Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 476

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Hello, I have been using a file loaded with values to optimize certain parameters of my experts and it was working fine. All i had to do was save the file into the testers temporary files folder but since i recently installed one of the terminals updates, the tester deletes the file without reading
I want to have the total of milliseconds past from the start of the current day in the server's time. Please help me with the code. Give an example code please. Thanks
Hello everyone, I'm trying to iterate in a checkgroup control but I can't get the count of items in it. how can i do that? Thank you in advance
Hey there I am quite new to mql5 but i already programmed in c++/java/php. I am not sure why my code isnt executed, thats why i am asking here: void OnTick () { MqlTick last_tick; //--- if ( SymbolInfoTick ( Symbol (),last_tick)) { Print (last_tick.time, ": Bid = " ,last_tick.bid
Hi Guys, Sorry new here, i was just wondering whether other people are having problems with EA coding ? I have someone writing up code for me through the jobs section however he says that it works on his system and it dosent for me on build 600 and 610. he said there were errors...
when I place a pending order in MT5, is it necessary to have my terminal of MT5 runnin to execute those orders? or can I disconnect from the internet and shutdown my PC? I mean, if I shutdown my PC and disconnect from the Internet, will the server of MT5 continue to execute my orders when my own...
I want to know if there are 5 seconds until for example 8:00 am. I have to use the TimeTradeServer() datetime as the source of my current time. please give an example. Thanks
  multi accounts  (4)
hello, I need to manage several MT5 accounts. Should I install several MT5? Is there an alternative? best regards
Yes, right now! Yes, in the near future. Yes, but just in the distant future. No, maybe in the future. No, never!
i need a ea for opening two pending order at a fixed time. in that time the the order will open with the different of current market price. i want to used the TP AND SL and Lot.
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 : '' -...