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Hello everyone, I wanted to know if there is a possibility that MQL5 can block sellers of Robot EAs and indicators that have published products that are not profitable at all and have caused many users to lose money, and whose rating is only 3 stars

Hello, I recently applied for Seller status on MQL5 because I would like to publish a trading signal on the platform. During the registration process my identity verification was rejected automatically , but I did not receive any explanation about the reason for the rejection. The problem is that

Hello, My MQL5 account verification was rejected. Because of this, I cannot create a trading signal. Could you please tell me the exact reason for the rejection and what documents I need to submit to complete the verification? Thank you

Good day, MQL5 community. After updating MT5, the color settings in my MetaEditor changed. I customized them to my preferred theme, but every time I restart my PC, MetaEditor reverts to a default color setting shown below, which I find quite distracting. Has anyone experienced this issue before? How

Hi, I am trading futures on a netted broker. I have multiple EAs that trade the same instrument. I'd like a feature where the EAs can still control their specific lots in that grouped netted order. So there can be multiple TP/SL running at the same time. Currently Their orders get grouped together

This is Roba Tadele, My MQL5 Algo trading financial operations has been blocked without any reason. Please review it as soon as possible and give me feedback. Its really urgent matter for me. A day has a great impact on me, so your urgency matters. Thanks, Roba Tadele

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How long does it take for a moderator to respond to the submission of an article? My submission says "ready for proofreading." Does that mean it was accepted? I left a comment that I proofread the article and found no errors, but there has been no response from a moderator. How long does this...

New members always have something to say, even the shy ones. Take some minutes and introduce yourself to the community, tell us a little about your history, yoir ideas or why you're here, whatever. Besides. You need to do this in order to upgrade your account and activate all features Welcome...

Hello Developers, I have a minor problem. It is not so bad but it would be nice to be able to add and remove object display timeframes in some kind of settings point. For example we can have trendlines displayed in so many timeframes: M1, M2, M3, M4, and so on and so on. Many of which I have never

Hi, I’m really confused. In MetaTrader 5, I have a parameter named "astane" that I want to optimize. The first time, I set it to start at 0.7 and go up to 0.8 with a step of 0.1. The second time, I set it to start at 0.8 and go down to 0.7 with a step of -0.1. The results differ significantly

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 MT5 prompted me to update to the latest build (25/07/2026). After starting the update, CPU usage immediately spiked to 100% and stayed there for quite a while. On a VPS, the update even caused the server to become temporarily unresponsive, making it impossible to connect via Remote Desktop

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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

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If account is going maximum drawdown then what is the best idea to short out this panic situation as well as what is next step to do for continue in market

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

Hi again, The Multiple Regression Analysis and Forecasting template provides a solid basis for identifying value drivers and forecasting time series data. While it utilises a range of commonly employed statistical measures to test the validity of the analysis, results are summarized in text for ease

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I might want to calculate the value of all closed positions within a given period. /* * Pick up profit so far today for all deals that have completed, for all EA's * for a specific magic # & symbol. * * Parameters: None * * Returns: profit as a double, 0 on none found or error. * */ double

Hello, Can I copy the next trades with double the volume to compensate for the first trade that was a loss in the signal channel, using any Telegram copier? Does it have this feature? Which tolls?? What is website address

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

A must ! Before using it or asking any question : please read the Online Help (Also accessible by F1 on your MT5 platform) Strategy Tester For Traders General overview of the possibilities. Overview of results : Visualize a Strategy in the MetaTrader 5 Tester The general information about

Hello wondering if there is a profitable EA on the MQL market or have they all got a alternative motive. I mean lets face it, if someone had a EA that was profitable, why would they sell it. Very basic discussion but funny enough it may raise some concerns. I have had many EA's from over a period of

This is with version 5.00 build 5998, I have reason to believe it has been existed for a long time before. After compiling, hovering mouse on log entries opens a pop-up which shows more details. That is especially useful for checking the exact location of include or source files, as sometime

Environment: - MetaTrader 5 for macOS (native MetaQuotes Wine wrapper) - Wrapper build 5.0.5834, terminal build 5833 - Wine 11.1, winemac driver - macOS 26.5.2 (build 25F84), Apple Silicon (arm64) Bug: After a Strategy Tester backtest in Visual mode finishes, the MAIN terminal window is

Hi, Just as the title says is it possible to create an MQL5 file of an expert, I only have ex5 file which is also account restricted. The guy who gave it to me is no longer accessible. I know all the parameters on which the EA works, I want to try it on different accounts with different capital size

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

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 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...

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

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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...

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

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...

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

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

I have been testing a few market structure indicators lately and noticed something . At first it feels useful when the chart shows every swing BOS and CHoCH but after scrolling around it starts to look noisy . Maybe it is just me but I feel the harder part is not finding structure . It is deciding

Hi all, I am looking for an Indicator with show Divergence on the macd version i attach below , with a sound alert signal. Can any one programer help out please. Thank you

I currently have an indicator I am coding which works in two stages. Stage 1: To detect signal Stage 2: confirm the detected signal When I try to use flag to confirm signal in stage 2, it doesn't work. But same flaging method works well for EA. Please anyone with help on how I can flag and achieve

Advanced Risk Manager: Auto Suffix Detection Multi Currency Lot Sizer : Advanced MQL5 risk management class providing deterministic lot sizing, auto-suffix detection, and cross-currency triangular conversion. Author: Al-hassan Ali Mubarak Bahbah

Channel Sun Signals : Overview Channel Sun Signals plots an adaptive, triangular-weighted moving-average channel (a center line plus an upper and lower band) around price, and marks potential reversal points where price pierces a band and then closes back inside it. It is built on the same

New article How to Buy a Trading Robot on MQL5 Market? is published: Now you also can use trading robots and any technical indicators with MetaTrader 5. All you need to do is to launch MetaTrader 5 trading terminal and open Market tab of Toolbox window. Author: MetaQuotes

Check out the new article: Symbolic Price Forecasting Equation Using SymPy . The article describes an interesting approach to algorithmic trading based on symbolic mathematical equations instead of traditional machine learning "black boxes". The author demonstrates how to transform opaque neural

Check out the new article: Ordinal Pattern Transition Networks in MQL5 . We implement ordinal pattern transition networks in MQL5: a Lehmer-code encoder, a directed network over ordinal price patterns, and three complexity metrics. Two indicators expose a trend-versus-range regime from

Check out the new article: Adaptive Spread Monitoring and Order Gating in MQL5 . This article presents a distribution-adaptive spread monitor for MQL5 that replaces fixed thresholds with a rolling histogram of each symbol's recent spread. It explains percentile estimation from bins, a four-state

Check out the new article: MQL5 Wizard Techniques you should know (Part 71): Using Patterns of MACD and the OBV . The Moving-Average-Convergence-Divergence (MACD) oscillator and the On-Balance-Volume (OBV) oscillator are another pair of indicators that could be used in conjunction within an MQL5

Check out the new article: How to Test and Customize Built-in MQL5 Programs: Custom BullishBearish MeetingLines Stoch Expert Advisor . We demonstrate a practical customization path for a built-in MetaTrader 5 EA using BullishBearish MeetingLines Stoch. The workflow covers baseline testing in the

Check out the new article: Comparing Trade Return Distributions with Mann-Whitney U in MQL5 . A native, dependency-free MQL5 implementation of the Mann-Whitney U test for comparing trade returns across two market regimes. It details rank calculation, tie correction, and a normal-approximation

New article Using Self-Organizing Feature Maps (Kohonen Maps) in MetaTrader 5 is published: One of the most interesting aspects of Self-Organizing Feature Maps (Kohonen maps) is that they learn to classify data without supervision. In its basic form it produces a similarity map of input data

Pivot SuperTrend / BhanuCodeLab : Pivot SuperTrend BhanuCodeLab is a trend-following indicator that combines confirmed pivot points with an ATR-based trailing trend line to identify market direction, trend reversals, and potential BUY or SELL signals. Author: Bhanu Chandra Raju Indukuri

Check out the new article: Building a Correlation-Aware Portfolio Risk Monitor in MQL5 . The article quantifies correlation and portfolio risk in MetaTrader 5: from time-aligned returns to a covariance matrix, true portfolio variance against the independent-sum assumption, and position-level risk

Hidden Risk of Ruin Auditor : Reads a closed-position trade history (a CSV file, or one generated automatically from the current account's deal history by the companion RuinExport.mq5 script) and reports four independent risk fingerprints: volume escalation after a loss, overlapping same-direction

Check out the new article: Neural network trading EA based on PatchTST . The article presents the revolutionary architecture of PatchTST, a tailored transformer for financial time series analysis that breaks market data into 16-bar patches for efficient processing. We will discuss the full

New article The checks a trading robot must pass before publication in the Market has been published: Before any product is published in the Market, it must undergo compulsory preliminary checks in order to ensure a uniform quality standard. This article considers the most frequent errors made by

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

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

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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

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...

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...

Hello, I do need to determine the start of the Asian Session (Tokyo) within my EA without using the brokers server time or any kind of online-check by connecting to a server. Most of the time the Asian Session (Tokyo) is at 00:00 at the brokers server time (for example: Global Prime, IC Markets

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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...

How do I know if my Trading algorithm is actually on. This is what my settings look like now but there isn't a smiley face that people talk about. Has that feature been removed

I tried updating the MT4 version of the EA that was listed on MQL5, but it kept failing validation with a "no trading operations" message. I tested it by: 1. Re-uploading the old EA that had passed validation and was already listed. 2. Creating a simple EA that ensured "trading operations" for

Hello everyone, Please I need somebody's help concerning this, I have tried everything i know but to no avail. After completing my EA and compiling, it displayed "Event handling function not found!" on line 1 and column 1, I checked everything about line 1 and column 1 but there is nothing to...