Thenew MQL5 Community website at http://www.mql5.com keeps developing. Weinvite all of you to make your contribution to this development. Thenew MQL5is the evolutionary continuation of MQL4. The new language ischaracterized by the support of object oriented programming, by ahigher code execution...

Hi, I am trying to figure out  what is the purpose of return(0)? In my if statement within the curly bracket, i tested with and without retrun(0) in it and the results is the same.  So, does it mean return(0) doesnt really serve any purpose? Please help.

I decided to create this thread to help to myself and to the others to start with Metatrader 5. I am experienced in MT4 and in forex in general (i hope : ) but we traders really need to collect all the information about it in one place. I will make some posts about 'how I am starting with MT5'....

Hi fam! Am a total newbie in the forex niche... Just signed up here on this platform... Please where do i start from? I need help... Anyone willing to put me through?

Good day.... My pc crashed and I had to re install all my software and now I cant see the indicators I purchased in my MT4.....

Dear all, I would like to start this new thread cause I have some indicators that I paid for them and I want to share for free with you, all of you that for years share tons of ideas with me in this beautiful forum. I hope to encourage many users to do the same thing Best regards doc EDIT now the...

How to start with MT5 platform : summary. As our topic about "How to start with Metatrader 5" is going to be huge, here you find a summary, with main links. A very good article to learn how to use this site. How to start with MetaTrader and forex, the beginningFor a general overview of changements...

The Main Study The first version of integration - read this post #1, How to get direct access to data in MetaTrader 5 from R - read first post of this thread (this is the key thread started by MQ), or this translation- #2, The R Project for Statistical Computing - website, The R package (to download...

I have populated HashMap with keys and values. Now I need to iterate over all pair (key, values). How to do this? CHashMap don't have a method CHashMap.items(). Thanks.

Hello, What "mathematical calculus" to double the bill getting 100pips a day? Example: $ 100 account with 100pips per day * " X " lots = $ 200 $ 200 account with 100pips per day * " X " lots = $ 400 $ 400 account with 100pips per day * " X " lots = $ 800 $ 800 account with 100pips per day * " X "...

hi, sometimes i see different symbols at the end of trading instruments like EURUSD.fxe or EURUSD# What does these mean and do all brokers offer these?

When doing backtest in mt4 I change the spread from 10 to 100 and it doesn’t make any difference on profit and loss of individual trade it only change the amount of trade taken. Why is that?

Hello, I am now running low on activations for various products due to VPS migrations.  I was wondering what happens then when no activation is left. Can I then buy the same product again (in order to get additional activations)? I ask, because the price is not the problem, but it would be...

I want to know how many people from Indonesia is joining this forum. If you're from Indonesia, please comment this topic..Thank you..

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

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

Hello guys, I am looking for a solution to my EA on how to open a position (BUY or SELL) on the exact moment the fast MA crosses the slow MA. All i have seen is rather on the closing of the last bar or on the opening of the next one. I want the EA to start a position (BUY or SELL) right after the...

Hi My Expert keeps on getting removed when i close my position If im running this expert with an open position it works great, but as soon as i close the position and open a new one, the expert freezes and the gets removed Why?

Hello Traders! I appreciate if you leave me your valuable comments andopinions on this simple strategy which has been designed based on the standardindicators of MetaTrader. It uses only EMA and MACD.   First I consider H4 as my trading timeframe. Keeping this inmind, I look to the higher timeframe...

I just started this thread as a continuation of the talking made on this topic (we can read it). Or ...to make it shorter: it was some discussion about forecasting/predicting of the next candle or direction of the movement or market condition evaluation. And it was around standard indiocators in...

Hi everyone. I wonder if it is possible to save/load template for several charts opened. For instance I have charts EURUSD,GBPPJPY,AUDUSD opened with different indicators attached (MACD,EMAs etc..) however not all indicators applied to all currency pairs. So now would like to save this "view" that...

Hi, I have developed successfully scalping strategiesfor the 60/30/15 minutes EUR/USD charts (1:1 risk/reward scalping strategies).But because of the Spread I cannot find any winning strategies for the 1/5minutes charts. Can anyone give a hint of what to think about for1/5 minutes charts (using...

Is it possible to disable manual trading (i.e. closing EA opened positions) when the EA is running in order to not interfere with the EA?

Hello everyone,  I'm fairly new to forex trading. I have been learning by reading different analysis on Tradingview from different professional traders and try to make sense of them. However, since I use a different broker the price is always different from the one in Tradingview and in my broker....

I place an order with take profit and stop loss within an EA. Is it possible to be notified of the stop loss execution of a placed order in the EA, without looking at the trade history? If I have to look at history, I must send a PostMessageA(main, WM_COMMAND, MT4_WMCMD_ALL_HISTORY, 0); that...

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...

How good is the MT5 tick data? Or should I import my TDS (TickDataSuite) MT4 Tick Data instead and use that to test?

Hi all, My EA is running on EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCHF, USDCAD and AUDUSD. My EA's traling stop doesn't work on only AUDUSD. It works well on the other currincies. It also works well about take profit and stoploss on AUDUSD. Have you never been face to face this problem. Best.

Here is a suggestion for a possible trading system... System one is MT4-Xard777.rar and System two is XARD-BOX.rar Enjoy... All the best Xard777

Hi all, I don't know if FxPro is 5-day New York Close Charts? Anyone can help? Thanks

Hi, I'm willing to put  Sell Limit / Buy Limit with specified date on Exchange. I can do by the terminal manually but PositionOpen does not accept entering time. https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/standardlibrary/tradeclasses/ctrade/ctradepositionopen Only OrderOpen accepts entering time but it'll not be...

When using MT4 Strategy Tester for CFD strategies, I noticed that the historical data for CFDs went back to only 2015, whereas FX historical data went back to 1980. I tried to download more data from History Centre, but I got the notification 'No new data for this pair' Is MT4s CFD historical data...

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...

RecentlyMetaQuotes Software introduced MetaFintech as its new representative office in theUAE.The company now announces its further expansion: Derivative System Technologies will act as its agent in South Africa. Thenew representative office will be responsible for the promotion of theMetaTrader...

Hello,Is their any broker who provide LME product to trade on mt5. Lead,zinc,aluminium, copper,nickel...

Introduction to Bonds (Part I) 1. Principal: This is the face value of the bond; the amount that the first bond buyer initially loaned to the company or government issuing the bond. This is also known as the par value. 2. Coupon Payment: This is the numeric amount of interest payments that are...

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies Press review Sergey Golubev, 2016.12.25 06:50 Hang Seng Index Q1 2017 Forecast (based on the article) "Underlying sentiment surrounding Hong Kong stocks has remained negative with underlying concerns surrounding...

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...

Stock Market A To Z: 26 Names, Themes And Trends To Watch (based on the article) A is for Apple "The stock trailed the broader market in 2016, but there may be tailwinds in 2017. Tax reform may include a provision that incentivizes the company to deploy its billions in foreign cash back to...

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

Hi all,    In my search for option stragy builders i came across this link HERE but i just cant find in my MT5 platform this option. I cant find in builds news any update disabling this functionality. So... How can i use the Option Strategy Builder in MT5 ?? Thank you guys

The Worst Stocks Of 2016: First Solar It was decreased from 72 to 28 for this 2016!

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

The CButton class is derived from CWndObj, and CWndObj is derived from CWnd. All the classes don't have an interface to set BASE CORNER. If you set BASE CORNER by ObjectSetInteger OBJPROP_CORNER, then the coordinates is weird. This will make event handler to response false due to position miss. Does...

BULLISH/BEARISH Bar counter code Hi guys i`m having problem creating a bar counter code.Basically this indicator would be a statistical tool for me and it would help me very much with my market research. It would count how many  BEARISH bars appear and BULLISH bars at the next candle of certain time...

Hi How can I substract a value from the account balance? Simulate a withdraw while backtesting. Thank you

Hello, i want to catch market orders in OnBookEvent(). But all i get are limit orders of the market depth. My Code: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                     testbook.mq5...

While testing an EA, I've got the following results. It's completely unrealistic and it mirrors a HUGE flaw at strategy tester, using every tick based on real ticks: when testing limit orders, orders are always placed at first at the book, so it's gets immediate execution. At demo accounts too. As...

How can I get the ArraySize of some Symbol MqlRates? Tks

Hi, I'm trying to change the server on some VPS from Server 14 to Server 4, but it doesn't work. The Server switches to Server 4 as soon as I press "OK", but then after 1 minute it goes back to Server 14. Does anybody know how to do this? Thanks

tmSignal();   if (buy()&& (Bid>=RUDuentry && Bid<RUDutp1-min_distance*_Point && RUDuentry>0 && RUDutp1>0 && tmTrade==1 /*&& (dotsBuy<atrproju) && (dotsBT1<drangeh)*/))   {         OrderEntry(0,RUDutp1,RUDdentry);      }      if (sell() && (Bid<=RUDdentry && Bid>RUDdtp1+min_distance*_Point &&...

Hello, Can anyone help please? My expert advisors are not working. Let's take for example moving average, i attached it to the chart, it says initialized, i even get that smiley face on the top right corner, but it just doesn't show anything on the charts. It's the same with all my EA. There are no...

Converting from MT4 to MT% Usually in MT4 I backtest in Visual mode and can drag an indicator from the navigation tree and use it on the visual backtest. This allows lots of on chart event functions. So far I can not replicate this on MT5 Anyone know how to do this in MT5?

Hi , I have an issue, I am taking tick volume data and getting percent rates. The problem is that when i take the bullish and bearish tick data(both much above 0) and divide them and after that *100 , i get 0. I printed out everything and i find no logical reason for that. The data is taken with the...

i write code bool CheckEmptyGridBuy(int magic) {  for(int trade = OrdersTotal()-1; trade >= 0; trade--)    {     if(OrderSelect(trade,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)&& OrderSymbol()==Symbol() && OrderType()==OP_BUY && OrderMagicNumber()==magic &&     (Ask-(GridStep*Point)<=OrderOpenPrice()||...

Hello Everyone, Been testing many EA's and some give same results as live accounts and some are totally different. Here are the questions for those long time traders and coders. Could EA here in MQL5 be trusted?If not, how do we avoid this? And why do MQL5 allow this? Do MQL5 screen sellers and...

Hello, I was wondering whether anybody could help with something that's really beginning to wind me up... Whenever I backtest an EA the system runs it, however no results pull through. In the journal it says "failed to open a short/long position" many times over. Admittedly my level of experience...

Hello, Can someone help me with my EA that I am building?  There is one piece that I am unable to understand.  Currently my EA opens the trade as soon as my EMAs cross.  But I only want the trade to open if the EMAs are confirmed at the candle close, along with my other criteria.  I've seen others...

Hi, I am doing an indicator for stock market that starts at 9 AM. So I want get the first price of day and start or restart the calculation at 9 AM. I have tried this into OnCalculate, but it is not working MqlDateTime curDate;TimeCurrent(curDate);      if (curDate.hour < 9)      return 0; I...

Hello I have problem with this code. this indicator draw arrow with stochastic signal if above bellow kijun sen. but why this code not working ?    if(M_kijun_sen_value<Close[i] )  // EDITTED CODE <<<<-------------------  {   UP[i]=Low[i]-distance*MyPoint;   if(CTime!=Time[0])    {...

Dear All, I have an old collection which is giving alert when 2 ma crossover. But I need to add "Shift" option to get signal as per my own set up. So, If someone can help me to add this option, would highly appreciated. Here I am attaching the file, pls see and modify if possible to you. Thanks in...

Thanks in advance for all the recommendations :)

Masters, Inside one Symbol indicator, in OnCalculate(), I need to bring volume information of another Symbol. As I researched, I´ll need to use CopyRates(), but I don´t know the number of values I will need to bring from the another Symbol array. How can I use CopyRates() without knowing this? By...

I have a question about if something is possible on MT4 relating to Renko charts and a Currency Symbol Changer. This might not be possible like how I want it however. Is there a way to use Renko charts, but to use a Currency Symbol Changer so when I select a new FX pair on the Currency Symbol...

I need to study historical values of many indicators from metatrader. Is the a way to save for example in 1 minute interval , similar to format like in History center? Thanks for help.

Some of you might remember this one : originally it was a part of an expensive system. Than it was coded as dots because of the repainting problems in metatrader. Here is a version for metatrader 5 : slightly changed the look of it (Bollinger bands is drawn as the "shadow" in the background) Also...

Hi - I hope someone can help. I want to overlay an oscillator I've coded located in the bottom chart pane onto price - the top panel. The oscillator ranges between -10 and +10 with zero the centre point. When overlayed I'm not expecting it to align to price and will expect the line to 'float' over...

Hi everyone, It's a lot of time that I follow various threads here and you're so interesting! thanks for your indirect help! Anyway, now is the time to ask the comunity for a conspicuous help to build a personalized signal indicator based mainly on the Heikin Ashi and Demarker indicators! Can...

Hi all, Thanks for looking at this thread. I'm looking to develop a custom indicator and it appears to be printing out the correct value initially but it just stops when a new candle appears! I don't know why and this is giving me a real headache!!! Thanks for your help :)...

MetaTrader 5 provides two similar indicators: ADX and ADX Wilder. Apparently the latter is smoother. Which one is more useful? Is ADX Wilder less advanced, since it is the original version?

Hello friends, how are you? I'm a beginner and I'm creating a custom EA that opens and closes orders on the market by changing the color of the indicator line but I ran into "SetIndexBuffer" and "iCustom" to open buy and sell orders ... Has anyone ever gone through this obstacle? Anyone who has a...

What is wrong with this alert? That sound never ends and finally it freezes MT5.         manageAlerts(time[rates_total-1],rates_total);            return(rates_total);           }         //+------------------------------------------------------------------+         void manageAlerts(datetime...

I am looking for an indicator of the ADX that also has a MA in the indicator window. I want to be able to use it to say if ADX is above the MA(14) then it is okay to execute trades. I have been looking around for this but didn't have any luck. I am new here and if someone could help point me in the...

Consecutive Candles with Stochastic Filter Indicator: Shows when two or three consecutive bull or bear candles of a certain size print after qualifying the stochastic level of the initial candle in the series. The indicator identifies consecutive High candles and consecutive Low candles. The first...

SHI_SilverTrendSig: The indicator generates buy and sell signals. Author: John Smith

ThreeBreaky: Multisystem of Volatility Breakout Author: Fabio Cavalloni

Normalized MACD - of averages: Normalized MACD of averages Author: Mladen Rakic

RSI Summed: RSI Summed Author: Mladen Rakic

Smart Tunel Trading: The Smart tunnel is a smart robot for trading with an automatically drawn trend line to act with it and market movement.Enjoy :) Author: Ali Sabbaghi

New article How to Order an Expert Advisor and Obtain the Desired Result is published: How to write correctly the Requirement Specifications? What should and should not be expected from a programmer when ordering an Expert Advisor or an indicator? How to keep a dialog, what moments to pay special...

New article General information on Trading Signals for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 is published: MetaTrader 4 / MetaTrader 5 Trading Signals is a service allowing traders to copy trading operations of a Signals Provider. Our goal was to develop the new massively used service protecting...

TryME: try me... Author: Antonis Michos

Bollinger bands - squeeze: Bollinger bands - squeeze Author: Mladen Rakic

PSAR trader v2: Trades using parabolic SAR signals Author: Tonny Obare

JSON Serialization and Deserialization (native MQL): Serialization and deserialization of JSON protocol. The code is ported from a high-speed С++ library. Practical example: authorization on a website and parsing the response CJAVal jv;jv["login"]="Login"; // loginjv["password"]="Pass"; //...

MA_BBands_YXF: The indicator is a combination of MA channels and Bollinger Bands. Author: johnsun888

Trend Line: "Trend Line" EA draws Gann Fan on chart and trades with its trend,has Trailing Stop Loss &Take Profit works with all time frames major forex pairs and stocks NASDAQ. Author: Aharon Tzadik

Hi, I have connected a DDE from MT4 to Excel and now I want to use that live updated price to multiply it with an other value but it doesn't work, it just says #VALUE!, how can you solve this? Best regards

Hi everyone, I am new to trading and would like to understand how to import live data from MT4 to Excel (Excel 2013). I have looked through other threads posted on here previously that advise on this and still cannot seem to make it work. Thus far I have tried to simply import a bid price to excel,...

Hello everyone   I have some issue with DDE excel spreadsheet. I can't to use the data from table to any calculation. For example, I would like to calculate pip value for USDCHF. So, I use this formula: 10/value of USDCHF. But the result is #VALUE. Is there any solution?   Thank you! 

So I have the exact criteria to open a buy market order and sell stop pending order,I also have a sell market order and stop buy pending order that has the exact same criteria so that either one hedges but the sells stop isnt working and the code is perfect. So i started to tinker with the criteria...

Well, here is an indicator that works almost like TTM scalper. The explanation for the "almost" : I did not "iron out" the occasional differences that happen between "my" version and TTM version. There are multiple reasons for that. Some of them : the logic of this one is quite clear and I do not...

Hello Everyone , Recently I have found out an average price indicator . The indicator is accessible from the following link & works fine on MT4. But I want to develop an EA with it on an eabuilder. This indicator doesn't work with eabuilder  due to absence of buffer . https://www.mql5...

All, This one is driving me nuts! whilst trying to write an EA to trade the DAX I've discovered several instances of missing candle data or periods where the market is closed during the night. I'm using the 'iclose' to determine a close level from the previous day, but this requires a 'number of...

Hi friends, I want to calculate the candle number after and related to specific time period on current chart. For example on H1 cahrt i want to numerize the candle after 00:00 Oclock (After every day opening). I have already make an indicator Using time formula and Ibarshift - Both of them are...

How can I make sure that; Advisor (robot)should open position only if 5 min passed after last position had opened. Thanks.

Im facing this error when I try to retrieve the oldest ticket in my current pool of trades using the functions below, int EarliestOpenSellTicket(){    datetime EarliestSellTime  = TimeCurrent();        //initialize it to the current server time. You will have no orders newer than that...

Guys i need help with the following... I am trying to open a buy order 2 or 3 bars after fast ma crosses slow ma and when the rsi is greater than 50 as well as when both stochastic lines are greater than 50. A sell order for the opposite. The code below is an attempt at a buy order for the 1 minute...

Hi, it is possible to create and indicator like renko using the Heiken Ashi Bars? In this way we can attach to this offline chart all the indicator with different information respect the standard chart. Waiting your reply, Regards

I think time has come for this thread...Kindly place your repainters here...and...Voila!...they will become non - repainters, with my Magic touch and my programming skills... P.S.: You can place your decompiled, expired & ex files in here...makes no difference to me...the work will be done...that I...

Hi All, I'm trying to use the functions CopyTicks and CopyTicksRange in my MQL4 code but get the error "function not defined" CopyTicks: https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/series/copyticks CopyTicksRange: https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/series/copyticksrange It seems that these function doesn't available in...