Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 118

Is my idea feasible? If so what gotchas do I need to lookout for? Is this even the best idea or should i just completely write everything in Python? A quick background check about me: I already know how to write bots in MQL5. I have used python before but for a completely different scenario (e.g

Hello, Is the difference between the real ticks and the test ticks only due to the optimization and the hardware of the machine or is there another way to improve them ? Thank you for your answers

if ( PositionsTotal ()> 0 ){ for ( int i= PositionsTotal ()- 1 ; i>= 0 ; i--){ string symbol= PositionGetSymbol (i); if ( _Symbol ==symbol) { ulong Ticket = PositionGetInteger ( POSITION_TICKET ); double sl = PositionGetDouble ( POSITION_SL ); double tp = PositionGetDouble ( POSITION_TP ); double

Can you please help me identify where i went wrong? i tried to combine 2 tutorials... an RSI where the EA will take a sell if price is above 65 and buy if price is below 35 max 2 trades at 1 time... and using calcLots to work out 1% of the account balance ... it wont take any trades when prices

What happens when there is an update and the expert advisor has an open position? It will lose all closing parameters set up within EA ? If that is so, is there a way to mitigate this situation ? Global Variables ? Store and retrieve parameters after the update is done ? The same question/doubt is

I have been always told the indicator handle should be assigned in the OnInit() in MT5, however if the indicator parameters will be changed in the OnTick(), for example indicators MA 's period will be varied in the OnTick(), how to address this problem

I have a martingale strategy and I have for example 10 trades open and I would like to code it into ea so that it shows me one TP for all trades and when the price reaches there to close all trades, do you know how

Hi everybody, It's possible to convert an enum to string though EnumToString. What about the reverse operation? There's an way to convert it back (other than create and function and compare item by item)?

I have subscribed new signal but system not taking trade. It's showing some error.. I'm attaching error screenshot please help me.. what I do

I have an EA that logs information (errors, trade data etc.) to log files in the form of .txt. If I move this to a VPS, do I still have access to these files? I can't see anything obvious saying this here: https://www.mql5.com/en/vps If I can, can someone point me to some documentation on how to do

Hi, someone please clarify, how the balance in the account will come down, when there is no stoploss given. See the below image, it is showing a drawdown which is at the midlevel and the balance blue line is touching upto the bottom, sometimes during testing, the balance drawdown is going negative

How near can I set pending order from current price? Is there something at symbol properties I can look at for this

Hello. when my expert advisor is back tested some of the open orders stop losses are modified by a trailing stop function. Sometimes during these instances an invalid stops error is returned failed to modify, and every time the modification of the open orders stops is the same. The error is "failed

Good Day Everyone Could someone please assist me with a settings file/text document for trading BTCUSD on AvaTrade. <Deleted>

I developed an ea that automatically displays the fibonacci levels on chart. Does anybody know how to add a level at 78.6%, which will be added automatically to my levels? I already know how to compute it manually,but i would like to create a code which displays the level in automatic. Thank you in...

Hi! Is it possible to have two accounts at MT4 and make one copy the other? If so, how is that done? Kind regards, Per

Hi, I am looking for a free or very cheap EA that uses crossover ADX to buy and sell whatever timeframe. I would like it to be automated and that I can see the arrows. Every time there is a green arrow I want it to buy and every time its a red arrow I want it to sell, without exception. I have tried

Hi guys,is there anyone who can help with creating an MT5 object that can delete existing pending orders opposed to the ones taken? ive created an order cancel object but it based on the balance condition,and im looking for a condition that cancels the opposite orders that were not triggered.Please

Hi,ive created this pending order EA ,it was working well,all of a sudden it started returning the invalid stops error.Can somebody help please

How do toy round up or down price value to whole numbers in Mql5? for example: EUR/USD = price now: 1.1796; Round up: = 1.1800 round down:=1.1700 USD/JPY: Price now= 109.45 Round up: = 110:00 round down:=109:00 Thanks

Is it possible to change chart period with an expert advisor on tick?I'm using this code but having issues. Can one help? void 0 ntick() if (adx0> 5 ) { move_to_a_different_TF(); } .. my function void move_to_a_different_TF() { //; ChartSetSymbolPeriod ( 0 , NULL , PERIOD_H1 ); }

I am using a custom indicator within an EA and the code of the EA is as follows: #resource "ATB.ex5" int _atb; int OnInit () { _atb = iCustom ( _Symbol , _Period , "::ATB.ex5" ); if (_atb == INVALID_HANDLE) { return ( INIT_FAILED ); } int subwindow= ( int ) ChartGetInteger ( 0

Hi all Does anyone know a way to increment a date easily without having to create specific functions? I have tried searching the standard codebase but struggling to find anything. E.g. If today's date is "2022.11.18", I want to return a date of -1 day increment, e.g. "2022.11.17". It would be

How do I compare between 2 price if these 2 price is exact value? 1st price = where the value of SHIFT or BAR == 2 2nd price = where the value of SHIFT or BAR == 1 Example: SHIFT 2 currently the candlestick is in Bullish SHIFT 1 currently the candlestick is in Bearish Both of candlestick for SHIFT 2

I am trying to optimise some inputs for my EA on AWS free tier (t2 micro) and it is obviously extremely slow. I am not a computer genius so don't really know what specs I need but can anyone recommend the best value Instance type that will get the job done quickly? (or alternative virtual machine

Hello, My question is: The ticket (or we can say position_id) of a trade...that is a PENDING ORDER is the SAME ticket when this order is executed in the market and it becomes an OPEN POSITION? I need this info for a robot making. I would like to know it for the correct closing of OPEN TRADES or

Hey, when I test my EA with more than one symbol still the symbol count is only one. When this one will be incremented when I add more symbols to my test Here's my code string symbolList[ 2 ] = { "EURUSD" , "USDJPY" }; bool isTradeAllowed = true ; int OnInit (){ return ( INIT_SUCCEEDED ); } void

I have a stop limit order strategy I would like to program a way to automatically cancel an unfilled pending order placed by the strategy before it places a new order. So automatically cancel the pending order at the open of the next bar for example OR if the price of the current bar (0) breaks

I have an EA that runs on the 4 hour chart and opens trade in a grid based on the new candle formation on the 15 minute timeframe. I am trying to limit the number of trades the EA takes by only allowing a certain number of trades on the 15 minute candle from the 4 hour chart. For example a new 15...

Hello guys! I write my first trading system, and When I try to backtest my balance evrytime show zero I check If evrything is fine in the metaeditor and IT IS!! Can someone else tell me what I'm doing wrong