Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 215

Hello, i want to use a parameter file for my strategy. param.txt The param file is in MQL5/files. When i open datafolder/MQL5/files, i can see the file there. Also, the file loaded correctly when applying strategy to chart. Loading fails when backtesting, even i have the test file directive in the

Hello. I need to modify an EA that makes simple (orders one at a time) to be able to close all orders made by it at a pre-defined time (23h50). Any idea how to it? Maybe something like this? https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/139654 ps: I only started with mql5 two days ago, tried to implement it, but

Hello, I’m testing Tradefields MT5, I and I have an issue with it : - Everytime I test my strategy on another year the EA stops in the middle of the month or the year and give me incomplete results. - The software’s owner told me, there a file to delete each time. It’s a waste of

Hi ladies and gentlemen! Faced the problem of different results at optimisation with identic MT5 terminals/accounts. All the adjustments of the robot are identic, accounts are different but also identic - pamm.ecn.mt5. The results are different. Does anybody have any idea what may be the matter

Hi there MetaTrader developers, I really understand how difficult would be porting the whole MT terminal into a Linux-compatible design. However, on the other hand, I think that it is long past the time of a Linux MetaTester agent. So, can you please consider a Linux version for MetaTester? Thanks,...

Hi, I'm uploading an EA into the marketplace, and the backtest shows me: Not enough money. The default start lot of the EA is 0,01 lots (no marti), when I look into the backtest journal I see, that the EA is being tested with 0,2 lots. Why, can someone explain

hello, folks my mt5 script is very simple, it read csv like this : void OnStart () { //--- string dt ; int file_20 = FileOpen ( "104782531.csv" , FILE_READ | FILE_CSV , ';' ); if (file_20!=- 1 ) Print ( "Error is" , GetLastError ()); Print ( StringToInteger ( FileReadString

Calling positionClose from the CTrade class doesn't trigger the onTradeTransaction event. Is there a different way I should close a position

Greetings to all, I had a developer build an EA in MT4 and MT5 versions, but he was unable to complete the MT5 version. The problem occurs when starting the strategy test, after a few exchanges it begins to jump, it crashes until the entire PC system is down The developer claims that everything is

We have setup the whizard expert advisor EA. How to connect our live account

Hello. May you assist me with this Expert Advisor i am coding. I don't have programming background but i am still learning. 1. i would like to modify my TakeProfit and StopLoss. i have put a Take profit of 150 before, now i modified it to 500 but still shows 150 once it opens a trade I am suspecting

Hello,  Can anyone tell me how can I access the rented ea I purchased to put in on my trading account? Allen 

I used the historical datafeed from dukascopy My trading systems which are based on High and Low values really worked well WITH THAT DATA. However, I tryed going live on avatrade/xm / roboforex, none of them look same as dukascopy. I've MT5 EA so doesnt work on Dukascopy. I am looking for some other

HI.. good day to you all.. Am not sure if tis is possible is there a way to hide functions from source code.. .mq5 or mq4 eg. void TrailingStop() { //Trailing code } or instead calling it from a private website codes.. eg. void TrailingStop() { //get Trailing code function from my website

Hello everybody and thanks in advance for your precious advices and help that i'm sure you would give me. I'm writing and setting up my first EA, for trading intraday (5-15m timeframe) in different crosses/commodities. The strategy would be: - check on long period trend (Moving average in 50 - 100

Hi all, I was just wondering if there is a way to get my EA to trade immediately after an indicator prints (on the same candle/bar). I noticed that it only executes a buy/sell on the next candle, by that time it is too late. Is there any way to remedy this? Any help would be appreciated

Hi everyone, I have created an expert advisor using an online EA generator. It gave me the code and everything but there is one small detail I would like to get fixed. Context: The Expert Advisor is simple and trades on the 1hr timeframe. The conditions are as follows: 1. If previous candle closes

Hi there guys, how could I currently get POSITION_VOLUME_INITIAL ? It seems dissapeared from Position Properties. https://www.mql5.com/es/docs/constants/tradingconstants/positionproperties

I want an expert who opens a buy trade every 60 minutes and puts the stop loss at -150 points, and as the price increases 150 points, the stop loss moves 150 points, and if the price decreases, the stop loss does not move

New to this so bear with me. When I run this, the EA makes trades as you would expect //sell if (signal == "sell" && PositionsTotal ()< 1 ) trade.Sell( 0.10 , NULL ,Bid, 0 ,(Bid- 150 * _Point ), NULL ); //buy if (signal == "buy" && PositionsTotal ()< 1 )

Hello, I have an EA with 100 different strategies, each set with a different magic number. I backtest this in MT4 and there are hundreds of trades created. However, I do not see the magic numbers anywhere on the strategy tester - people in the forum have suggested using the print function, but

Hello I have an EA and I don't have the source code and I cannot modify it I activate it for multiple pairs and when he open a trade in one of the pairs I want to close the EA of the other pairs and only hold it in the pair the order was opened in

Hi guys, Does anyone here have a simple hedging EA ? One that hedges and does nothing else ? It should simply keep the balance between Buys and Sells, that's all, without deleting pending orders, PTs and SLs. So, if on a chart a 0.05 buy position closes, then the Hedging EA should immediately open a

Hi, I have made an EA with a custom optimization criteria of "win rate" for testing binary options strategies. However the charts in the Results tab are based on Profitability. Is there a way I can apply my custom criteria (win rate) data to the charts to show that instead? It would be really nice

Hi! I am trying to backtest an strategy and i don't want to enter any position on fridays. I try using this code to get the day of the week of the candle,but get the following error. MqlDateTime herenow[]; CopyTime(_Symbol,_Period,0,0,herenow); 'CopyTime' - no one of the overloads can be applied to

Hello. Can Anybody help me? I found the following code that works on MT4 to toggle AutoTrading button: #include <WinUser32.mqh>#import "user32.dll"int GetAncestor(int,int);#define MT4_WMCMD_EXPERTS  33020#importvoid OnTick()  {   int main=GetAncestor(WindowHandle(Symbol(),Period()),2/GA_ROOT/);...

Hello, I have two questions. 1. What is the actual definition of "pip." On the EUR/USD, I always thought 1 pip referred to the 4th decimal place. But I'm seeing when changing the inputs of an EA that it seems to sometimes refer to the 4th, and sometimes to the 5th. For example, when I change the

Hello, I have the following problem: In my expert advisor, I sometimes have to call "CopyBuffer" on every tick. This works perfectly in combination with any of the standard indicator handles. However, when applying iCustom to the indicator handle of CopyBuffer, a new indicator window is being...

//for LongEntry Condition if (glongEntry == true ) { if ( PositionsTotal () == 0 ) { double buyStopLoss = BuyStopLoss( _Symbol ,StopLoss); double buyTakeProfit = BuyTakeProfit( _Symbol ,TakeProfit); gbuyTicket1 = Trade.Buy(

I was wondering how much of a performance hit there was. I'm assuming there are no issues utilising all cores