I have read many threads on this, on this forum and outside of it, but haven't managed to solve it so far. I have an EA that sends an email on a new bar. The email function in Options works fine from my desktop. The emailing function in the EA works perfectly from my desktop. Applying exactly the...

Hi! I´m new to mql5 programming, and still learning. I´ve been trying to create a very simple mt5 expert advisor, with no success. It works like this: If candle0 low <= candle1 low, than buy 200 lots at market price, with a stop loss and take profit of 1 point. Could someone send me a code for this,...

bool Profit()  {   bool exist =false;  int orderstotal=OrdersTotal();   int orders=0;   double ordticket[30][4];      ArrayInitialize(ordticket,EMPTY_VALUE);   bool Profits=posType==OP_BUY ? Ask-OrderOpenPrice()>(OrderTakeProfit()-OrderOpenPrice()) :...

I have installed [...] and appear to have the VPS working ok, but I've got a number of small AUDSGD trades going through and I don't know how to clear what I suspect is an EA MACD Expert Advisor ID 16384. When I look at the AUDSGD chart, there doesn't appear any smiley face etc which I assume...

Just wanted to introduce myself.I am Holly, just started trading at home as it fits in around my kids being at school.I wanted to join the forum to chat to others, learn and maybe even make some friends.

Thenew MQL5 Community website at http://www.mql5.com keeps developing. Weinvite all of you to make your contribution to this development. Thenew MQL5is the evolutionary continuation of MQL4. The new language ischaracterized by the support of object oriented programming, by ahigher code execution...

Hello. I have hired someone to write EA for 70usd, completed and the account is frozen. but ea is notified that the demo has expired. Can you tell me if the writer intentionally does this so I have to add money? If so, how do I solve this problem? I can request mql5. Waiting for me to finish the job...

This link provided to me by RaptorUK, give me the idea that it would be interesting to have a place here on the site to share such links. So I opened a new topic, it will be moderated to follow the rules as usual, but also about the content. Everyone can post but have to provide a quote and the...

Sorry if this is not the correct place for this guys, but I have a question about how MT5 works. I'm just beginning to test it and things are not going as expected. I created a custom symbol and then imported data from another broker in order to do some backtesting. I followed the steps detailed...

I want to know how many people from Indonesia is joining this forum. If you're from Indonesia, please comment this topic..Thank you..

Hello Guys, After speaking to guys in our Skype Group (free for all skype group for BO traders/developers/newbies and pros combined) we thought share some interesting indicator here in TSD to see if any good developer may pick up a ride and make some magic Background (by Irvin, who posted the...

when I try to run a backtest I get this msg 2019.01.19 20:22:26.233 TestGenerator: file "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\DA3C92B1779898CC0CACD726A655BECB\tester\history\EURUSD1440_0.fxt" cannot open [5] a few days ago I downloaded some data and now I cant backtest anymore it seems...

USD/CNH April-June 2017 Forecast: ranging for the bullish to be continuing or for correction to be started W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart within the following support/resistance levels: 6.9868 resistance level located in the beginning of the bullish trend...

Do you have interest or hobby outside trading ?, or some jokes and humor for other forumer ? or maybe something else ?, Well, why don't show it here. Life is NOT all about trading or programming, and so is this topic, and you must participate in this topic ;D.

Renko Ashi Trading System 2 Please read the pdf manual for this system. Good luck everyone. PS: Reuploaded the fixed ma in applied price indicator. Special thanks to FXchaser PS: Reuploaded the fixed macd alert indicator. Special thanks to Puzzlebird PS: Reuploaded a Special Settings Template for...

I'm developing a trend following system. So far is good, but I need to make better filters for the trades. As any trend following system, the win rate is bellow 50% (way bellow) but Risk to Reward compensate for the losses. I want to apply simple filters (no more than 3 input variables) in order to...

Hi, I have developed asoftware that finds patterns and trends in big data. Currently, I have try iton the Future Markets and it finds “tons” of interesting backtesting results. However, I have no experience in Live Trading – Can I trust thebacktesting results or is there something else I should...

What are the best exit strategies for trading 1m chart? In short - how to not exit if you shouldn't. The first one that comes to my mind is a return from overbought/oversold territory, but sometimes such return doesn't even mark a retracement and the trend keeps going. So is there a way to tell the...

hello Does anyone know what wrong when all paid indicators do not download the free demo version of all paid indicators?

For quite some time I have been working on a multi currency EA. It is a trend following architecture  that buys dips in an uptrend and sells peaks in a downtrend. A lot of work has gone into the code. It si built so as to run optimzation one pair at the time and then when running in "multi" reading...

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 asked this stupid question in r/forex,no response. If you are using tick data but set your ea to only open and close trades when it normally would but you wait for the 1min candle close and then take the trade, is that the same as using the default 1min candle closes on mt4? I hope that makes...

It is 20 pips per day per pair trading system. It means you may have 20 pips every day from one pair only. Or you may generate the trading signals. It is EA. But this EA is not for autotrading. This EA is for trading manually or to generate the trading signals for you or for everybody. You will have...

Hello dear friends I'm looking for a system Which I can work with 20 pip Who could also work in the any  market condition do not matter in sideway ,trending  weak market  if u have this any system ,indicator, logic ,  pls sharing me 

Hi. I want to try the signal subscription feature, but I can't get it to work. 1) I went to the signal subscription website, and looked for one I liked. I subscribed with my login: 2) But when I go into my terminal, to enable "Signal subscriptions", I get: "not connected, select from the...

Dear ALL Is backtest using M1 time frame (derived from tick data suite) reliable ?  I mean 99.9% quality ? Is it trustworthy ? 

Hi, I have an EA that should be used on netting, due to coding specifications , what should i change to make it run on a hedging account exactly equal it runs on netting? Thanks!

Hi, In the Stochastic Indicator that you can find in MT4, there is a recurring if statement  pos=InpKPeriod-1; if(pos+1<prev_calculated)      pos=prev_calculated-2; which I do not understand. Why does it subtract -2 ? what the point of the code above? This is the onCalculate() function to give a bit...

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

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies Press review Sergey Golubev, 2016.12.25 06:50 Hang Seng Index Q1 2017 Forecast (based on the article) "Underlying sentiment surrounding Hong Kong stocks has remained negative with underlying concerns surrounding...

The Worst Stocks Of 2016: First Solar It was decreased from 72 to 28 for this 2016!

The weekly share price stopped the bearish reversal and it was bounced from 110.32 support level to above to came back to Ichimoku cloud to the ranging market condition. Fow now, the price is on testing 121.85 resistance level to above for the reversal to the trendy primary bullish market condition...

Stock Market A To Z: 26 Names, Themes And Trends To Watch (based on the article) A is for Apple "The stock trailed the broader market in 2016, but there may be tailwinds in 2017. Tax reform may include a provision that incentivizes the company to deploy its billions in foreign cash back to...

S&P 500 January-March 2017 Forecast: long-term bullish ranging within the narrow s/r levels for direction W1 price is located far above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on ranging within the following narrow support/resistance levels for the bullish trend to be resumed...

haii .. i have 2 problems i ask for help .. first i want to know why mt4 / 5 on pc can not be used to open an account InstaForex-USA2.com .. i new trader and real account is an InstaForex broker..when i open my account at MT5 pc, MT5 can not read my account ......... my second problem is demo...

Bitcoin vs USD January-March 2017 Forecast: key resistance level at 850.15 to be broken for the bullish trend to be continuing Weekly (W1) price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on ranging within the following support/resistance levels: 850.15...

Hello all, I am new to this forum and I have recently downloaded MT5. Now I want data for Indian Stocks. Can someone help me who are authorized data vendor for India Exchange NSE for MT5. There are many data vendors for Amibroker and Ninjatrader in India but not for MT5. How I can import historical...

The Best Stocks Of 2016: Nvidia (based on the article) The price was increased by 10% just for December only!

You must be willing to be open to a good working relationship. I am still somewhat a novice trader but I have two years experience. I'm self taught so just hmu with your cool with this.

Hi all,    In my search for option stragy builders i came across this link HERE but i just cant find in my MT5 platform this option. I cant find in builds news any update disabling this functionality. So... How can i use the Option Strategy Builder in MT5 ?? Thank you guys

Google April-June 2017 Forecast: weekly ranging to be stated or the secondary correction to be continuing; 853 resistance is the key The weekly shares price is on secondary correctional movement within the primary bullish market condition: the price is located above Ichimoku cloud for the correction...

Hello, I am currently using MT5 for futures and I was wondering if there would be any updated version where I can use charts based on volume or tick and not time. Ninjatrader, or TradeStation, Sierra all have this capability, but not Metatrader 5. Any help would be appreciated!

Hi, WHat is the replaced function of WindowExpertName() in MQL5 ? How can i get expert name in MQL5? Thanks

Hi, I wonder if I can test a signal, with like 50 or 100 US$? This signal <deleted>) does not say how much you need but I was thinking to allocate a percentage of money that will result in 50 or 100 US$ Is this posible or do I need to invest 1000 US$ or more in a signal? Regards, Oliver

Hi, I'm new to this and just wondering what functions in MQL4 I could use to make an EA place a stop loss above/below a reversal candle before the entry order is placed? Does anyone have some example code maybe? All help much appreciated, thank you!

Hi there! I've been trying to create my first EA without much success. I'm not an expert in programming and my almost forgotten php programming skills doesn't help either because I have the feeling that I'm trying to program my EA the way I would program a php so apologies for the mistakes both in...

I'm using MT5 hedging account and I'm trying to open an opposite market order (hedging order). I'm using MT5 hedging platform. The problem is when I open the hedging order the existing order gets closed, why is that? Here is my order opening code. // Open buy market order   if(close[0] > ma[0] &&...

I have a working EA on MT4, I decided to test my broker with MT5. So I made the new EA with MT5 with success, however all pending order are not working in backtesting... So I used one of the MT5 sample and made a EA just to test pending order using this:...

Hi  I 've Imported "user32.DLL" to my expert . It has a class by the name of " SendKey" . How can I use this class in my expert ??!! MQL5 does not recognize the class in this DLL . Please Help . Thanks .

Hi all, I am posting a question here because this seems like a place where people would have some answers. So I have developed an automated system, which I now run on a VPS, I have back-tested the strategy using the Ctrader platform and the system has produced promising results: Now the percentage...

Hello Everyone I have a problem in optimization passes. I've searched a lot but non of questions nor the answers in the forum was the one solving this problem. The problem is that i have some bool parameters in my inputs which when they are set as false there is no need to optimize some other...

Strategy Tester does not show all the symbols in Market Watch, what should I do?

Hi everybody, I want to solve one task with linear regression: I have the function y = ax1 + bx2 + cx3 + dx4 + ex5 + fx6 y and x1 to x6 are known and I have the matrix with their empiric values (100 examples). I want to calculate the approximation of a to f. I download the library "alglib.mqh" which...

Hello EA Gurus... I have written an EA and tested it, found working fine. Now, I am testing this EA in real environment on demo account. I am running this EA on virtual machine (VM available 24 x 7) and on personal computer (not available 24 x 7) with same broker. Issue I am facing is, I noticed...

How can I code this? 

Hello everyone, I just subscribed to a signal and currently copying the trade but this puts a different lot size as planned to my trading account. Thus, which to confirm if I can alter the lot sizes in my trading account for all subsequent trades that will be entered. I look forward to all possible...

Hello everybody, the function SymbolInfoTick get the current Tick information. It is possible to get a range of ticks? For example in current time (today) I want to get all ticks for yesterday on specified symbol.

Hi all, I'm a newbie to forex, Who can explain for me the progress of creating Highs/Lows on the standard ZiZag indicator on MetaTrader4? How to the depth parameter used from very startup of ZigZag indicator on MetaTrader4 with default setting (12,5,3)? I've attached here two pictures of that,...

Hello, I have a serious problem with ccanvas If I use mycanvas.Destroy() in OnDeinit() it will reset all my globals variables. If I don't use it I will keep all in same place but I loose all information about my canvas ofcourse. It must be created a new time by OnInit with a new object because it...

Hey, I have some calculations to do on a pre-determined number of M1 bars. (120, 240, 360 or 480 or... based on input) and I want to write my first indicator ever. from the new indicator wizard, I have created the source file. added my codes and functions to calculate my variables. but there's...

Hi, I want to draw a line from A to B. #property indicator_separate_window//#include "Stochastic.mq4";int myarray[10]={53,15,20,25,29,56,32,25,19,65};double divergence[];//+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| Custom indicator initialization...

Hi! I'm trying to get some candle colors, if there is any gap higher or lower, the candle shows up as red or blue, but the chart are not coloring all the candle body, instead there are creating a new candle next to the original. The idea is just get differente between open/close values and color...

I need some help. I did convert the most of codes from mql4 to mql5 but there are still some problems.  Errors: 'IndicatorBuffers' - function not defined test.mq5 33 5 'High' - undeclared identifier test.mq5 113 18 'Low' - undeclared identifier test.mq5 113 50 'High' - undeclared identifier test...

Hello all pro Coders, Im new to coding & just wondering that: IS IT POSSIBLE to code an Indicator that will open a  profile with selected name by clicking on a button created on current chart when the indi is attached ? so when I want to change to the other profile ... I just have to click on the...

Hello, does anyone know away to save and load settings for mt4 or mt5 fib tools (ret, fan, channels, timezone and arcs), please regards,

What are some well-known RSI modifications or adaptations? What could be added to this list? * Laguerre RSI * Apirine Slow RSI * RSI within Bollinger Bands.

Hello guys; I have an issue, I am trying to code an Arrow indicator for Moving Average crossover, but I always encounter an "Array out of Range Error" on any line with [i+2], and when i cooment out this lines, I later have the same "Array out of Range Error" on any line with [i+1] && [i+3]. I have...

hi any body help me to calculation about correlation in the code. for example EURUSD, USDCHF How much percentage correlated to each other. Regards Muhammad Mudasir

Hello, does anyone should share (or code) this such simple indicator for MT5? I just would like to add to the standard ATR oscillator 1 more ATR line of an ATR value multiplied by n. . Does anyone can help me? Many many thanks.

hey all.. i am new to trading and since i do not have a back ground in programming can anyone help in converting the below linked indicator from MT4 to MT5? https://www.mql5.com/en/code/7786 thank in advance.

Does anyone have an Awesome Oscillator scanner, which could scan all symbols from the market watch and alert in case of zero line cross or signal line cross. Any scanner or dashboard will be great.

All the indicators which are helping the detection the trend please post here. The first indicator is sinTrend. The value of about zero is the float, the trend is started if the value of indicator is equal or above 0.0015 or minus 0.0015, the value of above 0 is uptrend, below 0 - downtrend.

FIBONACCI: "FIBONACCI" EA Trades when there is a retracement from "FIBONACCI" levels. Author: Aharon Tzadik

New article Integrating MQL-based Expert Advisors and databases (SQL Server, .NET and C#) has been published: The article describes how to add the ability to work with Microsoft SQL Server database server to MQL5-based Expert Advisors. Import of functions from a DLL is used. The DLL is created using...

Calculate Fibo Retrace Levels: here a simple function that calculates FIBO retrace levels for further development stepshope this will help you ;) Author: Christian Opperskalski

Position Size Calculator - Based on VP money Management rules: This indicator is based on the Money Management approach used by VP from <deleted> It uses ATR to calculate Stop Loss, Take Profit and Volume you should enter into a trade based on the percentage of your Equity you want to risk. Author:...

Currency Strength EA: This EA opens Buy or Sell trades in strongest or weakest pair. It cannot be backtested. Author: jp_forex

Ehlers Fisher transform: Ehleres Fisher transform Author: Mladen Rakic

ThreeBreaky: Multisystem of Volatility Breakout Author: Fabio Cavalloni

ms-Candle-Index. Indicator of the strength of the direction of the candle.: The indicator determines the index of the direction of the bar prices and the Gap/breaks in them.It is a logical continuation of the ms-Candle indicator. Author: Sergey Tselikov

QQE: The QQE (Quantitative Qualitative Estimator) indicator consists of a smoothed Relative Strength Index (RSI) indicator and two volatility-based trailing levels (fast and slow). The Fast Trailing Level (TL) and Slow TL are constructed by calculating the average range of the smoothed RSI...

Dual differentiator: Dual differentiator Author: Mladen Rakic

New article Interview with Andrey Barinov (ATC 2012) is published: It was on Friday of the Championship's first week that the trading robot of Andrey Barinov (Wahoo) occupied the fifth place in TOP-10. Andrey is a newcomer in the Championship but he has already managed to execute more than 100...

New article Interview with Enbo Lu (ATC 2012) is published: "Be sure to participate in the Automated Trading Championships, where you can get a truly invaluable experience!" - this is the motto of contestant Enbo Lu (luenbo) from China. He appeared in the TOP-10 of Automated Trading Championship...

Renko EA: Renko EA with comment Large Label support for large screens, wall mounted screen and easy viewing requirements. Author: file45

Demarker Martingale: This Martingale EA trades with "Demarker" indicator, it is considered relatively safe because it takes a single trade at a time. Author: Aharon Tzadik

Dual differentiator adaptive EMA: Dual differentiator adaptive EMA Author: Mladen Rakic

Hi,  does anybody knows if we have limitation in the History download on MT4? i have downloaded a history for SP500 from 1950 but the history center on MT4 has taken only candles from 1970 ignoring all earlier prices !

Hey guys, is that somehow possible to save the screenshots made by ChartScreenshot() to a different folder?

Good morning everyone, I wrote an expert Advisor in mql4 format which open position at certain time of the day, it calculate number of lots, take profit and stop loss. Now I want to change it because it doesn’t work very well and I want that it open position when the candle start (in the timeframe I...

Hi guys, Im struggling with a simple string find function. I am using OnChartEvent handler, and my idea is to take the sparam and search it for a string, for example search for "Remove" in the object name, if there was a click on an object(button) on the chart. But the string find always returns 0 !...

They say that an average trader can work for about twothree years. Then he has enough money to buy Ferrari and spend the rest of the money on psychoanalyst and antidepressants. Well, drive your Ferrari and save the rest of the money by reading our next column. Making money is one of the funniest...

This is one of the most common errors I see, probably due in part to the likes of garbage such as Expert Advisor Builder. So I thought it was time for a thread dedicated to the subject so that it can be linked to for future reference. The Problem Let's take a simple example; we want a function to...

Hi,Today I accidentally find a code by @futurespec, which makes hand drawing a segment line on chart very easy. Thanks @futurespec!It's what I have been dreaming of, for a long time !I spend a little time to transform this segment line indi into a polygonal line indi.Now it's usable. But wait,...

Hi I have 2 questions. 1-How can I check the last order ,closed with takeprofit or closed manually ? if closed with take profit, for example do something . 2-for every new order , ea check the other open orders ,if difference between ASK price and any order open price is higher than certain amount ,...

Hi everyone, I'm a beginner and I'm trying to learn. I have a problem, in this practice expert, I insert the stop loss exactly on the minimum of the candle and I would like the RR ratio to be 1 to 1. I'm trying to calculate the difference in pips between the maximum and the minimum and then add it...

Hi!   That's my first post, so let me welcome everyone.   I have found few topics about my issue, but nothing helped so far. While working on my ea, I would like to get Highest price of last 4 bars. That's my code:   if(Hour()==10) { int bar=iBarShift(Symbol(),PERIOD_H1,TimeCurrent());...

i test some EA at my server here is the best combination that i found firebird at usdjpy M30 hans_ea3 at gbpusd H1 note for statements, fxindo-nf3 is my own EA, i have de-activated it. so please ignore it. it made around 180 pips for last week... update : sorry, i've attached wrong statement.......

I have an array of N values as EA inputs with a default value. Instead to have N number of input fields, I would like to have a combo to select the i-th value in a single associated input field and change it. Is this possible?

Hi, been trying to figure out how to put a trail SL on all open(regardless of how they were opened, manuell or with another EA)  orders with a EA. now i have searched and looked everywhere and you are my last resource, the problem is i cant get it to go through all orders it does 1 until that is...