Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 4

So my name is Christoper. I am from Scotland. I have recently started trying to design an EA to get off a building site. I am an engineer so trying to adapt that and to a different part of life get me off this building site I have recently created a EA that has 1.79 profit factor a drawdown of 0.40%

Hey everyone, quick note first: This is not an ad. I’m genuinely curious how you use AI (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) in your MQL5 workflow to speed things up and reduce errors. I’d love to start a standing “Chatbots & Workflow” topic here—sharing real prompts, practices, and pitfalls. I’ve been coding

hew when optimizing and ea in mql5 what doe the section "result mean" optimization show good profit and good drawdown but results tab show all red.. looking to the below optimization wha the part i circled mean since the orther are showing profit

Hello Everyone. I have created this Renko chart generator for MT5 because I have searched for a good Renko chart generator for a long time and I did not find one , so I decided to build my own and share it with the mql community for FREE. You can find it attached. If you want any improvements let me

Let's assume I have one class defined as follows: class Test { public: string CheckValue Test () {}; }; Ontick { Test MyObject; } How can I have following Print Out (I want to create a function, that returns the member of the class/object) List of MyObject Members: string Checkvalue I don't have any

Hello, i have question :-) so the question is if we change buy stop to buy stop limit, will we avoid slippage and we dont have to pay for GSL (guaranteed stop loss- which is very expensive to this strategy ) ? I read in google that Limit stop works almost the same as Stop loss guaranteed ( that we

I purchased an indicator and has 5 activations. In my tests I used the 5 activations in demo accounts. Now I need to remove one or 2 of these activations since the demo accounts have been closed and put it in a real account. How can I do this

Hi, how can Orders, Positions and Deals be linked together? Is there a way to link them apart from the magic number? Best Reguards, ZeroCafeine

Hello friends !! I'm currently using AI to help me build the trading bot of my dreams, which tbh originates from a private community i'm in, they have a super good EA but i hate losing control and not having it for me. Basically it's a trading bot created by some veterans of a big broker and it's

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we buy and sell in the stock market. This discussion is about understanding how computers use AI to make quick trading decisions. We will look into how AI can spot patterns in the market, make predictions, and decide when it’s a good time to trade

Hello everyone. I would like to call upon every worthy programmer and trader to a crucial mission. A scientific project of a respectable standard, with the aim of easing the developing MQL programs using every tool available. A good start would be creating a public project then let anyone willing to

No response in Questions from Beginners thread so I'll create a new one, sorry for that! Hi. Tell me, please, how is the distance between the borders and the regression line calculated in the default Regression Channel in Metatrader ? Yeah, I know, it is said clearly in the documentation : >The

Hi every one. if any one can help me , i would be really happy and thankful . i want to set slippage in mt5 and also i used both order send and ctrade but for both of them there is no option to set the slippage, also i found the function Mytrade.SetDeviationInPoints() but it still does not control

Hi, Should I be able to do this? 1) Create custom symbol and import 1min OHLC bar data. This includes spread values (max value from any tick in bar interval) 2) go to the tester settings 3) Change the spread to a value (1 here) 4) Save the profile 5) Run the test 6) repeat 3) and 4) for different

ObjectGetValueByTime() All time retrun 0.0 double LastUpRedrawValue =ObjectGetValueByTime(0,"Toptahlil_UpperTrendLine_"+GetPeriod(Period()),Time[iUp],OBJ_TREND);

THE CASE DESCRIPTION I am running a lot of MT5 instances on one PC in order to test all the EAs on demo accounts before they go live. Because I need more than one instance of MT5 terminal on one PC, I am running them in portable mode. I have noticed also, that the newer versions of MT5 are

Hello, wondering if anyone could help out, im trying to code my EA in Mql5 but i get this error, Any help on how to resolve this. Thank you in Advance Note: The starthour and endhour are already defined Part of the Code concerning time... void OnTick () { datetime currentTime = TimeCurrent ();

How can I count the number of rows of a table in a database X ? I used the following code but it does not work: int x = DatabasePrepare (db, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM newdb" ); Comment (x);

Dear All i was trying a trading strategy to buy or sell all the USD Currency pairs together, i only check the daily strength of the USD, then i take decision to buy or sell (open 7 positions), then i check after so many hours, sometimes waiting for days looking  for total positive profit after that...

Hello I'm trying to build a multi currency ea that works in the mt5 strategy tester. i'm not a professional programmer but i tried i've read the articles on this website about that and tried but with no luck i couldn't understand the method because they use about 3-5 include files linking to each

Hi every body, I used to trade manually since many years. But today I want to automatise some of my algorithmics systems. Is it possible to create a robot who can manage 20 or 22 instruments on a single account, with the possibility to calculate the quantities according to previous results ? Thanks

Right now I'm studying how to use AI to convert my ideas into an EA in MQL5 language. Has anyone had experience doing this? I'd like to share ideas. Currently, I'm interested in using Cursor, QODO, MT5 coder. Has anyone used any of these before

I am developing an EA to trade breakout, the risk- reward is 1:1 (I have tried different RR ratio but they almost got the same result in the long term.) How to avoid false breakout ? It mainly work on XAUUSD , US500 on timeframe M5. Thanks Peter

Hello, I would like clarification on MQL5's market depth behavior. I am developing an expert advisor that reads market depth data using MarketBookAdd() and MarketBookGet(). The same diagnostic EA works correctly with other brokers, but it doesn't work on my IC Markets MT5 live account. environment

Hello, I found the following message on one of my products: "Product rating lowered for bad description" I have already read the guidelines regarding Bad Description , but I have not been able to identify the problematic part of my product description. If the issue is not obvious, is there any way

As I run optimization test ,get result and run single test result not match the result. Get huge deviation, not sure it's optimization get error or single run get error. It's so confuse me. I do lot of tests base on this version code,over one month. MT5 base on version 5, build 2981. Always skip the

Hi everybody, I downloaded the demo of an expert advisor. But when I do the backtesting, then changing leverage or candle-times has no effect at all. The results are always the same in the backtest. Is there a general advice, how this can be explained? How do I know, which leverage was simulated in

I’m developing a private MT5 Expert Advisor and I do not want to share the source code. I’m looking only for architectural feedback, not strategy optimization. The EA uses a hybrid approach: SARSA/QTable plus rule-based guards, position protection with BE / trailing / StepLock / GBP profit

Hi all, Working on a directional filter for a systematic XAUUSD strategy. Need feedback from devs who've built trend-filter logic, not on my system architecture. Setup of the filter : I want to refuse entries when the price is in a clearly opposite trend context — but not be so strict that I miss

Great! Now before you come after me because of the title, please hear me out first. I got into programming EAs and when I heard the words "magic number", I was intrigued and wanted to know what they represented. So I looked up some codes on codebase and the forum and my conclusion so far is that it