Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 422

can someone help me please? I can get this function to delete a pending order. What am i doing wrong? the way I would like it to work is when a open order is closed. this function will then delete the pending order. I keep getting the error 4108 for invalid ticket. I really have issue if another...
I installed the Agents Manager on a second laptop. But when I scan my network, they do not show up. These two laptops can see each other on my network. I've transfered files between them. Both laptops are plugged in and I've disabled the firewall on both laptops.
Does anybody faced this issue? I´m hardly trying to create an Array for a not built in indicator (Bollinger Bands Width), and use it in my main code. The problem is: - "Not built in" indicators doesn´t pass Arrays by iCustom(); - "Not built in" indicators doesn´t work with CoppyBuffer(). I...
Hello Guys! I have a self-made EA... everything works fine except one thing... there are cases when the EA deletes an order but right after that is triggers and the position is not controlled by the EA ( no sl, no tp, no ts)... do you have any idea what the problem can be? the log file says that...
hello, In a situation, during backtest, where TP and SL are reached within the same 1-min bar, which is the execution priority in Metatrader? I mean, for backtest purpose, does Matatrader consider the position closed at TP or SL price?  tks, jose marcio 
Hello people, Is there a way to make mt4, or perhaps some plugin, to send required trade alerts to multiple mobile devices same time? I know that SendSMS(); sends text message to mt4 app, but it sends it only to 1 device which is linked to mt4! So is it possible to make multiple sms going same...
Hi, I have 2 workstations and the same MT4 build. However, on one of them the candlesticks are overlapping with the dashboard created in an EA. I have attached screenshot. Anyone knows how to make the candlestick completely invisible?
Dear Team,   I have two different EAs developed to trade on EUR/USD. I have two different accounts with my Broker. Is it possible for me to attach one EA to the first account, and the other EA to the second account under this same Broker? 
Hello metatraders, Is there a way to increase the memory available to strategy tester agents? After a few passes my agents are very often showing a red icon on their left. All I can do is restart MT5, but is is annoying, and anyway I plan my EA to have more features, so it will use more memory...
Hi friends. I recently adapted a strategy based on the martingale system. I took into consideration the possibilities of a loss and adjusted volumes and overall account balances. I want to develop an EA to enter orders based on my strategy. The problem is that I don't know how to programme. Can...
I have a meta4 indicator and I want to convert it into Expert Adviser so please anybody can help me how to do it
ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,dLots,dPrice,iSlippage,dStopLoss,dTakeProfit,sEAComment,MagicNumber,tExpiration,clrRed); 1.if I define iSlippage =2, is it equal 20point under 5 - digits system? 2.How can I know the slippage after a order placed finished
Hello everyone, As the question above, how can i set the lot size after i subscribe to a signal provider ? I understand we can set the capital from the options but i cant seems to find the lot size Would appreciate some help here Thank you
I'm having difficulties to generate and access a BBandsWidht ARRAY of a period in my main code, as it's not a built in indicator. Tried to use iCustom but it doesn't allow me to pass the array. Does anybody know how to deal? Thanks
Hey guys, I`m running Meta Trader 4 on my iMac and I would like to use a One Click Stop Loss and Take Profit. Can someone help me to arrange that. I don`t find any way to get that done :-( Thank you!
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Dear all, Programmers and traders and MQL5 users, I have a request, if you can help me out please. Attached is an EA, I tried to code to convert an indicator in an order placing EA. But its encountering the following error: "OnCalculate function not found in custom indicator" Attached is the...
Trying to get my expert to work on WTI CFD but I keep the generic execution error of "error opening position" no matter what I do. trade.ResultRetCode() and trade.ResultDeal() all return the same error "error opening position". There is no error code. So I tried the example expert advisors that...
Please help me understand I use mql5 :) How should I do to make the stoploss values and takeprofit of my EA are used in the "Strategy Tester" No matter the values that exist in my text "ea.ml5". They will be ignored. Whenever I run the "Strategy Tester" values used are always those who...
I'm writing a script that apply templates on current chart. Here, I can't load templates from 'templates folder' in MT4 data folder by ChartApplyTemplate function. But I can load templates from MT4 data folder directly. void OnStart()  {//--- string...
Hallo, ich nutze den Liquidex EA. Er ist soweit ganz gut. Der größte Nachteil bei diesem EA ist, dass, sobald ein Handel ausgelöst wird, der Trailingstop sofort anzieht. Der Stop-Loss ist sofort hinfällig und es bleibt nicht genügend Puffer für mögliche Rückschläge. Dadurch gehen viele Trades in den...
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Hello fellow forumites. Am Looking for an MT4 EA or software that when i click new order and place a single trade, it will multiply the trades i place instantly just like the inserted screenshot above. Using same 0.10, same currency i placed, same Take Profit. Atleast if it can multiple my...
I see in mql5 manual that optimization is here: But my metatrader 5 don´t have Optimization option: why?
  Using 2 EA's on a FX pair  (11   1 2)
I am using an EA to determine and trade on extreme prices. Although this has a SL built in I would like to use an additional EA (Trade Protector) to add a proportional SL. I have an additional window showing the FX pair in the same timeframe with the Trade Protector running but its not working. I am
sorry for my english . I have a EA named hedging recovery  and I 'm from morrocco I want to know what's the best brocker hwo support using EA with metatreader 4  without any problem . thanks for help .
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Hi just ask if I can create string with UTF-16 encoding in metatrader5 it's working perfectly but in metatrader4 when I put that character on the chart I have just small rectangle I'm just ask if I can do that or not thank you
Hi :) as you see below I need a code that can select the history positions the OrderSelect() function is only selecting the current active trades... Thanks for all
Hello guys, I am new to coding mql5 or mql4. What should be the first ticket number? I have seen in the documentation that an error is -1. But I wonder what should be the first ticket number? 1 or 0? As I have seen in examples that if ticket number > 0, then an order is sent successfully.
// Opening Orders while(true){ // Orders opening Loop   if(TotalOrder==0 && Opn_B==true){ // No opened orders and pending orders + criterion for...
hi when i do expert optimization  ask me to decrease parameters or increase value  there is any way or idea to increase optimization parameters in mt4 ? thanks