Subplots not showing for any expert advisor

[Macintyre Sunde]

I'm having trouble getting subplots to appear for expert advisors. I only have this problem while testing on live data - when backtesting on historical data everything works fine. Is there a setting that disables subplots from showing? I am a relatively new user, so maybe I'm missing something here.

[Fernando Carreiro]

Macintyre Sunde: I'm having trouble getting subplots to appear for expert advisors. I only have this problem while testing on live data - when backtesting on historical data everything works fine. Is there a setting that disables subplots from showing? I am a relatively new user, so maybe I'm missing something here.

That is totally normal. Indicators used by Expert Advisors are not displayed when live. They appear in the Strategy Tester mainly because it is a testing environment, where one may need the visual aids for debugging.

[Macintyre Sunde]

Thanks so much, I had begun to suspect that. Is there a way to draw shapes when live in the EA?

[Vladimir Karputov]

Macintyre Sunde # :

Thanks so much, I had begun to suspect that. Is there a way to draw shapes when live in the EA?

If you add the necessary MQL5 code to the Expert Advisor, then you can display the indicators on the chart when working online. You need to explore these features:

ChartID	Returns the ID of the current chart
ChartIndicatorAdd	Adds an indicator with the specified handle into a specified chart window
ChartIndicatorDelete	Removes an indicator with a specified name from the specified chart window
ChartIndicatorGet	Returns the handle of the indicator with the specified short name in the specified chart window
ChartIndicatorName	Returns the short name of the indicator by the number in the indicators list on the specified chart window
ChartIndicatorsTotal	Returns the number of all indicators applied to the specified chart window.

[Fernando Carreiro]

Macintyre Sunde #: Thanks so much, I had begun to suspect that. Is there a way to draw shapes when live in the EA?

Yes, you can add Graphical Objects to your chart: Documentation on MQL5: Object Functions