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Hello, I would like to update my original enquiry. We have now prepared an isolated local Hyper-V virtual machine running Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation (Desktop Experience) , rather than the originally proposed Azure Windows Server 2025 environment. The VM has no connected virtual switch

Subject: MetaEditor 5 — Compiler-Only Installation Without Launching MT5 Hello, I am preparing an isolated Windows Server 2025 environment on Microsoft Azure to compile a non-trading MQL5 diagnostic script. Before installing MetaTrader 5, I would appreciate clarification on the following: Is there

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

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

Title: Payment Successfully Deducted from My Bank Account, but MQL5 Balance Remains $0.00 Hello everyone, I am experiencing a problem with depositing funds into my MQL5 account, and I would appreciate some assistance. I attempted to deposit funds into my MQL5 account twice, with each transaction

Hello, I am unable to purchase or automatically renew my MQL5 VPS subscription. On 5 November 2026, there were repeated USD 15 payment entries for one month on VPS Singapore 11. Each was followed by a USD 15 entry labeled "Subscription issue", and I still cannot complete the purchase or renewal. My

I am using a custom chart where i get price cut off on vertical scale, how can i fix it

My public channel does not appear in the Channels New tab. Please advise if there is any restriction or technical issue, and what I need to do to make it appear

text message Can someone please tell me if SMS for seller is working I don't get the SMS

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 MQL Team I just want to let you know if your quotes of XAUCHF not updated since 2 Nov. https://www.mql5.com/en/quotes/metals/xauchf/chart Thank you

Hello MQL5 Support, I cannot log in to MQL5.community from any of my three MetaTrader 5 installations on my IONOS VPS. System: Windows Server 2025 MetaTrader 5: Build 6300 Errors: MQL5.community: authorization failed MQL5 Market: failed to get list of user products [401] Virtual Hosting: failed to

Hi. I want to know if there is any options to add my real account to MQL5 for showing people as well or no

I'm conducting an independent research project involving the analysis and classification of publicly available trading strategies in the MQL5 CodeBase. I'd like to explore obtaining explicit permission to retrieve all CodeBase listings and their associated source files through a controlled

I subscribed to the signal via MQL5 today, but this message is appearing in my Infinox MetaTrader. Signal '87958161': signal copying for 'XAUUSD+' is prohibited by your broker I subscribed to your Vantage signal, which uses the same symbol as Infinox: XAUUSD+

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Hi everyone, I’m working on an automated interpretation of a trendline trading approach in MQL5 and would appreciate technical feedback on how to validate its behavior in the MT5 Strategy Tester . The strategy inspiration comes from Tori Trades’ video, “Once you master this strategy, trading becomes

Has anyone actually used an EA for passing their prop firm challenge and maintaining their prop firm accounts over a long period of time? If so, do you have proof? Trade history on myfxbook, for example? Thanks

Hi all, Recently i tried to optimize a strategy, i choose the fast genetic optimization since the number of passes where high. I used the system resources and also the MQL5 cloud network at the same time. Local optimization is working fine, but the cloud optimization is failing. In the Journal the

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

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

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

By Take Profit By Stop Loss By Reversal Buy/Sell Signal By Trailing Stop Others, Pls Specify

Hi, I have recently started learning MQL5 language and all the tutorials are only focused on Forex market. I have been trading Futures contracts(manually) with <Deleted>. So, my question is If i keep learning Mql5 language, will I be able to develop EA for Futures market(with <Deleted>)? Thank you

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does anyone here trade BTC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello. i have gold ai made via Ai finally got it working, now i need help tweaking settings so we become rich. Its expert advisor for gold that follows stop limits and follows price until a thresh hold is met for trade. So far back testing ends in account wipe. please help

If this topic is not allowed please delete it. I am only asking purely for educational reasons. Not for intent. It was the case that since 2016 there was not solid proof that MT5 ex5 cannot be converted to MQL5 . In fact there were so many scam services offering that. This is what I would also say

The given errors are: 'iMA' - wrong parameters count ThreeMA_Strategy_EA.mq5 76 22 'iMA' - wrong parameters count ThreeMA_Strategy_EA.mq5 77 22 'iMA' - wrong parameters count ThreeMA_Strategy_EA.mq5 79 22 'iMA' - wrong parameters count ThreeMA_Strategy_EA.mq5 81 23 'iMA' - wrong parameters count

Hello. An MT5 EA returns only "there are no trading operations" in automatic Market validation: EURUSD H1, XAUUSD D1, GBPUSD M30 and EURUSD M1 (hedging). There is no detailed Expert journal in the report. The exact submitted EX5 trades locally on MetaQuotes-Demo, XAUUSD D1, with factory Inputs, real

I've recently noticed an issue where now my EA is not able to execute any orders. Every time it tries to place an order it says that "unsupported filling mode" and then when looking closer into it, it will say give an error saying "Ordersend error 4756". I am not sure at all why this is happening

Good Afternoon ! I Always use M1 and 1 minute OHLC in tester configuration windows for optimization an its ok until 2026 june, I update Metatrader to version 5 build 6140 now 2026 august and now I have to set timeframe to same as I set in tester parameter window. Example "Mean Reversion.Ex5" example

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

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

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

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

Please help me understand: I am running the tester strategy with an expert of the MT5 market on gold with four different brokers Dukascopy, Swissquote, FP-Market and Ava-Trade and I get completely different results. In particular with Swissquote and Dukascopy the result from 01.01.24 to today is

Hi all My EA is different in teser and prop firm account. Please help On 7 Sep, 2026, the no. of lot increase by 1 in tester , but not in prop firm account Prop firm account The function is as follows: int LastLotCnt() { int re; long l_timecurrent = TimeTradeServer (); double

Hello, We run MetaTrader 5 build 6182 (distributed by our broker). The build 6230 update has been downloaded by Live Update but not yet applied. We need written, documented answers to the following. Please cite official documentation where it exists. 1. Installer behaviour The installation help

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

Why the version of MT5 backtest speed such slow, I pend it over night(~8 Hours), only 1 pass finished but I have brought a new cpu, the usage of CPU keep only 11%

RSI indicator We are continuing discussion about the indicators. We have the following thread: Parabolic SAR indicator Momentum indicator Stochastic Oscillator Divergence Indicator Now we are talking about RSI. "Technical Analysis from A to Z": Overview The Relative Strength Index ("RSI") is a

My intention of the code below is to display 3 periods of moving average lines for the range of bars specified by chart window width. Although first period of line is drawn properly, succeeding 2 period lines fail to draw due to CopyBuffer error (4806 : Requested data not found). I cannot figure out

Repainting indicators look perfect in history and useless in live trading. Here is a check anyone can run without any tools. 1. Screenshot the last 20 signals today. 2. Wait for 3 new bars - do not reload the chart. 3. Screenshot again and compare. If an arrow moved, disappeared, or appeared late

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

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

Why is it that MT5 has a white flicker when you change timeframes while MT4 operates smoothly? Is it because the charts in MT5 are not preserved and are rebuilt every timeframe switch? How does this affect the objects in the charts? Is there a way, or can you make a way to make the chart engine the

Most of the repainting complaints I see in this section come down to one assumption, not to the detection logic or the buffer handling. MetaTrader hands OnCalculate its price arrays oldest to newest. Not series, not reversed, not newest first. Index 0 is the oldest bar currently loaded, and index

Hi, i'm trying to create an indicator with claude ai help, and it's almost works well, this code is intended to draw a plot arrow into the particular candle as a signal based on stochastic level the only issue i face is the signal only appear on previous candle that already formed, meanwhile for the

I'm looking for someone that feels the have developed a good working Kalman Filter Model to use in the fx market

Hi everyone, I am looking in vain for the code of this MESA projective indicator to be placed on the price that draws in the future the length of the cycle; Has anybody worked on that or know where to find it? I am looking for this indicator able to: take advantage of the adaptative cycles from J

My breakout EA work on different currency pairs need an indicator to help to avoid false breakout. May be consider the volume or anything else is OK. Please advise. Thanks Peter

We are continuing discussion about the indicators. We have the following thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/175886 https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177239 https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177358 https://www.forex-tsd.com/forum/debates-discussions/9785-rsi-indicator https://www.mql5.com/en/forum https...

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

Customised bmap chart : This is a custom indicator for MetaTrader 5 whose sole purpose is to display a BMP image on the chart, centred on the screen Author: Oscar Andres Mantilla Torres

Check out the new article: MetaTrader 5 Machine Learning Blueprint (Part 25): Live Monitoring . The article shows why a fixed posterior threshold, checked trade by trade, lacks error control and retires healthy strategies far too often on a real EURUSD case. It introduces WinRateSPRT (with Page's

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: Recurrent Modeling of Market Micromovements (Conclusion) . The implementation of the EV-MGRFlowNet framework demonstrates its key advantages: modularity, resilience to market fluctuations, and the ability to develop strategies independently

Check out the new article: Use of WinAPI—Implementing Text-to-Speech in MQL5 . This article presents a single MQL5 include file that adds runtime text-to-speech through Windows SAPI. The library starts a hidden PowerShell process through WinAPI and exposes one function, Speak(), with control of

Check out the new article: From Novice to Expert: Using Market Structure to Validate RSI Signals . Oscillator thresholds are often treated as direct reversal instructions, causing traders to sell strong bullish markets or buy persistent bearish declines too early. We develop an analytical Expert

TradingView Style Chart Drag and Zoom for MT5 : Drag the MetaTrader 5 chart freely in any direction and stretch the price and time scales with the mouse, the way TradingView does it. One click on ON/OFF returns the normal chart. A small indicator that draws nothing, never trades and works next to

SingleTesterCache : Tester's single pass data. Author: fxsaber

A cross-platform library of original mathematical functions : Original mathematical functions taken from different places, which either do not have analogues or perform much faster than alternative implementations Author: fxsaber

Check out the new article: Building a Swing-Based Volume Profile Indicator in MQL5 . This article presents a swing-based volume profile indicator in MQL5 that analyzes platform tick volume within completed high-to-low and low-to-high legs. It confirms swing points, partitions each leg's range into

MT5 Risk Reward Calculator : A free MT5 script to calculate position size, risk amount, and risk-to-reward ratio visually on the chart. Author: Jony Islam

Exponential Trend Channel Indicator : On a linear MT5 chart, a trend that grows or falls by a steady percentage is a curve, and a straight channel misses it. This indicator draws the real exponential curve, fitted on closed bars to the cleanest of 19 look-back windows, with deviation zones, a

Trailing Stop Breakeven Manager : Trailing stop and breakeven manager for Gold (XAUUSD), forex and any symbol: moves the stop to breakeven with an offset, then trails it in points or ATR multiples on manual trades and on any EA, filtered by magic and symbol. Open source code. Author: Cristhian

High precision tick spread monitor with real time Max and Avg curves for MT4 and MT5. : Real-time tick spread monitor that plots Maximum and Average spread curves per bar with points/pips display and local CSV persistence. Author: chen guang

VrDz Bot Scalp and Swing EA with Always ON Secure Layer Pro Panel : Lightweight Expert Advisor combining Scalp & Swing logic with an "Always-ON" position-securing layer. Includes a fully interactive on-chart panel with manual trade buttons, risk- based lot sizing, partial close, break-even, trailing

Check out the new article: How to Train an MLP Using Markov Chain Features in MQL5 . The article describes the two-level MarkovMLPOscillator indicator: a three-state Markov chain uses historical data to construct a transition matrix and generate 15 probabilistic features for each bar, and an MLP is

I have 4 MT4 terminals, with 15 charts per terminal. I've been updating my trading system lately. One of the measures I took was to reduce the number of indicators on each chart, thinking that this would make my system snappier. To this end, I coded one indicator to have multiple buffers and display

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Programmatically placed arrow objects work but interfere in readying the chart. The common function below, in hopes to disabled it, can't handle dismissing it. ObjectSetString ( 0 ,sName, OBJPROP_TOOLTIP , "" ); In the object you drawn manually for example, this is what you see,. I have indeed seen

Hello, I need help retrieving missing EURUSD M1 history for an MT4 Strategy Tester backtest. My setup: Broker: OANDA U.S. Platform: MT4 running in Windows 11 through Parallels on a Mac. Required history: September 1–October 23, 2026, including September for indicator initialization. In my October

Hello, Do you listen any music while you trade? I have tried with many different kinds, but I think classical music is the most appropriate to remain discipline focus and calm . Any replies are appreciated. Let's start

Hello, I am preparing my first MetaTrader 4 Expert Advisor for the Market (draft product ID 201415) and the automatic validation fails. I would like to understand how the validator tests MT4 Expert Advisors. Version 1.30: the report shows 22 errors on NZDUSD,H1: "not enough money for buy 0.20

Platform: MT4, desktop and iPhone Server: MetaQuotes-Demo Symbol/timeframe: XAUUSD, M15 Candle: October 27, 2026, 22:00 server time Open: 2.04 , High: 4061.68 , Low: 2.04 , Close: 4061.43 The same spike appears on both devices and a newly opened demo account

I am writing mql script to look for any change in the file and if it detectes any change in the file then it performs some trading function But after the mql "FileOpen "call desired file becomes unusable by other application even with "FILE_SHARE_READ" flag. What I am doing wrong or this is how Mql...

Hello, I am looking for an official MetaEditor distribution for MetaTrader 4 to compile and investigate my own MQL4 program in an isolated Windows environment. I would appreciate clarification on the following questions: Is there an official, fully offline MT4 installation package that includes

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

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

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