Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 122

Hello Friends I've been trying to get the commission of opened positions but it's not working. I used P.Commission(), but it's returning 0

I'm trying to upload my EA to the market, but something's failing, and I can't see the reason for the failures as none of my Print() statements are coming out in the test report I'm calling testerstop() so I can know which method is failing, which I have, it fails on opening a new position, but the

Hello everyone, I'm quite new to the mql5 world, I have a problem. I would like to output the number of parameters of my tests with the tester to a csv file, appending each new string from time to time for each single test that is launched. The problem is that every time I start a single test (I

Hello friends, I'm working on a trailing stop that closes the trade if the profit decreases by 10 percent. However, I don't know how to implement it. I would appreciate it if you could help or if you have a similar code, please introduce it to me. Thank you

Hi guys, I'm new and still starting out, I'm trying to launch this EA code in MQL5, but although I don't have any type of error, when I try to test this EA in my strategy tester, it doesn't open any orders. Can some good soul help me? thank you very much. Below I share my code Improperly formatted

I'm trying to implement a strategy that trades on the daily timeframe based on the daily close. The problem, of course, is that the instant the daily candle closes, the market is closed. So I need to catch the next open (not necessarily NYC - in fact, don't want to wait on that). It seems to me in

What metrics do you use to objectively measure performance of your EAs? And what do you consider good enough to put into production ? At the moment, I'm focused on prop trading, and using that as a good reason to focus more on minimizing drawdown and maximizing consistency, more so than maximizing

Hello, On the below code CTrade :: CTrade( void ) : m_async_mode ( false ) , m_magic( 0 ), m_deviation ( 10 ) , m_type_filling( ORDER_FILLING_FOK ), m_log_level( LOG_LEVEL_ERRORS) { SetMarginMode(); //---

Are EA advisors profitable in the long term and have a high win rate? Is it worth the time

I found some but they are only for demo account and some works on only limited pairs, Any free ? Thanks

I found it strange that my EA cannot read volume during tests, although, the Strategy Tester is showing it. That means I have good data. Is this expected? I am implementing inside the OnTick() event. I am having all attributes of the tick, except the volume. I am using MT5. In the images is the

When I automatically generate an MT5 EA, optimize it, and backtest it, there are periods when there are "invalid stops" errors and periods when there are not. Is the stop level not set in the auto-generation? What code should I add or modify after auto-generation and where

Hi, Is it possible to build an ea, using the arguments in a push message of another EA in MT5? For exemple, on a MT5 terminal, i have 2 EAs: the first do its work, and then when it feels a signal send a push message, for exemple "eurusd M5 trend up, possible buy" then i need to build the second EA

Hi all, Why EA terminal hangs during some news time. Due to this my trades are not managed correctly even if I set my SL and TP

I have a created a basic script that opens a position at a set time which works just fine but I want the script to open positions at additional times. At this time I am able to do this by adding the same script to multiple charts but can't use "Strategy Tester" to test all the positions at once. All

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MT4 offers this setting when attaching the EA to the chart to have Long only or Short only I cannot find this in MT5. How can I do this in MT5? The only thing I can think of is to program into the EA.

I converted this code for an EA I saw online from MQL4 to MQL5, Can someone help me check for errors? //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ input int min_gapsize = 1 ; input double lotsize_gap = 0.1 ; //---- datetime order_time = 0 ; int OnInit () { //----

Hello respected experts I'm going to make an Array from 2 existing dynamic Array. But I get the following error: array out of range in 'test.mq5' Please help me to correct the codes: enum ENUM_INDICATORS {RSI,CCI}; input ENUM_INDICATORS indi=RSI; string indicator = EnumToString (indi); input int

Hello everyone, I'm still a bit of a beginner in the world of MQL5. I have an mt5 desktop with two accounts set up (one for each forex pair I want to trade). I've coded an expert advisor to execute my trades more easily. When I change the symbol or timframe, everything works perfectly as long as I

Hi I'm getting 100+ errors about undeclared identifiers in my include file, despite including the include file in my EA, i don't get any warning because I declared all of these ' undeclared identifiers ' as global variables in the EA. How do i get rid of the errors in the include file

Hello everyone, I'm trying to send a notification to my phone every time the price reaches the Sell Stop order and a trade is opened. I stumbled across OnTrade() and OnTradeTransaction() but apparently they're executed right after a Sell Stop order is placed and not when then trade is opened. How do

I have a live trading account. Someone has put an EA on my account but not disclosing the name. Can I get the name of EA? I have all the credentials of my account

Hi, i recently paid someone to code me an EA. Can someone please assist me with understand the following lines. Based on other indicators as well as the Moving Average, this function is used to work out how many of the current open positions should be closed based on how well the trade is currently

Hi, I want to ask which one of the OnTick() vs OnTradeTransaction() function is called first? On OnTick() function there's a trailing stop code that will return error if EA can't select the position ticket. On OnTradeTransaction() I will reset the position ticket to 0 if the position is closed. But

Hello, I am testing ea using iCustom function to pull data from indicator. But I found some discrepancies in the data that indicator gave on the chart vs iCustom function on the same date. I thought that my ea had some bug and run the debugging on the same date and while running code step by step it

Hi Everybody, normally, I want to open only one Trade at the same time with my EA. It looks like this and works pretty fine && ( PositionsTotal ()== 0 ) But now I want to run the EA in different Charts with different values. Now I have to check if there is an open trade by Symbol. This was my idea

I could make a change in the code (lets say I alter the EA so that it will have a fixed SL of 25 points), then I recompile the script in the MetaEditor, and run it again in the strategy tester. It does not act on the changes I made in the code unless I compile the script under a new filename. Why is

Does anybody know, why the last three lines of the EVENT_MAP-section were colored red? It´t not colored, if I delete two random lines of "ON_EVENT". Not matter of the color, the defined events are working as expected. Any explanation would be nice. Thanks a lot for you time and help

So Recently i got the hitch of knowing how all the pips and points can be taken advantage of to make better trading decisions to maximize profit of course so... Just so you know i have low level of programming as i had done just basics of web dev, now i want to do more than just build websites.. I'm