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long positionType( string symbol = _Symbol ); Error: '_Symbol' - constant expected. Can someone explain why I can't assigning it as a default value

Hello, I had a theory on a winning strategy so I went ahead and created an EA to implement it. This is my first time doing backtesting or using the Strategy Tester. Was hoping to get some feedback if these numbers are considered good and what could use improvement to be viable. Here is the

It means i have a ea and in that EA Trailing stop is mandatory for profitability but my brokers Spread are not allowing the trail to workout! I want to add Live Spread into Trailing stop how can i do that

in this simple snippet I get the following compilation error: 'ticket' - undeclared identifier An idea how to resolve? Improperly formatted code removed by moderator

Hi, I'm currently learning about class for the first time. I have 2 strategy that using the same include variable file, one for long position and the other for short position. In variable file, some of the variable contains trade direction such as SymbolsLong and SymbolsShort and it is used only for

Hi I want to use an EA on several charts (1 is master mode for writing to the file, others are slave mode for reading from the file) int OnInit () { if (InpMaster) Handle = FileOpen (InpFileName + ".csv" , FILE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_CSV | FILE_COMMON , "," ); else Handle =

Hello, I am curious about the limit for requests to the latest info available on an economic event. When I went to the mql5 website and tried to scrape the data, my ip got banned shortly after and therefor made me concerned if the same thing could happen if i was to write an EA with a loop, and

How I can use EA robot in Mobile Phone

Hi, MqlTradeRequest request; MqlTradeResult result; ZeroMemory (request); ZeroMemory (result); request.action = TRADE_ACTION_DEAL ; request.type = ORDER_TYPE_BUY ; request.symbol = _Symbol ; request.volume = NormalizeDouble (buy_volume, _Digits ); double price = SymbolInfoDouble (

Is this Correct Trailing Start & Step Source code ? #include <Trade/Trade.mqh> CTrade trade; void Trail(){ int PT = PositionsTotal (); for ( int i=PT; i>= 0 ; i--){ ulong tick = PositionGetTicket (i); if ( PositionSelectByTicket (tick)){ if (

Hello! I am wondering where I can get information about how the computational process during the strategy optimization works in Metatrader 5. How can I get the best computational results during that process. There is any limit of memory RAM per Core that Metatrader 5 has during the Strategy

Hi everyone, just started working with MQL5 Python integration and found a question that I just can't get right import MetaTrader5 as mt5 time_now = datetime.now(pytz.timezone( "UTC" )) today_start = time_now.replace(hour= 0 , minute= 0 , second= 0 , microsecond= 0 ) print(f "START TIME -

Hi, does anyone know which CPU would be faster for strategy tester: Intel Xeon E5-2690v2, 10x 3,0 GHz (Turbo 3,6 GHz), 20 Threads or Intel Xeon E5-4657Lv2, 12x 2,4 GHz (Turbo 2,9 GHz), 24 Threads Thanks

I’m in the process of learning how to use MT5 with python. My demo account through the broker had a starting balance of £1,000, and it looks like this: account_info=mt.account_info() account_info AccountInfo( trade_mode=0, leverage=1, limit_orders=200, margin_so_mode=0, trade_allowed=True

Hi everyone, There is a fantastic tool for the MT4 called toggle border. This tool makes the light blue edge/frame of all charts disappear (multichart) and thus reduces the view to the most necessary/important thing, namely the chart. I combed through everything to find this script for the MT5 too

Hi, I'm a beginner trader from Norway looking for advice. I started trading XAUUSD manually two months ago with $1100 using TradingView connected to a Pepperstone account. The first month was a disaster, and I lost 35% of my account in a few trades because I didn't set stop-losses. My second month

Hi everyone, I'm trying to program cleanly, what do you recommend for storing trade information and being able to manipulate it until the trade is closed? I'm hesitating between creating a structure type variable , and creating a class with object manipulation to store all this information. thank

Eas not open position when the price reach EMA25 pls help me fix Thanks

Hey Guys,             I have a reasonably profitable EA that always generate large drawdowns during major news announcements but it doesn't have the capability to pause "autotrading". Does anybody know of a good EA that can pause Auto Trading during major news announcements and turn it back on...

Hi everyone. I am new to MQL5 but have managed to create some code that buy and sell as I want but I am having trouble with the closing of the trades. I want the trade to close as soon as the next and oppisite trade opens, can anyone help? TIA #include <Trade\Trade.mqh> #include

Hello friends! I am building a NextJS project to improve my full stack skills and am wanting to know how to get trade/account history to display on a dashboard? Much like MyFXBook and FXBlue do it! How do they do it? haha I know MYFXBOOK must use some kind of api as you can enter a username and

Hey guys, I'm quite new to MQL5 so this might be a noob question. When I get my entry signal I want to open 4 positions, each with the same Stop loss but but different Take profits. So I guess my question is how to I open 4 positions and how do I set each position with its own take profit level? I'm

I'm trying to get the upper and lower values from iBand... void OnTick () { double upperBand[]; double lowerBand[]; double range; int handle = iBands ( _Symbol , _Period , 20 , 2 , 0 , PRICE_CLOSE ); // CopyBuffer(handle, which band, period, no. values, where to store)

I'm talking about const members of simple types that are not static (and are not pointers). class CFoo { private : const int i; public : CFoo() { i = 1 ; // 'i' - constant cannot be modified } }; Why is it possible to make members of simple types const? Such a member will not

Please i work in Python and this error appears Can anyone solve this error as this image shows hello all please can any one help me for tis error appear when run simple code in python script in metatreder 5 (2023.11.23 16:19:14.975 Python 'c2': python process thread create error [The system cannot

I want to run OnTick on history in different symbols one after the other Each time the balance must be reset Is it possible to do it via code

Good morning How are you ? I'm looking at the terminal log to debug some of my code for data synchronization between the server and the terminal. Here it is IM 0 09 : 57 : 10.990 (GOLD,M1) History check for GOLD for timeframe M1 FF 0 09 : 57 : 10.990 (GOLD,M1)

Can a function be accessible only to an include file

Good day I want a script to enlarge a chart to the maximum size That is: When Expert mode occurs on the chart, the chart is enlarged to its maximum size automatically Thank you all

New to mql language I'm getting: 'iclose' - cannot convert enum' error on this line of code: h = iHigh(_Symbol, _Period, iHighest(_Symbol, _Period, iClose(_Symbol, smoothTimeframe, 0), trendPeriod, 0));(Symbol(), PERIOD_M1, 0) any help appreciated