The MetaTrader 4 update will be released on Friday, February 21, 2025. This version provides important security improvements, error fixes, and platform stability enhancements. The update will be available through the Live Update system
The MetaTrader 4 update will be released on Friday, May 24, 2024. This version provides important security improvements, error fixes, and platform stability enhancements. The update will be available through the Live Update system
Any questions from newcomers on MQL4 and MQL5, help and discussion on algorithms and codes
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In this thread I want to begin to help those who really want to understand and learn programming in the new MQL4 and want to easily switch to MQL5 - the languages are very similar. This blog will be a good place to discuss tasks, algorithms of their solution and any other questions concerning MT
If you have questions about MQL4, MT4, MetaTrader 4, please post in this thread. Especially when your questions are related to trading functions
This topic will discuss undocumented ways of working with the mql4 language , examples of solving certain problems. It would be desirable that this branch would be closer in content to the FAQ, than to the discussion. I suggest that all experienced programmers share their solutions and programming
I have contacted the service desk about this issue. This is what I sent them.... Hello, Please either remove the option to download MT4 from your website or fix it so that it does actually download MT4 and not MT5. We are getting sick and tired of answering the same question over and over again
Hi Its my 1st time, i want to run my ea on MT4 but facing this issue, How can i run my EA on vps plz guide . thx
Hello MQL5 Community, I'd appreciate it if you could help me with the following errors in my code. The first is at the beginning of my "int OnInit()" code, and the second is at the end: "return(point);" I had previously made some minor changes to the code in order to resolve other errors. I'm having
calling custom indicator inside bot/ea through resources that has nested custom indicator
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Say we have a few custom indicators in the bot/EA:
#resource "\\Indicators\\indi1.ex4"
#resource "\\Indicators\\indi2.ex4"
#resource "\\Indicators\\indi3.ex4" (has a resource to indi4.ex4) i.e. 2 level nested
#resource "\\Indicators\\indi4.ex4"
All these custom indicators work by themselves...
[SOLVED] Again the dreaded "No trading operations" error - something wrong with the auto-validation?
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EDIT #1: I've set the max spread allowed to 0.0 in the input settings following the recommendation of @ Fernando Carreiro (thanks!). I've also added a function to close the trades I'm opening on every tick (I wasn't closing them before). Finally there was an issue in the "RunChecksBeforeOrderSend"
Hi all How do you solve stop loss slippage. On a demo account account the stoploss is hits the stoploss perfectly but on a real account it's a different story (Using the same ECN Broker). Below I attached images to look at the different Stop loss for demo account: For real account here here is the
SOME EA's working fine on MT4 but NOT when migrated to VPS - They have Indicators with custom timeframes
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I have built some EA's that work fine on MT4 terminal with 'Autotrading' switched on. But when I migrate them to VPS they will not trade. The only unique thing that I can see is the EA's that do not work on VPS use Indicators on Custom Timeframes, for example: Moving Average on a 2 Hour timeframe
Hi, I purchased the VPS hosting package and have synchronised all to run on the server. How can I check the connection speed? This shows 52.49, and I would prefer the 3.81ms. How to get the speed up? Regards, Bruce
Hello! I hope the moderators won't cut me, I am running a free online training course "How to make your own trading robot for the Metatrader terminal in 7 days". The course is designed for traders who use MT4 terminal and want to learn how to program EAs, but have absolutely no knowledge of
I can not download the free demo of my own product . Free Demo download is not available. It says "İnstallation Failed" What is wrong about it. I dont know which unit to ask that
All lessons of Codersguru: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/175653 Mql - Metatrader Development Course | www.metatrader.info https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/172885 All Codersguru lessons + questions/replies and so on are on this section Metatrader 4 mql 4 - Development course - Forex-TSD Book: https...
I'm looking for someone who can convert a basic mt4 indicator to trading view pine script... Can anyone who could help me with that
Hi everybody, I used DeepSeek (DS) yesterday to request a simple script.mq4 codes, DS provided me nearly 100 versions of scripts but all versions are NOT working at all, it took me about 5 hours. I kept on asking modifications and corrections, but the DS finally turned up to be "server busy" to
Hi All, If a person has my investor password. Is he able to see my EA name, which is display on chart on left side on top? Or able to see in logs, Journerl
I am considering getting one of those new Snapdragon Windows 11 laptops (such as Lenovo Slim 5) that run on ARM64 architecture instead of X86. I know MT4 doesn't have a native ARM version and needs to be run using the Prism emulator built in to ARM64 Windows version. I am curious if the emulated
Hi everyone, since i've developed around 3 sub-versions of an EA Strategy, I'd like to run multiple back-tests at once or at least 2 backtest together so i can save up some time ... is that possible? what would be the ways to do that? Btw i'm using a RDP from MacBook to access a Windows VPS
It is the thread to download good elite section indicators mainly developed for elite section and for public sections as well.
Hello, Does anyone know where I can find an indicator that takes in price values, which when reached or surpassed will cause the indicator to send a sound alert
Hello all, I'd like to know which is the exact formula (used by brokers) to calculate preventively the monetary value of a SL or a TP. I'll explain better: if I set a pending order or I send an order to the market and I put mouse over my SL or TP level, the platform says me how much (in deposit...
How to Subscribe to a MT4 Signal (new instructions, after 1065 version upgrade)
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Below are step by step instructions, of how to subscribe to a MΤ4 signal: 1. Register a MQL5 account: https://www.mql5.com/en/auth_register 2. Open your MT4 platform and go to Menu >> Tools >> Optios and click on the Community tab. There you put your Login and Password of your MQL5 account
Hello everyone, I’ve been experimenting with my Expert Advisor in MT4’s Strategy Tester using the generic algorithm optimizer, and I’ve noticed a puzzling inconsistency: the parameter combination that delivers outstanding results during optimization almost flat-lines when I plug the same inputs into
Hi all, I am programming an indicator and I wonder if it is possible to use non-standard timeframes in MQL4. Basically, I am thinking of using M10, H2, H6, H8 and H12 which are all available in MT5. Is this somehow possible to use them in MQL4? Currently, I was trying something like iHigh(_Symbol
Can someone make it to have alert only on first new signal? Thanks
I'm aware that the subject of point value, delta lot value, and related calculations has been extensively discussed on this forum. Until recently, none of my customers had encountered issues with point value calculations when using my products. However, I've encountered a unique problem for a client

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