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Hi.. I would like to set a button to turn off Buy/Sells & or toggle between the three (Buy/Sell/Both). or at least display what the trading is set to (using the Common option) Or use an indicator to set the Order direction. For example.. I have an EA that opens both Buy and Sells, but I want to use
Good day, I'm not a coder, I know nothing about coding but I've managed to scrap together this script. its pretty simple, when price is above Parabolic SAR-Buy. When Price is below Parabolic Sar-Sell. The problem is that it opens multiple orders on the same candle.(refer to image) Can you please
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Dear, Good day i paid for Subscribe in ur platform and to copy a signal but when i try to copy a signal nothing is happening i press copy and then the browse take me to MT4 and do nothing. i contacted MT4 and My broker and they told me to check up with u can u please help me with this issue Many
I started a job but the developer hasn't been active since 4-14-20. I requested arbitration 4-16-20 a day after the project was suppose to be complete and requested a refund. How long does it take before an administrator approves the request? https://www.mql5.com/en/job/117481
Hi. Traders. Lately I have an interesting question in regards to Risk Reward Ratio. Text book will suggest to keep Risk Reward ratio (take profit /stop loss) > 1.0 often for your trading. One thing I am struck with at the moment is statistical thinking. If your take profit is greater than...
Hello, I own licenses of various products here on mql5. I have three questions around the two of them: I had both of them running on one VPS, and the VPS company shut it down without telling me, because the sponsoring broker did not pay. So I would really like to move to a new VPS, likely AMAZON or
  Two EA's with One Chart?  (16   1 2)
Could I attach two expert adviser's to a single chart? Because when I try to attach the second expert adviser it asks me if I want to remove the first expert adviser. see attachment
Deposited funds through pay pal onto mql5 thinking this would deposit into my broker account,boy was  i wrong(first time doing this haha). I just messaged service desk yesterday and was wondering how long does it typically take to get a response?
Hello, I would like to develop an EA in order to call orderModify() for each open trade, but unfortunately it works only for the currency pair of the chart where the EA is attached. Is there a way to call orderModify() for several currency pairs? Regards Jérôme
I’ve been using MT4 and MT5 for a few months now and I keep losing money. Signals and EAs have gone into drawdown and the only signal that made money was wiped out because of unworkably slow VPS. Adverts for CFD brokers show around 70-90% of CFD investors lose money, so perhaps my experience is
Hello, I would like to know how to open a chart while applying a model created from metatraider
Hello, I migrated my environment to the Meta Traded Virtual Hosting and I want to clear the logs (Terminal and Expert). are there instructions on how clear those logs? I am not sure what happens once I hit the limit set by MetaTrader Virtual Hosting services. Thank you
Hello, When I try to send notification from desktop MT5 to android mobile MT5, I get the following error: "2020.04.27 16:45:56.411 Notifications send request failed (TLS - handshake validation failed)" The platforms I have: Linux Desktop MT5-FXOpen build 2361 (8 March 2020) Mobile MT5 build 2371 (6
The following are the expectations for today's FOMC minutes from the October meeting as provided by the economists at 15 major banks. Goldman Sachs: We expect that the language around forward guidance (including "considerable time") and the assessment of "significant underutilization" in the labor...
i started copy signals from an account but i noticed the lotsize used in the signal account is different from mine. my own lotsize seems to be fixed. please how do i exactly mirror the signal lotsizes
  Major issue with MT5  (21   1 2 3)
Looking at the CLEK20 (crude futures contract @ AMP futures) on the MT5 platform. The contract is currently trading at -8.00bbl, however the platform is frozen at 0.01. I suspect the platform is not equipped to handle negative prices
Hello, I have an EA which sends me by email all the currencies which have a spread lower than 10, but the problem is that I receive full of mail and that the spread is worth 0 in the mail. https://www.casimages.com/i/200424103317382606.png.html
Hello just letting everyone know who may not be aware but mql does have errors and these errors will cost you money if you are not very very careful. Their balance section in the optimizations lags and therefor you can not see accurately where your funds are at in your account. Also they allow for
I have 2 computers using 3 different brokers demos... I can't remember if I tried the IBFX for update... but the North Finance and Alpari demos build 198 each will hang while updating... on both computers. Each computers are windows XP, the 2nd one though is fairly barebones.... very little same...
After moving one of my hosted servers from one account to another, the server won't start. I've tried restarting it from my account dashboard, where clicking on "Start" changes the status icon to 'running' but in the terminal it is not showing as running. I have also tried starting it from the
Hi all, in MT5 what's the corresponding function for iBandsOnArray ? In MT4 we could calculate the iBands on any given Array, how can I achieve the same result in MT5 ? Help is appreciated, thanks. JF
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  Versioning  (1)
Hello everyone! I'm new to mql programming. Just to know, what do you use for versioning your code (mql4 or mql5) ? I saw that metatrder offers a free storage server in SVN. Do you use that? Do you prefere Git? Any others recommendation for versioning? In particular, I read on this forum that many
Hi all! I am currently trying to make my MT5 send me email alerts via Amazon SES SMTP, but it does not work. MT5 works well with my other SMTP server while my Amazon SES service works fine with everything else. But MT5 + Amazon SES how some problems together. Could it be some SMTP Password length...
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Hi, i am trying to convert my mt4 codes which i created earlier into mt5, but the problem is i am not so good with mt5, i have the final code of mt5 which i tried my best to convert, with two errors for Ordersend (mt4 command), kindly take a look and let me know what possible solutions is possible
Hi, can i use copy trader to copy demo accouts to a live one on the virtual hosting
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Hello! Is there a way to get in a run-time the Alerts set in the Alerts tab? I'd like to write a code to change their properties automatically depending on some conditions
What causes some orders not closing at exact take profit level
Please tell me how MathRand() gets values. Can we expect MathRand() to be evenly distributed within the stated range
Hello, I am suprised Metatrader 5 does not have a simple way to add pivot highs and lows to the chart. Does anybody please know if there is anything in the codebase? I would like something simple, like pinpointing the Pivot highs (that has 2 lower bars on the left and right) and pivot lows (that has