I've just finished my first C++ book "C++ Primer Plus" and still want to study C++ for jumping to the next level in EA programming in MQL 5. Which book would you advise me to study next? Which subject in C++ should I master now for excelling in EA programming?

A Senior Trader told me that when we trade , we trade really against the broker. Which makes sense really why one hardly ever hears about people making money on forex. I mean looking at even the best traders  here, this could hardly be called a an easy living career with very few traders making more...

Hello everybody, While I was studying Technical Analysis I made a lot of Photoshop imagesto show words of wisdom that was said by writers of technical analysis books. Ibuild this thread to share those pictures with you and I hope they could helpyou to find them interesting. I encourage you also to...

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Hi, I am trying to create a function that closes a specific amount of lots. It should loop through all orders, close by oldest order first and do partial closure if there is a order thats bigger than the specified amount to close. I am having a hard time doing this, anyone that can help?

Provider Acc: 1.300$, my Acc Mt4 only 1000$. dose matter with copying ??/ Thank you!

Hello there. I am not a programmer and I need help in order to do something that may be could be easy for somebody of you. I want to see the RSI and the Stochastic indicators into the same window, including in the program the IndicatorCounted(), to optimize the calculation. I am thinking that could...

Well, the asset moves as I’ve predicted. I think that I can earn even more on USD/JPY! Definitely, the show must go on =) 

Hi. I need to buy a robot 

Hi, after opening an order (instant execution) can I add or modify  comment ? Thanks

Anyone knows how to use the hotkeys.ini file? The doc says that I can use this file to customize my shortcuts, but I was unable to find any example about how I can do it. 

Any new software inevitably contains bugs that are not alwayspossible to detect even under the most rigorous in-house testing. Wetherefore attach great importance to all user reports about issues inour programs and try to answer each one of them. In order to improve feedback from MetaTrader 5 end...

When you tell me that indicators are worthless while i read that Gerald Apple is represented as "professional money manager"  Capable of acquiring such position will definitely negate any hesitation towards using a technical indicator tool that reflects his success  What do both MAs mean and...

I’m having a little loss right now, but I think I’ll close the deal with profit.  

I have asked this question a number of times but I think the responder only read the subject line, and then gave me a general answer that was quite wrong.  I hope today you are able to answer me correctly.  QUESTION: Am I able to purchase the same EA: "MAPSARSizeOptimized" that is default mounted to...

Thanks to Hendrick Stam for sharing this winning system and expert advisor. This EA (Phoenix 4 Contest) is currently 2nd place at ATC 2006 hosted by MetaQuotes. Phoenix_4_CONTEST.mq4: running live at ACT 2006. phoenix_ea_v5_6_03.mq4: the latest version. Hendrick: It’s time to start a new thread...

Salutations! So I was tinkering with my trailing stop code template, which kinda is as follows:          if((OrderType()==OP_BUY) && (OrderSymbol()==Symbol()) && (OrderMagicNumber()==MagicNumber))  /*This*/       if((TrailingStop>0) && (Bid>OrderOpenPrice()+MyPoint*TrailingStop) &&...

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...

This is Ilan-TrioKS v1.45 - /English Version/ - The new SUPER Expert Advisor. Working with all pairs. TimeFrame - M15. Please test it.

hello master trader. Recently I learned trading strategy using trend line but I have difficult to identify trend. and that I want to ask. how to identify trend changes using trend line. as shown below the picture above is an example of a scenario for a trend change. of the two images above which are...

Please find some indicators which are forecasting something. First is i-DRProjections_v.0.1. This indicator shows the support and resistance of current day forecasting on the base of previous day. All the calculation is based on Thomas R. DeMark book "New Science of Technical Analysis".

Greetings, I, like many others, have been searching for the perfect trading system, and I believe I have found it. I'm writing to ask you to examine this system and provide any constructive feedback that you might have. When I say "perfect" trading system, I do not mean to imply that it has no...

Locked-in Range Analysis (abbr. LRA) is the futures market analysis method, described in the ebook "Locked-in Range Analysis: Why most traders must lose money in the futures market (Forex)" by Tom Leksey, which minimizes an uncertainty in the futures market. LRA is the method of interpreting the...

This Ea is one I have backtested and achieved 90% modeling quality on four and five digit brokers and have found good results.I enclose Ea and backtest report.

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

hello guys, I'm struggling with a system that enters supports and resistance, some ideas on how to structure the entrance. The signal must be given by three highs or three lows

Dear All, As this is my first post on this forum you may think that i am a newbie which i am for sure in comparing with some forex gurus like Igorad, but after spending couple of years in losing money, researching, losing money, researching and finally earning money i don't feel like one . I...

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...

Some people asked me on the other forums about re-enter. But I am not using any indicator for re-enter. So I decided to create some simple trading system with re-enter based on indicator's arrow on the chart. Let's name it as PriceChannel Parabolic system. M1 timeframe. This is image for EURUSD...

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...

Keen observers of price behaviour have no doubt discovered that from time to time, gaps appear in the normal price sequencing. These can usually be seen clearest on a technical chart. Gaps are areas on a chart where the price of a financial instrument has moved either up or down with no...

Hello, is anyone aware of any futures broker that offer its client the MT5 trading platform? Is there a list of those? I mean real futures, not CFDs. Futures that trade on CME Globex and Eurex exchanges. Thank you.

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...

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...

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies Press review Sergey Golubev, 2016.12.24 17:18 Nikkei Q1 2017 Fundamental Forecast: Bullish (based on the article) Fundamental Analysis  "The Bank of Japan has been buying stocks for over two years now. And in September, the...

Hello, I currently read about companies developing CQG and Interactive Brokers bridges for MT5. And this is great news, something that I have actually been waiting for a long time. But besides the announcement I still found no broker  offering access to the CME and COMEX via MT5? Does...

It is very sad that majority of the people that get involved in the forex business end up losing their money but I will explain the major reasons why this happens below: 1. Leverage and Margin - Trading on margin seems like a fast way to make quick profit however, this gives birth to greed as a...

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...

Hi there, Does anyone know how to get the Sugar charts to load? They've been added more than one week ago and all it says is "WAITING TO UPDATE". Still very new at this - Go easy on me :)

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...

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...

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, why when I connect the mt5 to the Metaquotes server is deleted the personal data history present in the folder Custom \ Symbol \ Ticks? Thanks for the reply

Hi, since yesterday, the debugger is not able to compile the project anymore, just like that. It started when I created a macro and inserted this into some source files. This was the first time when the debugger created an invalid EX5 file, while the normal compiling process created a working...

Hi there. to assist my automated trading via EA-s in MT5 I would need a database in which/from which I could read/write data using mql code. I've seen some posts explaining how to connect MT5 with MySql, have tried that, but it's a bit difficult, while writes to DB are straight forward, reads from...

I have thought that there might be some function that can get me previous Bid or Ask price similar to the one that give OHLC value. But I could not see any such function.    Please let me know how I can get the previous values of the Bid or Ask?

Terms and Conditions: You describe (you provide) the idea, I place an open MQL5 code in this branch, I place this code in a CodeBase. &nbsp, I specify the author of the idea and the author of a MQL5 code in a code, The coding services are provided "as is" and you use them at your own risk. List of...

Hi, I was "playing" with hedging to explore possibilities : it's very tempting, since it allows purely & simply to recover from a bad position taken.  The risk of these strategies is well-known : lot management. Comes ALWAYS a point, where the margin is stressed, the logical solution being to accept...

Hi, I am trying to learn about Expert Advisory strategy tester. Just as a test I would like to calculate if I opened a position above the 200MA and then closed it when it closed below again or at say 50 pips and again for the opposite. Can anyone assist me in getting this to work on EA Strategy...

Hello, in my backtest result is see a relative drawdown maximal of 24.24 %. The backest is over 259 trades. The problem: I can't reproduce this value visually in the equity, balance curve. Find attached 3 files zipped : The backtest results in numbers. An image of balance curve and a screenshot...

Hi all! Thank you for looking at this thread. I'm having an issue where an EA keeps removing itself from a chart on tick. It occurs when I add a function to my main EA script. The function is down below. Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is giving me a real headache!...

I have the problem, that I do not get the price of the execution, when I use the class CTrade, the position is opened or closed, but the price is 0.0. I wrote a small expert Advisor for test. In the Demo Account everything works, but only at Livetrading the price is 0.0 Does anybody know, how to...

Hi there, I try to use iMA. This is my configuration: int MA_Definition1 = iMA(symbolName, timeFrame, 10, 0, MODE_EMA, PRICE_CLOSE); For a Buy or Ask decision I need the distance between EMA-curve and Ask- or Bid-curve. 1- Is ENUM_APPLIED_PRICE based on Ask- or Bid-price? 2- What is displayed on...

Good day! 1. I would like to ask how to fill the gaps in historical data. I have tried various methods. From the classic download via History Center of MT4, to downloading a certain software which downloads data from a certain broker, to getting an EA which supposedly downloads data for me. However,...

I have an EA written in MQL5 the EA depends on data from four indicators, sometimes it copies the data correctly most times I get an error 4116, as a result of this error trades that depend on the value of the indicator are closed because of the ridiculous values that are posted to the indicator...

Hello Everyone,  I tried to modify Stochastic,  to pop-up alert  only one time once indicator reach to over-brought or Over-Sold Level. But again getting same error,  //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|...

Hey! I need to dynamically fill objects of complex types (class or struct) with data. The class/struct may look like this: class FooClass{   public:      int Int;      string Str;      double Dbl;      .      .      .};struct FooStruct{   int Int;   string Str;   double Dbl;   .   .   .}; The catch...

Can someone help with that? I made an indicator that work well, but sometime when change the symbol or time frame in the chart get this error. Here is the part of code than have problem. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| Custom indicator iteration...

Hi All What is your favorite indicator, that makes you a constant profit? thanks for sharing

Hello Group, I found this indicator for bar numbering which was written in MT4  https://www.mql5.com/en/code/19248 I tried to convert it to MT5 however am getting lot of compilation errors, can some of you gurus out here please help convert this MT5, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Folks, I am adapting an indicator but i am not able to do the following task. The indicator must be drawn until (rates_total-X) ....what I get is ok but at rates_total-X a vertical line is drown and the folliwing values are 0. How can I draw the line until (rates_total-X) skipping drawing the...

Hi there, I need to find time after a "datetime". Exactly 15 min after a by-hand-pre-defined datetime. The datetime is not a multiple of "15 min". It begins 1 min before the previous hour and it ends 15 min after. here in the image below what i need to do : How can I do this please ? Kind regards.

It seems that David Stendahl can not help him self Where his name appears "attached" to some indicator or TA way, it sure is worth trying it out and studying it. The basis for these were originally published in the Stocks & Commodities July 1996 issue (attached the original article here). Do not be...

Is there a way to detect currency strength of 2 currencies for current chart in multiple timeframes? If yes, how to do that?

Is there an  alternative  symbol  or conversion in MT5 for ' SYMBOL_STOPSIGN '. Thank you.

Hi all gurus, I've hust started trading, and since I've an engeneering background and approach, I've investigeted formulas, and read a book written by Renato di Lorenzo, based on work of Corinnah Kroft, who has worked with Butterworth filter integrated with that one of R. F. Mayer, so to have two...

Here is a little guide on how to get the work done NOTE: An indicator can be of 2 format (extensions), .MQ4 and .EX4. MQ4 is the source code, and EX4 is the compiled version of the code. Step By Step 1) Download/Copy/Save the MQ4/EX4 file into your C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 4\experts\indicators...

RSI indicator We are continuing discussion about the indicators. We have the following thread: Parabolic SAR indicator Momentum indicator Stochastic Oscillator Divergence Indicator Now we are talking about RSI. "Technical Analysis from A to Z": OverviewThe Relative Strength Index ("RSI") is a...

PSAR indicator, with colors to indicate direction + Alert when a cross is happening. Download it here Download Parabolic SAR Alert Good Trading!

Hi, i'm newbie in MT5, i dont find the trick to add indicators in the MQL wizard. I like to add a standard Alligator. I've take a look on https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/226 but i didnt understand Thank you

Hello, The OnDeinit () method for an indicator, no longer exists in MQL5? //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                          ttt.mq5 |//|                                   Copyright 2018, Pierre Rougier...

Hi, I had a indicator that was working that no longer works. I ran on metaeditor to see for errors, and I got the following error. 'Period_W1'-cannot convert enum    [on line 22] Any suggestions on a fix? Anyone?

Renko 2.0 Offline: Renko 2.0 Offline non-trading expert generates custom symbol information on 1M chart. Important! Always leave it on M1 chart. A complete Renko chart with wicks. Now Offline! Based on Renko 2.0 indicator. References the Symbol library for MetaTrader 5 by fxsaber. Configure using...

New article Features of Experts Advisors has been published: Creation of expert advisors in the MetaTrader trading system has a number of features. Author: MetaQuotes Software Corp.

Rainbow WMA: Based on Mel Widner's Rainbow Average (that is similar to Guppy MMA), this is a sort of generalized version with quite a few extensions. It is a single value indicator (like any other average) that can use calculating depths up to 50. The "depth" refers to recursive way of how...

Math Utils: Handy functions for comparison and rounding of floating-point numbers (prices, lots and money). Author: amrali

NonLag MA MTF: Well known NonLag MA with additions and adjustments. The first version published long time ago did not have price as an input option. This version corrects that, and the code is adjusted to new builds of MetaTrader 5 and also made multi timeframe. Timeframes supported are all...

MACD High/Low MTF: MACD High/Low made multi timeframe. Timeframes supported are all the possible timeframes supported by MetaTrader 5 and it has 3 "special" timeframes: Next higher timeframe: first higher timeframe compared to active chart, Second higher timeframe: second higher timeframe compared...

Ultra Trend MTF: Ultra Trend indicator made as multi timeframe. Timeframes supported are all the possible timeframes supported by MetaTrader 5 and it has 3 "special" timeframes: Next higher timeframe: first higher timeframe compared to active chart, Second higher timeframe: second higher timeframe...

SV v.4.2.5: The Expert Advisor opens no more than one position per day. Positions are opened at the specified time. It searches for the Highest and Lowest price in an interval. Data of two iMA (Moving Average, MA) indicators are used. Author: Vladimir Karputov

News EA Template Without DLL From 2 Sources: The functions included in this template use two news sources - Investing.com and Dailyfx.com. The template doesn’t use DLL. Author: Yurij Izyumov

New article Simple Methods of Forecasting Directions of the Japanese Candlesticks has been published: Knowing the direction of the price movement is sufficient for getting positive results from trading operations. Some information on the possible direction of the price can be obtained from the...

Waddah Attar Buy Sell Vol: This indicator separate Buy Volume and Sell Volume .. you never see like this before Author: waddah attar

MACD Expert: This expert advisor is using the MACD indicator to open trades. It works on any symbol and support 5 and 4 digits brokers. The exits are based on fixed stop loss and take profit values. Inputs Lot Size, Stop Loss in points, Take Profit in points, Max allowed spread in points, EA...

Multi Pair Closer: This EA will monitor the net profit of a currency basket and close all positions when the specified profit has been acquired. It does not matter which chart you run the bot on, all pairs that you have chosen to monitor will be monitored. Author: Matthew Colter

New article MQL5 Wizard: New Version is published: The article contains descriptions of the new features available in the updated MQL5 Wizard. The modified architecture of signals allow creating trading robots based on the combination of various market patterns. The example contained in the article...

RSISignal: Features Displays 3 RSI lines of different periods and the MA of the first RSI line (smoothed RSI), Displays the MA of the smoothed RSI. The crosses of smoothed RSI and its MA can be used as the signals, Displays histogram for RSI or its Moving Average, Colored level lines, Two color MA...

hi, Indicator moving average lines working well. I tested  with "-7" Shift parameter. yes it is working well. But the shift parameter not working well with object draw part. I am using SetIndexBuffer for draw lines. But i am using other method to draw object arrows. You can see it working well with...

I have an expert advisor which is not working right. Adding and changing some features.

Hi guys Please help me with this code. The expert opens a buy position and then SellStop. But if there is manually open Positions (market or pending) . the Expert stops working even though I did selected the orders with magic number in the Loop What's wrong in my code ??? I do not expert to deal...

Can someone help me code this script a a daily open line indicator? Would really appreciate it. Thank you.

Welcome Community Get ready to meet the brand new MQL4 project. Primary target of this project is to bring together MQL4 advantages and progressive software engineering practice. I am sure that best way to predict the future is to create the future. Yours sincerely Airat Safin

hello i got an indicator which the only way to retrieve buy and sell signals from is to analyse log Alerts produced by the indicator. i've tried every other way. But i *need* to automate it. my question regards the correct way to open the log file and to analyse it. 1) is it possible to open the log...

Hi every one I hope you are doing well and living a happy life  I have a question : I programmed a MQL4 script to aid me in my job. It processes a .txt data file and get final report and some simple statistics. the problem is that I want to let other employees use it without being forced to set up...

Hi, does anybody knows ho many pixel in x-direction (size_x) does have one candle of the chart with chart_scale 5 (and 4,3,2..)? Is there a way to calculate the size_y out of the High[iHighest(..)] and Low[iLowest(..)]? Thanks in advance, Gooly PS: I didn't find anything but the descr. of...

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+#property copyright "Copyright 2018, MetaQuotes Software Corp."#property link      "https://www.mql5.com"#property version   "1.00"#property strict#property...

I have products in my MT4 that worked last week. I did an update of Windows this weekend and restarted MT4. Now I cannot attach EA's. It shows up in the Navigator tab under the Market and already downloaded when I look in the market tab. But I can't attach them to the chart all of a sudden. Any idea...

Hi, I am optimizing an ea TimeFrame H1 with every tick(using my own tick data & real spreads) ; it is a high-low based scalperwith relatively tight stops/profits.   After it is finished, when I go to "optimizationresults" tab and double click on a specific line to run a backtest on thatspecific set...

Hi all, I start this thread (with Rlinac agreement) about his great tool: the !xMeter. !xMeter calculate the strength between different currencies. When I study the values on the picture below, it appears obvious that more the variation is large more it would be interesting to open a position. So I...

Hi guys then I'm trying to do the function of this This is the code But I did not understand why I do not change the order however in the function "TranlingStop " enters it (in fact I see the comment "tS") but it is not however does not perform the "orderModify" and I do not understand why someone...

Well,  MarketInfo(Pair,MODE_LOTSIZE) gives the value in base currency. Is there any way to get the value in deposit currency?

Hello everyone, I wanted to ask how I can set up an ea to open operations only from one hour to another. For example, I would like you to open long or short transactions only if a maximum or a minimum is broken between 2 and 3 pm