Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 501

Hi All,   When in the strategy tester I change the levrerage to 1:500 and 1:100 or any option in the drop down and it has no effect on my profits, why??   MQL Support  told me it is because I dont use the levrerage value in my lot calculation but when searching for...

Ok, I'm having 2 issues, first, when Adjust_sl_ap is true the EA should adjust SL to average price since im scaling in positions this would be PositionGetDouble(POSITION_CURRENT_PRICE) right?? and secondly, when adjust_sl_ap is false it should use a trailing position, but for some reason trailing...

Hi, i want to create a EA which uses the pivot point universal indicator (https://www.mql5.com/en/code/102), with a strategy that buys and sells when price is near the pivot point calculated by the indicator. How can i get the handle of that indicator in MQL5? Or how can i access to the price...

Hello all. I am trying to put together an EA that uses Limit Pending Orders. This is the function used. As one can see, it is the exact same as the function in the avoitenko EA, except ORDER_TYPE_BUY_STOP has been changed to ORDER_TYPE_BUY_LIMIT. The function is only called when the current tick...

Hello All, I am new to programming and have a couple of easy questions. 1. Is it better (or even possible), to have one EA scan for conditions and make trades on many pairs, or do I need a chart window for each time frame? 2. I read somewhere it is possible that if you have two EA's running at...

Is any example code for this purpose. thanks

Hi, I have a short question: Is it possible to use the final balance as optimization criteria?. (not the max balance). Many thanks!

Dear all, I am finding a problem in invoking functions of a C# DLL from MT5 into Win7 64bit; everything runs smoothly into my x86 laptop, therefore I assume there is something stupid I miss, so here is my short story: - Have this nice DLL, doing a lot of cool calculations, to be used into my Expert...

There must be something essential that I dont understand. I have now tried 2 different methods to place 2 trades with different TP-levels. Split position. 1. Just place 2 trades with differen TP-levels. Does not work, both trades ends up with second trades TP 2. Place 2 trades without TP. and...

In MT4's ticket-based system, it was fairly easy to manually close one EA's position if I had multiple EA's trading the same pair on the same account. e.g. EA #1 places EURUSD SELL order for 0.1 lots @ 1.30000, EA #2 places EURUSD SELL order for 0.1 lots @ 1.29000 and EA #3 places EURUSD SELL order...

Running Strategy Tester. I place 2 trades in succesion for the same pair. The only difference is the takeprofit level. In the Journal the result is: 2012.01.08 00:05:50 Core 1 2011.09.21 21:35:40 order performed buy 1.00 at 1.00818 [#4 buy 1.00 AUDUSD at 1.00818]...

What is a simple method to figure out that the last trade done was a loss?

It would be great if it were possible to script execution of metatester, through the CLI. So, one could call the exe, pass it a .set file, and have it back-test a .mqh file and output the results to a log file.. c:\>metatester64.exe /run MyExpert.mq5 /set MyExpertSettings.set /logfile MyExpert.log

I donot know what is this error, can you help me?

my mean the result is like we trade in live account ? then we can believe it.

ike a lot of other people in this forum I am having serious problems understanding what "invalid stops" means (and the infamous 4756 error). Apparently this error is returned when a stop loss or take profit order is too close to the current price, but how close is too close? How is this calculated?...

Hello All, Please feel free to read my posts about brokers API/SDK: 1) MBTrading SDK/API review - http://caapitech.blogspot.com/2011/05/mbtrading-sdkapi-review.html 2) IB SDK/API review - http://caapitech.blogspot.com/2011/12/ib-sdkapi-review.html Regards, Moris oz Algorithmic trading Consulting and

There are quite a few things to relearn in MQL5. Sometimes its a struggle. But there are also great benefits. One feature i absolutely love is the "struct". It makes returning several different values and data types from a function so simple and elegant. Kudos.

Hello eveyrone (and merry christmas !) I'm really starting with mt5, so I don't have much knowledge. I guess it will appear as a very basic question, but here it is: Let's say I want to create a robot which will will automatically buy EURUSD and then sell it after 1 hour. And then repeat that. How

Creating a new library with a simple test function and use it in an EA does not work now. Some month ago I converted a MQL4 library containing a logging funktion. It still works fine except that it does not work to add new functionality to it. The new function are not found. The log function still...

I'm new to using Robots - but I have added 2 Robots to my demo FXCM Metatrader 4 platform (Best Secrets EUR/USD & GBP/USD) - I have smiley's in the top right hand (chart)corners - but thet are not trading? In the navigator both robots are greyed out ? Any advice please?

Hello I am working on developing an EA, but have trouble with getting the right number of deals. My EA needs to detect when there is an open deal and prevent it from getting another order or deal through, but I cannot get the number of deals or detect if there are any open deals? Can anyone advice...

I wrote an EA and I use iCustom function to get information from an external indicator. The problem arises when I've to get information of the las 30 bars or more. So, I write: double rm00 = iCustom(.....)double rm01 = iCustom(.....)(...)double rm030 = iCustom(....) if the indicator has more...

Hi, can somebody please tell me if this tutorial on access sql database from metatrader would be compatible with an MQL4 script ( and SQL server 2008)? http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/MetatraderDLL.aspx originally written for mql5 but my script is in mql4 can I just implement it anyway

Hey, So I've written a pinbar EA which works fine, however I'm now trying to get it to take RSI into account when making trades... I basically want RSI(specific bar interval int) to return the RSI value at that bar based on Close Prices. I've been struggling with this a great deal as I'm having...

i create my first EA.But its not corectly work with indicator.Its generate every thick buy and sell signal without any reason. how can i fix this EA?he only get signal buy or sell if the line is crossing for example.i try with different indicators and its always the same problem.

Hello, I wonder if anyone has experience with connecting MT5 to Interactive Broker’s TWS through API and using an EA for trading with all sorts of financial instruments not just FX? Any help would be appriated. Thanks Andy1

Loading: ResetLastError(); R_H4_Handle=iCustom(NULL,PERIOD_H4,"rindicator", false, 600, true, PRICE_CLOSE  ); if(R_H4_Handle==INVALID_HANDLE)     { Print("R_H4_Handle = ",R_H4_Handle," error = ",GetLastError()); return(false);    ...

I have just reported this to service desk but I was wondering if anybody else having same problem. I cannot create dat or csv files from an array even though the array has data.

Hi, First of all sorry for my bad english.. hope you'll undestand.. Probably there are many others methods for send message on your Twitter account directly from your MQL5 code... but this is my solution! :) I have coded a very easy program that allows you to send message on your Twitter...