank you

What features should be a good expert ?

This is the thread about books related for stocks, forex, financial market and economics. Please make a post about books with possible cover image, short description and official link to buy (amazon for example). Posts without books' presentation, without official link to buy and with refferal links...

Hello, I'm blocking on a code. I wish the ea keeps in memory the last highest balance, here is my code but it does not work, can you help me? double  highestbalance()  {   double highestbalance1=1000;    if ( AccountBalance() > (highestbalance1 )) highestbalance1 =...

Trading and training video (from youtube for example) about forex and financial market in general.  thread for April 2013 - look at this thread,  thread for May 2013 - look at here,for June 2013 is here.July thread 2013 is hereAugust thread 2013 is this oneSeptember thread 2013 is hereOctober thread...

Joshua Brown, vice president of investments in a renowned New York asset-management firm once said that the forex from his perspective is too risk fraught for an individual investor to engage in preferring to label forex trading as gambling with retail investors in ignorance throwing money into...

If I hold a lot of orders, can I use EA to combine multiple orders for one?

Hi at all, I am studying various strategies based on the simple principle of 2ma, as a starting model, to determine TP and SL. So far, I have not achieved good results, so I went to study all my notes again ... to the notes I took on my trading course ....

The Best Stocks Of 2016: Nvidia (based on the article) The price was increased by 10% just for December only!

AAPL Technical AnalysisL daily bullsh with 120.35 resistance to be testing for the bullish trend to be resumed Daily share price is located far above 200 SMA in the bullish area of the chart: the price is on testing resistance level at 120.35 to above for the bullsh trend to be continuing. If the...

Just curious about anyone trading preferences, I mean what do you prefer to trade Forex, Stocks, Futures? Is well known that Forex is the greatest market hands down, but unfortunately it doesn't offer certain analysis tools such as true volume, the book or TRIN, TICK, VIX tools which can be very...

Bitcoin vs USD January-March 2017 Forecast: key resistance level at 850.15 to be broken for the bullish trend to be continuing Weekly (W1) price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on ranging within the following support/resistance levels: 850.15...

Dax Index January-March 2017 Forecast: flat within bullish with key resistance at 11,649 W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price broke 11,485 level to above on close weekly bar with 11,649 as a nearest bullish target to re-enter. Thus, the weekly price is...

S&P 500 January-March 2017 Forecast: long-term bullish ranging within the narrow s/r levels for direction W1 price is located far above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on ranging within the following narrow support/resistance levels for the bullish trend to be resumed...

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

Hello. I try to use the Strategy Tester to test my EA, buit get the message "no more than 1000 symbols can be selected" each time. I guess it's because my EA tries to trade more than  1000 stocks and the MT5 limits the max number of symbols that can be selected.  I tried to unselect the symbols in...

Hey everyone, I`ve been trying to create a Custom Symbol that updates with the market. I tried using the Synthetic instrument formula but I get an "Unkown Parser Error" because the instrument starts with #. Does anyone know a way to circumvent this?

Hello, Where can I find an example of EA to trade stocks or ETFs? An EA based on a moving average would be fine. Thanks in advance, Pierre

DJIA January-March 2017 Forecast: long-term bullish; resistance level at 19,987 is the key W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart: the price is on testing 19,987 resistance lkevel to above for the primary bullish market condition to be continuing. The price is...

Now and while bitcoin has extra ordinary movement who can suggest a reasonable strategy to forecast its next movement? it will break its current top or will it will be resistance in future?

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies Press review Sergey Golubev, 2016.12.24 17:18 Nikkei Q1 2017 Fundamental Forecast: Bullish (based on the article) Fundamental Analysis  "The Bank of Japan has been buying stocks for over two years now. And in September, the...

Hi all, how may I do to keep OrderComment() at TP or SL instead of [tp…] and sl[…]

I am trying to capture Price from the Previous SMA cross and use it as a variable. I know how to program to test WHEN it crosses. I am aiming for the exact price. Anyone able to help here

Hey, ive developped a simple EA based on ema's cross-over strategy and, even if i noticed a good efficiency reading these indicators on live market, ive tested my EA on XM MT5 with the backtesting to figure out that the results are pretty bad, because of opening trades when it shouldn't be the case

Hi After i use "PositionClose()" and my open position get closed, I want to know ticket of the last order and use "GetLastOrderTicket()" Functionas below: but the ticket returnd is for The last one left. How can i fix it? ulong GetLastOrderTicket() {//--- request history for the last 10 days

Hi, Could some one please kindly assist with an MT5 MQL5 Wizard module to force BUY only or SELL only of trades? If not, then can you show how to modify codes of an MQL5 Wizard generated EA to ONLY perform BUY or SELL trades? Many thanks in advance for your kind assistance. Sincerely, TN

After running the strategy tester, it gives you the number of winning and losing trades in the Report tab, but I want to know how many trades have hit my stop loss and how many trades have hit my take profit. Because some trades will close without hitting SL or TP, like for example when reverse

What it is: Below, you'll find my Swiss Army EA. I've designed it so that it can manage orders in your MT4 terminal using a large variety of methods. Features includes breakevens, trailing stops, setting/removing for takeprofits and stoplosses, and many close-out conditions; you also have ability...

All I have noticed so far is that virtual hosting is all about getting signal, auto trading, hosting indicators and copying trades. But I want to host my own EA on a remove server so that I can trade using my EA on a hand held device. My EA has trading buttons as well. Where can I get such service...

perhaps you can help, the following function usage works properly on my local pc but fails on my vps: #import “urlmon.dll” int URLDownloadToFileW(int pCaller,string szURL,string szFileName,int dwReserved,int Callback); #import I am trying to use it to read a price and display it as part of an

I have a basic Expert Advisor that uses: ATR for setting SL and TP ( ATR*1.5) 2-5% risk atrPip converts the atr to pips and rounds up. I use the atrPip to calculate the perPip value for my risk and calculate the lot size I need to trade I am testing with a $1000 account in a micro account. However I

Please, how I can check if market is open or closed in MT5, I cant find answer. something similar to MT4 - MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_TRADEALLOWED) this command doesn't exist in MT5 anymore. Thank you

is there any code to identify range and trend market? i used to identify support resistance for some bar...but not perfect all time input int x1 =50; // bar countPHighest1 = Close[iHighest(Symbol(),0,MODE_HIGH,x1,0)];PLowest1 = Close[iLowest(Symbol(),0,MODE_LOW,x1,0)];

Hello! See the pic. When try to sync the vps, there is no option for me to sync it. Why not? How can I sync it? thanks for your help

is it possible to make expert or script to search all symbols with special conditions and filter them and show in market watch or anywhere else?if yes how? for example i want to filter symbols to show me symbols by macd best postion to buy

Hello everyone, I am completely new at programming in mql5 and unfortunately I have some problems to build my code based on a simple moving average. I am basically trying to : buy the position when the closed price < SMA sell the position when the closed price > SMA When I compile my code, there is

help: value gap in the all pivot indicator help maybe here anyone can help me add / edit how many gaps issued all pivot indicators for camarilla https://www.mql5.com/en/code/15777 well, my desire is to be like this: https://ibb.co/1nvpNSY so, from R4 to R3 the gap value is 149 from R3 to R2 50 and

Hi Traders/Devs, I am trying to create quite a complex indicator that pulls data from the 28 major pairs and I keep getting error 4806 when I try to copy the handle data to the buffer, can you see what is wrong? Pairs is an array with lists of pairs, in this case I tried to get the RSI value for all

Hi all... I'm dedicating this thread to all indicators by John Ehler's in the hope that we can get/make as many of them for MT4 as possible. Please post any MT4 John Ehlers indicators that you have here as outlined in his books "Rocket Science for Traders", "Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and...

NRTR (Nick Rypock Trailing Reverse). There are a lot of modifications of this indicator for mt3 and mt4 as well. But original idea came from here - see image attached. It was the good trading system in 2001.

Hi Does anyone know of an order flow volume indicator for MT4 that shows the buyers and sellers within each bar like this one for Ninjatrader?

I was hoping someone would be willing to help me with a problem I'm having. As the title suggests, I'm trying to draw arrows when a moving average crosses a line that is drawn by an array. I'm working with the Center of Gravity indicator, trying to understand it actually. I thought it would be nice...

I am trying to find a Candle Volume Indicator on MT5. Is that available ? Also would like to see that X-Axis(time) is adjusted according to the size of the Bar. Some of the indicators that I have see do not properly calculate the x-axis and see that they are static/fixed

I'm trying to create an indicator that uses zigzag as it's base and adds some extra features on top of that. but the zigzag lines don't show up correctly. here's my code: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|

Hi, I wrote an indicator that works fine with live data, but it doesn't draw forward on the strategy tester (prints attached). Can someone please point out what am I getting wrong? I'm looking for answers for days but couldn't find any.. Thank

Some indicators with alert/signals with author's comments: - EMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter two Exponential Moving Average periods and it'll tell you when they crossed. - SMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter two Simple Moving Average periods and it'll tell you when they crossed. - SMMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter...

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...

This indicator draw multi time frame data in a separate window. When it run in 1 Minute chart, other trend lines are draw as straight lines. It only draw correctly 1 minute trend line. When i change the time frame or reload the indicator, then it redraw correctly. I know the reason for that. But i...

Post all MA indicators here.

I am am looking for a function that will be able to return to me the highest/lowest value of indicator values,  iHighest returns shift of the highest bar  I want a function like that but doesnt use bars but indicator value; //---int Indicator_Lowest(int count=end,int Start=begin) //to return the...

It's the same trading species but the MACD is quite different. Why they are different? The calculation of the MACD is different? How to make the MACD of MT5 the same with the other trading platform? Thanks

Macd Power: "Macd Power" trades with 2 " Macd " indicators has virtual Stop Loss & Take Profit works on 4H & 1D time frames major forex pairs and stocks NASDAQ. Author: Aharon Tzadik

Classic 2 Moving Averages crossover EA: Classic and one of the most popular trading strategies. Buy when fast MA crosses slow MA from below and sell when it crosses it from above. The EA is automatically generated with Mission Automate - visual strategy builder. https://www.mql5...

New article Combining trend and flat strategies has been published: There are numerous trading strategies out there. Some of them look for a trend, while others define ranges of price fluctuations to trade within them. Is it possible to combine these two approaches to increase profitability? Price...

All Pivot Points: An indicator for drawing all important Pivot Points including: "Classic", "Camarilla", "Woodie", "Floor", "Fibonacci", "Fibonacci_Retracement". Author: Hossein Nouri

Unity Pro: Multi-asset cluster indicator taking all currencies as a sum of values forming a whole market, that is unity (1.0) Author: Stanislav Korotky

Reversing Grid on Limit orders: Grid system with limit orders. This expert advisor is designed with visual strategy builder - Mission Automate. Code is generated automatically. More info: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/4951 Author: Andrey Barinov

New article Scraping bond yield data from the web has been published: Automate the collection of interest rate data to improve the performance of an Expert Advisor. Automated trading is based almost entirely on technical indicators that use past price action to forecast future price action. However,...

New article MQL5.community Payment System is published: MQL5.community built-in services offer great opportunities both to MQL5 developers and ordinary traders with no programming skills. But all these features can't be implemented without in-house secure payment system, that provides a convenient...

Parabolic SAR Expert: Classic strategy based on Parabolic SAR indicator. With Auto Lot options and Trailing Stop. The EA is automatically generated with Mission Automate - visual strategy builder. More info: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/4951 Author: Andrey Barinov

DoubleUp with a twist: Amazing results. A simple EA Same as doubleUp with an improved lot calculation , less loss ratio, and a simpler double down Author: Hazem

Pivot Star: Pivot indicator. Standard, Fibonacci, Camarilla, Woody's, Demark. Calculates pivot points from previous bar of chosen period (M5 - MN). Author: rkdius

New article Grokking market "memory" through differentiation and entropy analysis has been published: The scope of use of fractional differentiation is wide enough. For example, a differentiated series is usually input into machine learning algorithms. The problem is that it is...

Harmonic Pattern Finder V3: Indicator to display existent and emerging harmonic chart patterns. Author: Andre Enger

iBearsBulls_Advanced_Histo: The indicator is shown in a histogram the Bull and Bears uptrend and downtrend uses a different way.You can set period of indicator and levels for trend. Author: Nikolaos Pantzos

Tipu MACD: Tipu MACD is one the popular indicators in the Market. The original code for Tipu MACD is modified by removing compatibility with Tipu Panel. This version of Tipu MACD is open for everyone who is interested in developing an Expert Advisor. Author: Kaleem Haider

Hi, I am learning to code. Wrote this EA to call an indicator. It works fine. But, in 'Print' on a down trend, iCustom_1 returns an EMPTY_VALUE and on an up trend, iCustom_2 returns an EMPTY_VALUE. Could someone tell me what I've done wrong. Thank you for the advice in advance. Harvey_Trading

Hi everyone, Floating Charts from www.floatingcharts.com stopped working 2 days ago, and the website is unreachable. Does someone else have the same problem? Thanks in advance

These 2 EA's execution speeds are very different, I take it due to the fact that in first one there is the declaration at top and in the second one there is only the declaration inside the OnTick() function. Is this all there's to it

They say that an average trader can work for about twothree years. Then he has enough money to buy Ferrari and spend the rest of the money on psychoanalyst and antidepressants. Well, drive your Ferrari and save the rest of the money by reading our next column. Making money is one of the funniest...

I think it's just posible to make it by using OrderComment or so, but no idea about how to do it. This code close orders partially till exhausted: if(Bid>OrderOpenPrice()+(OrderTakeProfit()-Breakeven)*(PartialClose2/100)){

Hi, I m using MetaTrader4 Administrator to send reports to my clients. However, i couldn't send reports to "Gmail" accounts. It gives an errror message. Is there any way to send reports to "Gmail" account. How should fill in the "smtpservername" for "Gmail" account. Thanks in advance, Balaji G

<11 faster than <=10? for example if(b>0 && b<11) vs  if(b>0 && b<=10) Is the first one faster bc its just one thing < vs <=? Worth it?

I'm looking to place an order once the stochastic %K is below 20, the slow ma is over the fast ma, then check for an additional condition for the stochastic. If this occurs I want the for loop to look back "i." number of barsback to see if an additional condition occurs within that range. Can

Notifications: failed send request [0] notify.mql5.net:443 failed I got thiss msg since 4-5 weeks ago, when i try to send notifications to my phone with the metaquoteID but the problem is showed in the terminal My computer is a MAC and i have always use it and no troubles but till now with only this

Hi, I am new to coding in general, and am trying to understand what would be the best/ ideal way to do so. The context: The script is trying to identify and differentiate between 6 different harmonic patterns within a price chart. Each pattern has 5 points: X, A, B, C, D in that order, where point X

do you guys have the adx indicator to show on the chart as the value of the adx ? just as a number i mean ,on the chart ..without having the adx open below the chart

Hi, I'M not very skilled in MQL4, and havig problems with the lot size in my EA, where souldn't be to orders open with the same Lot Size at the same time. I made a For loop that finds if there's an open order with the same Lot Size as the intended one, and if its true, adds 0.01 to the lot size, but

This seems like a small problem and maybe it is but I've been struggling with it for a while and have finally given it. My ea opens 2 orders on buy and sell signals. First OrderBuy1 with sl and tp, the OrderBuy2 with only sl. OrderBuy 1 can close with tp and sl but OrderBuy 2 is supposed to be

Please help. Thanks! double BandU[]; double BandL[]; for (int i=1;i<5;i++) { BandU[i] = iBands(NULL,0,20,2,0,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_UPPER,i); BandL[i] = iBands(NULL,0,20,2,0,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_LOWER,i); } I want to caculate