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Hello all, I have a problem installing an indicator on Mac OS X. I downloaded the indicator for Mac and put it in the indicators directory, as advised somewhere on the net. But the indicator does not show up when I open the MT5 application (I have quit and re-opened it a number of times)....

I have developed an MT5 FX EA trading all MAJOR and MINOR pairs. It is supported by the entire available historical data (18 years) with over 10,000 trades, and over 2 years of Live trading with 300 trades. The 300 Live trades matches the Backtest of the same date. As on live there are only 300

Hello, when I subscribe to a signal, my journal says XAUUSD , USOil and SILVER are not found but my broker definitely has these symbols available. Is there some mapping settings somewhere or something I need to change? It unsubscribed me automatically after it could not find one of the symbols, can

Hi, when installing the latest version of metatrader 5 the message "a debugger has been found running in your system" is shown and the installation aborts. steps to reproduce: wget https://download.mql5.com/cdn/web/metaquotes.ltd/mt5/mt5setup.exe rm -R .mt5 export WINEDEBUG=-all WINEDEBUG=-all

My MetaQuotes ID has been exposed; I am now receiving spam messages in MT5 on my phone. What should I do

MetaQuotes has launched new MQL5.community information channels on Facebook, X.com (Twitter), and Telegram. These channels provide daily publications of relevant technical materials from the MQL5.com Articles and CodeBase sections. They are designed to promptly update developers on algorithmic

Hello everyone, I was able to resolve the MetaTrader 5 crash issue on macOS Tahoe. The complete step-by-step procedure is attached to this post as images. The solution involved updating the Wine version used by MetaTrader 5 and disabling the order-execution sounds, which were triggering the crash

I am experiencing a persistent issue with MetaTrader 5 running on Linux (currently Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, but also tested on Arch) via Wine 10. The Problem: When modifying a transaction or an alert on the chart using the drag-and-drop method, the object is lost if the cursor stops moving for even

Does anyone have an idea why every day I get USDJPY orders filled in my account, that are not issued by the signal provider that I'm subscribed to in that terminal? I just manually close them but it's very worrying. I uninstalled that terminal and downloaded a new one, named it something else in my

Hello, I paid for one month of MetaTrader VPS for trading account 110205219. VPS subscription ID: 6881611 Server: VPS Amsterdam 09 The VPS appears inside MetaTrader 5, but it does not appear in the Hosting section of my MQL5 profile. Every migration attempt fails with: - failed to send migration

The new MQL5 Community website at http://www.mql5.com keeps developing. We invite all of you to make your contribution to this development. The new MQL5 is the evolutionary continuation of MQL4. The new language is characterized by the support of object oriented programming, by a higher code

I recently canceled a VPS subscription and the refund was credited to my MQL5 account balance, not back to my credit card. My current account balance is not enough to purchase the new EA that I want. I also cannot withdraw the balance because it is below the minimum withdrawal amount. My question

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

Hi everyone, I produced an ea that works at m5 on Xau/usd nasdaq us30 and ger40. I ran several tests without any problems and ran all the Monte Carlo simulations. I wanted to publish it here on MQL5, but it doesn't pass the tests, and I see errors with EURUSD h1 in the report. What should I do? It

Hello everyone, I wanted to share some lessons learned about parameter optimization, hoping to get your feedback and maybe some ideas to improve. 1. Walk- forward optimization beats simple single-period optimization. A strategy that looks great on one year of history often breaks on the next six

What are the best risk management tools you have used in trading and why

Rather than increasing deposits, I've been studying a staged compounding approach where each new stage is funded by profits from the previous one. The concept isn't about predicting the market, it's about structuring risk differently . Let me give you a Numerical Example here : Stage 1: Risk $10 →

hello, any link or topic about how to identify BREAKOUTS and HOW TO USE FIBO in trading. Thank you!

I would like to start a technical discussion about Expert Advisors for algorithmic trading. I believe that identifying the market trend is certainly important, regardless of the approach used (price action, technical indicators, neural networks, etc.). However, I have the impression that the real

This topic is created in order to have a guide and discussion about multi strategy EAs. I have seen this topic appeared in some topics but the discussion tends to die after some comments. So the intention is to have the topic in here and don't let it die

I've been developing trading EAs for about a year now, and one thing I keep running into is the same issue over and over: lagging indicators. Take a simple trend-following strategy using an EMA Golden Cross and Death Cross. It can perform really well in certain market conditions, but over time it

Over the years, I’ve tested and observed many Expert Advisors, especially on XAUUSD. And there’s something that keeps repeating itself again and again. Most EAs that show amazing backtests on gold rely on some form of martingale or grid logic. At first glance, everything looks perfect: high win

Hello traders, I have been working on algorithmic strategies for XAUUSD (M15 timeframe), and one of the biggest challenges I face is controlling drawdown while maintaining solid profitability. In your experience: - What risk management techniques work best for gold? - Do you prefer fixed lot or

Please somebody help me with this. I know that this is a simple and basic ,maybe even stupid question to ask ,but it still give me a headache. Anyway , here it is: What is a tipical(average,expected whatever you want to call it) spread on XAUUSD preferably on ECN type accounts. Of course ,i know it

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

Genuine question for anyone running automated systems. Why do people still buy grid or martingale EAs when most of us already know how these usually end? The equity curve looks amazing at first. High win rate, tons of small wins, barely any red days. But the risk doesn't go away, it just gets pushed

Hello, Can any one please suggest me the best indicator for binary options trading? Thanks...

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

Does anyone here trade BTC

Does anyone here trade Nasdaq? What leverage do you get from your broker

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

What is your Preffered Syle of trading? Swing Day Or Scalping? What EA would you prefer for developers to make you assuming All of the work and are profitable

For the past weeks I've been developing an EA based on SMC, multitimeframe liqquidity-sweep: Stats are good IMO, DD < 10%, good sharpe ratio, etc... But I question myself about this being more stable? Such as diversifying. My main problem is choosing a variety of pairs, i.e: EUR/USD GPB/USD USD/JPY

I want to demo Options board on MT5 but cant find ANY one who offers it? Where can i try the MT5 options board? Who is currently demo/ real trading with MT5 options platform? its ridiculous i cant find ANY information on how to actually do it/ who offers it. Its almost as if it doesnt exist/ noone

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

Want to trade gold and silver on spot not futures .. i tried futures algo trading on ninja.. too much loss on slippage. Any ideas what are others doing

I was doing trading and leave the screen for some minute and I want to back check the history. Is there any tick data or tick data based back check method

If you invest in stock portfolio or asset management firm, and you have 2 options 1- Long only : go long with bullish market only ( lower return ) 2- Long-Short : go long when bullish and short when bearish market ( extra return from shorting ) When strategy short stocks it expose your portfolio to

Seems we need a Bitcoin thread to discuss about due the growing popularity of this virtual money. Forex-TSD is studying the idea of take Bitcoins as payment method and having our thread to discuss about pros and cons sounds as good approach. You will find more information on the official Bitcoin...

i wanted to ask this to the website admin but there's no way to contact them other than the chat bot. does anybody know if as a signal provider i can sell stock signals or is it only for forex

Hi I am new to MT4/MT5 and I'm trying to backtest some EAs. There are a couple EAs I've tested that will place trades like the <Deleted> bot but I tried 4-5 others and they all fail to place any trades. I noticed in the journal that the bots do not initiate any buy trades but has many sell trades

No further information, impossible to debug, since it happens with indicators when the profile is changed and when the indicator terminates. And it happens after everything is already shut down, like IPC connections etc. Next problem: It happens sometimes. Randomly. Any ideas? Source code is

Running 2 EAs on MT5 via VPS. Recently had one go quiet for about 3 days — no crash, no errors in Experts or Journal, smiley face still there, terminal connected. It just stopped taking trades. I only found out because I manually check the accounts every few days. Could easily have been longer

my code below just prints best/worst equity when these are breached. And when equity hits X then closes all trades. This worked fine for oever 3 months til my lateest update 5833. i dont know if this is a bug or is my amateur coding. Here's my coding below. If you see anything that is wrong or can

gidday. i want my script to work on forex pairs, all trades, from all forec symbols. My script below is working on both usd and aud deposit accounts, but only on BUY TRADES. help! I want all my trades have an sl that is equivalent of $350

Since I updated the platform, the strategy tester no longer works. Every time I run a test in the diary, it says "no history data." How can I fix this? Thanks

i wish to include this file TrailingMA.mph in my auto-trading how to initial its function

I found a solution for the many charts that the strategy tester opens automatically in MT5. Till now I closed them one by one with Ctrl F4 and than clicking on the next chart tab. But this goes faster: On your keyboard: Alt W ... this opens the Windows List. Now select the first of the charts you

how to fix this wrong closing prices problem ? i has many of that in my account random closing prices not the take profit price target ? what to do

When using default settings modelling, every tick gives amazing results, but that doesn't exist in real market. Using for test the every tick based real tick give real sight about results. Most EA sold or free works on default set, but in real, it's wasting time and money

Hi MQL5 Community, I'm working on an EA specifically for XAUUSD and running into some interesting challenges that I'd like to discuss with fellow developers. The Technical Challenge: Gold's behavior differs significantly from major currency pairs. While EUR/USD responds predictably to technical

Hello All, I am working with a friend on an EA; I design & write the code (what could go wrong? 😂) and he investigates trading scenarios. Our two minds are very different and up to a point it works. However we have recently encountered a problem which I had handled badly in the code 😳 - and I am

Is the swap calculated during backtesting (by ontester section) in MetaTrader5 ? And does it calculate correctly? That is, does it calculate the swap for each day, or does it use a fixed swap rate? If Yes , I don't see it in the report. I tried it in both cases: Every tick and Every tick based on

Hi all I am an IT guy and just finished my first EA using breakout stragety and it is working on my prop firm account. I want to start another new EA, any strageties are good ? Hope some experienced traders can help this IT guy. Thanks Peter

Hi guys, Hope that you are well. I have 5 MT5 terminals running, but for some odd reason in the last two weeks 2 of the terminals with similar EA's have stopped working. I am not getting any bad report or anything...I installed a new Terminal and reinstalled the EA's, it is still not working...all

My breakout EA work on different currency pairs need an indicator to help to avoid false breakout. May be consider the volume or anything else is OK. Please advise. Thanks Peter

Dear all. I am trying to build Custom indicator base on iBand. After alot of searching I decide to Post here may be someone can help me. Here is the full indicator. //This is MQL5\Indicators\Anhnt\iBand_Display.mq5 #property indicator_chart_window #property indicator_buffers 3 #property

Hi, I'm new to MQL5 and would like to make an indicator that identify the swing & internal points of the chart. I read that in order for you to find the swing/internal points then you need to identify the HH/HL/LL/LH of the chart. I want to collect some algorithm ideas on how to do this. Thanks

Hello, I'm having trouble registering as an indicator seller on the platform. I've tried four times already and I haven't received an SMS notification

Hello everyone. I have been experimenting with marking the opening hours of the main liquidity sessions (London and New York) directly on MT5 charts as shaded zones, and using their high and low as levels for scalping entries. The idea is that a breakout of the session range in the first hour of

Hello traders, I would like to start a discussion about useful tools that traders feel are missing in MT5. There are thousands of indicators available, but sometimes traders need specific solutions or better versions of existing ideas. What type of indicator, dashboard, scanner, or trading

Hi, the code "while(!IsStopped())" is not working on my Indicator. I have a code like this: while (! IsStopped ()){ copied = CopyTicks ( _Symbol , ticks, COPY_TICKS_ALL , LAST_TICK_TIME, 1000000 ); Print("COPIED: "+copied); if (copied> 0 ){ LAST_TICK_TIME =

Hi, i'm trying to create an indicator with claude ai help, and it's almost works well, this code is intended to draw a plot arrow into the particular candle as a signal based on stochastic level the only issue i face is the signal only appear on previous candle that already formed, meanwhile for the

I'm LOOKING for the BEST REVERSAL INDICATORS PLEASE

Hi traders, several times traders from forums ask if there is an indicator simply showing the current pair's spread. I already programmed such an indicator for my own use and decided to contribute it to the community. Feel free to comment! By the way, it's also posted @ codebase.mql4.com Indicator...

I've developed a new SuperTrend indicator. It works the same as the ProRealTime version where you can set the 'Nbr Periods' and 'Multiplier' values. Bear in mind that because of differences between brokers that in places it may change direction earlier or later than the ProRealTime version if you...

Hi again, So this is my second indicator. And this indicator is created to be able to follow Jperl's Market Statistics thread on Traders Laboratory. Please read this summary document of that thread first. After reading that document lets discuss how can we use this approach in Forex trading... I am...

Even probably this code is not much used, I'm reporting this day zero bug for completeness, in case MQ wants to correct it. Williams' %R oscillator (WPR) is in many way similar to RSI, with upper and lower ranges for detecting overbought and oversold price action. The theory is that one could look

Hi, Can some share us the Supply and Demand zone indicators MQL5 file

Everything about pivot indicators you may find in this thread. Besides there are some usefull links as well: - how to trade with pivot (manuals) is here . - some trading system based on pivot https://www.forex-tsd.com/forum/trading-systems/1158-pivot-system - pivots, camarilla, high/low etc.... is

Check out the new article: The Blue Monkey (BM) Algorithm . The article presents an implementation of the Blue Monkey metaheuristic algorithm, which is based on a model of the social behavior of blue monkeys. The article examines the key mechanisms of the algorithm — the group structure of the

Second Bars : The indicator draws an arbitrary second timeframe on the chart. Author: Aleksandr Slavskii

Global Macro Soros : Global Macro Soros. A multi-timeframe trend-agreement indicator inspired by George Soros's macro trading style. Author: Marian Beceanu

Trade Manager Panel Simple Interactive Chart Trading Tool with Risk Management for MT5 : An Simple MQL5 trade management panel featuring drag-and-drop chart lines, dynamic lot sizing based on risk percentage, ATR/Point Stop Loss modes, and real-time floating P/L monitoring. Author: Ahmad Arju Sholeh

Bands StochRSI Extreme Reversal : Bands StochRSI Extreme Reversal — spots mean-reversion signals where price closes back inside the Bollinger Band after Stochastic RSI hit an extreme zone, with an on-chart status panel. Author: Tshidiso Ephraim Mpakanyane

SMC Order Block Detector with Alert for MT5 : The SMC Order Block Detector indicator features an Advanced Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Order Block (OB) Engine inspired by the TradingHub 3.0 methodology. It is specifically engineered to automatically detect, track, and manage institutional Order Blocks

Fractal : This indicator is used for indentifying pivots of different degrees. Author: Hosein Rahnama

Check out the new article: Launching MetaTrader VPS: A step-by-step guide for first-time users . Everyone who uses trading robots or signal subscriptions sooner or later recognizes the need to rent a reliable 24/7 hosting server for their trading platform. We recommend using MetaTrader VPS for

Determine Broker's Daylight (DST) schedule : Script to determine whether your Broker follows the US, UK or AU daylight (DST) schedule. Author: amrali

Check out the new article: Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 1): From Fragile Script to Working EA . This article focuses on EA architecture rather than signal design. Starting with a flawed Moving Average crossover EA, we add new‑bar detection to prevent duplicate entries, Magic Number

Check out the new article: Automated Trade Statement Exporter to Excel-Compatible XLSX in MQL5 . An MQL5 script reconstructs closed trades from deal history using a two-pass SL/TP lookup and exports them to an Excel-compatible XLSX file without third-party libraries. Four cooperating classes handle

Check out the new article: Bayesian Online Change-Point Detection (BOCPD) in MQL5: One Regime-Break Signal, Three Ways to Use It . This article delivers Bayesian Online Change-Point Detection as a single, dependency-free MQL5 class that maintains a per-bar, causal probability of a regime break. We

SHK Heikin Ashi MACD Signal Arrows : A MetaTrader 5 indicator that displays Heikin Ashi candles with closed bar buy and sell arrows, optional MACD histogram divergence confirmation, and configurable alerts. Author: Ramsha Shahrukh

Check out the new article: Creating a Probabilistic Market-Neutral Trading Robot Based on a Return Distribution . A market-neutral trading strategy based on the empirical return distribution offers an alternative to traditional technical analysis methods, replacing price direction forecasting with

Goal: I usually have my charts(over 20) maximized but at certain times, for comparrison, I want to have only two charts filling the whole window: one to the left with 100% height and 50% width and another one to the right with the same dimensions. I'm aware that I can do this manually but to get it

Dear all, I would like to start this new thread cause I have some indicators that I paid for them and I want to share for free with you, all of you that for years share tons of ideas with me in this beautiful forum. I hope to encourage many users to do the same thing Best regards doc EDIT now the...

Posting this here since MetaQuotes doesn't have a public proposal email — happy to move this wherever makes more sense. Hello, My name is Mahmoud Seyedi. I'm a trader, and formerly a university faculty member in architecture — not a professional software developer. Over the past two years, working

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

Hi, I can't download any indicators because I get an error that I don't have the appropriate application installed on my computer. I'm logged into the mql5 service on my MT4 terminal. I've assigned the .mq4 and .ex4 extensions to my MT4 platform on my computer, but I still get an error when

Anyone fancy taking a look at this EA , when back tested in strategy on the 1m chart XAUUSD with TP 100 , the results are amazing, however in live I cant get it to be profitable? here's the script : //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Expert Advisor

Hello, Do you listen any music while you trade? I have tried with many different kinds, but I think classical music is the most appropriate to remain discipline focus and calm . Any replies are appreciated. Let's start

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...

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

Hi there, l am trying to place trades on my mt4 account but there is an error message that say trade is disabled

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First of all I am using this small script (attached) created by Beluck and fixed by Igorad. To use it be sure that you have "all history" in "account history" in your Metatrader (for the right calculation)

Will Brokers Close MT4 Soon? Hello, fellow traders! I’m seeking your insights on something that has been on my mind recently. As we know, MT4 has been the go-to trading platform for years, trusted by millions of traders worldwide. However, with the increasing popularity of MT5 and brokers gradually

Expert Hedging works. When MetaTrader is closed or the server is rebooted, after launching, unfortunately, the previous orders that were open and if the Grid Distance reaches the specified value, it cannot open a new order and the error : invalid lots amount for OrderSend function is displayed in

Hello Supply and Demand Traders, I have a custom expert advisor which trades off supply and demand zones.  The zones it trades off are from this source - https://www.mql5.com/en/code/14545 (indicator attached below).  Here are the rules of the EA: - When price reaches the proximal level of an...