Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 242

Hello, I developed an EA and tested it on historical data using the Strategy Tester. When I checked it with "every tick", it made a big profit, with low draw down. But when I checked it with "every tick based on real ticks" it was a losing strategy, with very high drawdown. How can it be, such huge

Hi folks, I'd like to know if is it possible to have an EA to autotrading using a Renko "timeframe" with my strategy. Thank you

Hello. I need a simple EA that will open orders if: 2 bullish candles followed by 2 bearish candles: open short order on the opening of the next candle. 2 bearish candles followed by 2 bullish candles: open long order on the opening of the next candle. The EA must have SL, TP and Trailing Options

My premiere here with this thread, I want to share my experience with automated risk management, after thinking about the issue many times, I found this OrderProfitCheck function that belongs to the MoneyFixedRisk risk management class, before writing that does this function, I put them in context

Hi. I want to increase the amount I can enter on all options by another 2 digits. Eg: Now I can enter stoploss max 60000 but since my broker gives 6 digit price, I want to increase it's number to about x00000. Or more if possible. Trying to make ea work on vix index. I couldn't find a number which

Dears, first of all currently i'm using MQL5 for coding and during my coding on a strategy, i figured out there is a limited amount of history exist on each timeframe during backtesting. as an example there is almost one year data exist for H1 timeframe over back test. this means if i start from

Hello, There is possibility to put controls like button into particular field in table in mql5? If yes please give some hints. Thx in adv

Hey Guys and Girls, I'm relatively new to trading with a VPS, just need to find out how i can go in and change or add a single chart? I have 20 charts up and running on the VPS currently, I just need to change 1 Any help would be appreciated Thanks in advance

Hi, I have a few questions that I could do with some help with answering if anyone has time... If I am back testing an EA on M15 is 4 months of data sufficient? (Every tick) The last 4 months have covered numerous conditions in the pair I am looking at and at a highish-frequency like M15 I am coming

Hi i'm new here. How to create a layer like this ?? Grouping layer with fixed lot.. What it called ? it opened the layer with 0.50 then grouping into 6 first layer that using same lot.. And when reach 7 it opened maybe by martingale 0.75 to 6 second layer because my current layer is like this

Can anyone help me to give some simple example on how to use SymbolExist() in EA of MT5 ? Thank you

Hello all, I found a signal provider on mql5.com<Deleted> and I can't find it on mt4 in the signals tab. Why? And how I can add it? Thanks

i want to open long order base Previous bull candel and open short order base previous bullish candel. Who can help me ...thank you

Here you are my Main code: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| CloseAllPositions.mq5 |//| Copyright 2016, MetaQuotes Software Corp. |//|

I create a new script using the wizard and save and compile it but it doesn't show from the insert, scripts dropdowns on the charts. Some others that I have made are there however. Does anyone know why?  Thanks.  

Hello, can someone help me in coding an EA from this indicator? I would like the EA to open a sell trade when a red arrow appears and a buy trade when the green arrow appears. And I would like it to set TP and SL and lot sizes. Thank you very much! DECOMPILATION IS FORBIDDEN

Hi! *** To make it quick, I'm a newb on mql but I can manage few things. I already have an EA but I want to change the indicator it uses and I ran into an issue where I have an indicator that prints arrows (that are not objects) and I want to base a signal on those arrows. When the arrow appears the

Hi All, I''m interested in testing an EA that goes long and also goes short, I downloaded the demo and found that for whatever reason it only went long, back testing I messaged the author who sent me a set file, that didn't fix the issue, I also sent the author my set file and he said it works on

Windows 7 will stop having technical support at the end of 2019 and Microsoft is recommending installing Windows 10. Following this advice, I am thinking of upgrading my computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10... but... I have several EAs purchased, what will happen to the 5 licenses of each

I am finishing building my first robot, but I find the following problem, I have the code written in python (IDE pycharm) and I don't know how to place the orders from the same code, I tried it with 0mq but it was not possible. If someone can guide me where I am wrong, I would greatly appreciate

hello I have an EA that works on a single pair but it is good in different pairs. I can test the EA in each pair each time but I would like to see the behavior of it in different pairs at the same time running all the good pairs (maybe 5 for example) in order to analyze the global drawdown. is it

I'm building a tool based on Alerts and the problem is that's continuously repeating alerts in loop, just need to know if there's a way to keep them stopped till change their values

Can I have more that one signal service for the same MT4 platform? I am subscibing to a singal service already but I would like to subscribe to another as well. Thanks!

Hi I try to test Telegram example from article: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/2355 an get error message: "'SendPhoto' - no one of the overloads can be applied to the function call Telegram_Bot_EA.mq5 117 24" where is the problem?

I hav been using trailing stoploss coded into the EA. Works fine. The only catch is that if  contact is lost it does not work. The trailing stoploss can also be set manually on the terminal. As I understand it it is then handled by the server, which means it will work even if contact is lost witht...

Hi anyone that can help. I have been trying to code this EA for a while and getting there slowly, however I am stuck with deleting previous pending orders before opening the next one. Below is the code I have just before entering either a buy trade and sellstop trade or the other way round. It works

Hello, I want to use the data of a market indicator for an expert advisor, is it possible without the source file of the indicator

Hello everyone. I started learning mql5 just last week, I've come a long way though. However, I'm having trouble writing codes to close buy orders when sell signal is received, and vice versa. Is anyone kind enough to help me out

Greetings! I have a Ruby / Python background so it is a little bit hard for me to switch in C++ way. I'm working on EA which selects some symbols based on a specific criteria. In Ruby I will make a hash like this: {symbol_name: "GBPCAD", action: "SELL", spread: 15} and then sort it by "spread"

Hello, please I have a problem with my ea, being that when the ea opens for example buy orders, lots increment from 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc and buy is not closed, however if there is a sell order, instead of the ea starting the sell order lots from 1,2,3,4,5 etc it continues from where the buy order have