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For me, the margin level is the most important indicator when I am testing a strategy on a live or demo account. It allows me to see how far I am from a stop out, and if the depoist was enough. I wish I could see a graph of the margin level on the live account report. I searched in the market and
Many people don't realize how important Level 2 is in trading, especially in day trading. You can have a best strategy, back test it, but it will never be accurate as Level 2 signals. In addition to that, when you add signals from Level 2 and the Tape, you will manage to find best entries and exits
I think I found a bug, or at least a strange behavior, occurring when I choose to use in the Settings form of the Strategy Tester window a currency different from my account currency. I have an EUR account, and if I choose to use USD as currency in the Strategy Tester, I see that this information is
Since the latest builds, at least since 3802 of MT5, the commandline execution of MetaEditor does not work proper anymore. The MetaEditor.exe can be executed with the parameter of the file to be opened in the editor. When the editor is already opened and the specific file is also already opened, the
Hello, I want to open a transaction in the demo account, it gives this message on Bitcoin - only position closing is allowed
I have the following code... From the Main Program I am trying to call a function which would populate variable and arrays which I can use later in order to close specific orders. I need some help, since I keep getting the " array out of range " error. My purpose is to go once through all the
Strategy Tester version 5.0 build 4040. Errors of limit orders processing. Testing mode all ticks, market ticks. The problem is as follows. My Expert Advisor places a limit order to sell or buy. I found that the orders are not triggering correctly. The orders are triggered when the bid crosses in
Hi dear friends, I wrote a python script, as far as I know , this kind of script gets some data as input like from_date to to_date. suppose I want analyses some data between two dates, It will work correctly . Just I have some question : 1.How can I import my script into Metatrader 5 2.for instance
Hello, manually importing every week updated data into MT5 Custom Symbols is quite time consuming. Would be possible, with an EA or utility or anything that can automate this, to massive import data into MT5 from my .csv files? (bars AND ticks)
Hi. I needed direction or suggestion to build Simple EA. The EA I need is for following Scenario: Suppose I have two MT5 in same pc with different broker account login in both. I want to Run EA on both accounts and EAs will keep monitoring positions I opened manually. When due to stop out, the
Hey, Stucked with this for couple hours, Just trying to figure out how I can turn Magic number column on in strategy tester visual mode. I can see this column in MT5 column. Please see this attached screenshot 'magic-number-column-shows-on-mt5-toolbox.png'. But in strategy tester visual mode, the
  New at forex trading  (19   1 2)
Hi, I have trade som at my demo account, and want to go real... If i deposit 500-1000 usd / euro on what leverage should I start at ? whats the best brooker for a small trader ? I have understad not using more than 2 % of deposited money is the way to go, money wise ... I live in sweden and, wounder...
I understand that you can trade options in Metatrader 5, but can Expert Advisors be used on options in the same way they can be used on other instruments? I searched but couldn't find any info. Any help is appreciated
Dear Members I am running a strategy in Tester and come across a situation where the stop loss hit was triggered and yet the price never reached that price level. The attached screen shot will explain it better. Any clues why this is happening
  About MT5 code profiler  (12   1 2)
Some questions about strange things on the data returned by the profiler. Used on an EA running on historical data, the profiling report is : 2021.07.08 15:43:06.269 MQL5 profiler 139098 total measurements, 0/0 errors, 320 mb of stack memory analyzed (92848/1073741824) 2021.07.08 15:43:06.269 MQL5
  Sharpe ratio signal  (28   1 2 3)
Hello, I wanted to know if there is a difference between the sharpe ratio given on the matatrader software when we do a test and the one given in the signals? Curiously, it seems that the value of the sharpe ratio is not the one generally known? Thanks
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I thought that when checking in to MQL5 I will trade on the platforms So I want to withdraw the deposit, please help
Good day dear reader, Recently Metaquotes introduced a Deposit and Withdraw feature in Metatrader five as can be seen on this photo(attached): do you know any broker that has this feature active?? As can be seen on this photo, this broker's feature is not active. Because its greyed out. Thanks
Does anyone know how to use Python scripts in backtesting, as the socket function doesn't seem to work there
Hi all, having a weird issue with my MT5. It has suddenly and randomly changed the data it is displaying in the 'optimisation results' page. It has gone from displaying the net profit in the 'profit' column to gross profit... and the drawdown has gone from displaying equity drawdown to balance
Non-financial issue User: Earl when moving my VPS account from original account to a new broker account it appears to want me to pay a new monthly amount ??? and seems like it will not move account unless I pay again
Hi I write some Custom Indicator in MQL4 and MQL5. I currently use account number and broker name so that each indicator can be executed on only one account. But I have to change this value for every user who wants to buy my indicator. For this reason, I want to take the serial number of the user's
hello everyone i've come to warn you that this person is a first class crook <name removed> i paid him 290 euros for a robot that he has for sale here on the market and to this day i still haven't received it great scammer and crook
Hello All, I found there is option to start MT5 with predefined profile via CMD line like this example. start /D "<INSTALLATION_PATH>" terminal64.exe /portable /profile:<PROFILE_NAME> But how could I switch between profiles via CMD line when MT5 terminal is already active? Is there any
the indicator shows in the terminal /market /purchased but next to the install button it says "product is purchased but not downloaded yet" . When I click install nothing happens . Am I doing something wrong here
How much equity, balance, or deposit does one need in the broker account for MQL service to launch? I paid my $20 for a service, but got message back that my balance was low. I had an account with $100 plus a bonus from broker of $100.
Hi!I normally have created some scripts to aid in my trading.So far until yesterday I had created 5 scripts which I could see from the Insert -> Scripts on Metatrader 5. I have just created mt 6th script but when I look for it in Insert -> Scripts I cannot find it. I know the 6th script was
Hello, How do I turn off MQL5.chats in the Journal? All it is doing is filling up the Journal for no reason at all for me. As below. 2023.11.03 12:07:54.198 MQL5.chats activated for '888888' thanks and regards
About a week ago updated OS as well as updated few drivers on my laptop such as video, wifi, bluetooth. After loading MT5 profile which worked before update noticed that it no longer works. Attempted to attach EA to the chart to no avail on MT5. 2 EAs in fact stopped working with zero activations
Hello so how would i go about suggesting an update for mt5? i'm thinking a alert update so you can add any sounds you want to use for you own alerts on indicators ea's etc i think it will change mt5 for the better