Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 30

I have a complex Ea - which can use many things - If I switch all off - and only use the Ma - when price touch the Ma it must buy or sell --- most of the time it does (i am watching the exact same ma on chart - so i can see when it should) -- but many times it touches ma and does not open trade --

Hi everyone. I wonder if there is an option to hide or switch off somehow the indicators which the EA uses, so that they would not show up when you run the backtesting with "Visulization" enabled. My EA uses a lot of indis and I don't want to "see" them while testing my EA, they take a lot of space,...

I have an Idea of making EA using PTL as below: Timeframe: M5 or M15 only. Pair: Gold and Major Pairs with low spread Trend Filter: EMA200 and EMA300 Open the first BUY or SELL after getting signal from PTL and confirm the filter When the opposite signal is given, close if profit or break event

I am backtesting my algo on MT5 Version 5.00 Build 4153 22 Jan 24 on OSX Sonoma 14.3 M1 Max (10 Cores) 64 GB Ram. When I do it uses a lot of memory and even runs out of application memory space. I am only using 1 core in this example because when I use more than 1 agent it runs out of space quicker

When I tried to compile a MQL5 EA I got the following error :- file 'C:\Users\fcoet\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\76209C45634304B2B7FDAFC8F09FCBD0\MQL5\Include\GraphicsPanel.mqh' not found. Even if a search for a ' GraphicsPanel.mqh' file on my computer I can' find it. Please advise. Much

Hi guys I tried to install the python library for MetaTrader 5 and I received the following error in different python versions: % pip install MetaTrader5 ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement MetaTrader5 (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for

Is it possible to do optimization in parallel? If so, how do we manage cpu cores for each strategy tester

Dear Fellows Please help me to rectify the below code to get correct IsNewSession value when a new session has started. I failed to resolve it. //+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| METHOD

Hello, May I know if there's any maintenance on the market? I tried to update my EA but was having this error test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) there are no trading operations test on XAUUSD,D1 (netting) there are no trading operations test on GBPUSD,M30 (netting) there are no trading operations test on

Greetings, The past days I have been working on connecting Fibonacci as a signal, it's a custom indicator extending CiCustom. Type being IND_CUSTOM I am unable to find enough documentation covering the ways to achieve this, the codebase builds on top of one of the Example Expert EAs - nor have I

HI Guys, Can anyone help me making an EA of pending Orders........ I have found this guys idea on another fourm which is exactly like mine... If market price equals = X or Current Price then place buy stop order at market price Y and...place sell stop order at market price Z Optional: If one order

Hello, im new to MQL5 programming . I wanna to create EA thats open one buy trade once per day. My problem is that first day position open normal and then never again. I think that problem is "!isTradeOpen" part, because if i remove it, positions will open every day at set time, but then EA open a

I'm running MetaTester 5 (build 1085) on two different Windows 7 (64 bit) computers. They've been running for a week now without a problem, but today I saw something weird. MetaTester suddenly increased hard drive usage drastically. Within 10 mins more than 200 GB of disk space was consumed my...

Hello everyone, I have tried researching this, but didn't find a solution that works. I am using a 16-core AMD CPU with 64GB of RAM. The problem with the tester agents is that it feels like they never release any memory and always take up all the available memory until the PC crashes. Aside of the

Greetings, My backtest/forward test of EA is super slow in MT5!! It is taking more than 12 hours to complete 3 months backtest/forward test! My system is Windows 7 and it is running well An solution for this problem?! How can I make it faster

Hello, I am attempting to upload my EA to the Market place and I keep getting this validation error. I don't really see the issue since my price / sl / tp all appear to be valid. Any help would be much appreciated. I cannot reproduce in my strategy tester. Here is validation output: test on

Tried to ran optimization but ran into this error Tester set mode to math calculations or adjust testing dates What is this?

Please help with the following error 'EventSetTimer' - wrong parameters count 18 4 { EventSetTimer ( "CheckForNewOrders" , Check_Interval * 60 * 1000 ); // Set timer to check for new orders EventSetTimer ( "ExecuteFirstTrade" , Initial_Delay * 60 * 1000 ); // Set timer to execute first trade

Why admin deleted my topic asking if EA is scam or not? I asked just 3 important questions and informed that there are potential problem with EA (which seems to be too good to be true) I informed that I didnt get answers from author. Admin deleted my topic! why because MT team receiving commisions

Hi, I have 2 Metatrader5 installed in my system. For each system I want to only use 1 core. When I try to disable all the other cores I notice that if I want to use one core it is only possible with "core 1" only. What I want is that for the first MT5 to use a single core (core 1) and the second MT5

Hi, I have a batch file that I want to check if it is exist or not in OnInit() function. I use this code to if ( FileIsExist ( "Taskkill.bat, 1" )== false ) Print ( "***** file not exist, error code " , GetLastError (), " *****" ); else Print ( "file exist" ); The file is located in

Hi, I'm building as exercise a simple EA that open a long or short trade at the breakout of the 7am candle. I've written the below code but, as my idea was to set the "entry point" only at the 7am hourly candle, the IF i've inserted for checking the hour is not let passing the variables of entry

Dear fellows I am having hard time with CheckLoadHistory() of article https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/series/timeseries_access and seeking guidance here if any known issues with it or I am doing something wrong? I am using following code to sync data and when I start the MQL Platform the indicator

Hi, I'm new to this and I'm stuck. My code does not seem to execute at all. Here my very simple code : void OnTick() { //--- Print("OnTick"); } Nothing appears in the "Experts" log when I run my EA. I don't know where to look or what to look for

How to optimize all pair on one test or by any tool .. any one know the way .. i am ready to pay for that

How can I calculate the Margin level percentage that appears underneath my trades in the Trade Tab. What is the formula?

Pure Python 3.9 using the Metatrader5 library. I can create market orders and pending orders from Script, but I can´t modify the price of a pending order. What is weird is that I actually can do that from a Jupyter notebook. From my script all I get is None as result. No error code and that is what

Hi, I've got two servers each running the same EA's. One is a backup incase there should be an issues with the first and they both have the same EA's running. One MT5 has algo trading on and the other is off to not double up on trades. Is there a way to automate failover so the mt5 clients on the

I can't find a clear documentation about the values returned by the SYMBOL_TRADE_CALC_MODE. Print ( SymbolInfoInteger ( _Symbol , SYMBOL_TRADE_CALC_MODE )); would result in 0 for forex (I guess), 2 for CFDs.. do you guys have faced a similar situation

Hello, I currently come from backtesting to demo trading and I encounter the [no money] error and I don't know why. I use a 10 000$ account with 1:100 leverage. I am trying to enter an order for 5.00 lots in GBPUSD and I am encountering the [no money] error. I used a margin calculator and the