How to sell expert adviser that uses a custom indicator in the market? - Best EA - Expert Advisors and Automated Trading

Fernando Carreiro 2018.10.01 20:40 #1

Victor Ian Torres: Hello, just what the title says, I want to sell an EA that uses custom indicator, can somebody teach me how?

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Publish EA and indicator as one product on the market

Stanislav Korotky, 2017.09.13 16:03

You can embed your indicator into EA using #resource "\\Indicators\\xxx" directive.

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Nitin Raj 2018.10.01 20:49 #2

Victor Ian Torres:

Hello, just what the title says, I want to sell an EA that uses custom indicator, can somebody teach me how?

Best Regards.

Use Resources. You can call a custom indicator into the EA using resources.

If I want to distribute my EA to others without distributing the custom indicator separately, I would do it this way:

#resource "\\Indicators\\Custom Indicator xyz.ex5"

iCustom(_Symbol,0,"::Indicators\\Custom Indicator xyz.ex5");

Victor Ian Torres 2018.10.01 22:13 #3

Nitin Raj:

Use Resources. You can call a custom indicator into the EA using resources.

If I want to distribute my EA to others without distributing the custom indicator separately, I would do it this way:

Thanks for the reply, How do I upload in resources. Sorry I really don't have any idea.

Nitin Raj 2018.10.01 22:21 #4

Victor Ian Torres:

Thanks for the reply, How do I upload in resources. Sorry I really don't have any idea.

When you compile the EA, the resource indicator should be available in the indicators folder.

After that you can distribute the EA as a standalone file, it would load the indicator from resources.

Victor Ian Torres 2018.10.01 23:02 #5

Nitin Raj:
When you compile the EA, the resource indicator should be available in the indicators folder.

After that you can distribute the EA as a standalone file, it would load the indicator from resources.

I didn't quite get it, I mean, you can upload only, 1 file right? if you want to sell them to the market, the moderators will check it for errors and bugs etc but the problem is it will not run if they don't have a copy of the custom indicator. So my question is, how do I upload the custom indicator then where?

custom indicator upload putting MQL5: Market - Can Can't upload EA and

Fernando Carreiro 2018.10.01 23:09 #6

Victor Ian Torres: I didn't quite get it, I mean, you can upload only, 1 file right? if you want to sell them to the market, the moderators will check it for errors and bugs etc but the problem is it will not run if they don't have a copy of the custom indicator. So my question is, how do I upload the custom indicator then where?

The #resource directive, embeds the files (indicators, images, etc.) into the compiled executable file. I provided you with the link to the documentation in my post. Why did you not read up on it?

Victor Ian Torres 2018.10.01 23:14 #7

Fernando Carreiro:
The #resource directive, embeds the files (indicators, images, etc.) into the compiled executable file. I provided you with the link to the documentation in my post. Why did you not read up on it?

I read it, sorry now i understand.

Wan A Wan Joslin Irung 2018.10.02 01:30 #8

hello! despite following some steps and wernt through the documentation it seems not to work. when i change brokers it says 2018.10.02 03:14:09.400 2018.01.03 14:06:41 cannot open file 'C:\Users\Joslinl\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\1DAFD9A7C67DC84FE3TFAA1FC1E5CF75\MQL4\indicators\TrendEnvelopes_v2.ex4' [2]

Can you assist

Custom indicator into EA i Have added a Elite indicators :)

Victor Ian Torres 2018.10.02 03:03 #9

Fernando Carreiro:
The #resource directive, embeds the files (indicators, images, etc.) into the compiled executable file. I provided you with the link to the documentation in my post. Why did you not read up on it?

 2016.04.01 00:00:00  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\HM.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:00:00  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:00:00  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:00:25  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\HM.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:00:25  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:00:25  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:00:50  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\HM.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:00:50  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:00:50  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:02  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\HM.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:02  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:02  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:15  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\HM.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:15  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:15  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:27  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\HM.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:27  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:27  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:40  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\HM.ex4' [2]
 2016.04.01 00:01:40  cannot open file 'MQL4\indicators\ADX+MA.ex4' [2]

having this kind of errors..

Victor Ian Torres 2018.10.02 03:26 #10

Nitin Raj:

Use Resources. You can call a custom indicator into the EA using resources.

If I want to distribute my EA to others without distributing the custom indicator separately, I would do it this way:

Solve!! This is the answer, I forgot to edit this part iCustom(_Symbol,0,"::Indicators\\Custom Indicator xyz.ex5");..