Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 13

Sir, I backtested into 10,000 steps optimisation and it took 50 minutes and cost $9.45 in MQL5 Cloud !!! Please see attached this Photo Anyone have good solution low cost in MQL5 Cloud

Using MQL5 Cloud Network setting, I tried to backtest my EA for historical data between 1st June 2024 and 12 February 2025. It shows 196,800 passes are needed and already charged $ 158.78 from my balance. After about 80% testing I see the message Not Enough Money . Am I being charged too much

Hi Long time listener first time caller. I attempted to search for this issue but cannot find it. Forgive if its been answered elsewhere. I've had success with local agents before, but recent EA changes and I'm seeing an odd issue. THe local cores get loaded up like this, and CPU load goes up doing

Hello, if I do: string a = EnumToString(MODE_SMMA); I get: a = " MODE_SMMA " Now, I would like some function that does just the opposite, I mean something like: int b = StringTo Enum ("MODE_SMMA"); b = 2 where 2 is the int value associated to the constant: " MODE_SMMA " Regards, cyberglassed

Hi, I am setting up my own VPS in our DataCenter running Windows Server 2025. Its in its own network with Internet Access and I have RDP access to it via an jumphost so its RDP on RDP... Any tip on how to config the server and MT5 for running as an VPS ? Best Practise? Second, Since I dont have File

Hello everyone, this is a survey because many sellers are willing to cheat buyers by manipulating backtesting and we as buyers lose a lot of money when buying EA. what can we do to prevent fraudsters? - I think that if the desired EA is testing for two weeks in a demo account before buying, there

Objects, and here in this example of a button objects, that are set to hidden by default after attaching to the chart, after minimizing and re-maximizing the panel appear as visible. How to keep them hidden? Please refer to the attached GIF example. Thanks

Hi, I am having troubles deleting pending orders when I release the EA from chart. OnDeInit() I use the following code void OnDeinit ( const int reason) { //--- // delete pending orders for ( int i= 0 ; i< OrdersTotal (); i++) if ( OrderGetTicket (i)) if ( OrderGetString (

IsStopped(__FUNCTION__) Normal after comment. bool CTrade::PositionModify( const ulong ticket, const double sl, const double tp) { //--- check stopped if ( IsStopped ( __FUNCTION__ )) return ( false ); //--- check position existence if (! PositionSelectByTicket (ticket)) return (

Hello I put print functions in my code to display information, but only some of them are displayed in jurnal . All of them are displayed in MT4 tester but not in MT5. Do I have to change certain settings in MT5 Tester? Help me please. Thanks very much

Hello everyone, I’m attempting to integrate ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo) into MetaTrader 5 using WebRequest() in MQL5. When I call https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions , I consistently get a 401 response telling me: "You didn’t provide an API key. You need to provide your API key in an

I'm in the process of building a local farm network but there are a couple of important points for which I couldn't find an answer: I have several relatively powerful computers but one of them is much older and clearly much slower (an old Intel Core i3 processor). My plan is to use this old computer

Is it possible to code a trading panel in MQL5 that can be moved and have clickable buttons in Strategy Tester (Visual Mode)

The session NASDAQ100 lasts from 0:00 to 23:00, the time is 14:05 - what period can be examined with optimization? Is it possible to examine the period from 00:00 to 14:00

Hi guys , when i backtesting my robot, my backtester lags a lot, switching tabs to positions or a log just leaves a white background, but there is no such thing with other robots, are there any ways to influence the backtester specifically without breaking the logic of your EA

Hey everyone, running into an issue where if I start a backtest on EURUSD D1, starting from 2023.01.01, the oldest daily bar available will be 2022.01.03, for a total of 261 bars. Is there a reason I couldn't query for let's say 500 bars from my starting date( 2023.01.01) ? I tried implementing the

The cause of this error in my case was no available RAM in my PC as it was full up and MQL5 had crashed due to this? A possible fix would be to set meta trader to the highest priority on your operating system

Hi everyone, I’m considering running two different Expert Advisors (EAs) on the same trading account and wanted to get some insights from those with experience. Is it technically possible to operate two EAs on the same account without conflicts? Are there any risks or potential issues I should be

Hello, In MetaTrader 5, I would like to generate a custom trading report in an XML or HTML file, which, in addition to the standard columns, includes an additional column with the ID Expert Advisor responsible for a given trade. Could anyone kindly guide me on how to achieve this, or share any

Hello People I am just curious if EA can commnuicate with strategytester duing its optimizaiton process. I can see that with "ParameterGetRange" and "ParameterSetRange" you can freely get and set optimizaiton parameters on strategy tester from your EA. However I have not found the ways of...

my strategy is triggered when macd on 2 time interval is aligned , say 5min and 15min . i.e. after 5min bar close but during the intrabar of 15min, could mql5 do this ? or must wait until both bars r closed

Hi everyone, i started to study MQL5 and robo trading in the last 2 weeks, then i am totally new to this coding topic. I am setting up the basic of the code. This is my idea: - based on conditions ("the strategy", but this will come later) i setup buy o sell position, - setup a maxRisk, ie maximum

... or should I run optiizations on every timeframe? Thank You

This is the same example from the library https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/standardlibrary/controls/ccheckgroup with the highlighted lines changed in order to produce the issue in question. I'm trying to initialize all the check-boxes as checked, even those not visible (you have to scroll the chek-group

Hey everyone, I'm developing an Elliott Wave-based EA that relies on three timeframes to analyze market structure and find trade entries: Higher timeframe (e.g., H1) → Identifies the larger Elliott Wave cycle. Current timeframe (e.g., M15) → Trades based on wave structure. Lower timeframe (e.g., M5)

Hello, I am running the optimization for a bot by selecting the period 2021.01.01 until 2025.02.07, everything works great but then I realized that on the graph, the testing do not run for the full period. And when I run the exact same input on another pair, I get once again the testing stopping

Hi all, I've read lots of conflicting information about this question so i'd like a clear and simple answer if possible. Are commissions and swaps taken into account during the MT5 strategy tester and optimization process? I see a column for commissions in my final backtest report, however it is

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Hello, I have been spending hundreds of dollars on agents in the testing cloud lately. It seems to me like the money is disappearing there too quickly. I wanted to ask if there is a plan for high volume users? And maybe I am doing something wrong that makes using agents very expensive. I would be

Good morning everyone, I have created a graphical panel meant for forex traders who want to follow ImanTrading's style of categorical trading. However I cannot seem to get it to draw lines for the take profit and stoploss. I know there are other graphical panels out there for free however they come