Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 285

Let's say my EA is not performing very well and losing too many trades in a row, is there some way I can tell it to go sit on the bench for some time, like one hour or two (specifically) and try again later? Of course, I want to do that programatically, so it can always run unattended. TIA

Hi there, since a few days I recognize that if I run a backtest there are more objects (= trades) in the backtesting chart than the EA generated. It seems that thee EA uses a different template than the "tester" template. If I apply the "tester" template manually to a chart window, then all objects

Hi all, I'm completely new to developing EAs so hopefully theres a simple solution to this problem that I just can't see due to my inexperience. The EA should open a position if there is a new candle on the 5 mins timeframe, if the trend on both the 15 mins and 1 hour timeframes (based on a

can i ask that if my ea place some orders and then i addientally close the chart tgt with the ea, when i load it back agn, the orders is still there, but will my ea recognise those previous order

Hi Guys long time I am looking for a way for hide and un hide indicators are on chart but couldnt find a way , and now it is my quastion , can we change Visualzition of Custom Indicator from all time frame to Monthly with script ? with this way custome indicators will be hidden in 1M - weekly time

I took a 3 months VPS subscription and have also subscribed to a signal. When trying to migrate my signals and chats I am getting an error that Migration is failed. Attaching screenshots for your reference

I designed a simple EA using Moving Average Indicator. I want to find out the best MA Period which my EA gives back better results

I've looked into TimeCurrent() as well as CDatetime and I can't seem to figure out to determine the number of seconds elapsed in a day. I like TimeCurrent(), but I would prefer to have only the time without the date. I need to obtain the number of seconds elapsed as opposed to just the time as a

Hi All! Drazen Penic said in https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/91438 Drazen Penic : Stop loss and take profit in the MqlRequest struct are prices, not a number of points or pips. sl Stop Loss price in case of the unfavorable price movement tp Take Profit price in the case of the favorable price

Hi All, I want to adjust my code to reference a past time and date. Is it possible to reference the last open? So Today -1 and server time = 16:30. I currently am coding it manually. Current Code - extern double BuyPrice=2972.10 Ideal Code - extern double BuyPrice=(Today -1 - 16:30) Thanks

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Hello, I coded a simple EA based on one indicator which uses inidcator values from the current chart and the H4 chart. During the Backtest it came to my intention, that the EA only opens Buy Orders. When I change the code to only Sell Signals, it doesnt open any Trades. Does someone have an idea why

Hey, I have an EA that gets the Stack Overflow error if I don't put a Sleep of something like 1 second. I do have a loop that calls itself (something like an infinite loop) but I need to find a way to do this and not get the Stack Overflow error. The infine loop is something like this: My EA...

Hi. How can i get the ticket of an position and close a the position? whats wrong in Code ? InThe Code, I Open a position and immediately (after 10 seconds) i want to close it. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                           test...

Hi all, I try to (partly) code my manuel trading strategy to be automated, but 1) it doesnt open any trades 2) with the backtest it opens two charts H1 and H4, but for the stragey it only needs to check the value of the indicator on a H4 chart 3) during the backtest I get the Errorcode "OnTick

Let me ask my question with an example, Let's say the current price of EURUSD is 1.09000 and I want to buy a long position when the price hits at 1.09100. In point of view of slippage, which of the following two options would be more advantageous on the average? 1. Entering a pending buy order at

Hello! I started programming a few EAs some days ago, and I've had no problems so far, except for one thing. I was testing the robots with a 1:500 leverage. When I wanted to try it with lower leverages, I noticed that, the lower the leverage is, the fewer orders the EA opens. In fact, with a 1:10

Hello Dear Trader, I have 4 account and it is so hard to trade with each one. Someone who can help me with an Ea Copy Trade? I try to trade just on the first account and with other 3 copy from the first. How can I resolve that problem? I have 4 account with 4 different brokers Thank you

hi guys, i want someone to help me with this very simple code (make for free) :'D ea with time filter to trade in certain hours when attached to a time frame it opens 2 pending orders with each candle opening buy stop and sell stop at a distance (pip step) from the candle open price with the end of

Hello, I have an EA, that uses an external indicator to trade. Now it seems, that DLL import is activated in the EAs code. Can I turn it off (in the code)?! thx

When I am running a visual backtest on my EA, I can look at my chart and see orders being opened and closed. It's very helpful. However, once the backtest is complete, the order markings (on the chart) have disappeared, so I can't scroll back to review them. Does anyone know why this would happen

When I started EA optimization Test on " Every tick based on real ticks" using MQL Cloud Network , somehow these errors came and Cloud Network turned off. '''2020.05.24 06:53:21.651 Tester Cloud servers switched off 2020.05.24 06:55:02.977 Tester real ticks optimization not allowed in Cloud Network

Hey guys, I am reprogramming my MQL4 code to MQL5. I do have a question about the indicator change. So in MQL4 it simply looks something like: void OnTick() { double movingAverage = iMA ( NULL ,PERIOD_CURRENT,13, 0 , MODE_EMA , PRICE_CLOSE , 0 ); } So the variable gets updated every tick. But in

Hi When I perform an open price backtest, i got a difference between the ask and bid of 20 points, even if i set the spread to a fixed smaller value in the settings. this is disconcerting, as you would expect to have the set spread and not a big unmodifyable spread is there a work around that

Hi everyone I work with the strategy tester and an expert and I see 2 problems that may perhaps lead to solutions, but I am not a programmer. 1) one method for testing expert advisors is to optimize various time + forward periods within a large period of time. The analysis of the results of all the

I`ve been able to make my EA work, it should trade haramis, but it`s not trading all of them, sometimes i get the INVALID PRICE error Could someone help me please? The code places a buystop and a sellstop order at the high and low of the harami void OnTick () { CopyRates ( Symbol (), Period

Hi, When I start folowing a signal it also opens the trades that are open which already excist for some time (sometimes months) and are in big losing position. Is it possible to start following a signal without copying the current open trades, so just accept new trades from then onwards?...

Hello again! Analyzing my EA I think that Direction function from ExpertSignal.mqh has a bug. At the begining it states that if the result from checked signals for long and short position for a specified Signal is 0.0 (Ex.: SignalAC.mqh) this should not be conted for votes number at var number. -...

Why can't I select the variables? See screenshot Thank you

Hello folks, I'm trading at a brazilian broker using VPS and sometimes I'm facing some delay (more than 5 seconds) to complete a deal. The ping is less than 1 ms. I don't know if the problem is with my EA, maybe some processing overload or if the problem is with the broker that I'm using. This