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How can I detect if account is real in strategy tester? AccountInfoInteger(ACCOUNT_TRADE_MODE) always returns ACCOUNT_TRADE_MODE_DEMO for my real account in strategy tester but in live trading it returns correct value. Testing on Roboforex MT5 account

I am trying to simulate slip by I change the delay setting from 0 ~500 ms , the result always between 0.00000 ~ 0.00003 ? It's far from real world trade with broker. EURUSD ,2020/01~2020/04 Is any thing I miss? MqlTradeRequest Request = { 0 }; MqlTradeResult Results = { 0 };

Deal all, I am trying to optimize my EA that uses a dll. I have read that I can't use local network or cloud network agents when using dlls: https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/algotrading/strategy_optimization The issue I have is that I can neither use more than 1 local agent (out of my 4

First of all thank you for all traders and EA builders who read my problem. I have faced problem to create EA. That is: How to create series?. If current close price is higher than previous close price cond1 series takes 1 value, else cond1 takes 0 value

So I have created my EA and am running it now as paper trading. In order to understand how it behaves does it contain various Alert() statements in the code. This helps me to understand when it detects certain signal changes, when it takes trades, print error messages (if any), how the account

Hello guys, Iam pretty new to this MQL5 coding, but I manage to make my own EA in last 3 days and it seems to be working very well. Iam now fixing some issues to improve the EA. My problem is that when is one trade closed by stoploss then alogirthm open new trade in current cadle (if coditions

Hi ! I'm wondering how to do that ...:/ the warning appeared @ the last update //--- preparing a request MqlTradeRequest request; ZeroMemory(request); //--- placing an immediate order request...

I want to copy (follow) a signal without closing my existing transaction after subscription to trade signals (when the synchronization is done). Generally when the synchronization is achieved existing signals are automatically closed by system and we lost money. I would like to continue to carry out

I'm wanting to use MQL5 virtual hosting to run an EA I purchased in 2016, but when I try to set this up it fails with "Migration to virtual hosting failed: old EX4 file version." Then it tells me to recompile the EA and migrate again. But I am not the EA vendor -- I don't have the source for it

I am doing a lot of testing with an EA based on MA crossover.. and it seems that whatever I try to add, (a condition / indicator) it affects the results negative in stead of positive.. a lor less profit and more drawback! Who has the same experience? Is the simpler EA most of the times the better EA

im new to coding mlq5 and as a beginner i tried to make a EMA (exponantial moving avarage) bot that shows a BUY comment when the price was going under the 50 EMA line while the 50 EMA was above the 100 EMA and the 150 EMA. even though there is no error in the code in backtesting it does not show

Hi Apologies if a solution has been posted elsewhere, grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction. (Also The problem encountered is that I'm trying to extract the values for an indicator, the stochastic oscillator in this instance. However the values returned are outside of the expected

Hello and thank you for reading my enquiry! I am programing an script that analyzes all the symbols of market watch in all the temporalities using a custom fractal indicator. The problem is that the indicator function iHigh and iLow will return 0.0 if the specified symbol is not opened in a chart

Hi my friends, I'm working on one indicator that can show last status of one specific indicator. and I'm really struggling with it. is there any body to help me with that? Ok lets me explain more about it. this indicator scan market watch symbols and if last signal of our predefined indicator(for

I would like to get the number of candles from a specific Date/Time to now. The idea is to get the lowest and highest price from candles since my Date/Time of entry. When I try to subtract my Date/Time from now (TimeCurrent) only the time seems to work: CandleRange = (Now)2020.04.24 15:33.45 -

I'm trying to calculate lotsize based on risk percentage, but CheckOpenShort is returning 0.0. Also, is there a way to have it return two decimals? Here's an example of what I'm trying to do: #include <Expert\Money\MoneyFixedRisk.mqh> MqlTradeRequest request; request.price = 1.00000 ; request.sl =

Hi all, Can someone please help me with my trailing stop? I have three different levels: 1 - Stop loss following at Moving Average 2 - Locking in Pips 3- Trailing The function works but seems to break at some point and only work if I reload the EA. How can I ensure that the EA looks at all the IF

Hi, How can I load data on chart multi timeframe? I using indicator muti timeframe, problem is high timeframe not found data becuase no data on chart with error 4806 (allway) Indicators ERR_INDICATOR_DATA_NOT_FOUND 4806 Requested data not found this happen all time on first time using EA How I fix

hi all ... I need an EA to test (back test) simply the price. example: enter long at this price ... TP always sets the price and stop loss always sets the price, the same thing for sale. who can help me out? THANK YOU

Hi, I have this .NET DLL that I made, called TradingSystem.dll, and I import it into an expert advisor in MT5 running on Windows 10 x64. The EA code looks like this: #import "TradingSystem.dll" void TS_Initialize(); #import int OnInit() { TS_Initialize(); return(INIT_SUCCEEDED); } The .NET

Hi, im having a problem on limiting the numbers of the Orders that my EA makes in the same candle. I attached the print showing my problem. I want to do something like: input int max_orders_per_candle = 2; if(TradeSignal==true && orders_in_actual_candle<max_orders_per_candle) { //now i execute the

I have created a news trading EA but when submitting it to the market approval and moderation, the automatic approval system says it has errors when it does not. It says it places no trades, whereas it does place trades the settings need to be for a specific time and date. Please can someone suggest

Hello, I saw it mentioned on the forum that we should initialize all buffers. However, when I look at examples (like CCI or Envelopes) I don't see any initialization happening. Being precise, should I have the following snippet in my every indicator, in the onCalculate? if(prev_calculated == 0)

Hi Is it possible to build an EA which can test the indicator conditions and place/close the orders accordingly on different/multiple currencies simultaneously. I tried in script module:- 1) Getting list of all instruments provided by broker. 2)Tested them one by one based on indicator conditions

Hi guys, I believe I am worse at trading than a bot :-) so I am looking into building my own bots. M y idea is to build several bots for several market condition... (Shorting.. longing and range bots..) Last week I have been working non stop on a simple shorting bot (I use AE Builder). Today I did

Could you please help me solving my errors ? I just started programming and I have no idea how to solve this

HI everyone, I have a code that sends me an email when a trade goes to stop loss. I would like to change this code so that the email is sent to me only when the trade is opened Thank you

Dear Friends I need a "quick and dirty" EA, script or Indi which can read RSI Data from a chart. The only special thing is, that i need to set a Time Interval to store the Data. for Example, i attach it on M5 Timeframe but Timeinterval is 2 minutes. So that mean all Data which are in csv generated

My code for a trailing stop does not work, can someone please advise me on what is wrong with the code if(PositionsTotal()>0){ for(int i=0;i>=0;i++) { /*string position =PositionGetSymbol( i);int TYPE=PositionGetInteger(POSITION_TYPE);// buyif(TYPE==POSITION_TYPE_BUY);{double profitpoint=

Dear Experts I need advise on how to attach my EA to a manually opened position. Also if a chart on which an EA is attached is delete I lose the EA's tracking in the chart. Can this be reinstated? Any suggestions would be most appreciated.