Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 150

Hey guys, was wondering if anyone could help me with my simple RSI EA, it opens very few trades, but basically I want it to open a position based on a candles close, if the RSI is overbought or oversold. I also want it to exit positions on the opposite signal. Here it is
Hi all. I am migrating my EAs from MT4 to MT5. Yesterday I ran some back testing and worked fine. Today I get this error. and MT5 won't let me run optimizations. Says: - debug version of "Advisors\EA.ex5" detected - optimization cannot be started Thank you in advance for your time
Line 1 says: 'expressions are not allowed on a global scope = "Copyright © 2023, MetaQuotes Software Corp." Line 2 says: ')' - unexpected end of program= Buy trade order = mt5.order_send(symbol=symbol, type=mt5.ORDER_TYPE_BUY, volume=lot_size, price=mt5.symbol_info_tick(symbol).ask
Hi everyone, When I attach my EA to the chart it can create and read files no problem. In the tester, I can create files, but when trying to read them I get ERR_CANNOT_OPEN_FILE. //function to save results to file void save_results() { for ( int i= 0 ;i<TDs;i++) { string
I want to use PositionClosePartial to cut my position in half when it gets to a scalp profit. But the PositionClosePartial call always returns false. It does not change the volume. When I check the retCode it is 10009 which I believe means success. Something is not right. I added a few debug
Hello, I want to subscribe to a signal, but it says "The volume of trades copied may not coincide with the initial trade volume of the provider. The volume parameters of the symbols are different". As you can see in the attachment, I opened a 2000 dollars demo account on FBS 1:100, which corresponds
I'm using multi symbol ea with classes and need to get close of last bar but through the usual method with MqlRates I get last close only for the 1st pair in list. bool CTradingEngine31::SearchTradingSignals( void ) { MqlRates rates[]; ArraySetAsSeries (rates, true ); if (
Hi to all! I have a great problem with XAUUSD spread on MT4... could you help me please? If I have for example, on MT4, XAUUSD at 1800.00/1800.20, the broker spread is 20 pips. But I was told that spread in MT4 strategy tester is in points. So the question is: if, for XAUUSD, I have 20 pips of
There is a long deleted project but the name keep appearing in my "Shared Project" folder. This shows ups as an empty folder. In the pop up "Update from Storage" is not disabled. When I click that I get: 2023.03.26 21:39:58.519 Storage Could not find the requested SVN filesystem (720003) Which
Hello everyone, I'm looking for a simple ea but I don't know anything about coding, I need help. I would like an ea that goes long at the close of a bullish candle, keeps that trade open until the close of a bearish candle and at the same time closes for as long, will take a sell trade, that sell
How can i close all other chart windows and open a chart window with specific symbol
I would like to get that EA to trade only one deal per signal but while testing this EA I noticed that sometimes it opens two trades at the same time or it opens a trade after signal and then another trade comes one bar later. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+
Hi I want to have a function that I can call from on Tick() that returns a bool if there is a new candle or not for a specific timeframe. I've come up with tis but it's not working properly. bool isNewCandleFormed( int timeframe) { static datetime last_candle_timeM5 = 0 ; static datetime
Hi, How can I calculate the loss at SL? This value indicated here. I have tried using the tick value/size but it's never accurate accross all pairs - mostly fails on gold and indices. Thanks in advance for any help
ResultRetcode Gets the code of request result. uint ResultRetcode() const Returned value The Code of request result. How can I get the result using the above function? in CTrade class I mean. Thanks Please give an example.
Hello, I made a trade asistant which works on forex, but on futires not. This asistant works like this, I click on the chart, and there it will be stoploss, and if click is below Bid it will open a Buy and if click is above Ask it will open a sell. The thing is that for some MiniS&P for example
Hi I have no knowledge of code however I manage to get the first part of building an EA via comparing input from another EA. The last part i have some difficulty, can some one assist me to fix the errors please. I have attached the file ***
In MT5, there is a checkbox to select the "Show trade history". It is the last item on the tab "Show" of the properties window of a chart (click F8). I would like to know, how I can (de)select this property by code (in mql5)! - Usually, I would expect to use the functions ChartSetInteger() and
hello dear friends i need help about martingale trading system for make a strategy that i don't lose more than 3 trade consecutive { i mean if i lose in first trade or even in second i must win in Third trade } pleas any one that know such this strategies introduce me or advice me . thanks so much
Does anyone know an EA that closes all open and pending orders and also the currency pair when another EA reaches a certain profit on the day either with one or several trades
I created a script which highlights the AsianSession but since I was only able to set a fixed date, the range is only highlighted on a particular day. I need the script to be able to highlight the range for everyday on the chart and not just the particular date I have fixed. I at first thought of
When does "error #136" occur and what can be done to fix it? error #136 "Not enough memory to download the source file into memory"
Hi everyone, I'm trying to better understand how an EA handles asynchronous vs synchronous function calls. I edited this post to simplify my question since I didn't get any replies. Assume I have these lines of code in an EA: void OnInit () { ObjectCreate ( 0 ,obj_name,obj_type, 0 , 0
Hi forum, I used custom symbols to download GBP/USD tick data in a .csv file which I have condensed and attached to this thread. I have clicked on the data tab and "Text to Columns" button on the top ribbon to split this data across several columns but now i'm stuck. Can anybody please help me
  iCustom function  (16   1 2)
Good afternoon colleagues, I have tried to use the iCustom function to read the V 75 Super indicator 1 indicator but I have not been able to get the values ​​I want, maybe I am entering the parameters wrong, but I have tried it in several ways and it always returns a value out of 10 when I print
When subscribing to a signal, how does MT4/5 prevent that the user does a simple copy trading to other own or friends/customers accounts
(How) is it possible for a signal provider to get a profit- and client balance height- depending performance fee instead of a constant monthly subscription fee
  Send Error 131  (2)
I am getting a "Send Error 131" on my live MT4 account when running a backtest on my EA. The EA didn't pick up any trades yesterday and should have picked up many. Does anyone know what is going on and how to fix it
Hi everyone! When I compile the code below there are 2 errors: '}' - unexpected end of program Hota001.mq5 89 6 '{' - unbalanced parentheses Hota001.mq5 17 3 But when I add an } in the end, the errors jump to 17. Any help? // Define the input parameters input int ema_period = 9 ; // Period for
Dear Moderator, While updating EA get the follow error in specially ZOMRO VPS. MQL4 Market: failed download product 'CAP Strategy Builder EA' [403] Kindly help how to solve it. Regards, Vipul