Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 5

how to fix this wrong closing prices problem ? i has many of that in my account random closing prices not the take profit price target ? what to do

When using default settings modelling, every tick gives amazing results, but that doesn't exist in real market. Using for test the every tick based real tick give real sight about results. Most EA sold or free works on default set, but in real, it's wasting time and money

Hello All, I am working with a friend on an EA; I design & write the code (what could go wrong? 😂) and he investigates trading scenarios. Our two minds are very different and up to a point it works. However we have recently encountered a problem which I had handled badly in the code 😳 - and I am

Is the swap calculated during backtesting (by ontester section) in MetaTrader5 ? And does it calculate correctly? That is, does it calculate the swap for each day, or does it use a fixed swap rate? If Yes , I don't see it in the report. I tried it in both cases: Every tick and Every tick based on

Hi guys, Hope that you are well. I have 5 MT5 terminals running, but for some odd reason in the last two weeks 2 of the terminals with similar EA's have stopped working. I am not getting any bad report or anything...I installed a new Terminal and reinstalled the EA's, it is still not working...all

I might want to calculate the value of all closed positions within a given period. /* * Pick up profit so far today for all deals that have completed, for all EA's * for a specific magic # & symbol. * * Parameters: None * * Returns: profit as a double, 0 on none found or error. * */ double

Hello, Can I copy the next trades with double the volume to compensate for the first trade that was a loss in the signal channel, using any Telegram copier? Does it have this feature? Which tolls?? What is website address

Environment: - MetaTrader 5 for macOS (native MetaQuotes Wine wrapper) - Wrapper build 5.0.5834, terminal build 5833 - Wine 11.1, winemac driver - macOS 26.5.2 (build 25F84), Apple Silicon (arm64) Bug: After a Strategy Tester backtest in Visual mode finishes, the MAIN terminal window is

Hi, Just as the title says is it possible to create an MQL5 file of an expert, I only have ex5 file which is also account restricted. The guy who gave it to me is no longer accessible. I know all the parameters on which the EA works, I want to try it on different accounts with different capital size

Dear all, This function in my EA work in tester but not in demo and live, please help. It return the deal of 2 hours before divided by minimun lots allowed. e.g. 2 hours before the deal in was 0.05 lot, then it should return 5. Use the CODE button (Alt-S) when inserting code. A moderator

I was testing an EA that a developer put on the codebase for trading Gold ( based on Keltner channel and EMAs) . Here is how the backtest looked on "Real Ticks" modelling: Here is how the backtest looked on "Every Tick" modelling for the exact same setting, same leverage, and same time range (same

Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a trend-following EA, and like many of you, I'm struggling with false breakouts during market consolidation (flat markets). To solve this, I coded a simple filter that checks the dynamic spread between two Moving Averages and ensures the current candle body size

Hello everyone! I am developing a trend-following strategy. The working principle is quite simple: there is a base moving average (indicating the trend direction) and additional filters - moving averages on several timeframes - the price closes above the filters on the working timeframe - it opens

Hi guys, I've created my first ever EA. I saw the red color message about bad description. Can anyone give me some advise how to fix it and tips for boost the ranking ? Appreciate your time and advise

Hello, When I click on "Emulate Slippage" at MT5 backtest, I dont find setting relate to slippage emulating, can someone shed light on how to set this

Hello everyone, I've been trying for a year now to develop an automatic trading algo using a neural network as a model and level 1 data (open, close, high, low candlestick prices) and several technical indicators (14). I retrieved this data in a 1-minute timeframe using mql5 scripts that I devised

What is MQL5 Wizard : The MetaTrader 5 Trading Platform includes the MQL5 Wizard , which allows to quickly generate code of an Expert Advisor (Expert Advisor builder). With MQL5 Wizard, knowledge of programming languages is no longer a prerequisite for creating trading robots . In the past, it

Dear Members, Microsoft recently launched its own Linux distribution (Azure Linux) after recognizing that Linux has become the dominant operating system on its Azure platform, far surpassing Windows itself. This suggests the beginning of a long-term strategic shift toward Linux. Some may argue that

So my name is Christoper. I am from Scotland. I have recently started trying to design an EA to get off a building site. I am an engineer so trying to adapt that and to a different part of life get me off this building site I have recently created a EA that has 1.79 profit factor a drawdown of 0.40%

Hey everyone, quick note first: This is not an ad. I’m genuinely curious how you use AI (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) in your MQL5 workflow to speed things up and reduce errors. I’d love to start a standing “Chatbots & Workflow” topic here—sharing real prompts, practices, and pitfalls. I’ve been coding

hew when optimizing and ea in mql5 what doe the section "result mean" optimization show good profit and good drawdown but results tab show all red.. looking to the below optimization wha the part i circled mean since the orther are showing profit

Hello Everyone. I have created this Renko chart generator for MT5 because I have searched for a good Renko chart generator for a long time and I did not find one , so I decided to build my own and share it with the mql community for FREE. You can find it attached. If you want any improvements let me

Let's assume I have one class defined as follows: class Test { public: string CheckValue Test () {}; }; Ontick { Test MyObject; } How can I have following Print Out (I want to create a function, that returns the member of the class/object) List of MyObject Members: string Checkvalue I don't have any

Hello, i have question :-) so the question is if we change buy stop to buy stop limit, will we avoid slippage and we dont have to pay for GSL (guaranteed stop loss- which is very expensive to this strategy ) ? I read in google that Limit stop works almost the same as Stop loss guaranteed ( that we

I purchased an indicator and has 5 activations. In my tests I used the 5 activations in demo accounts. Now I need to remove one or 2 of these activations since the demo accounts have been closed and put it in a real account. How can I do this

Hi, how can Orders, Positions and Deals be linked together? Is there a way to link them apart from the magic number? Best Reguards, ZeroCafeine

Hello friends !! I'm currently using AI to help me build the trading bot of my dreams, which tbh originates from a private community i'm in, they have a super good EA but i hate losing control and not having it for me. Basically it's a trading bot created by some veterans of a big broker and it's

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we buy and sell in the stock market. This discussion is about understanding how computers use AI to make quick trading decisions. We will look into how AI can spot patterns in the market, make predictions, and decide when it’s a good time to trade

Hello everyone. I would like to call upon every worthy programmer and trader to a crucial mission. A scientific project of a respectable standard, with the aim of easing the developing MQL programs using every tool available. A good start would be creating a public project then let anyone willing to

No response in Questions from Beginners thread so I'll create a new one, sorry for that! Hi. Tell me, please, how is the distance between the borders and the regression line calculated in the default Regression Channel in Metatrader ? Yeah, I know, it is said clearly in the documentation : >The