Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 5

Hi, I go to Market > MetaTrader 5 > Experts > Free. I click on a Robot. In the left section there is a DOWNLOAD button. Once I click it, there is a prompt - "Do you have Meta Trader 5?" I click on "Yes" and nothing happens

Hi, How does it work, if we sell EA in the market how does the charges work. Is it one time upload charge that we have to pay or it will get deducted monthly repeatedly. I have developed an EA and want to upload for selling and I have USD 125 and kindly let me know on the same

Hi, i would know if there is any correlation in Tester about "modelling" option and timeframe option. That is, can I be sure that if I choose the " real tick based on real ticks" modelling, I will get the same ticks regardless of the timeframe chosen? I ask because I tried running a test on M1 and

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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

Hi All, I tested a EA and it is working fine in DEMO account . But it is not taking trade in Live Account. I am using [redacted] MT5Real. Kindly help me on this Hi All, I have 2 EA's tested in DEMO account and now loaded in [redacted] MT5 real account. Only one of the EA is taking orders and the

Hello everyone, maybe someone had similar problem when installing the Meta Trader Strategy Tester on virtual machine. So let me tell you in short that the problem is. I have a dedicated server from Hetzner . On that machine I have installed The Proxmox to easily install the OS that I need. I

I’m running MT5 backtests through the command line using a .bat and .ini file. Everything works — MT5 opens, runs the test, and shows “saving report…” window dialog — but no .html report is ever created in the specified directory. I’ve tried: Using /config: with full paths Different report names and

Hi there, Probably a really simple way but is there anyway to extract the result data from backtesting in MT5 into excel? I have backtested an EA over 2 years and have over 100 trades. I want to extract the buy and sell price of those trades to analysis. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers

Hello Can you kindly review my code and advise the cause of the invalid stop error. Please see the code below. Thanks #property copyright "User" #property link "" #property version "1.00" // Include necessary libraries for trading operations and indicators #include <Trade\Trade.mqh> #include

Hi, I am using MT5 on a Macbook. When i go to File > Open Data Folder > MQL5 > Experts, I am unable to paste/drag EX5 file in the Experts folder. Basically, nothing happens. No error nothing. Tried to refresh. Auto Trading button is ON. Don't know what is happening

How to stop and restart MQLś VPS automatically? like a timer...  in case EA does not have the option nor cannot adjust it with the spread... thnx,  L.

I don't know which version introduced the change, but until relatively recently it was possible to create a descendant of a structure and assign the "value" of its ancestor to this descendant: struct ExtDateTime : public MqlDateTime { void Set( const MqlDateTime& value ) { this = value

hey there, got an inpossible issue... on a live n demo account trading is disabled. i get it all of these things like ticks in settings, algotrading or login, password n have turned one click trades, charts... srsly i do not konw that else should i do... could u help me? its my fourth day when i

Can anyone help me test and run the official sample script: Scripts/Examples/Canvas/Chart/HistogramChartSample.mq5 Normally it should be displayed But what I get is: This may be a bug in the official code

Hey everyone, I’ve been running multiple backtests lately and noticed how easy it is to get great historical results that completely fall apart in live trading. Curious to know — how do you balance optimization versus keeping your strategy general enough to perform well in real conditions? Do you

I am new to using MT5, after using Ninjatrader, and I can't believe that a trade's SP or TP can be reached and the trade ends and there is no alert noise to inform me. To me this is a basic requirement for a platform and I can't believe it is not on MT5. I can't find a solution. Do MT5 traders

According to https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/basis/operators/return, we should enclose the value or expression to be returned in parentheses, for example: int CalcSum( int x, int y) { return (x+y); } But the following does also work: int CalcSum( int x, int y) { return x+y; } Is there a

I want to create a custom symbol that supports negative prices, starting from a JSON file. I’ve noticed that if I set the PricesAllowNegative property to 1 in the JSON file, this value is ignored, and negative prices are still not allowed in the custom symbol properties. If I manually enable this

Hello, I am running this ExpertMAMA and it is showing small but generally consistent profits.  It is a quite complex code but has been around at least since 2011.  The issue I am having is that every now and then it shows a large loss and when I review the code I could not figure out how to...

Hi - what I want to do is in the below search: https://gemini.google.com/share/2473aceac1e9 I want an expert advisor which trades different accounts with the same strategy. Same risk for all of them. If someone codes such an EA, how can I backtest hundreds of different periods automatically without

I Install my EA on 4 Charts i.e. BTCUSD 15MiN, BTCUSD 30 MIN, XAUUSD 15MIN, XAUUSD 30 MIN. I want to know that I require One Magic Number for All or 4 Magic Number

Hello, I tried to use for the ATR calculation the include files, but I always get Empty Value out here the script #include <Indicators\Indicator.mqh> CIndicator _indi; #include <Indicators\Oscilators.mqh> CiATR atr; void OnStart () { atr.Create( _Symbol , PERIOD_CURRENT , 14 ); Print

Hello, I'm not sure if that is the right title or the right place but here it goes: I have written a system using a couple of standard indicators and a couple of other custom ones. The other two are just to visualize the numbers the EA is using to make decisions on chart. The indicator needs almost

Hello, I've built a framework to train models and export them to ONNX files. However, I'm running into a resource limit error during compilation. It seems that the limit is set to 128 MB, which is quite low for a medium sized model. Has anyone found a way to get around this limitation? Thanks a lot

Hi, I am getting random responses for the same WebRequest() on the same server? The curl response works absolutley fine. Anyone else seeing these issues? Output from the curl statement on the server which is correct and works fine. C:\Users\Administrator>curl -vk

Hello, I would like to bring to your attention what, in my opinion, is a relevant issue that occurs during optimization tests. The optimizer always reports, in the Drawdown % column the value of the Equity ABSOLUTE DD (in %). I hope we can all agree that, when evaluating the risk of a setup among

Is there some kind of setting to allow short trades with an Algo? I can manually place a short trade, but when my algo should place a short trade, it doesn't

I am trying to install MT5 EA's by : File > open data folder > MLQ5 > Experts. I am trying to paste my copied EA's in this folder but nothing happens. In MT4 I didn't have this problem. I am sure to use the correct MT5 Ea's. What's wrong

Hello everyone, I have an Expert Advisor that operates based on trend conditions; it opens trades when the market starts to move in a clear direction (based on indicators). However, during sideways or ranging periods, it tends to accumulate losses or end up in break-even situations according to my