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Hello MT community,  i decided to study and try to understand the forex markets and hopefully not lose all the money I plan to invest.  I started to see a lot of tools and indicators that aren't in the market. Some of them promise you become rich over the night some of them have less high promises ....

Hi all! Thank you for looking at this thread. I'm writing some basic indicators in MQL5, and I am currently writing one for a simple average true range with no smoothing. Compiling the code leads to no errors or warnings. For some reason when I apply the EA to a chart it loads on fine but then on...

Hello, someone can tell me because when I connect the Mt5 to the internet (broker), the symbols of the custom folder are deleted. Thank you

I would like to export the Mt4 manager api data to website like client's data, register account from website, news feeds etc,. how to export the data from api to website

I have purchased a gold bot, expecting to get some documents on how to install and how to operate the robot. Anyone can help pls. Tq n rgds

I'm subscriber in some copy trade provider ,I have a problem about lots size , I invest in forex at 1500$ (initial deposits is just 500$ and increasing 100$,200$ every month until 1500$)  -if balance 500$ my lots size is 0.13 ( the Ratio is 500/0.13 = 3846) -if balance 1500$ my lots size is 0.31...

Halo everyones! I am new to forex trading . Happy to find this forum where I can exchange knowledge and apply it to my newly Forex interest

Does anyone use this pattern called pascal's triangle to trading? Pascal triangle is used in probability calculations, also it has fibonacci on it. I know fibonacci is not very well accepted by some traders, but it's uses in  probability seem very interesting, so anyone found a way to use this on...

since updating my windows i have been unable to attach my indicators onto charts??

Hey All , This subject may have been addressed the closing all orders function seems to have gone.  Oh! and when you do go to the close window , the price starts going backwards, maybe another form of slippage occurs.

Hi, I have goods results on robots I have developping, but I don´t have much money for trade; is possible I sell this robots? I know that there is a section for it (Market), so If somebody has experience on it or have another idea how can I negociate this, I would be glad. I think that is necessay...

A button that, for example, instead of EURUSD, will display USDEUR. I presented this suggestion as a feature request to service desk. And, as usual, they rejected or dismissed with the typical copy/paste answer i see each time i make a suggestion: "thank you, but we don't have this in our plans" It...

i have subcribed already, the provider placed order but, No order is placed on my mt4, i do not know what is wrong. Any body help me please!

I created a custom symbol that can get the latest data quotes on the internet in a timely manner. How to display these quotes on time on the mt5 chart? How the custom symbol dynamically displays the quote in the mt5 chart (well, there is also a data source). who can help me? Thank you

Hi, Can we determine or is there any indicator that sees market is slow or fast moving or great volatility

Hello, does anyone know how to avoid that the log of the Strategy Tester agent writes info about "Ask", "Bid", "Volume", "Last", "Time", "Flags" into the log file? This let's the log file becoming huge in a few seconds! It's full of lines like this "JI 0 22:40:27.198 OCO_TS_CCO_MT5_v2.18 (EURUSD...

Hello, I have an EA and this error (4107). Please if any one can help I would be glad. The error 4107 for OrderSend() function is disturbing me .. Note that it passed the Market Auto-Validation successfully with no error(s) in addition, It is trading on back test & real time with no error(s). It is...

Hi all, News Trading can be very lucrative if you know how to apply the right techniques. It's still very risky since it involves great exposure to high volatility during the Economic Event release. I will be sharing tips for only high impact events but I must warn that they are my personal ideas...

Hey guys, I've just started trading forex and I'm looking for any tips you might have for beginners? Cheers

Hello there, I have the following formula: int tp=50;double lot = (8 /tp)/(SymbolInfoDouble(Symbol(), SYMBOL_TRADE_TICK_VALUE)); // fyi SymbolInfoDouble(Symbol(), SYMBOL_TRADE_TICK_VALUE) =1 When I print the value of lot is always 0. I don't understand why... Thanks,

Strategy Tester on my mt4 is too slow it takes . it wasn't like this before .. anyone know why ? and solution ????

when i recompile my ea and then sync it, orders get closed. what could be the problem? any ideas?

Does anyone know if meta trader 4 is compatible with windows server 2016? sorry we are new to this.

The Ea is essentially based on Daily pivot points. The regular behavior is to buy at R1, R2 and R3, and sell at S1, S2 and S3. You can invert this behavior selecting the Inverse behavior mode as well Breakeven 2 pips Trailing Stop in percentage  trail step in pips  set to 1 My issue:    The Ea will...

Metatrader 4 has an alert function that is listed here  https://www.metatrader4.com/en/trading-platform/help/overview/terminal/terminal_alerts It states that one of the options for an alert is to preform an event like play audio or run an executable script Event – the action to be performed. This...

Hi all , Im a new bit for MT5, and now I face a problem about the indicator redraw ... I have a moving average and arrow in the chart, first run everything looks just fine（see attach #1） but after cpuple minutes , the indicator redraw seems go wrong (see attach #2)  here is my code...

It looks cool, but does it really helps to code better? Now i'm using only 2 colours, 1 for the code, and 2 for the comments, i fell like it's more readable. So is there more people here with the same opinion or its just me?

Dear All, what is the reliable backtesting method for candlestick charts based EA and Renko offline chart based EA

Hi, I have a custom indicator ('A') that is called only by iCustom function from my another custom indicator('B'). In OnInit function of indicator 'A', I always check some requirements and if it is not OK, I will return INIT_FAILED. When I call indicator 'A' by iCustom function, it always return...

In example, today the volume tick for bar AUDCAD at 6:30 am, just formed, was 1292. At the end of day the tick volume for that bar had changed to 2140. I'm using a demo account of ICMarkets broker. Please help with this problem.