Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 344

How do I code an EA that opens a trade every 100 pips? 

Hello, I am new to OPP the MQL5 and I am going to convert my ea from MT4 to MT5. I start with testing the function from the standard OPP and have the error. "Invalid pointer access need" in runtime. the code that return code as follows.  set up..  CExpertMoney     *m_money;                    //...

I have the code below but PostionsTotal() is always returning zero even when there is open trades. I am trying to return the total number of currently open trades. I am using MT5 downloaded from Metaquotes. Any help highly appreciated. Thanks. int _Currently_Open_Trades_Of_Type(ENUM_ORDER_TYPE...

Hi All, i have been working on MQL5 for quite a while, and found that people online talk about robust system "a framework" for the algorithm to work inside, the framework will take care for the risk management for the algorithm so the algorithm only focus on the entry, exist and the framework focus...

Hi, Does anyone know the reason for the error during backtestign in MT5 "ERROR: Server error. Sending order to server again" My code is correct as I can backtest without problems for periods Sep'17 - Jan'18 but when I am trying to backtest for futures data from Jan'17 - Mar'17, then it is giving me...

Hello, I'd like to know if there's a way to get the information from the options board (get it from code). I'd like to get information like the option strike and volatility. Thanks Option board image (https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/153649)

Hello all!  I'm working on a project and I have a question, the system I'm working on uses Tenkan-Sen crossover with price, the problem I'm facing is the following: I want the system to take a trade every time the conditions are met (Bar opens below tenkan and closes above it) when the EA sends the...

Hello, I found that Make the EA with MQL5 is a good to have a complex and fast trading EA. So I am starting to code however I have a problem in custom indicators. It is necessary to pass some heavy calculation into the OnCalculation Functions for fast operation. So to use custom indicators is the...

Hello, I am write MT5, and would like to encode some data files, So i create the 2 routine for encode and decode password for testing, however the decode is not come when pass data between 2 routines, Please advise what is the wrong! .. int OnInit() { uchar crytPWD[]; PassWord_Encode("455555"...

i am useing expert on demo it working but when i deleted expert and  when i buy it on real acount it is not work ?

Hello everyone, I'm not very new at EA programming but since I tried to program one by myself it never worked because of the strategy I think, I tried to use basic Ichimoku strategy or Pivot Points but I never had an EA that worked.. Sometimes in the strategy test, I had some benefice on a period...

based on MQL5 reference: when using CopyBuffer, CopyHigh, CopyOpen, CopyClose, CopyLow, CopyTime, CopyRates, etc. : No matter what is the property of the target array - as_series=true or as_series=false, Data will be copied so that the oldest element will be located at the start of the physical...

Good day everyone I want to develop an Intelligent machine learning strategy powered by EMA and SMA  moving average intersection at One hour time frame. How can it be able to execute trades at point of intersections either Bullish or Bearish. I appreciate good responses.

Hey friends, i am a bit in trouble with the "PositionOpen" function. I want to use the "price" parameter in combination with the "order_type" parameter to accomplish a pending order. So I gave "ORDER_TYPE_BUY_STOP" as order_type and expected the function to create a pending order for my specified...

Hi, can someone help me out. I have an ea with 2 strategies. Now i want that i can enable/disable the strategy in the ea. How can i solve this. as you can see in the picture above i have add an input bool Str 2 = true; How can i hide the inputs for the strategy when it is false? And when i switch on...

Hi all, I've always traded using MT4 with a Spread Betting account, however I have recently opened up a real FX account. Just wondering if the account leverage (50:1) is factored into the back testing results? Hope you can help!

Hello, Please, I am using the copyticks to check the ticks for buy and sell. When I read the values of the Volume and Price Last ticks, they are zero. For the Brazilian market is working, but for the Forex does not. Code: CopyTicks (_Symbol, last_tick, COPY_TICKS_INFO, 0,1); I can not use

Comments that do not relate to the "double variable with wrong decimal cases", have been moved into this topic.

Hi everybody, I'm building an Expert Advisor to work with FOREX and I'm using the following code to load an MqlTick structure array. The function works right but "last" and "volume" values of the MqlTick structures are always zero during the whole day. Does anyone know why? Thanks in advance. Bye....

I am trying to export symbol rates to a CSV file using this code, that works fine for symbols that work with 3 decimals (like CADJPY), but not for those that work with 5 decimals (like AUDCAD): void OnStart () { string symbolName = Symbol (); //o _Symbol ENUM_TIMEFRAMES period = Period

Hi guys, I have faced a problem which I really worked on but I couldn't solve it. I want to partially close a position by pending order, the reason I want to use pending order is I want it as an SL but Partial SL. I wrote the code below but pending order results new position an doesn't affect the...

Hi All, I work with MQL5 and i make statistics to know when its most likely for an event to occur and i get consistent results mapped to an hour of the day, but at what time zone does this data belong ? as i run my program on a AWS machine, which is different timezone, and i want to know how to

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I want to get the last 5 bar high in MQL5 how to do it? THANKS

After the last unsolved mystery of MT4 tester peculiarities here comes the next. Wonder if forum gurus could take a look and give their wise opinions. After noticing some promising posts and links here on FFT and SSA and Alglib I decided to try myself as well. So, I integrated Alglib to my dll. Got

Hello! I am a bit confused about the volume param in the PositionOpen function https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/standardlibrary/tradeclasses/ctrade/ctradepositionopen The function definition does not give you any info on it, so I do not know what the volume is based on but I am guessing that it means...

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Hi again. Just read almost all I could find in forums on timeframe topic and got confused a lot. What I don't understand is : why even people ask what timeframe they tweak their EA to ? or why is it even important to have an EA for a specific timeframe and only use it on that TF ? why some people...

I've been mind-sketching an experimental EA for a few weeks now. i'm currently working on some sort of intelligence and learning abilities of the EA. so that it gets better and better on each trade it makes and each signal it finds. have done similar programs in other languages but MQL is still...

Hello, I am looking for an MQL5 EA that can serve as a base to implement my own strategy. A kind of MQL5 EA skeleton. Thanks. Pierre