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Since a few weeks, the resolution of MT5 running on Linux is broken. It seems the program is running in low resolution (see screenshot). It also seems the Window-Resolution doesn't do anything (clicking on higher resolutions doesn't seem to change anything, menu titles, font size, charts, everything

MT5 Mac Drag and drop stop loss is working intermittently. I drag to the desired location, and it just disappears. I have to do 6-7 times in a row before it holds. Anyone else encountering this issue

I am tring to import hystorical data on MT5 (I have downloaded them from Dukascopy with a speficif tool). I have a csv file with tick data. I follow the common step to import them (create a custm symbol, and import tick data from the following window The import succeds but a strange thing appens: if

I uploaded EA for sale but there was an error warning that test on EURUSD, H1 there are no trading operations test on NZDUSD, H1 there are no trading operations test on GBPUSDcheck, M30 there are no trading operations test on XAUUSDcheck, Daily there are no trading operations How do I fix it

Hi, I would like to know how many charts I can run with active Expert Advisors on MQL5 VPS. Is there any technical or practical limit per account? I want to run multiple EAs on different symbols and timeframes. Thank you

Hello, I'm planning to purchase a local VPS for my trading activities. Which option would be best in terms of lower latency, so I can have faster execution for automated trading? Also, if I use an MQL5 VPS, how is it different from a regular VPS? Will I still need a laptop or PC, or can I run

Hi, i have a problem with my platform. I can't seem to change the colour of any indicators. I have tried custom indicators as well as built in indicators and the issue persists. I have tried reinstalling my mt5 several times, to no effect. Please have a look at the picture below. i also recorded a...

Hello everyone, I’m currently running MetaTrader 5 on Ubuntu 24.04 64 bits and I’m experiencing a strange issue — certain windows like the market watch , terminal , or trading panels are not appearing properly. I’ve attached a screenshot to clarify the issue. Everything else seems to work fine, but

Hello, I'm having an issue where compiling a .mq5 file from the command line (MetaEditor64.exe /compile:<path> /log:compile.log) silently fails without generating an .ex5, no errors and no logged issues. I stumbled upon this issue whilst using Visual Studio Code in combination with the MQLTools

Hello, I am trying to use the shared projects functionality in mql5. Unfortunately I'm having some problems. Yesterday I've started the project, invited some people, updated and committed to storage. All the good stuff. Today, I wanted to add another person via the "Project settings". This is where

Hi, I'm having problems logging in to my account. I made an account a little while back and gave it my email address and phone number. Now when I try to log in it says authentication is denied, and when I try to recover my password it says there is no user with such email. So I made a new account

Hi All, Before anyone advice check this and that, i have already explored and getting to the point it does not support or FAILED to install due to error "A debugger has been found running in your system....", i tried Raspbian OS 64-bit and also 32-Bit no luck. Other wine related software works well

Hi I have tried to download MetaTrader5 to a Raspberry Pi, I am currently testing out some automation software that I want to run on the Raspberry Pi, But found it tough to download to the Pi. I tried pip apt-install MetaTrader5 but haven't had any luck, It seems like the file can not be located

I am using a US broker, could the "netting mode" be the issue? Thanks

Guys, I have been trading since 2011, I have tried nearly 2000 strategies, I have build almost 2000 Eas and indicators, on this olatform and on other platform, but I have not really found what works, what actually works? and does such a thing exists

Good day dear forum members. After reading the forum a bit, I came across several threads on arbitrage and pair trading . Judging by the threads, some are interested and some are trying it. I used to dabble in this topic a long time ago, but my knowledge was not enough. Now I am a complete mess in

This thread won't be about a question or problem, but rather about the anouncement of the presentation and documentation of an exciting trading concept. I plan to do a series of postings here in order to keep you guys updated. Anybody who has an opinion on the topic, please don't hesitate to comment...

How i can increasing gap trading for 1 minute trading for Binary Market. In live market there have lots of gap in 1 min chart. I want to trade in Binary option live market for 1 minute candle. What will be the strategy for it

This is the thread about books related for stocks, forex, financial market and economics. Please make a post about books with possible cover image, short description and official link to buy (amazon for example). Posts without books' presentation, without official link to buy and with refferal links...

I just started this thread as a continuation of the talking made on this topic (we can read it). Or ...to make it shorter: it was some discussion about forecasting/predicting of the next candle or direction of the movement or market condition evaluation. And it was around standard indiocators in

Hello, I am sharing my strategy, which I am using for manual trading, and I am planning to build an EA based on this strategy soon. This strategy works for all currency pairs and timeframes, but the recommended timeframes are M1, M5, M15, and M30. This strategy is currently giving me an 80% win

Today on EurUsd, in on hour, the famous ADP Non Farm (12:15 gmt) The peak of today (point of control aka peak time of price PTP) is in the vacuum of yesterday. We stay out of market, too dangerous. I prefer trade another day. I wait & see. The good trade was the counter trend near the yesterday PTP...

Hello all I have tested many strategies and many other stuff but i did not found them more accurant then basic analysis of the market. i mean,the Price Patterns. 1. harmony indicators : here and here. 2. candelsticks reversal patterns is here. 3. Price Patterns : - Price Patterns

Considering the potential delay in investor accounts, the stop loss set at 100-200 pips on the provider’s account could be hit faster on the investor’s end. This happens due to execution differences caused by delays, even if the provider's analysis has accurately identified the market’s power

Simple Ichimoku System. Some members remember Ichimoku informational template for Asctrend M5 elite section system thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/174756 and new set of this system from this post. It is so called Ichimoku informational template to check market condition on H4/D1 timeframe...

Here is a new indicator I threw together this weekend. This is the beginning, I'm going to add more indicators to this one as I go along. Basically, this indicator gives buy and sell signals on multiple timeframes based upon stochastics and RSI. I was going to wait until I posted this one but even...

Some people say that it is the best signal system in the world. It is very famous system and it was developed in the interesting way: Russians recognized this system for MetaTrader some years ago and this western trading system was not very profitable (I am talking about MetaTrader only) but had as

Here is a suggestion for a possible trading system... System one is MT4-Xard777.rar and System two is XARD-BOX.rar Enjoy... All the best Xard777

Hello I'm looking for historical tick data of MNQU5 if someone can help me get that data in csv, it would be appriciated

can anyone help me with a broker that will allow me to trade stocks and crypto on Meta Trader 5

I used to use metatrader4 when I was messing with Forex, but I have funds that I'd like to use out of my stock porfolio to trade one particuarl stock which goes up and down $1-2/day pretty much all the time. I'd like to set metatrader up to say, sell at a certain price, then buy at $2.00 lower, then

Hello there, I'm trying to trade on, Micro E_mini Nasdaq-100 index futures, As far as I know their symbol is MNQU5, I just cant seem to get them to show on MT5

I am searching for an Exchange applying MT5 account to trade Cryptos via MT5 Bybit was having this , but they stopped trading cryptos in MT5 account as was the best exchange and broker for trading all , but unfortunately they stopped it share me your knowledge please about any Cryptos exchange with

If BTC/USD has support at $68,000 and resistance at $70,000, what type of group or person would keep dumping at $70,000 when they make very little profit from a buy at $69,000

Hi, I have data export from NT8 and need to import it in MT5 but the formats compatible with the two platforms are clearly different. Is there a process/tool to automate this

Hi @ all, i´m new with MT 5 and wanted to know if its possible to trade on sim/demo account other markets than forex? For instance, NQ, SP500, etc. For now i only see forex markets to choose from. Any ideas? Thanks

MetaQuotes Software and oneZero Financial Systems announce a new connectivity gateway for integration with Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., available through the oneZero Hub product. The gateway provides the possibility to trade stocks, futures and other exchange traded instruments on the largest...

Hi. How much would it cost to make this DOM?

good day. I'm new here, and I can't find an answer. Please advise: I downloaded a couple of "free" EAs to MT5 and I need to backtest them via "test". But I have a problem that it is counting my profit as a few dollars. I have something set up wrong. I need to set it up for back-testing on stocks and

Hello all, I am new to the MT5 platform & my background is in trading E-Mini S&P500 futures. Of course, I am interested in algorithmic trading but I have not been able to find any source code for this particular instrument. I would appreciate any guidance or assistance in finding some expert

Hey guys, dumb questions from a noob I just created a demo account on ****** to try their MT5 and I'm trying to find the emini futures in there (S&P 500) but I simply can't. Their website says they support it, but I just can't find it. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here

SP500 and NASDAQ Indexes are not up to date and have been disabled for some time now. Is anyone else experiencing this

I know this is possible on demo accounts, but on real accounts? Anyone who operates with this strategy on a real account

How many people are actually using EA for their trading & if you're a profitable EA user comment 1. I just wanna see if its durable to code myself a profitable EA. Thanks

Good morning everyone, I was wondering if anyone has experience with any AI that can really help you with writing MQL5 code and, above all, that understands the difference between MQL5 and MQL4. From personal experience, I have tried several AIs, I can say that my experience with them is rather

How to Use mql5 ea free demo in live demo account for testing ... many of the time strategy tester and ea performance doesn't match. Sorry if i asked stupid question

Hi all, I want to use the strategy tester to perform a Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis of an optimum Set of variables already obtained with the fast optimization. I wanted to start from the optimum set, and perform 10,000 simulations with random perturbations around the parameter's optimum values

Hello friends, I want to run a timer every 15minutes at fixed 15min candle times. for example : at 9:00 - 9:15 - 9:30 - 9:45 - 10:00 -10:15 .. and so on.. Please guide and share the code if you already have it. Thanks, Rocky

I am baffled but suspect there is an easy solution. I have been trying to understand how to use Python (and AI) in conjunction with my MT5 EA. I use the Visual Studio CODE application. I have made some initial progress - i.e. can Initialize, login , retrieve account data etc. I have been accessing a

Hi All! Im having a problem using the strategy tester. After an update of mt5, the strategy tester is not respecting the stop loss or take profit anymore. (picture attached) The code is simple and it was working perfectly before. And it is working in real time in a demo account too. I tried...

As I was writing my code (posting it is not relevant for this subject) I've run into some problems related to various functions where I declared parameters as const& (constant references) to objects. These errors were caused by the library. When I looked in the library code, sure enough, no method

hi friends, I have been testing my EA that's doesn't have a panel info the test goes faster but when its have panel info its so slow can take the hole day but now I decide to have two copies one with panel info and one without a panel info for faster test I realize that without a panel info the

Hi, I am testing my Gold 1 minute EA, and it's giving me different results on different brokers though all brokers I am testing are ECN and good reputable brokers but at the end of the day results are always different. I understand there is always price and order placement difference but still some

Please anyone should help me out on this EA. It's opening perfectly based on the indicator signal but i added a martingale feature which will happen after a loss trade. but it's not working . please check the code. #property copyright "Copyright 2025, AGTech Ltd." #property link

Hello traders, I wanted to build a simple code that shows my name on a Rectangle Label. So, I wrote it as follows: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Object test v1.0.mq5 | //|

Hello everyone, I will start this thread by first stating that if you are a beginner and have no high level programming experience you are better off reading other threads. I intend this thread to be for the very experienced programmers with some Artificial Intelligence background. I am attaching...

I have an issue with a suspected Memory Retention (Bug?) in Container Reuse (CArrayInt). I tried ChatGPT but could not get much from it, but it took on the onus of drafting for me a detailed query that precisely describes the observed behaviour and the concern I'm facing, including relevant

hi guys i have this code when i switch in gold in M15 draw the trend line resistence, if go in M30 not draw a trend line resistence #property copyright "Copyright 2012." #property link "stfn77@gmail.com" #property version "1.00" #property description "Automatic trend lines" #property

My indicator does not place any trade, so here is the issue I don't understand when I tried to upload an indication on MQL5, but the validation report give me this below: test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) -EURUSD: no history data from 2023.05.01 00:00 to 2023.06.01 00:00 If anyone can give advise what the

i even ask from ais they couldn't help

Require any coding expert help to allow for new price source (O+H+L+C)/4 or (O+H+L+C)*0.25 to the RSI.mq5. Thanks in advance

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| SpikeDetection.mq5 | //| Advanced Spike Detection System | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ #property indicator_chart_window

Hi Can someone help me to know which piece of code is causing Zero Divide error, so I can fix it. 2024.03.09 13:30:06.707 login (build 4153) 2024.03.09 13:30:06.722 template file tester.tpl added. 7012 bytes loaded 2024.03.09 13:30:06.725 expert file added: Experts\Algo\EAToTest\TestEA_iVP-v6.ex5

Hello, I am fairly new to MQL5 and I'm working on my first small project and so for some very strange reason I've been trying to get my compiler to open the <Technical\Technical.mqh> include file but it just won't work no matter what I do. I've tried reinstalling MT5 several times already. My code

Hello All, I`m a mt5 newbee and would like to ask for help. Since several weeks I serach for this indicator for MT5: https://www.tradingview.com/script/2KE8wTuF-Indicator-WaveTrend-Oscillator-WT/ Is it possible to "translate" into mt5-code? // // @author LazyBear // // If you use this code...

Are there any indicators/tools/methods for determining cycles? I am interested in finding daily cycles and also finding cycles on shorter time frames as well. As a side note:Does anyone know of certain times of the day when price is likely to reverse its direction? thank you

Dear trader  Is there any theory for market statistics histogram. I don't know what is it Sincerely,

Hey does anyone have a good suggestion for a indicator that provides signals for forex pairs on the 1-5 min time frames

Hi, Was wondering where I could get my hands on the ADX indicator with color changing when above a certain level

As title, i've already set INDICATOR_LEVELCOLOR = clrNONE but it still show level color on initialize. for ( int i = 0 ; i < 8 ; ++i) { IndicatorSetDouble ( INDICATOR_LEVELVALUE , i, i + 1 ); IndicatorSetInteger ( INDICATOR_LEVELCOLOR , i, clrNONE ); IndicatorSetInteger (

I want to make an indicator by this code - https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/39835 But i do not understand it properly. How to use it for binary option put and call. What's the meaning lower wick number? Upper wick number and body number? How can i count it for buyer and sellers power? Can anyone

Hi all, I've created a custom lorentz curve indicator inspired from one of them in TradingView however, when I use it in my EA with iCustom() and I copy the CopyBuffer ( hLorentz , 3 , 1 , SIGNAL_BUFFER_SIZE , stateBuf ) != SIGNAL_BUFFER_SIZE ), it says the 0 index values are different for

Dear Viewer, Can somebody please convert this small MT4 indicator to MT5 version, would be highly thankful 🙏🏻

Check out the new article: Automating Trading Strategies in MQL5 (Part 24): London Session Breakout System with Risk Management and Trailing Stops . In this article, we develop a London Session Breakout System that identifies pre-London range breakouts and places pending orders with customizable

New article Payments and payment methods is published: MQL5.community built-in services offer great opportunities both to MQL5 developers and ordinary traders with no programming skills. But all these features can't be implemented without in-house secure payment system, that provides a convenient

MeanReversionTrendEA : The EA automatically trades based on trend and mean reversion signals with validated parameters. Author: Mustafa Seyyid Sahin

Check out the new article: MQL5 Trading Tools (Part 5): Creating a Rolling Ticker Tape for Real-Time Symbol Monitoring . In this article, we develop a rolling ticker tape in MQL5 for real-time monitoring of multiple symbols, displaying bid prices, spreads, and daily percentage changes with scrolling

Check out the new article: Reimagining Classic Strategies (Part 14): Multiple Strategy Analysis . In this article, we continue our exploration of building an ensemble of trading strategies and using the MT5 genetic optimizer to tune the strategy parameters. Today, we analyzed the data in Python

Check out the new article: Developing a robot in Python and MQL5 (Part 1): Data preprocessing . Developing a trading robot based on machine learning: A detailed guide. The first article in the series deals with collecting and preparing data and features. The project is implemented using the Python

Pending tread EA (Best for Gold) : The Pending_tread EA is a versatile and easy-to-use trading robot designed to automate the placement and management of multiple pending orders arranged in a grid pattern above and below the current market price. This EA is well-suited for scalping strategies and

New article Learn how to design a trading system by ATR has been published: In this article, we will learn a new technical tool that can be used in trading, as a continuation within the series in which we learn how to design simple trading systems. This time we will work with another popular

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: Enhancing Transformer Efficiency by Reducing Sharpness (SAMformer) . Training Transformer models requires large amounts of data and is often difficult since the models are not good at generalizing to small datasets. The SAMformer framework helps

Check out the new article: Creating 3D bars based on time, price and volume . The article dwells on multivariate 3D price charts and their creation. We will also consider how 3D bars predict price reversals, and how Python and MetaTrader 5 allow us to plot these volume bars in real time. It all

Check out the new article: MQL5 Wizard Techniques you should know (Part 38): Bollinger Bands . Bollinger Bands are a very common Envelope Indicator used by a lot of traders to manually place and close trades. We examine this indicator by considering as many of the different possible signals it does

Check out the new article: Data Science and ML (Part 46): Stock Markets Forecasting Using N-BEATS in Python . N-BEATS is a revolutionary deep learning model designed for time series forecasting. It was released to surpass classical models for time series forecasting such as ARIMA, PROPHET, VAR, etc

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: Contrastive Pattern Transformer . The Contrastive Transformer is designed to analyze markets both at the level of individual candlesticks and based on entire patterns. This helps improve the quality of market trend modeling. Moreover, the use of

sSyncScroll : Script for the charts simultaneous scrolling. The script is launched on one chart. When scrolling any of the charts, the rest ones are also shifted. Such a position is marked by vertical lines. It is better to turn on the "Shift end of the chart from the right border" option when using

boom index spike pattern : This MetaTrader 5 (MT5) custom indicator, boomSpikeBoxMitigationFinal.mq5, detects a specific bullish spike pattern on the chart and marks entry zones using rectangles and horizontal lines. Once the price returns to ("mitigates") the entry level, the entry line is

Hi!. I'm asking for help, because i'm not really understanding what should i do to avoid error 4066. Basically, my goal is to store the value of iTime and iBars inside some variables right when the bot gets initialized. The problem is that i cannot do initialize the variables in the OnInit()

void OnStart () { int id = ChartID (); Print (id); ChartApplyTemplate (id, "Momentum.tpl" ); } Testing with this simplified script, I proved a problem in my code: I can see id value, but template failed to apply. But if i use ChartApplyTemplate (0,"Momentum.tpl") instead, it works great. I

Hi guys, Do you know any registry key or other procedure to get the path to the data folder used by MT4 (the one in APPDATA...) ?

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Hello everyone, I am a new member of this community and I must say I am superbly impressed by the members of this community not only for their knowledge but also for their dedication and sincerity towards trading as a business. In the country where I come from (India) trading is viewed as just...

Hi there, Can somebody help me how to detect fractal s and if the fractal corresponds with a long/short trend in a graph? Thx a million

The error halts the CheckForPennant function before it can draw trendlines (lines ~510–540) or breakout arrows (lines ~570–590). The logs don’t show messages like "Successfully drew upper trendline" or "Bullish condition met," confirming the process stops at the error. The pattern is detected

You may have already noticed that the most interesting things now happen mainly on the MQL5.community . MQL4.com is about to be switched to the data archive mode. Only Book and Documentation sections will remain on MQL4.com by November. Besides, the entire MQL4.com Forum content is to be transferred

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

Hello, I'm not receiving notification anymore, and It seems to be related to limitation. I have set "Trailing Stop" on a few trades and activated "transaction notification" this lead to a ton of notification (that I don't want too much for "Trailing Stop"). So now, it seems that it was not working

MT4 has a total 32 step of chart zoom levels, but we usually can change only 6 zoom levels( 1 > 2 > 4 > 8 > 16 > 32) from chart menu. I tried the script below, but only the above 6 zoom levels are shown. //------------------------------------------------------------------ void OnStart () { for (

Read public Channel telegram messages <!> Havent tested constant refreshing of messages.I wonder if this will be blocked in scale -by telegram. <!> add the adress https://t.me in webrequest allowed urls #property copyright "Copyright 2019"#property link "https://www.mql5.com"#property version

You can write tasks here. Screenshots with examples of what do you want are obligated

Hi,, Does anyone know how i can export live data from my mt4 to someone else's computer in real time, the balace, eqyity etc? Not via a third party company such as mql4 or myfxbook. Only direct. Thanks, Yossi