Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 404

Hello Team, Please advice me. I attempted adding an EA to Symbol (EURUSD) by dragging it to the Chat Window, and it refused attaching. I also tried other Symbols, and all failed to attach. I have another EA which I bought from MQL5 Market. I tried attaching that EA, but it failed too. I went...

Dear MQL5 users. I am currently experiencing some multiple order execution problem with my EA but only for a specific broker. My EA works perfectly in strategy tester. It also works with other brokers in live trading mode too. With a specific broker, my EA sometime often 10 orders of the same size

Hi, Please could someone confirm it is OK to run multiple charts of different currencies in a single MT4 instance with out risk of trades being rejected because they were executed at the same time. Has this been fixed now or do I need to run multiple instances of MT4? Thanks PS. Apologies for...

Hello does anyone know a way to do an infinite loop with optimizer of MT4/5 ? Inside the loop , at the end of each optimization , I must be able to set automatically the new parameters optimized into the EA that is running . In each loop I must be able to pass parameters that would always be the

Hi! I am new to automatic trading, and I'm not sure if I'm getting it right. I runned optimization for an EA, within two dates. The pass number 23 made 192 trades and got 1203.87€ profit. Then I set the input parameters of pass number 23, runned the test within the same dates, and got 448 trades...

Strategy Tester in MetaTrader 5 Hello, can you tell me if in the strategy tester of MetaTrader 5 it will be possible to test/optimise Expert Advisor that trades on multiple currencies? It is impossible in MetaTrader 4, and it's a pity: a whole stratum of very promising strategies cannot be

Hello, I want my experts to trade on Hedging mode in the same way as in Netting mode. To do so, the expert must add, reduce, close or reverse a single position. I'm trying to set this by setting the currently open position Ticket to the MqlTradeRequest but it works only on reduction. How to...

Hi, in the MQL4 Reference under  MQL4 Reference/Trade Functions/OrderSelect I found the following two sentences: Consecutive selection of orders using the SELECT_BY_POS parameter returns information in the sequence in which it was received from the trading server. Sorting of the resulting list of...

Hi, i already recreate an EA to what i want but i'm having issues... all error been fix.. but the EA close all pairs orders.. I just want the EA to close on 1 pair which the EA been placed... Could tell me where is the error? extern double Price_Target= 0.0 ; //The Price at which you want to

as we knw for MT5, close sell order is by open the new buy order, and close buy order is by open the sell order. but how's in hedging MT5 acc ? yesterday before markets close, for my oneclickpad expert MT5, when i m trying to close the buy order, but it is executing the new sell order.

In MT4, OrderSend() and OrderClose() send instructions to server, the server do the trade instructions and return a response. But, if the server do the trade instructions successfully but the response come back to client lost due to bad network, OrderSend() and OrderClose() should return false. This...

Hello, I wanna open an operation with 2 lots and i wanna sell one lot When the profit is got and after When the second profit is got, i close the position. This code works good with an account without hedge but with hedge i can't close with the opposite action. What do i need? it doesn't work...

hello can you help me i found a good indicatore but get error: 2016.06.24 23:11:29.999 #Momentum onChartSignals Indicator v1.0 EURUSD,H1: zero divide in '#Momentum onChartSignals Indicator v1.0.mq4' (129,46) for mt4 971 your help is much appreciated thank you

Hi, just a question, if i have an EA that i want to sell whats the best way to manage clients on a trial and subscription Thanks in advance

hi everyone i read this article: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/586 i can test free experts on strategytester but when i want to test market experts on strategytester ,it doesnt work and takes no position and result is empty. what is the problem?

hello coders,i am using an indicator which gives me daily pivot,support & resistance levels I want to have weekly and monthly pivots also,may be in different file

extern double Price_Target=0.0; //The Price at which you want to CLOSE & DELETE all Orders.extern string Profit_Target= "ENTER ABOVE THE PRICE YOU TARGET";extern bool SELL =...

I'm receiving this error in the MT5 tester: ResetLastError(); MqlTick tick; SymbolInfoTick(_Symbol, tick); double orderLots       = NormalizeEntrySize(lots); double stopLossPrice   =...

Hi, I am an absolute beginner on Meta Trader 4 so please forgive me if this is an stupid question. I've subscribed to an signal wich is making trades and working fine. I only have one question about the "volume" indicator because it looks like as if it is trading with verry smal amounts unless...

Hi, im trying to code an EA, but the trade continue to open once the condition is meet.. i need some help.. so the trade only trigger per MA cross, until wait for next cross to trigger next trade.. any one who good in programming can help ?

I understand the tick data from different brokers are different. But the data get from tickdata downloader of StrategyQuant is same for all brokers. Can I use it for certain broker? Which broker is the tick data of StrateyQuant same as or from? Besides, how about tick story? The spreads...

Hi, any one can teach me or have any example how to write a script /EA to monitor MT4 terminal result ? I have few EA attached to one terminal.. the script serve as a monitoring medium to pause the MT4 for xxx hours/period if consecutive losses of xxx trade... any one can help or guide me ?

Hello, could you add an option that once a backtest was stopped, it can be continued from that point onwards when once clicks on "continue"? Thx

Hi there, I have got a question about Chart Events: Is it possible to check out, when a chart window becomes the “on top” one / gets the focus? Already checked: Having e.g. the UK100 chart-window maximize on top, I call the e.g. EURUSD window to maximize by klicking the tab below. Both windows

I have read many topics about connecting MT with Matlab via DLL,files or special library. Also many people try to use R to help Expert Advisors with forecasting and data analysis. I know there is possibility to make communication with MetaTrader via sockets, pipes or database. There are many methods...

During backtest of an EA, the closed lot size couldnot match opened lot size (always smaller than opened ones) for same transaction.See attached pic. Some lot sizes are matched, but some are not. Is it normal? Ifnot, why can this happen? How can I correct it?

Hello everyone! I'm trying to calculate rsi in my dll:         double rsi(int period, double *open, double *high, double *low, double *close,  int pos) {                double nsum = 0.0, psum = 0.0, dif;                for (int a = 1; a <= period; a++) {                        dif = close[(pos -...

Hi, i updated my PC from Win 8.1 to Win 10 yesterday, everything seems to work fine but in MT4 i have the problem, that all my EA which i bought from the marketplace aren´t recognized as bought anymore. They are listed in my marketplace / bought list, some have the "update" button some not, but in...

why? how come? the cpu % also seems 0% what are causes these? i test another EA , same time migration, the other EA worked HELP

Hi! I need help... I want to create are these 6 functions: TicketNumber = N[n] TicketNumber = M[m] TicketNumber = X[x] TicketNumber = Y[y] TicketNumber = V[v] TicketNumber = W[w] Such that: ALL Positions: Order = N[n] = M[m] 142370816 = N[0] = M[13] 142370788 = N[1] = M[12] 142370758...