Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 15

Hey, everyone could anyone help me and explain the difference between 1 minute OHLC and the every thick backtest, because I have a great and fantastic results in the 1 OHLC modeling even if is a long term backtest, and in the opposite on the other modeling a weak results and negative results? How it

Hi, I have just rented a VPS and migrated the EA. how do I know if I did everything correctly? I dont see any trades running.

I am not a coder but I have a question about coding. Is it possible that a broker blocks the possibility to use an EA on a Demo account , and that must be implemented a turnaround in the code itself to be able to use the EA on that Demo account

Hello fellow developers and traders, I am trying to upload a newer version of my ea with some ui display but I'm getting the following errors. This happens when I upload my indicator too. Anyone experiencing the same issue? Is there a fix for this or it's an internal issue on mql? I would really

Hello, I'm working on a simple Expert Advisor (EA) in MQL5 that uses the MACD indicator on the M5 timeframe. The code relies on iMACD() and CopyBuffer() to retrieve the histogram values (buffer index 2 ). Even though the code compiles correctly and the handle is successfully created, during strategy

Hi all, I'm running a test that should only take a few minutes and its taking hours to complete. The cloud only uses 58 agents out of more than 10k which are available! Any idea why this is happening and how to solve the issue? Thanks. See screenshot below

Can somebody make script or indicator to buy and sell at market price with a user-defined key of the keyboard

Why my source code still as draft and code is not 100% complete, while the code is complete and all details are ready

I can't add product, I really dont know why, please anybody help me, I am registered and verified as a seller. I am clicking on these 2 buttons, but nothing is happening :(

Title says it all. I've been through a lot with EA coding and can do multi symbol stuff, custom performance metrics (Calmar Ratio, Avg Weekly R multiple, etc), news filtering. Yet I have never been able to create any profitable system on the 5 min timeframe. The way I build EAs might be affecting

Hello. I would like to provision compute capacity via strategy tester in the cloud. Recently, the map tab ""mql5 cloud network" is no longer displayed, so sharing is not possible. A reinstallation of MT5 as well as a cleanup of the registry brought no success. What can I do

Hello everyone...could you help me to create semi manual EA as per above image, please? The EA working after i place direct entry, then the EA will create TP/SL 30pips from direct entry. and then place limit order PO1 & PO2 with 20pips distance and SL 30pips but the TP is follow direct entry. if

Hi all, I want to use the strategy tester to perform a Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis of an optimum Set of variables already obtained with the fast optimization. I wanted to start from the optimum set, and perform 10,000 simulations with random perturbations around the parameter's optimum values

Hello, is anyone also experienced some missing tabs in the manager? There is no mql5 cloud network and scheduler tab

Calling "Comment" and "ChartRedraw" directly before "ChartIndicatorDelete" causes it to fail with Error Code 4022 (ERR_PROGRAM_STOPPED) After countless hours of work and hunting I finally managed to pinpoint the problem and come up with a precise minimalist code demonstration of the bug. //

Good day, I have been using a free EA in mt5 but today it was updated to a new version which is no longer free. Will the old version I have running still work or do i have to buy the new version? Thank you for the help

Can we submit MQL5 code to source code repository, like GitHub, from the MetaQuotes Language Editor? How can this be done? My MT5 terminal does not show an entry for Code Storage in the Navigator? Why? How can I use Code Storage with MT5

Does MQL5 allow default values for function parameters, like C++ does? How can this be implemented

Why, in Debug does it always take 2 Run commands to execute a breakpoint on the following line: ulong orderID_result=result.order; I must hit Run twice to execute a breakpoint placed on the line above. Why? Is this a Bug? It doesn't seem right

Hi everyone, Is it possible to produce an Excel file that receives the price of currencies instantaneously and online? Please help me make this file. Best regards

No matter what code I try to compile I get "fatal compiler error: unknown error 0 0". For example this simple code would've previously compiled just fine. int OnInit () { return INIT_SUCCEEDED ; } void OnTick () { return ; }

Hi there, I just downloaded few top EA put them into strategy tester and the results looks impressive but checking some single trades it does not look like they would ever be profitable or even executed because price just never been at specified level at a time. Has anyone else been in doubt going...

After this mornings update on 24th July '25. Every EA I try to compile, even ones that have previously had no issues, are now showing fast 'Fatal Compiling Error : Unknown Error' Im going to assume this isn't just myself having the issue. Is there something I can do to counter this issues, Or just

How many people are actually using EA for their trading & if you're a profitable EA user comment 1. I just wanna see if its durable to code myself a profitable EA. Thanks

Hi, I'm seeking assistance with listing my Expert Advisor (EA) on the MetaTrader 5 Marketplace. The EA is specifically designed to trade XAUUSD (Gold) and compiles without any errors or warnings in MetaEditor. However, when I attempt to submit the EA, the automatic validation fails with the

Hey everyone, I’m looking to get an EA developed or to know if there are any avablibe that do this and wanted to get some feedback first to see if this approach is doable and makes sense. Here’s what I’m aiming for: 🔹 The EA should run on just one chart and work alongside another EA I already have

I've recently noticed an issue where now my EA is not able to execute any orders. Every time it tries to place an order it says that "unsupported filling mode" and then when looking closer into it, it will say give an error saying "Ordersend error 4756". I am not sure at all why this is happening

I am tring to import hystorical data on MT5 (I have downloaded them from Dukascopy with a speficif tool). I have a csv file with tick data. I follow the common step to import them (create a custm symbol, and import tick data from the following window The import succeds but a strange thing appens: if

Hi folks, the documentation for copy_ticks_range in the Python API says: "When creating the 'datetime' object, Python uses the local time zone , while MetaTrader 5 stores tick and bar open time in UTC time zone (without the shift). Therefore, 'datetime' should be created in UTC time for executing

How to Use mql5 ea free demo in live demo account for testing ... many of the time strategy tester and ea performance doesn't match. Sorry if i asked stupid question