Custom Signal Search Criteria (average holding time)

[Khaled Hafez]

Is there a way to apply filters to signals search other than the defaults? As an example, I'd like to be able to search for signals with average holding time < 12 hours or sort them by "growth per week".

Is there an API somewhere or perhaps a way to download search results as a csv or so for further processing? 

[Eleni Anna Branou]

I don't think that's possible through MQL5 website.

I've done such research myself in the past, but manually and it took ages. 

[Alain Verleyen]

MorpheusZ:

Is there a way to apply filters to signals search other than the defaults? As an example, I'd like to be able to search for signals with average holding time < 12 hours or sort them by "growth per week".

Is there an API somewhere or perhaps a way to download search results as a csv or so for further processing? 

There is an API but not sure it allows to do what you want, I never used it.

[Alain Verleyen]

MorpheusZ:

Is there a way to apply filters to signals search other than the defaults? As an example, I'd like to be able to search for signals with average holding time < 12 hours or sort them by "growth per week".

Is there an API somewhere or perhaps a way to download search results as a csv or so for further processing? 

By the way using Trading activity between 0 and 20% should be close to "holding time <12 hours".

[Eleni Anna Branou]

Alain is right!

You can use Trading Activity between 0 and 40% (less than half a day) and you will get average holding times, less than 12 hours. 

[Khaled Hafez]

Alain Verleyen:
By the way using Trading activity between 0 and 20% should be close to "holding time <12 hours".

oh, that's good to know! thanks!

does anyone know how "trading activity" is calculated? I failed to find info on it in the mql5 docs

[Eleni Anna Branou]

Average holding time is the percentage of time that orders were open in the total time of the signal's monitoring period.

[honest_knave]

MorpheusZ:

oh, that's good to know! thanks!

does anyone know how "trading activity" is calculated? I failed to find info on it in the mql5 docs

https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/2704 

Trading activity is displayed as the percentage of the total time when there were open positions on the account. If this value approaches 100%, it means the account almost always has open positions,

EDIT: Sorry Eleni, it looks like we posted at the same time.

[Khaled Hafez]

Eleni Anna Branou:
Average holding time is the percentage of time that orders were open in the total time of the signal's monitoring period.

edit:

afaiu, there could be very active scalpers with short holding times but large trading activity, or conversely inactive swing traders with long holding times but small trading activity

still, seems like a good approximation for holding time! thanks a bunch!