Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 485

Prompted by the prospect of "object oriented MT4" I'm revisiting MT5 after a considerable absence. An EA that used to work fine in MT5 many months ago doesn't any more. I don't much care for standard indicators, but this one uses CiRSI. It still compiles OK, with a few apparently unconnected...

Unable to see optimization options in strategy tester, like slow complete algorithm, how to enable it ? is it because the markets are closed ?

I'm new to mq5 To debug I went metaeditor>tools>options>debug> EURUSD 60MIN Then i can "start debugging" the "MACD Sample" and it steps through to end of init(). But it is the weekend and there are no ticks so the chart sits there with the EA in debug mode. I want to go to strategy...

Can someone please tell me..I have looked in documentation, but I am not clear. The inputs in the strategy tester. After the compilation and first test run,when making changes the inputs are Variable?, Value?, Start? step?,and Stop? Example: Macd Trailing stop,I want 20pips, Value?, Start? step...

does the code that a developer writes for me belong to me or the programmer? My feeloing is that it should belong to me but can anyone confirm this? Also can i sell it on the market to other traders should it be successful?

Hi, I use the tester bobra_adept.ex5 the tester is closing and do not open when the markets open, why ? I cant test this demo for 2 month without my intervention ? I need to open it myself everytime the market opens ? Or it should open itself ? Why it does not open lonely ?

Hello guyz, Please am in a serious dilemma and financial constraint,need to pay bills,mortgage and a whole lot of family issues to take care of and no good job for now,please any good Samaritan and brother to help a brother with a very good and profitable EA that is 80% t0 90% accuracy for me to...

long gbp = ChartOpen("GBPUSD",PERIOD_M5);ChartSetInteger(gbp,CHART_MODE,CHART_CANDLES); Why second line doesn't work on strategy tester and so when I use _Symbol when chart GBPUSD is opened Its don't give me a "GBPUSD"? How to fix this? 

when backtesting  2013.08.14 00:19:46 Core 1 2013.08.02 17:01:17   failed exchange sell 0.10 EURUSD at 1.32667 sl: 1.32780 tp: 1.32467 [Invalid request] how to solve this?  THANKS

Hi, i'm running an ea both currencies and stock market. The problem is that the ea wrk perfectly in currencies but doesn't open position in the stock market. I need to know if exist some parameter the must be change for an ea to work in stok market. Thank you

I have a strategy that applies for several pairs. How should I design my EA for trading these pairs Simultaneously ? (A) an EA that trades the only pair the EA attached to (mono-pair EA - I will have to attache it to each chart) (B) an EA that trades the aimed pairs (multi-pair EA - I only have to...

How do I set the difference between the buy and ask?

Hi, In writing an EA containing an implementation file and a separate class, I've developed a method (i.e. getBarLow) within the class designed to retrieve the lowest of the no. of bar lows to be used as a breakout entry. The parameters of the method is the no. of breakout days that is sourced from...

can anyone give me their impression of the ability of this FAPturbo 57 robot EA? Has anyone had the chance to use this robot? and can FAPturbo which is ran on the MetaTrader 4 platform be moved to run on the Metatrader 5 platform or must I stay on Metatrader to be able to use what I paid for?? any...

i'm not expert and i write my 1 ea , but when it run it open a lot of position and no only one the logic are that : cheak for open condition or true => i use a while ( if cheak are ok open) , but it open a lot of position a no only one i use the total = order total() if is < 2 open and it open

Hello, I'm having trouble running my unit tests outside of the local environment. When I hit F5 on my UnitTestRunner.mq5, I get these results: 2013.09.04 13:21:36 UnitTestRunner (EURUSD,H1) [OK] All asserts passed. 2013.09.04 13:21:36 UnitTestRunner (EURUSD,H1) 32/32 asserts passed. 2013.09.04...

hello has all, the test strategy for an EA you how many times a day, month or year to optimize well the EA, help me thanks.

I love the signals service here and I think it is very good if one cannot afford to sit and watch the screen. Now, that is why I will be glad if anyone can recommend to me any good signal provider . Actually, what I am looking at is profitability on a weekly basis, and a signal provider who does not

I want help to create AUTOMATED EXPERT ADVISOR for my ownprivate use MY PROJECT GUIDE I am looking for help to create and EA, I am not abig corporation with lots of money I am just an individual looking for a way todo a project to make a living!!! I am planning to trade on the following...

Hi There Can anyone tell me how to get this without having to program my own? Thanks

Is it a good idea developing an EA relying on this event? There is not much documentation explaining this. Maybe it's not ok? Thks.

I want to know how to get the closing price of 9th later bar. which function should I use?

I am not an MQL programmer so I don&#39;t understand this survey No problem, I don&#39;t need OrderMagicNumber() for my EAs No problem, I never need to change Magic number of my opening orders It is inconvenient, I prefer it is modifiable

What would you rely on if you had to develop a methodology for creating EAs? Can this be done? Is there a book or so for doing this? Thks.

Hi, It seems like SendNotification() is ignored when executed in the Strategy Tester. Right? So there is no need to do a conditional check? MQL5InfoInteger(MQL5_TESTER)? Shouldn't this be documented? Are there more functions that are ignored in test mode? Regards, Erik

Please help me write the simplest code that when my signal is triggered it opens one market order and four other pending orders at an interval of 25 pips at the same time. The target for all the five orders is 50 pips from the entry price. No stop loss for all the orders.

Hi,   for a symbol from the market watch list (which I retrieve by "SymbolName") I would like to print two different types of information: 1) the symbol's full name (for example not "EURAUD" but "Euro vs Australian Dolle" as can be found in the Specification window) 2) The margin that my broker uses...

How to test a EA which simultaneously trades (independently) based on 2 timeframes on a single pair ? While strategy tester takes only one timeframe.

Hello,  I am unable to  run backtestings due to non availability of historical data.   I initially had some good backtesting results for 2-3 years since Jan 2008. Now I am looking for the fresh market data to be simulated over the backtesting but I am unable to do that. Can anyone guide me on that....

(A): OP_BUY / OP_SELL (B): OP_BUYLIMIT / OP_SELLLIMIT (C): OP_BUYSTOP / OP_SELLSTOP (D): A and B (E): A and C (F): B and C (G): All types (A &amp; B &amp; C) (H) None. My EA doesnot place orders. It is for to support manual trading I am not an MQL programmer so I don&#39;t understand this survey