Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 18

I am trying to run my EA on [redacted] tick data but the data quality is only 8% when I run it on 3 or more years of data. Does anyone know a broker that has a similar price action to [redacted] ? How did you resolve this issue? Thank you in advance

Hello guys, I want to send calendar information via API but when I retrieve data as the below code, it returns a number without format, I want to receive the data which is shown on MetaTrader Calendar. Please help me. How can I do? Thanks in advance. void CalendarData() { // Define the array to

I have made a trading bot with python that works with MT5 using the MetaTrader5 module. it fetches data from MT5 to my program and sends back a request for position. now I know that the strategy tester in the MT5 can be used to backtest expert advisors, but I wonder if there is a way to use the

Dear All I am trying to make a code which modifying pending order and open order on the same time, but I am facing an issue I made it to change the pending order, but it is not changing the open order. the code is sending an pending orders ( sell limit, buy limit, buy stop or sell stop ) and it is

Hi I have already done some tests with the metatrader5 successfully, but now always comes the error message :history cache build error. Unfortunately, I have google so far no solution for the problem can find. Does anyone know how to fix the error

Hello, I coded a multi symbol EA that works properly. By default, the strategy tester optimization results show unified metrics for all symbols combined per pass. I'm trying to modify it, so that, per pass, it generates the result metrics for each individual symbol per pass. I've been trying it for

Hello mql5 people. I am currently working on the optimization team for a project. I am a hobbyist coder and have coded a couple of my own bots, however for this project, I do not have access to the code. I was back testing without any problems until the version of the bots, licensing expired. As

Can we trade in other currencies like INR with the bot? If there are any settings that need to be modified for this, please let me know

I will run the same EA, on the same instrument, and it will run quick, and then all of a sudden, it almost wipes my whole account with a 2 days, 17 hours

2025.01.15 09:19:46.758 ResistTheBroker (ND#,H1) CTrade::OrderSend: market buy 1.06 ND# [auto trading disabled by client] 2025.01.15 09:19:46.758 ResistTheBroker (ND#,H1) Failed to execute trade: 4752

Hello Forum, I am using the MT5 version for MacOs (M3 chip). I created a custom .dll to import into an EA, but I keep getting "Cannot load 'Custom.dll' [126] " error message. I also tested the .dll on my windows computer and everything is working fine. I both tried to locate the file into

Hello, I have a question, when buying an EA from the market it has a limit for activations, most of the times is 5 or 10 activations. What are the limits of the activations? When the activation is taken into account, every time it's opened in the same metatrader install, or in every computer, or I

Hi can you help. I changed some settings in the EA and synchronised with VPS but next time I looked EA reverted back to default settings And every time I change settings do I have to synchronise the VPS. I have a mql5 VPS

Hi. I want to do optimization of many of my strategies of MT5. But For my Windows PC, it is taking a lot of time plus I must keep PC ON for 24*7 (+Electricity Cost). Instead of that I am planning to buy Ubuntu VPS and install MT5 in that and start optimization, So I don’t have to keep my pc ON all

Complement of the new year. I need help to make sense of the tester results. I have developed several EA for Mt5. When I optimize the EA using the same range of parameters with two different laptops, I get different set of results. Further, when I take optimized results/parameters from one Laptop

Hi I'm kinda new to mql5. i just wanna ask. how to modify stop loss . for example i have 3 open trades w/ same entry prices and same stop loss at first but different tp's, can you suggest how to modify the remaining 2 open trades if tp 1 is closed. thank you

ONNX usage on MQL5 Currently I'm coding AI stragey program on MQL5. 1) Train a data on python with lightGBM binary This training data works well on python. Prediction results are appropriate numbers. 2) Convert it to Onnx format with onnxmltools However, the training data of onnx on MQL5 returns

Hey everyone, I've been working on this for quite sometime so I figured I would reach out and see if anyone has done this before and if they have any pointers. Basically all I'm trying to do is build an add on for mt5 ea's so that I can do an unanchored walk forward analysis (or

I'm using a freely available source code that calucate risk percent and set auto lot sizing with a trading panel from [edited].com However the project is not able to open any trades. I have made a test by inserting the open trade codes to it, it gives the error 4014. I can able to use the same code

How to write a condition where, starting from the latest candlestick, there are at least three consecutive bullish candlesticks, followed by at least one bearish candlestick, and finally, the latest candlestick is a bullish candlestick. It's my code but it didin't work. #include <Trade\Trade.mqh> //

Hello, I’m experiencing an issue with my MQL5 code where I receive an "invalid request" error when attempting to modify a position with a trailing stop. I have implemented the logic for applying a trailing stop based on the market prices, but when the PositionModify() function is called, I receive

Hi! I have an EA that only submits one short or long trade every daily time frame, I see when running a back test this EA submits a single short trade but then attached to it is also a buy order. How is a buy order possible if the EA is coded to only allow one long or short trade per day

This code never seems to apply a background color to my text OBJ_LABEL.  The background is always clear. Am I missing something? Thanks.  //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|                                                         test.mq5 |...

without closing any trades. I am a beginner in Mql 5 but I have general understanding of programming in JavaScript and Database programming. Thank you for your help

Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to open a blank chart with no symbol in MT5? I'd like to run an EA on it to control other chart EAs. Any help is appreciated

Boys...this is a big one ! suppose i have multiple EAs running on separate charts and currency pairs (for e.g EA1 : USDJPY, EA2: EURUSD, EA3: AUDCAD) ..... in the event that two (or more) EAs want to open a new position, only one EA should be allowed to open a position based on a pre-defined

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

Hi, I'm trying to use this article https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/115 to create a named pipe, but it is not working. Actually the problem happens when I try to create it. Here's the simplified code: cnamedpipes_simple.mqh: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|

Hi! I coded a script where the conditionals analyse both daily and one minute time frames, the one conditionals for one day time frame is to buy when the calculations return a value > 0.5 and to sell when the calculations return a value of < -0.5. When trading yesterday on a demo account, my script

I want to simulate deposits and withdrawals in MT5's backtest. Is there a way to add deposits and withdrawals during backtesting