Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 2

I was testing an EA that a developer put on the codebase for trading Gold ( based on Keltner channel and EMAs) . Here is how the backtest looked on "Real Ticks" modelling: Here is how the backtest looked on "Every Tick" modelling for the exact same setting, same leverage, and same time range (same

Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a trend-following EA, and like many of you, I'm struggling with false breakouts during market consolidation (flat markets). To solve this, I coded a simple filter that checks the dynamic spread between two Moving Averages and ensures the current candle body size

Hello everyone! I am developing a trend-following strategy. The working principle is quite simple: there is a base moving average (indicating the trend direction) and additional filters - moving averages on several timeframes - the price closes above the filters on the working timeframe - it opens

The strategy that I am currently developing performs very well in the strategy tester, but when I do forward testing it fails. How can I shorteh the gap between strategy tester data and forward testing

I just want to share this, in case others struggle with OrderSend(request, result) ... like I did today. Wrote a little EA that helps setting limit, stop and market orders by calculating lot sizes on given stop level. Everything worked fine besides the market orders ORDER_TYPE_BUY, ORDER_TYPE_SELL

Hi guys, I've created my first ever EA. I saw the red color message about bad description. Can anyone give me some advise how to fix it and tips for boost the ranking ? Appreciate your time and advise

Hello, When I click on "Emulate Slippage" at MT5 backtest, I dont find setting relate to slippage emulating, can someone shed light on how to set this

Hello everyone, I've been trying for a year now to develop an automatic trading algo using a neural network as a model and level 1 data (open, close, high, low candlestick prices) and several technical indicators (14). I retrieved this data in a 1-minute timeframe using mql5 scripts that I devised

What is MQL5 Wizard : The MetaTrader 5 Trading Platform includes the MQL5 Wizard , which allows to quickly generate code of an Expert Advisor (Expert Advisor builder). With MQL5 Wizard, knowledge of programming languages is no longer a prerequisite for creating trading robots . In the past, it

Dear Members, Microsoft recently launched its own Linux distribution (Azure Linux) after recognizing that Linux has become the dominant operating system on its Azure platform, far surpassing Windows itself. This suggests the beginning of a long-term strategic shift toward Linux. Some may argue that

So my name is Christoper. I am from Scotland. I have recently started trying to design an EA to get off a building site. I am an engineer so trying to adapt that and to a different part of life get me off this building site I have recently created a EA that has 1.79 profit factor a drawdown of 0.40%

Hey everyone, quick note first: This is not an ad. I’m genuinely curious how you use AI (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) in your MQL5 workflow to speed things up and reduce errors. I’d love to start a standing “Chatbots & Workflow” topic here—sharing real prompts, practices, and pitfalls. I’ve been coding

hew when optimizing and ea in mql5 what doe the section "result mean" optimization show good profit and good drawdown but results tab show all red.. looking to the below optimization wha the part i circled mean since the orther are showing profit

Hello Everyone. I have created this Renko chart generator for MT5 because I have searched for a good Renko chart generator for a long time and I did not find one , so I decided to build my own and share it with the mql community for FREE. You can find it attached. If you want any improvements let me

Let's assume I have one class defined as follows: class Test { public: string CheckValue Test () {}; }; Ontick { Test MyObject; } How can I have following Print Out (I want to create a function, that returns the member of the class/object) List of MyObject Members: string Checkvalue I don't have any

Hello, i have question :-) so the question is if we change buy stop to buy stop limit, will we avoid slippage and we dont have to pay for GSL (guaranteed stop loss- which is very expensive to this strategy ) ? I read in google that Limit stop works almost the same as Stop loss guaranteed ( that we

I purchased an indicator and has 5 activations. In my tests I used the 5 activations in demo accounts. Now I need to remove one or 2 of these activations since the demo accounts have been closed and put it in a real account. How can I do this

Hi, how can Orders, Positions and Deals be linked together? Is there a way to link them apart from the magic number? Best Reguards, ZeroCafeine

Hello friends !! I'm currently using AI to help me build the trading bot of my dreams, which tbh originates from a private community i'm in, they have a super good EA but i hate losing control and not having it for me. Basically it's a trading bot created by some veterans of a big broker and it's

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we buy and sell in the stock market. This discussion is about understanding how computers use AI to make quick trading decisions. We will look into how AI can spot patterns in the market, make predictions, and decide when it’s a good time to trade

Hello everyone. I would like to call upon every worthy programmer and trader to a crucial mission. A scientific project of a respectable standard, with the aim of easing the developing MQL programs using every tool available. A good start would be creating a public project then let anyone willing to

No response in Questions from Beginners thread so I'll create a new one, sorry for that! Hi. Tell me, please, how is the distance between the borders and the regression line calculated in the default Regression Channel in Metatrader ? Yeah, I know, it is said clearly in the documentation : >The

Hi every one. if any one can help me , i would be really happy and thankful . i want to set slippage in mt5 and also i used both order send and ctrade but for both of them there is no option to set the slippage, also i found the function Mytrade.SetDeviationInPoints() but it still does not control

Hi, Should I be able to do this? 1) Create custom symbol and import 1min OHLC bar data. This includes spread values (max value from any tick in bar interval) 2) go to the tester settings 3) Change the spread to a value (1 here) 4) Save the profile 5) Run the test 6) repeat 3) and 4) for different

ObjectGetValueByTime() All time retrun 0.0 double LastUpRedrawValue =ObjectGetValueByTime(0,"Toptahlil_UpperTrendLine_"+GetPeriod(Period()),Time[iUp],OBJ_TREND);

THE CASE DESCRIPTION I am running a lot of MT5 instances on one PC in order to test all the EAs on demo accounts before they go live. Because I need more than one instance of MT5 terminal on one PC, I am running them in portable mode. I have noticed also, that the newer versions of MT5 are

Hello, wondering if anyone could help out, im trying to code my EA in Mql5 but i get this error, Any help on how to resolve this. Thank you in Advance Note: The starthour and endhour are already defined Part of the Code concerning time... void OnTick () { datetime currentTime = TimeCurrent ();

How can I count the number of rows of a table in a database X ? I used the following code but it does not work: int x = DatabasePrepare (db, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM newdb" ); Comment (x);

Dear All i was trying a trading strategy to buy or sell all the USD Currency pairs together, i only check the daily strength of the USD, then i take decision to buy or sell (open 7 positions), then i check after so many hours, sometimes waiting for days looking  for total positive profit after that...

Hello I'm trying to build a multi currency ea that works in the mt5 strategy tester. i'm not a professional programmer but i tried i've read the articles on this website about that and tried but with no luck i couldn't understand the method because they use about 3-5 include files linking to each