Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 274

The MT5 backtest presents inconsistent and contradictory values when it is executed successively with exactly the same parameters and the same data set. The cache (added in newer versions) is possibly hiding flaws in the backtest procedure from the latest versions. The test set has 100 roles and

I am trying to calculate Lot Volume in mt5 based on risk% and stop loss based on ATR(14), also i need pip value for the current instrument. I am new to MT4/5 and C++, but i have managed to learn a lot and have managed to convert an MT4 Oscar indicator to work in MT5. 1. I have seen the code below

I'm using ShellExecuteW from shell32.dll: int value= ShellExecuteW(0, "open", "C:\test.bat", strParameters, "", 1); The batch file runs WEKA to make a prediction which seems to open but returns an error and quickly the console window closes. I want to capture the error from the console. I've tried

Hi, is there any way to get the Time Zone of a server? I have an EA that I want to use on 2 different brokers who operate in different time zones. I'd like it to only trade within a certain window of time each day, and would prefer to be able to set this time limit to my local time and have the EA

Hello, I have an expert advisor to get indicator data (bband, rsi, rvi, ...), write it in a file to import the indicator data in database. I have one EA by indicator, the goal of this is just to write data in file, and not to do display. It's work good manualy, but when i try to load this EA in

Hi there, I'm trying to implement a reversal close module into my new advisor. This is a multipair advisor and all the algorithm is working into this loop, where the value for _Symbol is 'SName': for ( int s= 0 ;s< SymbolsTotal ( true );s++){ string SName= SymbolName (s, true ); The code is

Hi everyone! I am using CTrade library to open a long position at the market price then get the order ticket number. The CTrade document says "Successful completion of the PositionOpen(...) method does not always mean successful execution of the trade operation.", so I want to check if the order is

Hello there, I have an extremely profitable strategy but I need help coding it. It is a scalping strategy with only one key indicator. I'm trying to constrict the TenkanSen and KijunSen buffers of the ichimoku into the indicator chart window with levels 0-100 as the minimum - maximum levels. Please

Hello, Do you know any tool or software that would allow to analyse a portifolio including several strategy reports, including margin levels? The idea is to understand whether specific margin requirements would not be met by trading several pairs at the same time during a specific period. Thanks

I am looking for a script that will allow me write my account history to an external file. I have found exactly what I need using MQL4, but I need someway to convert it to MQL5 or find a script that allows me to do something similar The MQL4 script is here https://www.mql5.com/en/code/13885 The

I found a few good "script order" that are helpful but none them had auto-trailing stop, and 0 in stop loss is the price of entry. What up with that. Null does not work. I post this topic in hope that someone guide me or send me to an article on how to create an auto-trailing & set stop loss to

Anyone know an ea that stop other ea from trading & close all current trades after passing a certain price in a chart

Hi all, I want my EA, with strategy tester, to automatically run again after or just before the strategy tester is done. So: run with indicator values, change values after its done or almost done and run it again. I've got the running with indicator part, I also know how to change values I just need

Hello everyone I am trying to place a pending buy limit when the current price of the tick becomes below the Initial price that the trade started with. Unfortunately i am getting the following error: 2020.07.22 11:22:26.992 2020.07.01 00:00:00 failed modify #2 buy 0.1 XAUUSD sl: 0.000, tp: 0.000 ->

Hi everybody, I'am are very new in mql5, i try to develop a EA but i need get the datetime for last open trade. I have the next code but i get forever "2020-07-22 01:00:00" without work. Thank you, Regards datetime GetLastTradeOpenTime() { uint TotalNumberOfDeals = HistoryDealsTotal (); ulong

Is there any way to find an object's name if you only have it's price value? Specifically, I want to be able to determine if a Horizontal Line exists at a given price, knowing only the price value; and get the name of such a line if one exists. I've racked my brain trying to figure out how to do

Hi - I am looking for an opening range breakout indicator and trading EA for MT4 There are just a few on here in the marketplace with not so good reviews - does anyone know of any others available Thanks

Using IG forex mt4 broker Using paid spider pro, USD/EUR on m15 When I use it on my demo account, it works and trades. When I try to initialize it on live account gives me: 2020.07.21 10:44:32.739 Spider Crazy Pro EURUSD,M15: zero divide in 'Spider Crazy Pro.mq4' (1251,36) Could there be a setting

Hi Guys, Just curious I see brokers has business accounts and not sure what people do with it. Do people run networks of accounts? If so, what do they use to run the mt4/mt5? Do they use vps or some special software to trade accounts without mt4/mt5 etc

trade.Buy( 0.02 , NULL ,PriceInfo[ 1 ].close,PriceInfo[ 1 ].low, 2 *PriceInfo[ 1 ].high-PriceInfo[ 9 ].low, NULL ); How come does this open multiple trades on a candle instead of only on the value of the previous low

i'd like to delete a pending order if the price moved 500 points without executing it Here's my attempt CTrade trade; MqlRates pricedata []; ArraySetAsSeries(pricedata,true); int data =CopyRates(Symbol(),Period(),0,550,pricedata); for ( int i = OrdersTotal () - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i-- ) { ulong

Hi, request = { "action": mt5.ORDER_TYPE_CLOSE_BY, "symbol": 'USDEUR', "volume": 2, 'position': 123456, 'position_by':???, # "price": 0.9, "sl":0.9, } } result =

Hello, I've started programming in MQL5 (as hobby so far), once in college and in my first job I programmed heavily in C ++, but it was over 20 years ago :) I have such a issue, probably I have no enough knowledge at yet. After the setup occurs, I place three orders, which let's assume they

I been testing several ts ea but most of the time, they do not move to the trailing start, and I do not know why. Does it conflict with other ea but they do not have ts? The bear minimum of my broker ts is 15 but many ea I used not work move it to the starting. I even take account of the spread in

Hi, I have read this topic https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/690#NVidia that deals with using OPENCL to use gpu for computations , However , it has been written in 2013 , so i guess supported hardware is not up to date, My graphic card is a RTX 2060 , i have downloaded latest drivers but mt5 do not

I have an EA in the market for sale. I want to offer it for rent too. But can't seem to find how to do that. I see other EAs in the market that are offered for sale and for rent as well. How do i achieve that? Does the EA has to pass certain amount of purchases for example for it to allow me to

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