Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 276

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the new price property from a object (horizontal line) after it's dragged, but it returns the old value and not the new one. Am I doing something wrong? How to get new new value (price to where it was dragged to)? virtual void OnChartEvent(const int id,const long...

Hi, My VPS shows a nice ping with my broker, but sometimes ... there's lag. So I want to be able to check the ping, TERMINAL_PING_LAST do it. But in which circumstances does the terminal ping the server ? Plus, if only when connecting, is it possible to reping it ? Thanks

Hey so I have coded an expert advisor but I am having an issue with initiating a part of the code correctly #include <Trade\PositionInfo.mqh> #include <Trade\Trade.mqh> #include <Trade\SymbolInfo.mqh> #include <Trade\AccountInfo.mqh> // Spread out the orders of open trades by counting down the

Hello all Recently I bought my first indicator. Now I want to try to make an EA of it, so I can put in when to buy or not to buy. On the internet I found out that it's possible to make an EA from an indicator that has the mq5 file format. The indicator I bought is from the ex5 format. Thanks in

I'm not a coder, but I'm thinking of having an EA coded based on a repainting indicator, but it only repaints when it's refreshed. From what I understand of EA's based on indicators, they refresh the indicator every tick, which in this instance would not be desirable. So, my question is, is it

Gents, I'm currently playing with the new bar event handler lib (https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/159). My goal is to simply draw a green arrow_up on a new bar. This is for testing and familiarising only ;-) However, I'm seeing a lot of strange things happening: 1. Although the log shows that a new

Hello,  If I have multiples orders executed in the same trade (same direction) to do averaging price and I would like to get the price of the last order executed, not the final price (average). How can I get this value? I tryed to use the function bellow, but this function give me the price of the...

I found the indicator MS-Candle-Index ( https://www.mql5.com/ru/code/24254 please refer to the fixed SmoothAlgorithms.mqh at https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/321609 ). How I can use the indicator to access the strength value of the last closed candle (i.e index 1) of a given timeframe within my EA

Hello, I'm playing around with my first advisor. I am using a stochastic indicator. I created the handler for it: stochastic = iStochastic ( Symbol (), PERIOD_M1 , periodK, periodD, slowing, MODE_SMA , STO_LOWHIGH ); And now I want to get the values for Main and Signal. I read about

Hi all, I was wondering on how to add an indicator to the dropdown menu in the expert advisor generate paramenters of signals module. You can find attach the pictures. Let me know! I believe a lot of people have the same issue

Hi all, I have this code for the moment : double HigherBar = iHighest ( _Symbol , _Period , MODE_HIGH , 100 , 0 ); double LowestBar = iLowest ( _Symbol , _Period , MODE_LOW , 100 , 0 ); double HigherPrice = iHigh ( _Symbol , _Period , HigherBar); double LowestPrice = iHigh ( _Symbol

Hi, As said in the title , I would be curious to know if mt5 would recognize and be able to use two processors (like 2 * intel xeon as example , seems the most common for dual processor config,) for optimization ? It may not be that useful because 1 better processor could be as powerful ,and as a

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What commands do I need to add? For example, I want to close the EA that day when the profit is 10USD

Hi, I'm sure this is a basic programming misunderstanding on my behalf - I'm getting a 'constant expression required' error message when compiling.  I simply want to create an array based on extern inputs to the program. I've tried putting the code globally and in a function but getting the same...

Hey All, I'm new to MT5 and just learning the ropes. I want to backtest a strategy that uses buy and sell signals based on a market profile indicator I bought on the market. For instance, buy when price crosses point of control or value area high or low. Is there a relatively straightforward way to

Hey guys, I am fairly new to EA programming and programming in general. My Ea is based on manual strategy that I developed. I tried to connect my if statements with variables, for example if the filter condition is met the filter int gets set to 2 and if the int is 2 than the open position

Hi ladies and gents. I want to add an EA to the market. I've done all steps, the last one do not let me through - automatic validation. When I submit all data, and EA especially, for the 'human' validation, the system says that my EA does any order on the test data, so I have to improve it. The

same pair , one ea running on 2 charts with different setting for each , how to know each one performance ?is there any way , ea has magic nu , set different for each one , but i would analysis each setting performance

Dear MQL community please help me out we build an EA bridge for binary options and it should be working fine but after each first contract it closes down the EA and says array out of range in (1962,24) I hope anyone can help me out... Thank you in advanced <ex5 File Deleted>

SOLVED long NewMinute[]; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Expert initialization function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ int OnInit(){ ArrayFree(NewMinute); ArrayResize(NewMinute,2); }

Hi all, I have a slight technical issue with my VPS and just looking for any advice. My EA is synchronised to the VPS, and showing the smiley face on the chart, but when I turn off my laptop it doesn't execute trades that it should be. It runs perfectly on backtests, so I'm presuming it's an issue

I am new to MQL5, and I'm just coming back to trading after a few year break. I figured this time I would like to automate my old strategy and have it send me prompts to set orders, and then send me the results of those orders. I've been able to program most of it already, but I keep stumbling over

Hello everybody.I am new here and am discovering mql5.I tried to open mql5 wizard on my mt5 account but automatically the assistant mql5 dossier opens.Can you help me

Hi! Let me quickly explain what I am trying to get by showing an example. The plan is to invest in an Index such as USTEC or US500 etc. Because I don't want to risk losing too much money if this doesn't goes as planned, I don't have a lot of money in the account, the problem then is that if I invest

Dear All, would need some advice for my codes as im trying to write an EA for Executing a Buy order whenever the previous Lower High is broken and vice-versa for Sell Order. The code works and orders are executed as expected in default MT5 terminal. However the issue is when i started to backtest

Does anyone know how to test EA for binary options on mt4 strategy tester with one of these brokers CoreLiquidityMarkets or Grand capital ( they have binary options based on mt4) ? Thank you in advance :) 

How can I fix take profit level in Trailing Stop Function? Thanks

In my EA, there are certain circumstances in which in clone orders, and will have to later identify them as cloned orders. I thought about using an array to store the order Ticket Numbers of the cloned orders, but this comment functionality seems like it might be simpler and more efficient. I can