Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 7

Hey guys I'm new to using MT5 and have been developing some EAs recently all has been going well with backtesting for the last few weeks then all of a sudden the visualisation just stopped working? if anyone can help with this would be very much appreciated. Thanks

Hi everyone, I coded an EA that uses an ORB strategy. You're also a trading expert, so you're familiar with this OPEN RANGE BREAKOUT strategy. My EA is supposed to plot high and low lines for the first 15 minutes at the London and NYC openings. I've set a lot of parameters to customize this MT5

I found a solution for the many charts that the strategy tester opens automatically in MT5. Till now I closed them one by one with Ctrl F4 and than clicking on the next chart tab. But this goes faster: On your keyboard: Alt W ... this opens the Windows List. Now select the first of the charts you

I have this EA code that seems syntactically correct, but it always fails to compile with an "unexpected token" error. The error appears on different lines each time (like line 75 in the attached screenshot), even though the lines look correct. I have already tried cleaning the code by pasting it

Hello, I am testing on an old account with thousands of closed orders on MT5, that is more than 4 years old. When using functions like HistorySelectByPosition, the entire terminal freezes. I use this function to track the profit of the closed trades when they close. I have also profiled the EA, and

Hello, dear traders! I have noticed the optimization with Cloud Network using only 32 agents but in past (in start of the 2025) was about 440 agents in start of the optimization. Does anyone knows why using so few count of agents

Please, if this function or the complete code is available, I would be grateful to you

Hey all, is this a system error or an issue with my product ? Any way to resolve this ? Thanks in advance

Could some review my code which I've attached below and let me know why do I occasionally get Error Code 10016 indicating it's an Invalid stops ? For reference here is one of the many log messages I receive in the MetaTrader 5's Journal 2023.06.02 00:23:36.885 Trades '5013799956': failed modify

Hi, I'm trying to calculate lot size in a such way so that it will fit in account balance and satisfy broker's margin requirement. The complexity is added by the fact, that my account is in AUD and XAUUSD is in USD. Here is my current calculation: double marginInitial; double marginMaintenance;

I'm writing an EA using mql5. It works fine when I use MetaQuotes Demo Account but when I switch to my brockers' demo account. It throws an error message in the journal when it opens positions: 13:00:12.294 Trades '45767': failed market buy 10 EURUSD sl: 0.99529 [AutoTrading disabled by server]

Ive come across a warning when writing an expert advisor that I don't understand. I have some ideas on why I'm getting it but was hoping someone could clarify. I'm getting the warning possible loss of data due to type conversion warning when compiling the code attached. I know this error is normally

Hi all, After completing the optimisation of an algorithm, I'm unsure how to choose the best result. I often notice a discrepancy between the forward optimisation and the general optimisation results—so which one should I rely on more? Additionally, I've come across a few inconsistencies in the

I have a python script, which I rented a MT5 VPS and run it on its Python Editor. The code does backtesting, based on this it calculated how long should live trading run. But live trading tends to terminates around the 2-3 hour mark. I have print statements on the code for show if termination is due

I need to add otc chart into mt5 or mt4 . How can i do this. I need source code

Hey guys, i am struggling to get run strategy tester on mt5. I want to be offline no connection to a Broker.(is it possible) I created a custom symbol and import ticks(it shows me when open the chart) Now i want to start to test but i get this error. 2024.07 . 01 19 : 33 : 12.612 Tester tester not

My Bot can't take any trades on XAUUSD even the script likes correct. What correction should I bring please. // global variables input string POINT = "====== Numbers are in Points, not Pips ======" ; //===================== input int Magic_Number = 241106 ;

is there anyone who experienced Trading Assistant with ChatGPT API? I would like to start coding a trading Assistant following Stocks and creating alerts with ChatGPT API. My plan is to create a self learning Assitant which improve the performance in time

I have a variable tradeList that is declared as: CHashMap < ulong , TicketData*> *tradeList = new CHashMap < ulong ,TicketData*> (); I have only 1 line that does a .Add to the list. The code looks like

Good morning, I am looking for an experienced, serious, honest developer to discuss a bot, Urgent

Hi all, In this week, when I running backtest in Meta Trader 5. I notice the history data of USDJPY missing form 2010 to before 2025. Anyone same issue with me. Thanks

I'm encountering unexpected behavior with the order_send function from the MetaTrader5 Python library. I believe this might be a bug. Issue Description: Python order_send function returns an OrderSendResult object analogous to the MQL5 MqlTradeResult structure, which includes the attributes: retcode

Hi guys, please can someone help me and write me a complete divergence function with positive and negative RSI by default and hidden? but the trade should be opened as shown in the image. Only the divergence function, with these conditions. thank you Positive divergence Negative divergence Hidden

Hello I created my own EA for my personal use When I back test on one broker the result is profit for example $250 test balance with 0.01 lot end with profit like 10 or 20 percent profit, but when test the same EA on another broker data the result is loss What makes the backtest results differ? and

My goal is get the Position history of my account into excel spreadsheet automatically. No export to CSV or stuff like that. I found a lot of examples to get real time price, open and close trades, bid, ask and etc... nothing about retrieve the trading history. The same way you get the automatic

Anyone use or know of a utility tool that will move the take profit to break even when the position moves against you a certain number of determined pips? Thanks in advance

Greetins, I'm facing trouble starting my recent aquired robot. I can test it with no problem on MQL5, but when I try to add to my real account, I keep getting the anexed image error. I'ts in portuguese, but it says: "Activate automatic trading for xxxxxx". Algotrading is already enabled. The logs I

Hi! I was backtesting my code it was working kinda perfectly but suddenly from yesterday it didnt work...The thing is it was working around 9 pm...but after that at 9.05 IST the same export advisor didn't give me any backtesting results...no issues with the code...where as other codes were running

So I have been reading through https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/451498 and https://www.mql5.com/ru/forum/442814/page2 and from what I understand the iClose/iOpen and things like CopyTime can return wrong values if not synced up and is therefore unreliable? But with both don't you still just check and

Hi guys, I have an EA compiled without any errors but in backtesting it wont do anything, just stucked. There is also no errors in journal. What I'm missing here: #property copyright "Copyright 2023, MetaQuotes Ltd." #property link " https://www.mql5.com " #property version "1.00" #include