Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 3

This is a screenshot of the trades. I’ve extracted the entire trading history, consisting of more than 2,307 trades, and they all look similar to what you see in the screenshot. He is trading on a demo account as part of a trading contest. If needed, I can upload the full trading history in the

I'm trying to develop an SMC indicator in which I plan to integrate to an EA. I'm curious, in regards to POI/order blocks. What is the usual algorithm to implement this key aspect

the Copied trades.mq5 is generate by Ai assistant, which wrongly non-stop open order. Why??? It's real Money

Hi, i am creating a preconfigured version of a MT5 to easily install on multiple vps with experts and templates already configured. So far i have been able to have Automated Trading enabled, the check for algo trading in the expert enabled, and also the login account configured. I am launching the

this script converts the chart's ticks into any Second(s)timeframes !!! the Script works only for XAUUSD, you can modify it to work with other pairs or other names of Gold pair. Example custom periods: S5 S10 S15 S20 S30 S45 S50 Once the Second(s) chart is generated, you can apply almost everything

A must ! Before using it or asking any question : please read the Online Help (Also accessible by F1 on your MT5 platform) Strategy Tester For Traders General overview of the possibilities. Overview of results : Visualize a Strategy in the MetaTrader 5 Tester The general information about

Hi Everybody, Request : I need a script/ code to add to EA to ensure EA opens a maximum of x orders (x buy/x sell) at a time. If a script, it will make sure once x orders are reached on MT5 terminal, it can not open more until it decreases. Back Story For transparency : I am currently optimizing an

This is with version 5.00 build 5998, I have reason to believe it has been existed for a long time before. After compiling, hovering mouse on log entries opens a pop-up which shows more details. That is especially useful for checking the exact location of include or source files, as sometime

Hi everyone, I’m new to MT5 and need some help with an Expert Advisor on an Equiti MT5 Demo account. Manual Demo trades work, and these settings are enabled: MT5 toolbar: Algo Trading ON , Tools → Options → Expert Advisors → Allow algorithmic trading ON , EA attached and allowed to trade , Terminal

Trying to find others that trade with EA's so we can try to prevent each other from making mistakes that one of us has already made.. please comment below and lets get this group started

Hi MQL5 Community, I'm working on an EA specifically for XAUUSD and running into some interesting challenges that I'd like to discuss with fellow developers. The Technical Challenge: Gold's behavior differs significantly from major currency pairs. While EUR/USD responds predictably to technical

Hi guys, I used to experience intermitent issues with the Tester Visualization hanging on "Waiting for Update" but usually if I forced close it and retried a few times or changed the symbol it would start working again. However, now I am completely stuck. No matter what symbol I try, how many times

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a few high-frequency EAs lately, mostly geared towards passing prop firm challenges. Some of my systems are pushing out over 10,000 trades a month. I ran into a massive bottleneck with tracking live, real-tick drawdown. Standard MT4/MT5 mobile push notifications

Hi all I am an IT guy and just finished my first EA using breakout stragety and it is working on my prop firm account. I want to start another new EA, any strageties are good ? Hope some experienced traders can help this IT guy. Thanks Peter

I need an authoritative clarification for technical validation of MetaQuotes-Demo XAUUSD. Environment: Company: MetaQuotes Ltd. Server: MetaQuotes-Demo Account: USD-denominated DEMO Symbol: XAUUSD MT5 build: 6151 Our captured XAUUSD specification confirms: Swap mode: points Swap long: -12.6 Swap

I need an authoritative clarification for technical validation. Environment: Company: MetaQuotes Ltd. Server: MetaQuotes-Demo Account: USD-denominated DEMO Symbol: XAUUSD MT5 build: 6151 On 2026-09-03 at 10:21:51 UTC, SymbolInfoCommissions("XAUUSD", rules) returned 0 , meaning no symbol commission

Can someone please help? i cannot find the MNQ or NQ on MT5

Do you think there is an EA that combines multiple MT5 strategies and manages them automatically based on drawdown, equity, or market conditions? Would that be useful or just overkill

HI all, a general question on the python API and more specifically propfirms. I was wondering if the brokerside is able to see that a Python API is being used to place trades - I'm currently in the process of passing propfirms which do not allow the use of EA's/ require their mql5 source code to be

Hello everyone, I am currently having fun, programming and developing EAs with different strategies. And here comes a question: I would like to make some sort of "validation manual" for EA. What methods of testing do you use while programming your Experts? What does your validation process look

I bought mini VPS ...it worked perfectly fine for some days and gave me 1.3ms latency rather 0.38ms but it worked well for me ...but from 2-3 days latency dropped and yesterday it was 3.8 and today it is 4.9ms...and in journal i saw an order took 18.1ms to take place...this is causing my EA to miss

I need a help how to lock my EA/Script based on my login account number and one broker only such as "FXDD" ? example: my login number in my broker "FXDD" is 12345 , and I want my EA/Script can run only in that login number and FXDD broker. please help NOTE: better if you can give me an example of

Hi, I'm using MT5 terminal build 1730 64-bit. I'm running EA in strategy tester (visual mode). This EA has panel with buttons BUY and SELL for manual trading. Why buttons aren't changing state (pressed or not) when I'm clicking it during testing as it works in MT4?

I have checked the EA, but results are some correct. Please review the EA and fix the self-optimization logic. You can update the EA as needed. Please see attached the Self-Optimizing EA file

Hello everyone, I'm experiencing an issue with the activator in my EA. The EA is supposed to validate a license key by contacting a verification page using the WebRequest function. Although the EA appears to connect to the page, I never receive any response. In the Experts log, I see the following

if I buy an expert advisor from MQL5 market with (let's say) 10 activations is it legal for me to re-sell the purchased EA for 9 activations? (me and another 9 traders use the same EA)

first of all this strategy tester was working without any bug after this update the stategy tester is not at all working it is keep on showing history check of xauusd failed, even though all the data was there it is failing to test my strategy

HELLO I want to ask about this message " Too much growth in the last month indicates a high risk less " why this message appear in signal ? Max deposit load: 16.6% Maximum drawdown: 25.7% Algo trading: 98% Profit Trades: 44.2% Loss Trades: 55.8% Trading activity: 90.6% from 152 to 248.81 USD in 6

The strategy that I am currently developing performs very well in the strategy tester, but when I do forward testing it fails. How can I shorteh the gap between strategy tester data and forward testing

I just want to share this, in case others struggle with OrderSend(request, result) ... like I did today. Wrote a little EA that helps setting limit, stop and market orders by calculating lot sizes on given stop level. Everything worked fine besides the market orders ORDER_TYPE_BUY, ORDER_TYPE_SELL