Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 27

Hi all, maybe someone knows whether there will ever be the possibility of showing "Positions" in the backtest report? In MT4, they were clearly listed using their Open price + time, Close price + time and their total profit/loss. In MT5, only "Orders" and "Deals" are shown with no real connection to

hello, I'd like to run many test with different parameters and/or on different pairs automatically. for example I'd like to test my EA on EURUSD2012 and CADCHF2011 wihtout having to manually restart backtest at the end of the first run, in this way I could let my laptop work overnight and collect

Cannot load indicator/Cannot load custom indicator error MT5 tester My Ea runs normal when trading but when I test it I get the mentioned error, anybody knows how to solve it please? Thanks

My question is does the base currency of an account require corresponding symbols to be enabled in market watch? For context. My ea runs on the eurusd pair. It uses the OrderCalcMargin function. I noticed it was unable to trade without both the eurgbp and gbpusd pair also present in the market

I can't find a clear documentation about the values returned by the SYMBOL_TRADE_CALC_MODE. Print ( SymbolInfoInteger ( _Symbol , SYMBOL_TRADE_CALC_MODE )); would result in 0 for forex (I guess), 2 for CFDs.. do you guys have faced a similar situation

please create the metatrader 5 python module for linux users. A linux user cant connect to the MT5 terminal since the API is only compatible with windows, make a version that supports linux to so that it can be installed via pip in linux operating systems too, consider everyone please

Please, how I can check if market is open or closed in MT5, I cant find answer. something similar to MT4 - MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_TRADEALLOWED) this command doesn't exist in MT5 anymore. Thank you

I'm trying to use the following function to "see" if the last trade resulted in porfit or loss. The problem is: the function is returning "true" whether the profit is positive or not, that is, always returns true. I don't know if i'm using the wrong "get" functions or misunderstood how they work....

I've tried multiple methods to detect the stop-out event while running an Expert Advisor in the Strategy Tester, but none have worked so far. The OnTradeTransaction function doesn’t seem to catch it, even though there's an ENUM_DEAL_REASON type DEAL_REASON_SO that should indicate a stop-out. I

Hello all, on trading view its possible to create currency baskets like the yen basket (JPYBASKET) but on mt5 I'm not sure how to go about this. I have zero experience in create custom symbols other than downloading tick data from dukascopy so I'd thought I would ask if anyone knew how to do this

These are the results of my strategy, both use data based on real ticks of the same currency pair and the same strategy with the same inputs and conditions, the only difference is that the real tick data from one is from Pepperstone broker and the other is from Dukascopy. Would anyone know why they

Hello, I'm sorry if the question sounds a bit dumb. I sought ways to improve my strategy and decided to add Parabolic SAR signals. So I wrote this small class to handle that: class ParabolicSARSignal { private : int handle; // Indicator handle double

How can I set the default value of an integer input parameter based on chart timeframe? For example if loaded in 1min, the default value becomes 123 and for 5min chart it becomes 456

EA works with the Strategy Tester. It also works on real accounts. However, I get an error in the automatic market validation. The error is "strategy tester report not found". What should I do to resolve this issue? The EA is for sale, so the code is private

Hello everyone, I am currently trying to develop a panel that requires aligning text with the right edge of a graphical background layer. I have been using the TextGetSize() function to calculate the width of the text and attempting to position the text by subtracting this width from the right

Hello. When I want to load an EA in mql market, during verification it gives me some errors that give me a headache. The first time it gave me Risk lot calculation, then I modified the code and another error appears with trade opened 0.2 lot. // === Risk lot calculator === double CalculateRiskLot(

Hello, Just a post with a suggestion regarding how the balance and equity curves are displayed. It seems the balance curve makes a gap each time a profitable/loosing trade is opened/or right after entry (no gap if the trade is breakeven), and not when such a trade is actually closed. So basically

Hi guys i try to create my trade manage and it work but i have only one big problem when i try to minimize the panel it do it , but when i try to maximize it it create me a devastated panel after close and reopen my frankenstine panel i use a absolute coordinate for create it , this a bug for MT5 or

What to do when your chosen developer is unresponsive ... Hasn't even agreed to my job leaving me hanging ... Yet at the outset 5 days ago was pushing me to award them the job ... Still showing as FREE I don't even know their name only that they are Russian (Thank you MQL5 for the freelancer flags)

statement and question. I do a test with optimiser and have list of results from that optimisation; but when i right click on that line of results, and click do single test, I get a very different result. WTF why? Nothing has changed. I only did the test on Monday. The optimiser finished today and i

Hi can someone plz say is trend arbitage EA is worth buying?? Because the back test data looks surpsingly good.. happy to get some experts advice... note: this ea is too pricey

I want to analyse each EA trading from the trading history report in MT5. If a position closed by SL or TP, [sl xxx.xx] or [tp xxx.xx] is written in comment field in the report instead of original comment. I don't know which EA trades the position. Is there any way to keep original comment which EA

I'm creating a EA and testing on Strategy Tester, it works for hundreds of orders as expected but one specific trade is closing in 15 points instead of 40 points and I'm not sure why. Others actually close between 38-42 points, but 25 points seems too much. It's a lot more complex but I was able to

I have seriously lost it, my patience has snapped with this thing. I am so sick of absolutely screaming and going bat shit crazy just because MQL5 can't do something as simple as retrieve a magic number. It is not difficult for this thing to comprehend something so simple, but I have never been so

I found out about how to implement the Ichimoku indicator in my EA, but it can only read the values that the Ichimoku takes according to the main chart. Instead, I want to find a way where I can compare the Ichimoku values to the Levels I set for it in the beginning, levels like 80, 20 that are

Good evening everyone, I use which doexpert advisor not have capital protection...can you help me

Hello everyone and Happy Easter to those who celebrate! Recently I ran into very interesting issue, MT5 strategy tester generated trades don't match at all on chart and in journal, let's say, in the backtest tab I see 11 trades, and the chart is showing 2793 trades. I expect a high number of trades

Hi, I made an EA (this is my first Ea) and when testing it, even there is no date and time variables on it, the orders on Friday are not executed and the Diary send a message "market closed". The startegy is based on the direction of an MA and it has 3 variables for stop loss (stoplosspoints

Based on the documentation which lists a Login and a Password entries, I thought creating my custom config file that would allow me to run EAs programatically from a Windows command line should be a relatively straightforward task. I created the following very basic .ini file, almost identical to

I have a question about this mt5 python solution, do i understand this solution correctly, you need to install for every mt5 account into which you want to login also a seoerrate mt5 terninal on the same comouter? Or can you just login to any mt5 account with this python libary without need to