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I built an MT5 Expert Advisor called Gun Slinger for Volatility 75 (Deriv synthetic indices). Not a signal group, not a course, just the EA. What it actually does: - Trades the H1 timeframe with a sensitivity setting (default 5.5) that controls how aggressive entries are - Risk-based position

تیم توسعه‌دهنده محترم MetaQuotes، من پیشنهاد می‌کنم یک ابزار محاسبه ریسک به پاداش (R:R) اختصاصی و داخلی به هر دو پلتفرم متاتریدر ۴ و متاتریدر ۵ اضافه شود. بسیاری از معامله‌گران به ابزاری ساده، دقیق و مستقل نیاز دارند تا نسبت‌های ریسک به پاداش خود را مستقیماً در نمودارهای معاملاتی محاسبه و تجسم کنند

Hello, I am developing a research-only EURUSD backtesting system using MetaTrader 5 Python integration and the MetaQuotes-Demo server. Could you confirm the historical server UTC offset and daylight-saving-time rules for MetaQuotes-Demo between November 2025 and October 2026? In particular, I need

Hello, Following an MT5 update on 28 October 2026, my Strategy Tester has stopped working correctly. Platform: MetaTrader 5, Build 6290 (27 October 2026) Server: MetaQuotes-Demo Symbol: EURUSD, M15 Problem: Strategy Tester repeatedly fails to synchronise historical data, despite historical bars

Has anyone had an issue with positions being opened at prices different from the displayed Bid and Ask prices

Hello all. Does anyone have any recommendations for me on ways to improve the amount of money made each day using the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester Agent? I just started 5 days ago and I feel like I should be making more money per day then what I'm seeing. Is there something I'm missing? It seems

Hi! Is it worth buying gold at 1130

Hello traders, With recent volatility across major pairs and Gold (XAUUSD), risk management has become more critical than the entry signal itself. For those running automated systems or strict manual strategies: do you prefer using a fixed lot size with manual adjustments, or dynamic lot sizing

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

What in the hell happened here? Clearly a glitch on Metaquotes end... Can this be reversed? Now my journal across all my Metaquotes terminals are being spammed with these old ticks every 1ms filling my journal logs up massively every second. This was a Metaquotes demo account

I would like to ask whether anyone using MT5 on iPhone has experienced a similar issue. I was trading XAUUSD with HFM on 30 October 2026. I usually hold multiple positions and use the Bulk Close function to close all open positions simultaneously. That afternoon, I encountered the first problem. I

It is so easy to prove that many EAs (I really mean many - contact me for the names) have ways to cheat backtests . Most of them cheat a simple backtest fully, some of them cheat a backtests moderatly to heavily. A simple statistical analysis can reveal if the EA is cheating as at a certain date the

Hello, I am working on a trailing stop function and found a difference in behavior between two methods. I use this logic for ATR trailing: double atr = iATR(_Symbol, PERIOD_CURRENT, 14); double distance = atr * 2.5; For BUY: new_sl = SymbolInfoDouble(_Symbol, SYMBOL_BID) - distance; For SELL

Hello, Could a MetaQuotes representative investigate an unusual execution on the MetaQuotes-Demo server? This concerns a demo account only. AUDUSD position details: Position: 11135286609 Direction and volume: BUY, 5.05 lots Entry price: 0.70358 Initial Stop Loss: 0.70259 Take Profit: 0.70659 The

MetaQuotes has launched new MQL5.community information channels on Facebook, X.com (Twitter), and Telegram. These channels provide daily publications of relevant technical materials from the MQL5.com Articles and CodeBase sections. They are designed to promptly update developers on algorithmic

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do most of my development runs on M1 OHLC because it's fast. Before I release anything I rerun the finished EA on real ticks. On EAs that wait for a setup and give the trade room, the two modes usually land close together. On anything with a tight target they can be far apart. In 1 minute OHLC

Hi everyone, 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

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

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

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

Hello, how can I write the expert code on my mobile

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

Hi Everyone, Long time reader first time writer. I'm working on an EA that uses Heiken Ashi candles and needs to know if the previous bar was bearish (red) or bullish (white). There is a buffer for close and open price and I have variables that update for previous bar close and open based on the

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

Hello, I recently published on the MQL5 Market but I am unable to install the demo version of my own product. The installation fails without displaying an error code in the MT5 Journal. The Journal shows Downloading but nothing else No further error or successful installation message appears. I

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

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

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

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

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

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%

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...

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

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

Trade Journal Exporter - closed trades to CSV, one row per position, with MFE/MAE, R multiple and session : Exports your closed trade history to a CSV file with one row per position (not per deal), ready for Excel, Python or any journal. Each row has ticket, symbol, magic number, comment, side

Xander Grid RSI Gold : XAUUSD grid EA that opens a basket when RSI leaves oversold or overbought on a closed candle, adds levels with a lot multiplier and closes the basket at a money or points target. Open source code. Author: Cristhian Alexander Gaibor Cuasquer

Check out the new article: Making Custom Indicators for Beginners (Part 1): SuperTrend Indicator . This article builds a robust SuperTrend indicator in MQL5 using ATR-based bands, a ratchet mechanism, and strict series indexing to avoid silent recursion errors and repainting on closed bars. We walk

Check out the new article: Practical Modules from Other Languages in MQL5 (Part 09): MATPLOTLIB (II) . Learn how to create advanced visualizations in MetaTrader 5 using a Matplotlib-like API from MQL5 while Python handles rendering. We implement key chart types—scatter, bar, horizontal bar

Check out the new article: Confident Learning: Finding Mislabeled Trades Before They Poison Your Classifier . The article focuses on label-auditing for meta-labeling, not on a new entry signal. It presents a native MQL5 implementation of confident learning with out-of-fold scoring and calibrated

Check out the new article: Creating Custom Indicators in MQL5 (Part 12): Mapping Liquidity with a Volume Profile Heatmap . We build a volume profile heatmap indicator in MQL5 that bins window volume into uniform price levels and paints each bar as a column of colored cells behind the candles. We

Trade Manager Utility : Manages positions that are already open: it adds a missing SL/TP, moves the stop to break even, trails it, caps the position count and applies daily equity limits. It never opens trades. Author: Vira Ohloblia

Session Range Breakout : Draws the high and low of a chosen time window and alerts on the first break on each side. The levels are also available through iCustom. Author: Vira Ohloblia

Check out the new article: Building a Traditional Point and Figure Indicator in MQL5 . This article implements a custom Point and Figure indicator in MQL5 that maps price movement into X/O columns using a fixed box size and three-box reversal logic. We define the base price, convert prices into box

Check out the new article: Master MQL5 from beginner to pro (Part I): Getting started with programming . This article is an introduction to a series of articles about programming. It is assumed here that the reader has never dealt with programming before. So, this series starts from the very basics

Line Master – Fast and Slow Trend Lines with Trend Change Signals : Line Master is a trend-following indicator for MetaTrader 5 that displays fast and slow dynamic price lines to help traders identify market direction and potential trend changes. Blue represents a bullish trend, while red represents

Check out the new article: The Power of MetaTrader 5: From Step-by-Step Debugging to EX5 Protection in a Unified Environment . This article examines a comprehensive approach to developing trading algorithms: from project setup and logic debugging to protecting the finished product. We will explore

Grok Swing Color Pro MT4 : by Grok AI Author: Rodrigo S. Franco

Check out the new article: Beyond Clone and Commit: The Advanced Side of MQL5 Algo Forge . We map the parts of Algo Forge that impact day-to-day MQL5 work: opening repos in MetaEditor, README translation, Units, branch/tag protection, browser patching, packages, and CI on a Windows host. The article

XANDER Grid XAUUSD : Bidirectional grid EA for Gold (XAUUSD). Ideal for ProCent accounts. Includes Daily Profit Target and Max Drawdown protection. Author: Cristhian Alexander Gaibor Cuasquer

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

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

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

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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

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

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