Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 306

I am trying to search figure out how to search for a pattern within a range of timeframes in MQL5. Obviously, it is likely that the pattern would occur several times based on the timeframes, that’s why I’m particularly interested in the largest number of times it repeats. To explain what I’m trying

It looks like during optimization the tester agent does only call OnDeinit when the OnInit fails. If it passes, OnDeinit will not be called. I have no idea why. Sample EA to reproduce: input int InpStart=1;input int InpStop=2;int OnInit() { Print("OnInit Start: ",InpStart," Stop: ",InpStop);

I wrote an Advisor that closes orders of other advisors working on the account according to the profit-loss criteria and the news feed. However, to close the orders of the adviser before the release of important news is only half the case. We still need to stop its work for a given interval before

Hi at all, in my EA framework i have implement a personal log service, that write a strings file. This log service, write 2 line strings line at events that i specified it: 1 for infos, and last: "[server time] - last line logged". In logical function of this log services, for every new line to log

I was wondering when is we use CreateBitmap and when do we use CreateBitmapLabel from CCanvas Class and wheather someone could post some code which contains the correct syntax in how to properly use these methods

good day. How can I get a double value from a string value. double value =StringToDouble("123.45");//Print result: 123.45//but double number = StringToDouble("num123.45"); // or even 123.45? or ??123.45?? where ? represents an unkown string the second example function function will not return

Dear MetaQuotes, Since you have just introduced new event handling function OnTradeTransaction(), could you please clarify - does this function completely enhance the old OnTrade() function? What I mean is - is there a point in using OnTrade() any longer when writing EAs from scratch? (e.g. if...

Hi everyone I need some help with a script/EA (could be either) that can accomplish the following: Open Buy and Sell positions simultaneously for a given currency pair Allow me to specify how many positions of each kind should be opened, i.e. how many buy positions and how many sell positions - up

I'm doing a MACD crossover EA to test my MQL5 skills, however I cannot understand why this simple comparison isn't working at times, but is working at others when I run the stategy tester. At 2019.09.02 01:03:00 on the strategy tester journal (red box on screenshot), the conditions (MACD0 > MACD1)

Can anyone share some kind of code that deals with gaps when copying rates? Thanks

Hi, I am not able to solve this. The basic idea is this code, but it produces the warning message for line 31. #include <Charts\Chart.mqh>//+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| CChartExt class

Hello, I run into “hit order rate limit” issue, below you may read some specifics: If conditions are right my EA/MT4 starts to build up/open pool of orders by small portions (0.01 lots) every 5...1 minute; all open orders in pool are Market orders with slightly different market prices and slightly

So I use this functionto get the value of a trendline for a specific bar: double trendline(int i){ double trendline=ObjectGetValueByTime(0,"Trendline",iTime(NULL, PERIOD_D1, i),0); return trendline;} then I compare it with bar close using: if(barclose(1)>trendline(1) &&

Hello all ; As you may know that while ago MT5 has supported the libraries and codes written in .NET . I found great libraries written in .NET which made developing MT5 professional and complex Apps easier specially those apps which involve GUI . my question is simply does MT4 or MQ4 behave have the

So I have an MT5 VPS running and an expert placed on the chart. I use trailing stop (price + ATR) and I get ATR value with this code: double ATR(){ double myPriceArray[]; int AverageTrueRangeDefinition=iATR(_Symbol,PERIOD_D1,10); ArraySetAsSeries(myPriceArray,true);

Hello everyone! I have this code in my EA. Problem is, the code lays out numerous orders in my chart when I only intended to run the code once until the next event occurs. Any advice? if (OrderType==ORDER_TYPE_SELL && DealMagicNumber==MAGICMA) // Buy Trade {

Looking at capturing spikes in price and breakouts with large volume, but want to mitigate the risk of receiving slippage on those orders by breaking them down to smaller sizes. Rather than having to manually break my trade up into lets say 10 individual trades, is there a script that can do this

I modified a sample code from MQL5 documentation to look like the following #property indicator_chart_window #property indicator_buffers 1 #property indicator_plots 1 //---- plot Line #property indicator_label1 "Line" #property indicator_type1 DRAW_LINE #property indicator_color1 clrDarkBlue

I would like to know if I could set my signals to private and give access to a selected group only. Any information regarding this is highly appreciated

Hello, who can I create a Hline on another chart. Because when I use the ChartID of the other chart the line is createt on the main chart where the EA is placed on. I have tested it on build 2190. Thanks for your help

Hello all I trying to develop an EA...so I define some base condition but the expert doesn't attend them... bool Buy_Condition1 = (mrate[1].low<=LBB[1] && mrate[1].close>LBB[1] && mrate[1].close<mrate[1].open && mrate[2].high<TBB[2] && mrate[2].low>LBB[2] && mrate[2].open>LBB[2] &&

Hi all, ... Im quite new to creating EAs ... & Its a pain in the ass for me when it comes to Defintion of PIP, POINT, PIP VALUE, POINT VALUE, TICK, TICK SIZE, TICK VALUE ... kk I found 2 ways of converting ATR into a number of Pips or Points ... But got little confused & Dont know which one is the

Hello everyone I would like to ask you for advice about a project that I would like to have developed by a freelancer I am learning MQL5 but it will take me some time to be sure of my skills even if I am already developing a bit with python and I have worked 2 years on Java. I understand OOP and so

Hello everyone, Is it possible to create an algorithm for the robot to interpret order book, price below or above, to enter or leave? I wish he could differentiate a high or low volume in the order book. Any suggestions for material to accomplish it

Hi at all, in execution of ea in backtesting optimization: - is there a way/function/parameter for get number pass of backtesting optimizzation ? - is there a way/function/parameter for get input/extern variables name in optimization mode ? - is there a way/function/parameter for terminate pass of

Hello my dear friends actually I'm trying to code an EA but I can't code the take profit part... I would like to take profit if the price hit the MA5 at that point so I wrote something like this : if(!PositionSelect(_Symbol)) { mrequest.action = TRADE_ACTION_DEAL; // Immediate

Hello, Im trying to automate a function that close position, if tomorrow is not a trading day in as specific symbol. I managed to check if tomorrow is saturday/sunday but I don't know how to check if tomorrow is a holiday for example. How can I check if tomorrow is a trading day? Thank you, Yu

Hello friends, Was wondering if anyone could help me adding some code to my expert advisor . What im looking for is adding a code in my ea which will limit on how many open position. So if there is an open position, no new trade will be executed before the old position is closed Would really

I hope this finds everyone in good health. I am working on an expert adviser, but it is giving me a headache. The expert adviser open similar positions when stops or takeprofits are hit. That is, is a sell trade goes bad and hits a stop loss, the EA opens another trade immediately. Can anyone please

Hello everyone. I'm sorry if this has been posted before. I just can't seem to find it anywhere. I placed same EA on three different charts but something is not working out as expected. I used the code attached to limit the number of trades per symbol but it seems that the EAs on the other charts