Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 299

I wrote a super detailed post about this problem on stackoverflow .com. Rather than re-create the entire thing here I'll just post the link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59841733/metatrader-4-mql4-time-is-off-by-5-hours-but-only-when-using-epoc-time Basically, I'm having a very specific

There's a popular belief that trading robots "don't work". I know they can be profitable but how much really? For a few dozens of dollars you can buy EAs that theoretically perform several times better than the best stock market indices, but if they were doing really well in live trading, the

I spend quite some time developing an EA that is reading the Forex Factory Calendar (FFC) HTML. I’m stumbling now on an issue that I did not foresee and I’m unable to solve. Hopefully you can help me. When the news event occurs, I want to extract the Actual number, and compare it with the forecasted

Hi there, I am new to MT5 and learning write some simple expert advisor by silghtly modify stock signals. below is my test EA source code. what i am expecting is when MACD main line above zero level && STOCH main line > STOCH signal line. it should generate a buy signal. MACD singal pattern value is

Good morning, I had a strange behaviorusing the CopyRates function in MQL5. I tried to load some Rates using the CopyRatesfunction for a specified Symbol (CustomSymbol). The requested data is on aPERIOD_M1 and represents two months of rates starting from the SERIES_TERMINAL_FIRSTDATE of the Symbol....

I've written an EA (with help of existing code I have found on the forum and the net) that reads in information from the experts log file. However, I need the information in real time, and the log file is only updated in intervals throughout the day I think, when the terminal is closed, or when you...

If you have a $10,000 balance 1:100 demo account with a risk percentage input in you EA, and if you input say 10% then is the trade size $1000 when your first trade is found or is the 1:100 leverage automatically applied so the trade size becomes 100,000 (1lot)? Any info helps thanks

Good morning, I'm trying to learn the MQL4 language. I downloaded the MT4 platform. I downloaded all the data (F2). I created a program and did the tests. I tried to search for operations on MT5 and the values (RSI, MA, BID etc etc) do not always coincide. So if I change platforms or brokers the

Hello friends, I'm writing an EA but I'm having trouble with the programming logic part. The EA should do the following: At each candle check if the fast moving average of 05 has crossed from low to high the slow ones of 75 and 85, if it has, check if MacD has changed from negative to positive for

Hello, Is there any function in Expert Advisor that the signal is received only when each candle starts? (i.e. I am looking for a function to control that each signal works every 30 minute when each candle (30M) starts? Best, S. Green

i cann't use more local computer to optimize my EA, but system‘s macd can be used....why?help! thank you

Hi everyone Does anybody know of any EAs what use hurst cycle analysis? Or even a system based on FLDs? It's something that interests me but I dont have the slightest idea of coding

Can you see what is wrong here? I get some operator is needed when calling this function. I want to scan orders on other currency pairs on other charts and see what type the other orders are, and set it to a number of 1 if it is active. So I call it two times one for buy and one for sell. But it is

Merry Christmas everyone! I have been trying to figure out how to code when a day has passed, add one to the candle counter then determine if trading is allowed for that day. Any help will be greatly appreciated. A comment function for the day counter may also be helpful

Hi. I coded an expert to calculate the new lot size after every position. Problem is, the calculated lot is not used in the immediate next trade. It comes second. Can anyone help me find a better way of doing it? Seems I have been using a wrong approach, for way too long. I can't think no more. D(

Hello Community, Is there a way to view and track your P/L for each EA that I am running? I am currently running 3 EA's on 6 currency pairs on one account (so 18 charts in total). Even though the net result is that I am making steady gains I need to know which EA is the most profitable. In other

Hi, I have an error when I compile the follwing code; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| ProjectName |//| Copyright 2018, CompanyName |//|

I'm trying to test my code but I keep getting the below errors/messages which prevents me from buying or selling. Thoughts? 2017.05.08 08:46:29.749    2017.04.02 21:08:59   current account state: Balance: 10000.00, Credit: 0.00, Commission: 0.00, Accumulated: 0.00, Assets: 0.00, Liabilities: 0.00,...

Dear sir and madam, it is no item of "Register a Virtual Server" to provided in MT5,how can i solve the problem? But when I use MT4,This item can be shown and chosen

MT5 has a built-in expert "ExpertMAMA". I've been running tests on it this week and so far, it's performing decently. However, i cannot run it on MT4. MT4 has a simple MA advisor, but its parameters are different from ExpertMAMA. I need help if somebody knows or can point out to me what is the

Hello my friends. I have an EA that work correctly. I tested it on Alpari broker But this ea on forex-time broker some times have error 130 on order send. BUT i know about minimum tp or sl distance. see this: I trade EURUSD on this price 1.11600 and I got this 2020.01.15 20:33:22.696 '47443724'

Why yesterday at 02.00 was my VPS reset, deleting EA that was running?! I lost a lot of money, how i can contact support

Hi, I am building a simple EA to place an order based on MA. (i.e. when a bid price is above MA then to place a buy order....). I want to place only one order placement for each candle. Do you know how to control for this? Best, Mygreen

Hello, everyone, I started learning how to program in MQL5 today and I'm trying to make a simple moving average cross expert advisor. It compiles without errors, but when I try to test it in the strategy tester it does not seem to work, it stays still. I'm not sure if the problem is in the code or

HI Sir, I rented hosting for 1 month to my <Deleted> account. I added one pair till now. From yesterday I added another pair but it is not working. only 1 pair is working.. I read that I can use upto 16 pairs once i rented. So what should I do now.. Please solve my problem

Hello, I'm trying to get the balance return of the Deals History, but I'm having some issue, because, sometimes at the same order, there is more than one deal. I'm using the code below to organize in 02 arrays. One for time and other for the profit. Is there any way when it is copying data if the

How can I draw inside CAppDialog using CCanvas, for exemple

I'm having an Expert for copying Trades, but when trying to migrate all experts,etc. it wouldn't allow me to migrate that one, due to "not allowing dlls", because the expert is running"quickchannell.dll". It tells me to remove the expert in order to migrate, but I need this Ea to be migrated too. If

Hello everyone! Is it possible to count the number of symbols opened up in market watch in an EA? Is yes, advice on how it can be done

Hello! I would like to change martingale function to make my EA open lots adding just 0.01 (0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04...). Could somebody help me with my code? int f=0; if(Martin==true) { if(total==0) { f=1; } if(total>=1) { f=total; }