Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 13

Hello all, on trading view its possible to create currency baskets like the yen basket (JPYBASKET) but on mt5 I'm not sure how to go about this. I have zero experience in create custom symbols other than downloading tick data from dukascopy so I'd thought I would ask if anyone knew how to do this

These are the results of my strategy, both use data based on real ticks of the same currency pair and the same strategy with the same inputs and conditions, the only difference is that the real tick data from one is from Pepperstone broker and the other is from Dukascopy. Would anyone know why they

Hello, I'm sorry if the question sounds a bit dumb. I sought ways to improve my strategy and decided to add Parabolic SAR signals. So I wrote this small class to handle that: class ParabolicSARSignal { private : int handle; // Indicator handle double

How can I set the default value of an integer input parameter based on chart timeframe? For example if loaded in 1min, the default value becomes 123 and for 5min chart it becomes 456

EA works with the Strategy Tester. It also works on real accounts. However, I get an error in the automatic market validation. The error is "strategy tester report not found". What should I do to resolve this issue? The EA is for sale, so the code is private

Hello everyone, I am currently trying to develop a panel that requires aligning text with the right edge of a graphical background layer. I have been using the TextGetSize() function to calculate the width of the text and attempting to position the text by subtracting this width from the right

Hello. When I want to load an EA in mql market, during verification it gives me some errors that give me a headache. The first time it gave me Risk lot calculation, then I modified the code and another error appears with trade opened 0.2 lot. // === Risk lot calculator === double CalculateRiskLot(

Hello, Just a post with a suggestion regarding how the balance and equity curves are displayed. It seems the balance curve makes a gap each time a profitable/loosing trade is opened/or right after entry (no gap if the trade is breakeven), and not when such a trade is actually closed. So basically

Hi guys i try to create my trade manage and it work but i have only one big problem when i try to minimize the panel it do it , but when i try to maximize it it create me a devastated panel after close and reopen my frankenstine panel i use a absolute coordinate for create it , this a bug for MT5 or

What to do when your chosen developer is unresponsive ... Hasn't even agreed to my job leaving me hanging ... Yet at the outset 5 days ago was pushing me to award them the job ... Still showing as FREE I don't even know their name only that they are Russian (Thank you MQL5 for the freelancer flags)

statement and question. I do a test with optimiser and have list of results from that optimisation; but when i right click on that line of results, and click do single test, I get a very different result. WTF why? Nothing has changed. I only did the test on Monday. The optimiser finished today and i

Hi can someone plz say is trend arbitage EA is worth buying?? Because the back test data looks surpsingly good.. happy to get some experts advice... note: this ea is too pricey

I want to analyse each EA trading from the trading history report in MT5. If a position closed by SL or TP, [sl xxx.xx] or [tp xxx.xx] is written in comment field in the report instead of original comment. I don't know which EA trades the position. Is there any way to keep original comment which EA

I'm creating a EA and testing on Strategy Tester, it works for hundreds of orders as expected but one specific trade is closing in 15 points instead of 40 points and I'm not sure why. Others actually close between 38-42 points, but 25 points seems too much. It's a lot more complex but I was able to

I have seriously lost it, my patience has snapped with this thing. I am so sick of absolutely screaming and going bat shit crazy just because MQL5 can't do something as simple as retrieve a magic number. It is not difficult for this thing to comprehend something so simple, but I have never been so

I found out about how to implement the Ichimoku indicator in my EA, but it can only read the values that the Ichimoku takes according to the main chart. Instead, I want to find a way where I can compare the Ichimoku values to the Levels I set for it in the beginning, levels like 80, 20 that are

Good evening everyone, I use which doexpert advisor not have capital protection...can you help me

Hello everyone and Happy Easter to those who celebrate! Recently I ran into very interesting issue, MT5 strategy tester generated trades don't match at all on chart and in journal, let's say, in the backtest tab I see 11 trades, and the chart is showing 2793 trades. I expect a high number of trades

Hi, I made an EA (this is my first Ea) and when testing it, even there is no date and time variables on it, the orders on Friday are not executed and the Diary send a message "market closed". The startegy is based on the direction of an MA and it has 3 variables for stop loss (stoplosspoints

Based on the documentation which lists a Login and a Password entries, I thought creating my custom config file that would allow me to run EAs programatically from a Windows command line should be a relatively straightforward task. I created the following very basic .ini file, almost identical to

I have a question about this mt5 python solution, do i understand this solution correctly, you need to install for every mt5 account into which you want to login also a seoerrate mt5 terninal on the same comouter? Or can you just login to any mt5 account with this python libary without need to

i am fairly new to coding. its been two days since i have been working on this. compiling it brings 2 errors, i have checked the trade mqh file for help. but made more errors on the way. here is the code. #include<Trade\Trade.mqh> // Create a Ctrade instance void OnTick () { // create an empty

Hi all, I came across a youtube video someone (Can not find the video i searched history on every browser and phone) was making code changes to position sizer from earnforex to have an indent on breakeven of specified value and also for the trailing stop to start once tp1 is achieved instead of

Hi, i have my personal money management Expert and send a sample of my expert to prop-firm provider. they told me that i'm not allowed to use this expert and have to use other experts that confirmed by them. in this regard you are kindly requested to let me know if i use my personal expert, how

good day. I need some advice: when I run some expert EA on a chart for "test" and the "Strategy tester" opens under the chart, after the back-test is done, I right-click on the fourth tab "Backtest" and select "Report" at the bottom and "Open XML ...". I save the file to disk and open it and there

What do you guys considerer essential in risk management and account protection? Anything other them, auto flattening by time / loss / profit, max trade count, max loss sequence, daily profit protection using trailing features, maximum open trades count, maximum open risk

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Hi to alla guys , Wile i was trying to set my EA code for a strategy in AUXUSD I get a strange value for SYMBOL_TRADE_TICK_VALUE, spcifically this is my code snippet : int OnInit() { string szSymbol = "XAUUSD"; bool selected = SymbolSelect(szSymbol, true ); // select in market Watch bool found =

I have a problem with the strategy tester in MT5. Why, with the same EA parameters and settings, does it show me great results once and then wipe my account in the next test? Let's say I test the EA on a 5-minute timeframe and I get great results, I change it to a 15-minute timeframe and I get great

From my understanding ObjectCreate() can only draw lines on the chart_id which is always the current chart inside the strategy tester . bool CChartObjectVLine::Create( long chart_id, const string name, const int window, const datetime time) { if (! ObjectCreate (chart_id,name, OBJ_VLINE