How to open a blank chart with no symbol in MT5?

[tradeking2008]

Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to open a blank chart with no symbol in MT5?  I'd like to run an EA on it to control other chart EAs.   Any help is appreciated.

[Ryan L Johnson]

tradeking2008:
Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to open a blank chart with no symbol in MT5?  I'd like to run an EA on it to control other chart EAs.   Any help is appreciated.

It would probably be easier just to code your master EA to share data with your other open chart symbols/EA's, and attach your master EA to a random symbol chart as an untraded base chart.

Check out this other thread: 

Multi-EA Orchestration - How to do it? - Trading Signals - Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - MQL5 programming forum

[Fernando Carreiro]

tradeking2008: it's possible to open a blank chart with no symbol in MT5?

Charts are always associated with a symbol and time-frame.

tradeking2008: I'd like to run an EA on it to control other chart EAs.

Then make the program a Service instead of an Expert Advisor. It will run completely detached from any chart.

• MQL5 Book: Creating application programs / Scripts and services / Services

[Fernando Carreiro]

Your topic has been moved to the section: Expert Advisors and Automated Trading
Please consider which section is most appropriate — https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/172166/page6#comment_49114893

[Soewono Effendi]

Open a chart of any symbol, change to line chart and hide it by setting its color to chart background color.

You can also hide other thing, e.g. grid, time, price, etc.

Good luck