Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 158

hi, can anyone help with the inputs of my purchased EA. its not making profits

DoesWebRequest works in backtest

if using agents or multiple cores for optimising parameters, more than one year. Mt5 generates \tester\Agent*\temp\bar*.tmp files. every run. It slowly gnaw/nibble SSD storage. In mt4 read only fxt files was a solution. How about mt5 ? if using multiple cores,mt5 generates files for every local

Hello, Greeting, I want to change a number according to the changes in the prices of ask and bid. It means that, for example, for every two point change in each of these two ask and bid prices, my number changes by one point, just like what happens in the trail of a position. Can you tell which

Hi, my broker has mini lots forex 0.01 while for indices 0.1. Doing an expert test on GBPUSD 0.01 and 0.1 profits correspond to lot size. With indices the results are huge, as if it were a whole lot. Who has this happened to and what could be the problem? I can't test the indexes correctly thank

i am getting this error during verification 2020.02 . 03 00 : 02 : 30 current account state: Balance: 1.00 , Credit: 0.00 , Commission: 0.00 , Accumulated: 0.00 , Assets: 0.00 , Liabilities: 0.00 , Equity 1.00 , Margin: 0.00 , FreeMargin: 1.00 2020.02 . 03 00 : 02 : 30 calculated account state

Hello I was wondering if spreads were taken into account when backtesting in Metatrader 5

I am debugging an EA in strategy tester visual mode and found cases where stop loss (and also take profits( are not triggered timely. As you can see in the attached screen capture: 1- A sell order was executed on Jun 1srt, with a SL of 1.11285. 2- On the next day/candle, the price exceeded the

Hi all, I have written an ichimoku trading expert to place buy and sell trades when certain criteria are met. After deriving all of the individual variables using copy buffers, I use the following code to trigger the buy signal: if (tenkanSen > kijunSen && tenkanSen-1 < Kijunsen-1 &&

I am not using the cloud network, it is disabled in my adviser window. How do i fix this error?

Hey, So essentially I have been testing stuff using the metatrader strategy tester . I have been using a custome expert advisor for a while and it was working completely fine. However like 1 or 2 days ago, all the data seems to be wrong. Getting multiple issues now, with below being the 2 main

Hi , I have a simple question about MT4 platform and order executions by EA’s. Can an EA check the terminal price and the chart price prior open a trade ? Let’s say it won’t be more than “2pip” difference on price comparisons to confirm an order execution . I think an EA can check the chart price

Combine these 3 indicators in the way described here in this video and it will put you well on your way to consistently profitable trading. The indicators used are Stochastic RSI (K line only), CM Slingshot system (cloud only), and ATR stop loss finder. Play around with this simple trading strategy

Hi, I need to edit something in an indicator if you can helping me, please

Hi there, I'm lookin to log the onTradeTransaction() -events of my EA. Where can I find/activate the log files? Similar to the log file I attached. Thanks a lot

Hi all, I have had quite a challenge in that my code opens positions up to the limit of PositionsTotal()<=say 10. I wish to have one position per currency pair at any given time. Kindly find attached part of my code for that part which is not limiting open orders. Please point me to what I could am

Since two years we are facing the same bug in MT5 which wasn´t there before. 2755 was the last build which made no problems, all builds afterwards come with the same issue. There must have been a general change within the task management of MetaTrader 5, but we got no help from MetaQuotes to isolate

Hi, Can someone help me whit this EA based on 2 MA crossing. I have used the MQL Wizard to build it, however I am wondering how to add the buy and sale options to this and also the SL and TP? Thank you all for the the help. Also if this was already posted and resolved please point me in the right

Below is a section of my code // count open positions int cntBuy, cntSell; if (!CountOpenPositions(cntBuy,cntSell)){ return ;} // check for buy positions if (cntBuy== 0 && bufferRSI[ 1 ]>=( 100 -RSI_Level) && bufferRSI[ 0 ]<( 100 -RSI_Level) && currentTick.ask>bufferMA[ 0 ]){ if

Hi, i just want to know if there is any way to get the name of an EA that placed an order that is already closed. I ve got the history of transactions in my terminal and i was looking old trades and there ir a period where the profitability was really good, but i do not know which EA i used. I think

Good evening everyone.. Is there an expert advisor or scripts that close losing deals based on the percentage of capital, for example, 3% or 5%

Is there a function in MQL4 allowing an expert to add an indicator to a chart

Hello, I have created a libraey that works with enumerations that I have created. The problem is that you can't import/export them. How can I do it? Thank you in advance for your help

This is the first part of a series introducing development of classes for custom indicators. In this part I create a class for a Donchian Channel indicator. Future parts will extend on this to include: * A second indicator * Inheritance * Development of an on screen indicator using these classes *

no optimized parameter selected, please check input(s) to be optimized and set start, step and stop values please what does this mean

Hi guys, I'm new to coding in MQL4 and I was looking for some help. I'm following a course on coding your first MT4 robot and the EA is now fully coded. I've back tested the EA on around 520 trades and for the most part it works fine. I am not going to use the EA nor is it exactly profitable

Please can anyone help me with this error Ive tried using the CTrade class to modify sl and TP using the trade method, and PositionModify method but it keeps throwing me this error on the tester Heres the src code //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|

I'm trying to open an order but I'm getting this warning: declaration of 'myrequest' hides global declaration How can I solve this? This is my code: MqlTradeRequest myrequest; ... void OnTick()&nbsp;&nbsp;{... MqlTradeRequest myrequest; MqlTradeResult myresult; ZeroMemory(myrequest);...

Hi folks, I'm an IT professional with some coding experience but quite new to MQL5. I recently created my first EA which sends Buy Stop and Sell Stop orders via CTrade class. Although it does trigger the buy or sell order correctly, in the Strategy Tester, it does not triggers the TP and SL orders