Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 233

I'm looking for an EA that I can turn on once I've already manually entered a trade that will close my position based upon the W%R crossing the signal line from a specific direction, does anyone know where I can find something like this

I propose to come up with/develop a single coefficient showing the quality of the strategy, which will take into account its many characteristics (profit, drawdown, number of trades,...). In MT5 it is possible to use this. This kind of task can be solved graphically: Profit and drawdown are

Hi there, I'm testing my recent translated advisor but I suspect that orders count function is not working properly cause it isn't closing orders. Here I count Buy and Sell orders, code: //---------------------------------------------- Internal loop ---! double BuyOrders=0,SellOrders=0; for(int

hi guys, i got an issue with MQL5 why it draw indicators i use in logic of my EA on strategy tester! "work normally in actual chart doesnt draw anything there, just in strategy tester" make it a mess hard to read the chart and analysis anyway to make it stop?! to be honest compare to easiness of

Hello everyone, I am making my own robot according to my strategy. Do I want to know how to make the bot make a pending order? What is the function? Greetings

Hi, i´m trying to get the volume in the DOM at an open position price. I'm quite new to MQL5 and could not find a way to just get the volume of that specific price. Any idea would be very welcome thank You

Hello, I need to stop sending orders to the server for 3 minutes during the daily trading break (23:59-00:02)? (which depends on the broker) Market opening time is different in winter and summer, so I can not use local system time while comparing. I can not use server time as well. I guess each

The following EA Closes all open positions on account with magic number related when reaching profit target. Problem I am experiencing is that the EA at times do not close all the open positions when required. I can't find the problem. Can anyone point out what the problem is and how I can solve it

Hi, been working on my first EA and it presents this problem, sometimes, the price is moving wildly and, it matches the EAs parameters to open trades (since the price is passing the same bid or ask multiple times in a matter of minutes) So, i was thinking of a way of programming the expert advisor

I would like events to be triggered the moment a deposit was made into the trading account that the EA is currently active on. Any help

Hello guys I have an EA analyser that analyse the performance of my trades by magic number and group them by magic number separately so i can analyse each strategies separately on the same terminal. I am running 5 different EA strategies on the same terminal. My question how will i calculate the

I haven't really searched but, I was trying to think of a way to detect the most recent peak on a chart. A solution that I believe would work involves using a For Loop to check "x" number of periods previously. The loop would just check previous values and compare which of the values was greater. If

Where do I send my EA for backtesting by other developers and users

Hi, I am using the following MQL5 code to fetch data from a web service: string cookie=NULL,headers; char post[],result[]; string referer = NULL; string url="http://www.test.com"; int res=WebRequest("GET",url,cookie,referer,500,post,0,result,headers); However, I need to specify the user agent

Hi, I'm having a problem with the strategy tester I'm hoping I can get some help with. I'm new at this, so I may be missing something really obvious. I've read a lot of data on this website but still can't see where my problem lies exactly. I was trying to test a very simple MT5 EA using the

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Hey, from time to time (yes I love this sentence too), my EA causes "Invalid pointer" errors when a pointer is just assigned to a variable. Like this: CVObject *ptr=(CVObject *)m_invalidupdates.At(i); m_invalidupdates is an CArrayObj object which is part of the MQ library. CVObject could be any

my forex robot launches trade slow. for example ; new bar open price 1550.00 long position start. robot needs to initiate a purchase order. but, until the robot starts, the price is 1550.15. what is the reason of this

Hello I just compile an EA i am getting one error : '1' - expression not boolean When i go to line this is the code causing the error : if(IsStopped())return(-1); How do i fix this? I appreciate the help

Hello ! I Want that my EA open trade after every 5 pips move . let's suppose GOLD Current Price 1550$ , when it touch 1545$ , then my EA open Trade Buy Automatically & Auto Take Profit Set , Which i Want..... Just Simple .Anyone Please Help me & Give CODE . Thank you in Advance

Hello esteemed experts! I have created an expert adviser but have a little problem here. I would like to use the 3rd candle low or high to trail my open positions. Attached is the code for the high and low. I also need the trailing to start when break even has occurred. The system is promising. Your

If 1% damage, position is closed. I wrote the code, but it doesn't work

I wrote a super detailed post about this problem on stackoverflow .com. Rather than re-create the entire thing here I'll just post the link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59841733/metatrader-4-mql4-time-is-off-by-5-hours-but-only-when-using-epoc-time Basically, I'm having a very specific

There's a popular belief that trading robots "don't work". I know they can be profitable but how much really? For a few dozens of dollars you can buy EAs that theoretically perform several times better than the best stock market indices, but if they were doing really well in live trading, the

I spend quite some time developing an EA that is reading the Forex Factory Calendar (FFC) HTML. I’m stumbling now on an issue that I did not foresee and I’m unable to solve. Hopefully you can help me. When the news event occurs, I want to extract the Actual number, and compare it with the forecasted

Hi there, I am new to MT5 and learning write some simple expert advisor by silghtly modify stock signals. below is my test EA source code. what i am expecting is when MACD main line above zero level && STOCH main line > STOCH signal line. it should generate a buy signal. MACD singal pattern value is

Good morning, I had a strange behaviorusing the CopyRates function in MQL5. I tried to load some Rates using the CopyRatesfunction for a specified Symbol (CustomSymbol). The requested data is on aPERIOD_M1 and represents two months of rates starting from the SERIES_TERMINAL_FIRSTDATE of the Symbol....

I've written an EA (with help of existing code I have found on the forum and the net) that reads in information from the experts log file. However, I need the information in real time, and the log file is only updated in intervals throughout the day I think, when the terminal is closed, or when you...

If you have a $10,000 balance 1:100 demo account with a risk percentage input in you EA, and if you input say 10% then is the trade size $1000 when your first trade is found or is the 1:100 leverage automatically applied so the trade size becomes 100,000 (1lot)? Any info helps thanks

Good morning, I'm trying to learn the MQL4 language. I downloaded the MT4 platform. I downloaded all the data (F2). I created a program and did the tests. I tried to search for operations on MT5 and the values (RSI, MA, BID etc etc) do not always coincide. So if I change platforms or brokers the