Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 257

Hello All, I`m a new member and I`m busy creating an EA, that is able to determine the slope of the EMA in between the opening and the closing of a candle /bar. To do so, I was thinking to just subtract both EMA`s values. After doing some research, I`m wondering if it is even possible, to link a

What kind of data should I be putting in the trade.buy.volume property? Is this the number of shares I wish to buy? In some of the MT5 code I see values like 0.10 but I don't know what that means. Thank you

Hey guys, I have been a longtime lurker here. I have an EA that trades (open/close/modify) on a demo and real account, but when I try to run a backtest on it ,it gives the following error : Initialization Failed (1). The file is ex4 and i do not have the access to the source code. Does anyone has an

Hello, I have a thought that blocks my heart. like I have an Buy Order here, then I want to add a Horizontal Line to modify the Buy Order earlier. I want my Buy Order to close the order if the length of my Order Buy has reached 5 minutes, and crossed the line that I made with the condition that when

Hi, I recently uploaded a Expert Advisor and I changed the code on my local copy now, I want to know the original code that was uploaded to VPS. Can someone please help? Is there a way to export you expert advisor or something

I'm learning how to program with the MQL5 language and I'm running lots of strategy tests with my EAs, for long periods of data it takes a lot of time even with multiple computers in local farm. I was wondering if there was a way to automate or queue multiple tests so I could set up the queue and

An EA that will not allow you to open trades for a day if you lose 3% of your account for that day. The EA prevents you from overtrading.It will block you from taking any trade till the next day. If you have an amount that you can't lose more than that in a week ,it blocks you from trading till next

Hi all, I have a sample EA with the following OnTick() logic getting a Custom (or any build in indicator like iMA(..) ) with PERIOD_D1. However, running Strategy Tester with Period set to "Daily" vs "M1" or other periods gives DIFFERENT Trading Backtest results. (I somehow felt that we should stick

i`m having some trouble with a piece of code for an EA after changing the original code generated by MetaEditor the tester kept giving error on the periods, so i changed the code to: //--- Creating filter CSignalMACD CSignalMACD *filter1= new CSignalMACD; if (filter1== NULL ) { //---

I found this Expert in Codebase ( https://www.mql5.com/en/code/11649 ). The author has not been available since 2019. I love the expert for all its features: works on all active charts from a single chart; it is able to treat each chart separately; and very simple. The only set back is it does not

On my brokers trading account I have a 50% stop out call, meaning, that when my DD will reach 50% of my balance the trade will be closed with 50% account loss. When I am back testing Expert Advisors in my meta trader I can see a position called Equity Drawdown Relative. QUESTION: if my Equity

Good night people, I am developing a robot to read the last closing value of many assets. Test to obtain or close 1000 different assets, but the MT5 is very slow and uses 100% of the CPU. Even stopping or robot, the MT5 continues to allocate 100% of the CPU. If you run a test with 200 assets, it

How to read value of the function CheckPatternAllBullish() in class CCandlePattern ?I want to read it inside in void OnTick()// Print(fican.CheckPatternAllBullish());Error is invalid pointer access in 'candlepatterns.mqh' (162,20)Thanks...

EXPERT ADVISOR IDEA USING FRACTALS This idea i a very simple idea which needs someone who understands coding EA's to a degree. The EA Uses Fractals and thats it. The Only Difference is that it doesnt trade tops and bottoms but trades every candle after the Fractal has painted. Example. Price is

Hi guys. So ive been trying to get the total loss/profits of my executed trade and i don't even know how to go about it. I thought i could modify this code. I got it from the mql5 codebase but it only gives the total loss/profit for pips. I need the total loss/pips in dollars

I'd been currently been testing ea to trade, but I do not want to open new one after passing certain price. Is there an ea that does not affect my other ea except stop opening new trade after certain price? Or maybe stop auto-trading ea in certain chart

Hello, maybe someone can help me with extraction of data from ZigZag indicator ? I tried this, and it gives Handle=10, bf=-1. zig=0, zag=0. double array[]; //data array double bf;

The essence of the EA is to set certain combinations of candles. The rules are: a bullish candle means "1", a bearish candle means "0". So, it is possible to search for such combinations of candlesticks simply by specifying "101": So far the problem is in coding the representation of combinations -

EA may have several market orders open at any time, each order has its own indicator set stoploss value. To trail the same fixed distance from market for an order with SL = 10pips, and one with SL = 150pips is just "stupid". Trailing must be done proportional to the order's initial SL. Problem is

Please advise me how to use 2 Average True Range indicators for scalping on short timeframes. Suggrstions welcome. Thankyou

I've been looking for a few hours now but I cannot find documentation on Selection of Input Parameters when testing my EA. See attachment. Where can I read about these individual settings so I can understand if I need to use them in my testing? Thank you

Hi guys, I've been stuck at this problem of Icustom in MT5 EA returning 0 values all the time. All i wanted is to call previous Bar value from a indicator buffer . The indicator data window shows accurate values but when called using Icustom in EA it returns all 0. Ive read and studied on using

I know I can go into debug mode and then set up break points in the code, however I was curious if I can set a break point at a certain time in the chart (for example 6 Apr 11:50). Is it possible

I am struggling to find a way to make the horizontal line only start from the bottom of the candle and go out 4 bars instead of infinite I also don't know how to place horizontal lines at each of these conditions instead of it repainting, I would like it to hold its location and just spawn a new one

Hi guys. Im kinda new to coding EAs in Mql5. But i am trying to get the absolute values of variables, mainly my 'Loss'. I know that the MathAbs() function can solve the problem but i don't know how to execute it. Here is where i am at: double Loss = (1 + total pips for loss) double MathAbs ( double

Hi! When there is no new servidor data my code doesn´t seem to work: datetime timeCandles[]; datetime time = D'2020.07.10 15:30' ; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Script program start function |

So i try to place an order with mql5 it gives me an error 2020.07.10 13:25:30.158 2020.01.03 17:32:36 CTrade::OrderSend: market buy 1.00 @EP sl: 3016.35 tp: 3022.55 [invalid stops] double SL = (Ask - 2.4 ); double PT = (Ask + 3.8 ); if (price > above) { if (runningmacdsignal > 0 ){

Any help would be much appreciated. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Expert tick function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ void OnTick () { //--- // Ask & Bid double Ask=

hi all, I'm a new member, Can you help me how to create an application for auto trading on MT5 ? Thanks all you

#property copyright "Adam"#property link      "https://mql5.com"#property version   "1.00"int bbHandle;void OnInit(){   bbHandle = iBands(Symbol(),PERIOD_CURRENT,20,2,0,PRICE_CLOSE);   }void OnTick(){   double upbb[];   double lwbb[];   double mibb[];      ArraySetAsSeries(upbb,true);...