Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 377

could anybody give me readfile and writefile function to deal with out of mt4 own directory, ths!:>>

Dear all, do you have an idea how to get the "All Time High" value of the balance of a trade account? For example: if the balance of a trade account was 25.000$ last year and if I restart the EA in the same trade account today and it has only a value of 17.000$ I want the EA to calculate the Draw...

Goodmorning, I would like to address an issue that concerns them; on how it iscalculated the drawdown. When we doa BT in relationships they are described 3 Drawdown. Absolute Maximum,Relative From thedefinitions that I found on the internet, 1) AbsoluteDrawdown is the difference between the initial...

My EA is compiling well, but when l try to run it in platform it return INVALID POINTER error here is the code //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ void Strategy::GetRequiredCharts(string &charts[])   {    ArrayResize(charts,1);    charts[0]=GetSymbol()+"...

Hi everyone, I am new to mql4 programming and I have been trying to develop a expert advisor that will enter based on a certain condition, however I have managed to make the entry part work, but the problem is that I only want to have 1 buy and 1 sell entry everyday, for now, whenever the EA will...

When trading I would like for some indicators to load up on the screen and exit 15 minutes later. Are there any examples or articles?

Can't figure out where to ask this, so I'll try here. I just tried to subscribe to signal Eva Expert and got the following error: Subscription failed The Signal subscription cannot be renewed, because new subscriptions are not allowed for the Signal According to the reviews for the signal, MQL5

Dear community. I am absolutly sure the problem i am facing is caused by my own stupidity :). Anyway i can not find a propper solution in my own brain, so i am here willing to learn from the wiser ones. Let me start with my snippet here: for ( int i= 0 ; i < SymbolsTotal ( false ) ; i++ ) {

double test[3][2] = { {1.11, "test1"}, {2.22, "test2"}, {3.33,"test3"} };// Result - compiler warnings "implicit conversion from 'string' to 'number'"// 1.11, 0// 2.22, 0// 3.33, 0double test[3][2] = { {1.11, (char)"test1"}, {2.22, (char)"test2"}, {3.33,(char)"test3"} };// Result - no compiler...

Hi all, I wrote an EA on MA crossover strategy but got weird result when I did a back test on it. As you can see from the images above, there is a buy order executed at 11:05 but the two MA lines did not cross. There shouldn't be any trade. I am on Exponential MA method, 5 minutes chart, next buy...

Hello! I am using copyrates to get data.  MqlRates t_rates[];ArraySetAsSeries(t_rates,true);CopyRates( Symbol() , 0 , 0 , bars_total , t_rates ); so i ecxpect t_rates[i].time to be a unixtimestamp. But if i write it to file for example it becomes "Human readable". How to write it as a int to file?...

I have an EA that strategy tests too slow and i was hoping someone could help me with it. if anyone is willing to help let me know and ill pm you the EA.

Hi all, ‌I am trying to : 1. set the trade size to x% of account balance and 2‌. set the stop loss to y% of account balance However, I found that trade size formula depends on stop loss and vice versa. This creates dependent loop between them. ‌‌This is the function that I found in another thread:...

hi how to add spread on my current EA. any help thank you.

I'm quite new to MQL and have trouble figuring this out. The current code I have keeps on spamming orders. Am I doing something wrong?    for(int i=0;i<10;i++){        if(closeprice>=prend[i] && closeprice<=prstart[i]){            Buy();            break;}     

I caught a 4756 error [Invalid stops], but I don't known that is happening here... There is a buy position at 3284.000 with SL 3269.000. The current price is 3296.000.  At this moment, I tried to set a new SL to 3284.020 and I got the error: 2017.01.16 16:17:00   CTrade::OrderSend: modify WDO$D (sl...

Hey guys been starting at the screen for days trying to do this and recently new to coding so i dont really know what i am doing too well so would love some help on what to do here. I managed to get all the errors away and now i have warnings but i do not know how to get rid of them :( Could  anyway...

Hi guys,i'm learning about MQL5 and i'm trying to make a simple robot. I‌ need to buy after the HIGH price of the hammer,but now ,i'm buying at the same price. I‌'ve tried to put a order above but this give me Stop invalid. I‌ dont know how to do that,if you could help :) ‌ ‌ t‌o buy,i'm using this...

Recently, I have a big problem. Meta Editor suddenly stopworking and need to play again for continue. Sometimes this situation make alot of risk on my account. I hadn’t this problem until last week, it’s appearnow and I can’t fix it. Recently, I installed 10 Meta trader program atdifferent path in...

Hi, Does anyone know how to check for historical data & integrity on the whole chart in MQL ? ‌

Can anyone help me figure out what is wrong with this Indicator that I am trying to write? I tried numerous methods for pulling the EMA moving averages but at this point, I think the problem is somewhere in the main loop of reading the candles and the buffer sizes of the EMA's. I am a...

I'm trying to use the <> expert advisor in MT4, but every time I load it into a chart I get an 'authorization error' in the top left corner of the chart and the trade does not open. Does anyone have any idea why this could be happening?

‌‌If I buy this bar, and setting stop at low-20 point. C‌an I draw the line as trailing stop line in MT5 EA? When the low higher that move  trailing stop line. Have any example for this case can let me study? Thank you. L‌ike this picture.‌ ‌

Hello all. ‌‌I have been searching forums and reading for weeks to find my answer and am getting no where so I figured I would take a chance and post it  :<) ‌‌I am trying to write an indicator that uses the ExponentialMA() function on MT5 but I cannot get it to work because I am not sure how to...

Hi, ‌ T‌here is a method limit MT4 tester maximal dropdown f.e. no more then 10000$? I find that I could limit dropdown by %, but it is not right for me because when EA earn some money max dropdown will be bigger then I need

Good day all. My questions regard virtual hosted MT4 and what I have access to. 1. Can I write to a file using an EA? 2. Can I retrieve that file? 3. If not, can I write to a journal and how do I retrieve that journal?

Hello,   does anyone have an idea, how to bring the ticket number into a combo box? i have several pending orders, and want to bring them into a combo box   any code idea? want to use the defalt combo box  https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/standardlibrary/controls/ccombobox  i read the documentation, and...

Hi. I'm trying to translate an EA from MQL4 to MQL5 and I'm having some trouble. There are some functions related to Order that I don't know how to handle. To name explicitly: OrderStopLoss, OrderModify, OrderSend, OrderTicket, OrderLots, OrderClose. What should I do to the things these functions do...

Hello , a‌nybody has an idea how i can publish my arbitrage EA, the automatic check didn't pass although I have checked if the volume is suitable, i'm oppening 3 positions EURUSD EURGBP and GBPUSD. the automatic check fail to open EURUSD and EURGBP from GBPUSD chart. ‌

Sorry for the newbie question - but if I have an EA attached to a chart (e.g. MACD sample EA on EUR-USD chart) with autotrading turned on, and then I close the chart - is the EA still running in the background? Or does the EA stop once I close the chart