Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 466

Date="+SymbolInfoInteger(_Symbol,SYMBOL_TIME)+" returns the date in that format : Date=1392399002 did i miss something ?
Hi All, I am a novice in the area of metaquotes and mql5. I need to know if it is possible to have a script or Expert Adviser developed to generate signals on my market symbols. I have a customized version of meta-trader 5 with my market symbols already present in the system. I don't need an...
Is it possible in MQL5? ma_temp=iCustom(NULL, 0, "Market/NameOfTheIndicator.ex5",2,true); ? That way few methods could be combined creating betting trading systems.
  Trailing stop  (1)
Hi, I have one small problem with trailing stop programing. if(OrderStopLoss()<Bid-Point*TrailingStop){ bool res1=OrderModify(OrderTicket(),OrderOpenPrice(),NormalizeDouble(Bid-Point*TrailingStop,Digits),OrderTakeProfit(),0,Blue);&nbsp;&nbsp; } What I want then...
Hi Guys I can't figure out how to calculate the second Monday of each month. I have an ea that performs a check on the second Monday of each month. I want to run this ea at any time during the month, before or after the second Monday but it must perform a certain check on the second Monday. What
An user of my MT5 EA has written: I have questions ... This report appear : 2014.02.11 02:01:45.356 grid_harvester_mt5 (GBPJPY.e,M1) CTrade::OrderSend: market buy 0.02 GBPJPY.e [unknown retcode 10001] is it normal?? my TP is 10 pip, when that report appear and the profit reached 12pip++ the...
Many of my potential customers are people speaking Russian. Do i have to release separate language version for them or is it possible to do it in 1 version? I haven't googled anything out :/    Maybe you should add 1-click translate to MT5 EA options like on mql5 page using very good translator used...
  my first robot !  (6)
hello i"am writing my first robot ... i'd wish : 1) open a window without symbol (a main window with the behavior and statistics of the robot) 2) launch my script automatically after loading MT5 best regards
Hello everyone, I wonder ifthere is a way to bypass the conflict between the time frame chosen in thetester settings and the time frame the expert is initialized with in theinput params. Every time this conflict happens I get this annoyingmassage: My aim is to run the tester on every time...
I'm curious about this because in 2013 the Metatrader 5 Championship didn't happen. I intend to participate. Thanks.
  Backtesting  (1)
I need to learn how to back test strategy. Iwhen ever i press start in the strategy tester, nothing happens. please help
The Market´s label doesn´t appear and i can not either test or download any expert or indicator. I do can subscribe to signals but i am interested in buying an EA. Could someone help me, please??
Is it possible to start a tester session out of a running EA? Is it further possible to analyse some optimisation routines in order to modify some parameters of the EA. Does anybody have some demo code? Kind regards Silas
Hey guys, okay? I'm developing an EA, and as I'm noob, I don't know much about programming, I'm missing a lot... I'm trying to do something with the crossing of two EMA. However, I don't know the code to prepare the EA understand when EMA's cross... Can anyone help me? Another question, is...
  Ea issue  (3)
Hi all, I wanted to see if some clever person could shed some light on this.. I have an EA, back test results are good.. I'm having a problem with it though, I'm trying to run it on a demo account, with fixed spreads. For example, last night it made one trade. However when I then back tested it...
  stoplevel  (3)
hello ! for EURUSD stoplevel is 20 what is theunit ? (pip,point.......) what is PricelevelUnit()?? best regards
my demo account has symbol specifications with lc ending (EURUSDlc) therefore I get error msg : Signal - different specification of symbol EURUSD,???any help
I subscribed to a signal how can I increase my lot on metatrader4 platform, I want to go from 0.01 to 0.03 how?
I wrote an EA, and call of course internally some Indicators. When launching the EA in a chart I expected that those indicators also are shown in the display - but it did not. I found in the reference Manual something like IndicatorAdd sound good but I was not able to work with it. Does anybody...
  SendMail syntax  (5)
Hi i'm trying to use strings & variables inside SendMail() ... : SendMail("Notify : Close opened position","Closed at : Ask="+SYMBOL_ASK+", Bid="+SYMBOL_BID+ ", Date="+SYMBOL_TIME+" Symbol="+Symbol()+" Period="+Period()" Profit="+PositionGetDouble(POSITION_PROFIT)); errors i got : '' -...
Dear All, How to monitor this event which a deeper history is downloaded or history blanks is filled?
What's wrong with following code? //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| bbb.mq5 |//| Copyright 2012, MetaQuotes Software Corp. |//| http...
Hello I'm new in Mt4 and I'm trying to understand how it works but I have a problem, let me explain. I subscribed to a signal on my mt4 with Alpari demo and everything goes ok, but when I open a position manually by myself the platform automatically closes the trade when I log out. If I log in again
I recently started developing EAs, and I encountered an issue. No matter what I try, I can't get anything working for a stable long period of time (2008-2009 are clear examples of that as shown on this image http://i.imgur.com/aBfheCB.gif). I did some research and found that I needed a better tick...
​Hello, I have a question, do pending orders execute with OHLC? for example, if a bar for EURUSD opens in 1.3500 and closes in 1.3600, and I have a pending order at 1.3550, would the order be executed ? Thanks in advance
I'm a young high schooler, no much experience on forex trading or coding... But being a money-greedy magpie as I am, I wan't to make some money with mt5. So I need your help building a relatively simple trading robot: It would open a long position when 1-hour bar opens above higher 55-day typical...
Hello I'm checking the above and it's returning false in demo forward. CSymbolInfo . Can I force the server to synchronize by refreshing the Terminal/EA? I'm a bit stuck on how to synchronize so I canProceed(); any help appreciated
Hi all I have a problem with installing any .ex4 files or mq4 files in metatrader, Im using windows 8 (maybe not the best) and putting them into the folder metatrader4/mlq4/experts, however nothing comes up in the navigation. Ive tried restarting the program of course, and also my whole...
How do we know what lotsize will be opened on our account balance size when we get our first signal? Can I adjust the Lotsize using the Use Equity % of Account? Please help. thank you
i would like if youcould explain to me whether i can use EAs written for MT5 in MT4. is there any converter or script to do this job or it just as easy as copyingthe *.ex5 file to mt4&gt;expets folder and&nbsp; then changing the extention to. ex4 andalso copying the coherent files such a .mqh as...