Hello, When creating trades with the OrderSend() function, the volume of the trade is specified in lots. Is there any way to control the size of one lot? I haven't found any function for this in the API. Being able to use very small lot sizes would enable us to test out strategies in the real market...

I decided to create this thread to help to myself and to the others to start with Metatrader 5. I am experienced in MT4 and in forex in general (i hope : ) but we traders really need to collect all the information about it in one place. I will make some posts about 'how I am starting with MT5'....

Upgraded my  EA with new version today and I install it to 15M and H1 chart. I use MQL5 VPS. So I synchronized it and I found this message from the VPS journal. Let me know what to do

EUR/USD April-June 2017 Forecast: ranging rally within narrow s/r levels W1 price is below Ichimoku cloud for the primary bearish market condition with the ranging within the following support/resistance levels: 1.0828 resistance level located below the cloud in the beginning of the secondary rally...

GOLD (XAU/USD) April-June 2017 Forecast: ranging inside Ichimoku cloud for the bullish trend to be resumed or to bearish reversal to be started W1 price is located inside Ichimoku cloud for the ranging market condition within the following support/resistance levels: 1,263.79 resistance level located...

hi i recently when i try to send private message to a friend , when i press send button , nothing will send . i tried two diffrent browsers but same problem ? i did not get any email or alert that said im banned or some thing .  i will be appreciated if any one know this problem solve . thanks

Hello Traders. I have an idea for an indicator that is inspired by the weis waves indicator-an improvement of it,if you will. I will post the weis wave indicator @ the bottom of the post to convey the general idea of the indicator. This particular indicator, instead of showing TOTAL volume @ the end...

Hi, Some of my pairs in Market Watch are highlighted in Blue. Can't find information on this. Wonder if anyone here knows the answer? Regards, Lewis

Hi Everyone, I am trying to make a simple test on Custom Symbol. I am using CopyTicks to get ticks' data from standard symbol and create a new custom symbol via CustomTicksAdd . The funny thing is that the CustomTicksAdd manage to add tick when it returns a value 1. However, when I check it at the...

Hi, I've developed a EA on MT5 and I run it on two VPS (same VPS provider, same VPS configuration, same broker, same instrument (DAX)) and I notice some diffence in the entry, that is one EA place the order but the other not. After some debug I discover that the CopyHigh, CopyClose, CopyOpen,...

Hi everyone. I want to add a new feature to metatrader 5 platform. How can i do this?

Hey dear members... Could you please tell me wich NEWS of economic calender will have a big impact on the EUR/USD Like yesterday the USD Unemployment Rate (FEB), USD Change in Non-farm Payrolls (FEB)? I need to know wich news will make the eur fall or rise that much ! Thx

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

Hey, can somebody help me with the settings or what's the problem with MT4 Coy Signal Serivce.  I've opened a test BUY trade with 0.01 lot, and than hedge it with 0.02 Sell trade. But on My clients account copied trades are different. He sent me a screenshot where hedge trade should be 0.02 sell,...

There is few charts opened in terminal, for example: AUDCAD, DKKSEK, AUDJPY, EURZAR, USDCZK, USDCHF. And there is array of target charts: DKKSEK, EURZAR, USDCHF. How do I minimize all charts windows except chart windows of target charts?

I want to send two crossed orders, buy in one asset and sell in other at the same time. How can I do that?

Hiya to all, I would like to get opinions form fellow traders , and lots of help !!! I have an EA hedge system that i purchased, it can profit up to 150$ per day depending on markets , but the issue i am having is when i back test this, the trends  blow the account, as its using a trade multiplier...

i have an login for an fund management account the problem is i cant see the running trades but the history gets updated even without showing the trades on the terminal window ! is there any ways to see the running trades on terminal window ?

Trading and training video (from youtube for example) about forex and financial market in general.  thread for April 2013 - look at this thread,  thread for May 2013 - look at here,for June 2013 is here.July thread 2013 is hereAugust thread 2013 is this oneSeptember thread 2013 is hereOctober thread...

I currently have my EA calculate values on the last x amount of bars - this however creates a huge lag during back testing - because of the "for loop" it looks like it executes on every tick. This is how the value check stars: //CHECK ID10T VALUES FOR BUY OR SELL if(BUY_ORDER   == 0 && SELL_ORDER...

This is the thread about Brainwashing system. We will start with original version of this system and will improve it later. ========== Just something about the history. There are 3 famous signals system (manual trading systems based on signal indicators): Asctrend, BrainTrend and Brainwashing. First...

I was affraid to open this thread. Why? because it is difficult to manage many threads on one forum. Anyway - I will try :) So, we are talking about SIGNAL SYSTEMS

I have a trading system that i been using for quite sometimes now and its very profitably reliable. This system is very simple and straight, just some simple calculations. I need a good coder/programmer that would be able to convert it to EA. I will share the strategy, trade rules and the EA rules...

I closed my platform to test the VPS operation using mytrade receiver. Once I saw trades placed on another platform, I opened the VPSplatform and the trades did not execute until I opened the VPS platform. I havesynced experts, indicators and signal. Will allowing DLL imports stop the VPSfrom...

How to Trade the Gold Silver Ratio ?

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

i am a professional trader that have been in the marketplace since 9 years ago . check tens of thousands of EAs , indicators , strategies like price action , ichimuko etc... and can assure you 99% of them not work in long term. because market is unpredictable and full of uncertainty. so no one can...

Hello everyone, Is there a very simple EA that check if there are open orders, and if not, immediately opens one in the trend direction ? So an ea that trades only if there is no open order, quite simply. Thanks for any help about this guys, regards

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

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...

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

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...

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, 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!

AAPL Technical AnalysisL daily bullsh with 120.35 resistance to be testing for the bullish trend to be resumed Daily share price is located far above 200 SMA in the bullish area of the chart: the price is on testing resistance level at 120.35 to above for the bullsh trend to be continuing. If the...

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...

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, I am quite new to MT4. Trading from the UK, I am more share and stock CFD person than Forex. By this, I would prefer to trade share prices than anything else.  My questions are as follow:  1) Do you guys know any betting companies with a great variety of shares and stocks on the MT4. Noticeably,...

DJIA January-March 2017 Forecast: long-term bullish; resistance level at 19,987 is the key W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart: the price is on testing 19,987 resistance lkevel to above for the primary bullish market condition to be continuing. The price is...

I was wondering does metatrader 5 support stocks? not cfd stocks.   If so, which brokers supply stocks? 

Hello everybody. This morning my new expert advisor made his first trade, but I'm thinking it was not a good deal cause it's suposed that the expert has to entry when the blue MA crosses the yellow MA, but I don't see that in the chart... anybody knows some of this? - I post the logic:       //---...

Hello everybody, how can I display the indicatos used in my EA in my live chart window? Problem: While running the "MACD Sample" in Strategy Tester I can see the indicator but not when running the "MACD Sampe" in a live chart. Is there any #property of other function I can use to tell the terminal...

Hi All I am running an EA (EA_1) purchased from MQL5 market. Now, I would like to create another custom EA (EA_2), add some additional criteria / indicators on top of it in order to make the EA_1 more secure Can I control the EA_1 stop and run inside the EA_2? Thanks, Jacky

Hiii... I need help.. I need EMA indicator on my MACD Indicator Windows... [Using MQL5 Language (EA)] And That MACD is placed on Indicator Windows 1... How can i create EMA at the same Window using EA ?? Thanks for help me :)

Hi, is there a way to set up automatic renewals for a trading signal?  Thanks!

Does anyone compared the backtest time performance, using the same computer EA and database, between Windows and Linux?

Hi, i want to ask on how to clear the array. struct TradeData{        string comment;        string symbol;        string ticket;        double lots;        double openprice;        int activated;}TradeData TrdData[11]; After putting data on the array, if all conditions are met, array should clear...

Hi. Last week, I experienced one my subscribed signal made a huge error leading the big loss. The worst part is that somehow it repeated opening and closing the same trade on my end, and if I didn't manually disable the signal, it would have blown my whole account. My question is, is there any way...

Does any one know why is this happening? I have two MT5 instaled with two diferent brokers and neither seem to run anithing on Strategy Tester. My mt5 is connected to the broker and I get this log everytime i run something.

Does any one know if there is a way to check the Mql5 username of a logged in user? I realize that we can use the TerminalInfoInteger to retrieve a bool about whether there is a connection to the mql5 community using the TERMINAL_COMMUNITY_CONNECTION identifier and also whether there is any data...

Hi, I am very new on this topic. What I like to do is to write a neural network system, for automated trading on MT5. I know how to write a NN in Matlab or C++, but I don't know is it possible and good idea to learn MQL5 and try to write the NN in this language or not? Is MT5 IDE powerful enough for...

Hi everyone, In an EA using Protrader I have a Dictionary type, that I can store key | value where value can be any type, inclusive arrays. So, I can do something like this: Dictionary<string, bool[]> positionParcial;positionParcial = new Dictionary<string, bool[]>();positionParcial.Add(_ordId,...

If I run multiple EAs on the same MT4 platform will I be able to produce individual reports/graphs for each one or will I only be able to get one with all results combined?

Hello, i have developed this EA that is working on daily charts, i just put my price action concept on EA. I am experienced in trading but Newbie in backtesting. I would like some insight before i put this working. Are there are any other parameters i should investigate? The results are from the...

Windows Update could disables  the EA's  activation every month... If you set the  OS update stopped, the computer will find that and fix it to update "these days"!!( I'm using my home PC , and  also ,sometimes VPS.) The  EA Invalidation occured to  MT4 by the Update of this time! (2018/12/12) Then,...

Hello everyone I'm trying to put a password on a indicator, can anyone explain to me what base code to use and how to do it? Can you write the example of the base code please?

Hello everyone! How can I set a specific server for the indicator? What is the code to add in the compiler?

Of adaptive lookbackThe Adaptive Lookback (period finder) is truly a market-driven indicator used to determine the variable lookback period for many different indicators, instead of a traditional, fixed figure. It is based on the frequency of market swings - the time between swing highs or swing...

What indicators do you guys use to determine if the volume was a buying volume or selling volume? I'm trading 1 min chart.

Hi: I am looking for some help: I have the stochastic with RSI indicator but I don´t know program. I want if some body can help me to program this indicator but with Alert. I apreciatte all your help.

This one is for those that use metatrader 5 Metatrader 5, unfortunately, did some things that hardly are logical. One of the things done by it is that builtin averages (and all the other builtin indicators) are not functions any more. That is as big a nonsense as it can get. Instead of making...

Hello, is there a more elegant way to limit the number of bars for calculation , for both counting up and counting down  ?  i.e //---- main indicator calculation loop   for(bar=limit; bar>=0 && !IsStopped(); bar--)     {    if (bar >= MathMin(3-bar, rates_total-1-50)) continue; Please suggest,...

Hello Everyone, If in mt4, to get the value of BearsPower and BullsPower indicator is like:  - double val=iBearsPower(Pair01,PERIOD_H1,13,PRICE_CLOSE,0); - double val=iBullsPower(Pair01,PERIOD_H1,13,PRICE_CLOSE,0); And at the same EA I need to get the value of that indicator for 4 currency pairs at...

Why is it that when my Expert Advisor tries to calculate:    iWPR(S,PERIOD_M1,3000,0);    iStdDev(S,PERIOD_M1,3000,0,MODE_SMA,PRICE_WEIGHTED,0); It gives zero? Periods below 3000 seem to be fine. Is it possible to extend the period above 3000?

Fibo Levels indicator. Fully forecasting.

Hello, I've been modifying the dema example indicator and I dont understand what I'm doing wrong, I've read and re-read references but I still dont get it. Please help! I've tried both  setting #property   parameters and what you see in the code below, what am I doing wrong ?...

Hi. From your experience. What tools are the most useful since developed by John Ehlers? Regards.

Hi guys, I wrote a test indicator and every start I got an error message (CopyBuffer 4806 error), I don't know why and hope, You can help me to solve it. The code: int macd_handle_m5, macd_handle_m10;double macd_values_m5[], macd_values_m10[];int OnInit()  {   ArraySetAsSeries(macd_values_m5,...

Some indicators with alert/signals with author's comments: - EMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter two Exponential Moving Average periods and it'll tell you when they crossed. - SMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter two Simple Moving Average periods and it'll tell you when they crossed. - SMMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter...

Obviously length and offset can me changed, but I was thinking about changing the curve "on-the-go". Is that even possible? Why? When a fast trend reaches its peak, linear regression curve will cut it nicely, but if an opposite trend goes fast too (and right after previous peak), linear curve will...

New article Trade Operations in MQL5 - It's Easy is published: Almost all traders come to market to make money but some traders also enjoy the process itself. However, it is not only manual trading that can provide you with an exciting experience. Automated trading systems development can also be...

Proper Bot: The Proper Bot is for those who like Martingale style trading. Features: Stop Loss, Take Profit, Trailing Stop Loss functions. All are calculated in POINTS. Author: Patrick Burns

Volatility bands: Volatility bands Author: Mladen Rakic

Candle Time End And Spread: The indicator shows candle end time and current spread. Author: mohd firdauz zainal abidin

EasyAndFastGUI library for creating graphical interfaces: The EasyAndFastGUI library allows creating graphical interfaces for custom MQL programs. Author: Anatoli Kazharski

Brandy: EA based on MA. As easy as pie :) Author: Сергей

Harmonic Pattern Finder V3: Indicator to display existent and emerging harmonic chart patterns. Author: Andre Enger

VFX London Breakout: Expert Advisor which trades breakouts in several pairs during the London Session. Author: Vinicius de Oliveira

THREE MOVING AVERAGE EA (X3MA EA): It uses 3 fast MAs to determine entries and exits as well in an event of a crossover. Author: fred

FX5_Divergence: This indicator will detect divergence between the price and OsMA indicator. It will give buy or sell signal according to the type of divergence that was detected. Author: Hazem

New article MQL5.community Payment System 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...

Breakeven v3: Moving positions to breakeven Author: Vladimir Karputov

1MA: "1MA" EA trades with a strategy based on one 20 period moving average and has Trailing Stop Loss &Take Profit works on all time frames major forex pairs Author: Aharon Tzadik

New article Naive Bayes classifier for signals of a set of indicators has been published: The article analyzes the application of the Bayes' formula for increasing the reliability of trading systems by means of using signals from multiple independent indicators. Theoretical calculations are verified...

New article Embed MetaTrader 4/5 WebTerminal on your website for free and make a profit has been published: Traders are well familiar with the WebTerminal, which allows trading on financial markets straight from the browser. Add the WebTerminal widget to your website — you can do it absolutely free....

hi. in attached code if put   "   h1=h0/m0;   "  as same as in code, then send  " zero  divide ". where is the problem.?

I would be most grateful if somebody could amend (or advise me what to amend) the EA below for me please. Its is a simple EA that opens a pending buy stop and sell stop at round numbers (every 100 pips in this case). The issue I have with it is that when price moves towards to next round number, the...

Hi, I have sucbscribed to a trader and i have a vps. However, the trades are no longer being copied from the trader to my account. Do you know why this could happen and how to fixe it? Thanks!

HI, I just want to place order when arrow signal (object ) appear on a current bar since I can not use icustom. I think I can check object to find arrow and if arrow signal time=Time[0], then place order. Is this correct? void get_signal(){      if (ObjectsTotal() == 0) { return(0); }     int i;...

I have 5 vps previously and I closed down 2 vps last week.  My EA (5 licenses) was used up in all previous 5 vps.  If I have new vps in future, how do I deactivate my EA licenses from previous 2 vps, and activate at new vps? Please advise.  Marcus Lee 

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How do I get the MT4 2 line MACD?

Hello everyone, Its been a long time since my OS forced a shutdown/restarted.  After I realized the problem, I ran a part of the code I never run. void CheckUp()  {   Alert("Start");   Total_Orders=OrdersTotal();   for(Total_Tickets=0; Total_Tickets < Total_Orders; Total_Tickets++)...

Hi,  I am developing an algo based on Excel and VBA however I am finding some difficulties to code on MQL4. Can someone guide me how I can extract raw prices past data of all time-frames for all symbols into excel, please? Much Appreciated.

Hello everyone - sorry my first post is one asking for help! There is an indicator that I would like to add a simple alert to (for trading manually). 2 lines are drawn on the chart, and all I want is an alert when the current price either goes above 1 line, or below the other line. I know very...

I just have a basic question cause I'm new in programming... Is there any way to arrange lines in mql4 when nested operation is used? for example in MatLab when you press ctrl+i all "if" ,"for" and... that are inside each other would be arranged. 

Is it possible to know if the order was closed by 1. normal tp/sl 2. Manual close 3. closed by **pip 4. closed by profit dollers. etc..... Is it possible to put mark (comments?) when CloseOrder? If it is possible to leave a foot print, I think I can know the order was closed by 1 or 2 or 3. Any good...