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i bought vps three days ago, i will like to switch it to another mt platform with a different brocker

I am using version 5.00 build 6230. I am writing an EA. If I use functions like SymbolInfoInteger () or SymbolInfoString (), it becomes impossible to perform a backtest. for (int i = 0; i < SymbolsTotal(false); i++) { string Symb = SymbolName(i, false); printf ( SymbolInfoInteger (Symb

i have Vps with MQL5 and my broker move server this week end from NY to london i would like to know if MQl5 will adjust automatically or i need to done on section Vps monday

I've been running several EAs together on the same account instead of one single strategy, mainly to smooth the equity curve, but it's forcing me to rethink risk management completely. A single trailing stop or fixed lot size per EA doesn't work anymore, because the drawdown that actually matters is

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Until recently, MT5 and my Ubuntu server were running perfectly fine. However, the latest MT5 update has broken its functionality on Ubuntu. MT5 previously had compatibility issues with Wine 10 and Wine 11, so I downgraded to Wine 9 approximately six months ago. After that, MT5 ran normally without

As a new MT5 user, I was surprised to discover that the application closes without asking for confirmation—even when Expert Advisors are running. An accidental click can therefore stop trading automation without warning. Please add an optional “Confirm before closing the terminal” setting to

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well i already experience a lot of signal and one think i see it why you should put SL if you know how to make profit

Algo-trading is tough. If you’ve been at it since the early 2000s like some of us, you know what I mean. We all came for the same thing: the “money-making bomb” -- one system -- switch it on -- forget the day job. Then we spent years trying to crack the price. One by one, had to admit there is no

How many of you have lost a prop firm challenge because of the loss limits (daily or maximum), and not because of the strategy? And what would have helped you the most to pass? A clearer rule from the firm, an alert before reaching the limit, a fixed daily routine, smaller position sizes, or

Hi everyone, has anyone else noticed that fewer jobs are being posted on MQL5 Freelance recently? Do you think this is temporary, or will it become difficult to get jobs in the future? Will MQL5 developers continue to have enough work in the coming years? I would love to hear your opinions

Helo All! I've actually added this comment to an older topic before, but since that topic was old, I assume it has no activity so I decided to create another topic, hoping it will get more attention. I think mql5 has a huge limitation when it comes to clipboard access. Currently, CEdit , or more

I was testing a daily loss lock in the Strategy Tester (100,000 account, 5% daily limit = 5,000, lock set at 90% of the limit). With "1 minute OHLC" the lock fired late: the day closed at 105% of the limit. With "Every tick based on real ticks" it locked at 90.0% (−4,501), exactly as designed. The

How do you measure the real impact of economic news on an EA? I've been researching how automated trading systems behave around economic releases, and I've noticed that simply classifying events as Low, Medium or High impact doesn't tell the whole story. Two High-impact events can produce completely

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

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, Could anyone tell me about flitration in Metatrader 4 Administrator? i didn't understand about it. Thank you

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

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

Hello everyone, I wanted to share some lessons learned about parameter optimization, hoping to get your feedback and maybe some ideas to improve. 1. Walk- forward optimization beats simple single-period optimization. A strategy that looks great on one year of history often breaks on the next six

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

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

Good day dear forum members. After reading the forum a bit, I came across several threads on arbitrage and pair trading . Judging by the threads, some are interested and some are trying it. I used to dabble in this topic a long time ago, but my knowledge was not enough. Now I am a complete mess in

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

HI,Which strategy is best for BTCUSD

What is your Preffered Syle of trading? Swing Day Or Scalping? What EA would you prefer for developers to make you assuming All of the work and are profitable

I used to use metatrader4 when I was messing with Forex, but I have funds that I'd like to use out of my stock porfolio to trade one particuarl stock which goes up and down $1-2/day pretty much all the time. I'd like to set metatrader up to say, sell at a certain price, then buy at $2.00 lower, then

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

Hi, Can someone please let me know how to use Metatrader5 to trade in stocks in NSE and/or BSE stock markets in India? Thanks, Amitabh

Dear all, I am trying to import historical data (M1) to MT5 from my Tradestation account. I have export the data in csv format and below there are some rows as example: "Date","Time","Open","High","Low","Close","TotalVolume" 1/2/2008,03:01:00,3841.00,3842.25,3840.25,3841.75,184

Does anyone here trade Nasdaq? What leverage do you get from your broker

Does anyone here trade BTC

Hi All How do I add the NSE Indian Market- Stocks and Futures into the MT5 market watch. Thanks a ton for your help. Regards Praveen

what is the procedure to add symbol from NSE to MT5 marketwatch and start trading NSE option trading and back test

If BTC/USD has support at $68,000 and resistance at $70,000, what type of group or person would keep dumping at $70,000 when they make very little profit from a buy at $69,000

For the past weeks I've been developing an EA based on SMC, multitimeframe liqquidity-sweep: Stats are good IMO, DD < 10%, good sharpe ratio, etc... But I question myself about this being more stable? Such as diversifying. My main problem is choosing a variety of pairs, i.e: EUR/USD GPB/USD USD/JPY

I want to demo Options board on MT5 but cant find ANY one who offers it? Where can i try the MT5 options board? Who is currently demo/ real trading with MT5 options platform? its ridiculous i cant find ANY information on how to actually do it/ who offers it. Its almost as if it doesnt exist/ noone

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

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

Hello MetaQuotes team, I am trying to establish the provenance of an EX5 file loaded by a local MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester agent. In one run, the agent journal reported “expert file added ... 239101 bytes loaded,” while the frozen local EX5 file measured 239012 bytes. I do not know whether these

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

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

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

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

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

I’m currently coding an MT5 EA and I’d like to add an image/logo directly onto the chart (not just text or lines). I’ve been experimenting with OBJ_BITMAP and OBJ_BITMAP_LABEL, but I’m not fully sure how to properly load and display a custom image in the EA. Has anyone here done this before?🤷‍♂️

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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%

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

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

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

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

Hi! I'ld like to be able to draw some rectangles that are gonna mark support and resistances zones that may take lots of bars to be crossed, thus being relevant for a lot of time. In my tool, I do that by extending the final points of the rectangle to a whole new year in the future: The problem is

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

Does anyone have a large collection of oscillators (works best in a trading range) that he/she put together? Maybe we could start a thread where all oscillators are gathered. And let's go a little beyound RSI and Stochastic

GM Matrix Monitor — read-only risk dashboard for your EA matrix : Read-only panel showing per-magic net P/L, account drawdown, daily-loss breaker progress and freeze/liquidate thresholds. Does NOT trade. Author: QuantDev _CN

TesterStats: Strategy Tester report statistics in MQL5 code : Calculates the Strategy Tester report statistics from the deal history, including Z-Score, AHPR, GHPR, LR Correlation and LR Standard Error, which TesterStatistics() does not return. Checked value by value against the tester. Author

Check out the new article: Benchmark Champions vs. Real-World Optimization Problems . We analyze why ratings may be inflated due to the alignment of algorithm trajectories with benchmark diagonals, and we supplement the testing methodology with a requirement to keep the global extremum away from the

Non-Repainting Fair Value Gap Detector : Non-repainting three-bar Fair Value Gap detector for MetaTrader 5. Closed-bar detection, the 50% Consequent Encroachment level, mitigation as an explicit state machine, incremental scanning, and a built-in self-audit that re-checks the stored gap levels

MultiTester : Multiple runs/optimisations in Tester. Author: fxsaber

Check out the new article: Hyperdimensional Computing: Learning in One Integer Add, and the Nulls That Judge It . A complete Hyperdimensional Computing library for MQL5 implements bind, bundle and permute over 4096‑bit hypervectors, graded level ladders for quantities, an encoder for bars and

Check out the new article: Diebold-Mariano Testing in MQL5: Validating Predictive Edge Across Instruments and Models . The article shows how to compare two trading forecasters in MQL5 using the Diebold–Mariano test with HAC‑corrected variance and the Harvey–Leybourne–Newbold adjustment. It explains

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: Adaptive Perception of Market Dynamics (STE-FlowNet) . The STE-FlowNet framework offers a new perspective on financial data analysis by responding to actual market events rather than fixed timeframes. Its architecture preserves local and

Check out the new article: Native Gaussian Process Regression in MQL5: Short-Horizon Price Forecasting with Uncertainty Bands . The article rebuilds a Gaussian Process forecaster in native MQL5 around market-state inputs and direct horizon log-return targets. It employs a Matern 3/2 kernel

Check out the new article: The Kalman Filter for Price Smoothing: An Exact Implementation in MQL5 . This article implements the scalar Kalman Filter for price smoothing in MQL5 using the standard local-level model and the exact prediction–update equations. It explains how process and measurement

Check out the new article: Building a Position Lifecycle Manager in MQL5 (Part 2): Managing Manual and Multi-Symbol Positions . This update adds manual position adoption and multi-symbol lifecycle management. The manager detects and tracks positions regardless of the chart, applies initial

Check out the new article: Uncertainty as a Model (Part 5): The Basics of Regression . A practical introduction to time series regression models: regression on a constant and simple regression with deterministic, exogenous, and endogenous regressors. It describes the key steps in the diagnostic

Manual Trade Pad for Strategy Tester : A Lightweight Manual Trading Panel for MetaTrader 4 — Live Trading and Strategy Tester Author: Amirhossein Heydarijokani

Session Range Breakout: Asia, London and New York high/low levels : Session Range Breakout draws the high and low of up to three intraday sessions (Asia, London and New York by default) and extends each level to the right with optional H/L labels and a range rectangle. Session hours, names and

TSCombo5 : Geminis, Mistral, Claude & Perplexity UNITED!! Author: Rodrigo S. Franco

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 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

First could you please assign a shortcut, in the MetaEditor for "SaveAs" ? I never use "save all" and always use "save as" having to always reach the menu just to save a copy is painful when you do that all day Secondly could you please restore MT4 way of showing partial backtests if the backtest is

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

Hi bros, yesterday I had an idea, pick all the best trend following default indicators on TradingView and made a super TS with the conjunction. Claude from Anthropic did the excellent job. Here is the .mq4 file and a example image

Hi guys. Can an EA be programmed to recognize when a user manually opens or closes a trade from the chart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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