Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 17

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

Hello friends, I want to run a timer every 15minutes at fixed 15min candle times. for example : at 9:00 - 9:15 - 9:30 - 9:45 - 10:00 -10:15 .. and so on.. Please guide and share the code if you already have it. Thanks, Rocky

I am baffled but suspect there is an easy solution. I have been trying to understand how to use Python (and AI) in conjunction with my MT5 EA. I use the Visual Studio CODE application. I have made some initial progress - i.e. can Initialize, login , retrieve account data etc. I have been accessing a

Hi All! Im having a problem using the strategy tester. After an update of mt5, the strategy tester is not respecting the stop loss or take profit anymore. (picture attached) The code is simple and it was working perfectly before. And it is working in real time in a demo account too. I tried...

As I was writing my code (posting it is not relevant for this subject) I've run into some problems related to various functions where I declared parameters as const& (constant references) to objects. These errors were caused by the library. When I looked in the library code, sure enough, no method

hi friends, I have been testing my EA that's doesn't have a panel info the test goes faster but when its have panel info its so slow can take the hole day but now I decide to have two copies one with panel info and one without a panel info for faster test I realize that without a panel info the

Hi, I am testing my Gold 1 minute EA, and it's giving me different results on different brokers though all brokers I am testing are ECN and good reputable brokers but at the end of the day results are always different. I understand there is always price and order placement difference but still some

Please anyone should help me out on this EA. It's opening perfectly based on the indicator signal but i added a martingale feature which will happen after a loss trade. but it's not working . please check the code. #property copyright "Copyright 2025, AGTech Ltd." #property link

Hello traders, I wanted to build a simple code that shows my name on a Rectangle Label. So, I wrote it as follows: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Object test v1.0.mq5 | //|

Hello everyone, I will start this thread by first stating that if you are a beginner and have no high level programming experience you are better off reading other threads. I intend this thread to be for the very experienced programmers with some Artificial Intelligence background. I am attaching...

I have an issue with a suspected Memory Retention (Bug?) in Container Reuse (CArrayInt). I tried ChatGPT but could not get much from it, but it took on the onus of drafting for me a detailed query that precisely describes the observed behaviour and the concern I'm facing, including relevant

hi guys i have this code when i switch in gold in M15 draw the trend line resistence, if go in M30 not draw a trend line resistence #property copyright "Copyright 2012." #property link "stfn77@gmail.com" #property version "1.00" #property description "Automatic trend lines" #property

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Hey everyone, I’ve spent the last 8 months trying to build a profitable Expert Advisor (EA), and honestly, I’m starting to lose hope. I’ve developed multiple EAs during this time - some showed great results on a single pair, but as soon as I tested them on other pairs (even after optimization), they

I am currently testing new and improved versions of standard indicators in the Wizard and I'm getting much better EAs. If you have improved versions, please share here so we can collectively benefit. I think it'd be better showing the code instead of attaching a file. This way we can discuss it and

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

In MQL5, can you pass function parameters in any order as named parameters? Google Search says that you can, but it doesn't compile. Google Search sample code. This doesn't compile. void OnStart () { MyFunction(param3 = "new value" , param1 = 10 ); //param2 uses the default value

Hello, I'm looking for an EA for the Propfim Challenge that isn't too expensive. Thank you

Hey guys I'm new to using MT5 and have been developing some EAs recently all has been going well with backtesting for the last few weeks then all of a sudden the visualisation just stopped working? if anyone can help with this would be very much appreciated. Thanks

Hi everyone, I coded an EA that uses an ORB strategy. You're also a trading expert, so you're familiar with this OPEN RANGE BREAKOUT strategy. My EA is supposed to plot high and low lines for the first 15 minutes at the London and NYC openings. I've set a lot of parameters to customize this MT5

I found a solution for the many charts that the strategy tester opens automatically in MT5. Till now I closed them one by one with Ctrl F4 and than clicking on the next chart tab. But this goes faster: On your keyboard: Alt W ... this opens the Windows List. Now select the first of the charts you

I have this EA code that seems syntactically correct, but it always fails to compile with an "unexpected token" error. The error appears on different lines each time (like line 75 in the attached screenshot), even though the lines look correct. I have already tried cleaning the code by pasting it

Hello, I am testing on an old account with thousands of closed orders on MT5, that is more than 4 years old. When using functions like HistorySelectByPosition, the entire terminal freezes. I use this function to track the profit of the closed trades when they close. I have also profiled the EA, and