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Hello everyone I write a bot and save it with name test.mql5 and compile was successfully and the test.ex5 created too. the file is exist in Experts folder but when I want to start backtesting in Journal tab says the file not found what is the problem

where i can create an Expert Advisor with my own strategy

hi i want list or find all wParam in PostMessageA for MT5 ? any want can help me

As the title, TimeDaylightSavings() doesn't work when I run backtest for a year, it always Print out "true". Expected: I want to detect the time while running the backtest is considered daylight saving time or not int OnInit () { //--- trade.SetExpertMagicNumber( 1 ); //--- return (

Getting this error in MT5 backtesting. Plz help to fix it. Plz let me know if i need to provide more details. IM 0 11:49:25.084 Core 1 2023.01.04 01:28:01 OrderSelect( 37183, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_HISTORY ) - Error #4755

Hello everyone! I've found a pretty good system that makes solid trades on the H1 time frame EUR/USD. Now, all it needs is an EA to stack some serious cheese! Here it is: MACD: Fast-5 Slow-12 Signal-100 RSI: 21 Period If the RSI is above 50, look only for longs, if it is below 50, look only to go...

Hello, I am using pending orders in my EA and need they expire today if not activated. but in strategy tester the pending orders will not expired and still remain pending orders in terminal tab. What is the problem here ? how can be resolved ? My code is as below. void placeOrder( ENUM_ORDER_TYPE

Hello, I am currently building an EA and it uses data from an external file, the problem is that when running a single test each time it has to re-read that data file. The question is, is it possible to retrieve data once and save it somewhere to use for running slow complete optimization test

Hey all, pulling my hair out trying to work out why my EA will only perform one trade on backtest and wont open another afterwards even though I can see conditions are met. Good someone kindly point me in the right direction. #include <Trade\Trade.mqh> #property copyright "Copyright 2022, MetaQuotes

The EA is supposed to buy when the previous candle was bullish and sell if the previous candle was bearish. input double takeProfitPips = 100 ; // Take Profit (in pips) input double stopLossPips = 100 ; // Take Profit (in pips) input double lot = 0.1 ; datetime LastActionTime = 0 ;

I want to have a code to allow only one position waiting for my code Improperly formatted code removed by moderator

Hello all, I'm trying to set order with EA and get an error invalid stops Order type: OP_SELLSTOP Price: 1.066960 SL: 1.068760 TP: 0.000000 Bid = Ask at the moment of the operation and they are 1.067200 Stop Level of the pair is 0.00000 Can some one help me to understand what's going wrong with it

Hello, good day, I would like to know if there is any other way to connect Metatrader 5 with C# without using .dll, or shared files(but this is too slow) or TCP/IP connection. I have read that there is documentation for integration with Python, but I have not found information for integration with

Hi I have already done some tests with the metatrader5 successfully, but now always comes the error message :history cache build error. Unfortunately, I have google so far no solution for the problem can find. Does anyone know how to fix the error

Hello. I am new to Forex, MQL and MT5. I subscribed to a signal and so far it's doing well. But, the trade size is tiny. The profits have been under a dollar. How to I change the size of the trade. I don't where I can adjust the trade size.? Thanks in advance for any help

Hi, Currently I am using a specific expert advisor which has two many default settings, and on the website of this advisor users load their set files for symbols they test and find encouraging results. I am looking for a utility that can compare the default setting file parameters with single or

Hello everyone, I am new to MQL5 programming . I have converted a code that retrieves data from the last closed trade from MQL4 to MQL5. Even though the code is written correctly and there are no programming errors, it does not work at all, neither in live nor in the tester. I kindly request

Hello, I would like to write a program, preferably EA, to analyze the combined history of transactions on several accounts. The program would connect to n accounts, download transaction history, process, display and enable analysis. I stopped at the idea of ​​how to connect from EA to several

Hi, What's the easiest way to move an object on the graph? I've seen that you should use: CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_DRAG, But I've only found this thread on the subject, a useful link or sample code would be welcome 😉 Best Reguards, ZeroCafeine

deal Fellow: While trying to learn about Neural Network and AI, I come across an article https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/12187 . I am trying to put most of the possible calculations within the CNeuralNet and remove them from EA_TradeNN. I am using setup of CStategy --> CBaseExpert -->

If I hardcode the time period, for all the ema handles as Period_H6 for a simple ema crossover strategy, and run the tester with H6 selected, as expected it provides a profitable result. However when I change the tester time setting to H4, it gives a different and much worse result. There is no

Hi everyone. I recently started an MT5 account with forex.com. For some odd reason when I attempt to backtest most times the tester stops early than the set end date. I have ample amounts of storage and there is no error in the journal. Does anyone have an answer that might help me? I'd really

My code is as follows: int count = HistoryDealsTotal (); ulong tik = HistoryDealGetTicket (count- 1 ); ENUM_DEAL_REASON drrr2 = HistoryDealGetInteger ( tik1+ 1 , DEAL_REASON ); When using the debugger (tester), values of variables is as follows, while they are different from the History

Greetings community To my knowledge Microsoft Windows allows a maximum of 32 installations of metatrader per user account, I'm aware this can be bypassed simply by creating a new user. My question is how does one copy trades between different windows users on the same computer? Thanks

Hi, its frequently that we have to deal with frozen charts. Any function like ObjectGetInteger(), even ObjectName() or similar, then needs seconds to return and the error code is always 4203. The error code makes no sense at all, since ObjectGetInteger() uses OBJ_TYPE with an existing object, and

I know there are differences between brookers. But why does the example downloaded below work for some and not others? int OnInit () { MarketBookAdd ( _Symbol ); return ( INIT_SUCCEEDED ); } void OnTick () { MqlBookInfo priceArray[]; bool getBook= MarketBookGet ( NULL ,priceArray); if (getBook) {

Hi, I'd like to ask coder that has already implement a multi-strategy EA on their EA. I read an article about multi-currency multi-strategy EA from this link with this framework like the picture below. From the picture above, what I understand is having 2 separate strategy and put it in an EA. I

Hi, my understanding of logic regarding this event is, that it is sent when the chart changes. But it does not in many circumstances in MT5: 1. User changes the scale from normal to fixed scale 2. When bars are growing and exceed the current price scale 3. When the scaling (zoom) is changed These

Hello developers, I recently bought an EA from a developer and he sent me the .exe file with the password to activate it after I shared with him my account number and broker's server. The EA is working now, but how can I guarantee that is will not be disabled out of the blue? I mean, how can I

can anyone help me please, webrequest function always returns 1001