Hello, MQL5 If you do not use MetaEditor to code, which alternative editor do you use?

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, could you help me?I need to insert a deadline within an indicator, the expiration has the function of no longer functioning the indicator beyond that date / time.I was suggested to insert the lines, like the ones below, then to compile and send only the .ex4 file.I do not have technical skills,...

USD/CAD The primary trend of USD/CAD is bullish on charts and price is trading above the trend line in its hourly chart. In hourly chart the price is sustaining above 200 day SMA and taking support of 50 day SMA indicating uptrend of the pair. Resistance level of 1.3780 and Support level of 1.3670...

Hello All, I am creating edit box on MT5. During back-testing when i am click on edit box to enter the value, then edit box becomes blank. Please suggest something to solve this. Your help is meanfull to me. Thanks in advance Abhishek

Brent Crude Oil April-June 2017 Forecast: weekly correction with possible breakdown; 49.69 support is the key W1 price located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on the secondary correction which was started in the beginning of January located within the following...

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...

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

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

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...

Need an Urgent help. I'm trying to sell my Expert and I did Make a limitation for any user to use it only on his account with his name and broker server. buy still need to protect the trades from being Copied with any copier expert on any other mt4.. can anyone help ???

I am trying to calculate linear regression. For that I am using GPU of my system with OpenCl as that is the only option through which I can connect MQL5 with the GPU. Here is the code: const string cl_src = " #pragma OPENCL EXTENSION cl_khr_fp64 : enable                       \r\n""__kernel void...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to migrate from MetaTrader4 to MetaTrader5. To do that I have created a custom symbol on MT5 and imported M1 and Tick data from Dukas. (Custom symbol named EURUSD_DUKAS) Everything seems ok, I can see the data on my graph and the ticks are correctly saved in the...

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

How can i setup my debit card to my meta trader account?? what are the steps i can use

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...

Hi I'm totaly beginner on MQL5 an EA programming... Is possible to include _Symbol="CHI50Cash" as trading option? Or? I don't see that this is possible!?! Best regards J

For three months at mql5, I learned about trading technology for three months. I found that Mr. Sergei was an excellent trader and a conscientious administrator. I visited many of his posts, and the content on the blog, and learned a lot of trade skills. I want to create this thread and invite him...

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

Hello all I have tested many strategies and many other stuff but i did not found them more accurant then basic analysis of the market. i mean,the Price Patterns. 1. harmony indicators: here and here. 2. candelsticks reversal patternsis here. 3. Price Patterns: - Price Patterns (Gartley,Butterfly,Bat...

Hello!. I'm using this system alredy few monthes and this is very good. now I'm looking to make it Automatic, if someone can do it for me, I'll send him the Indicators and we will make EA together... SO, This is it: Enter Long: First sign,When the Violet up arrow apppers Second sign, when the price...

Same idea as with other: if you have a good idea for a Trading System? Post here and we will develop it (all ideas will be evaluated first).

Does anyone have a generic EA script that uses separate conditions for Buy, BuyExit, Sell and SellExit that doesn't allow opening multiple orders in the same direction. With my limited script writing ability I should be able to customize the various buy and sell conditions.  

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".

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

I'm worried about opening this thread, because I'm afraid I'm not talking about a particular major, I'm a junior trader, but I want to talk about this thread. 1. How to use the signal to trade 2. How to use the oversell and oversell indicator 3. How to optimize the signal and reduce the frequent...

Recently I was experimenting with a couple of indicators used for a non-scalping system presented by BigBear - https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177573 I was debugging one of the indicators when I switched to the M5 chart and noticed a nice setup for a quick short trade... hmmm.... probably a...

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...

Hi All, I will be posting here about Kolachi Method of Trading.It is a complete system of trading used to trade forex and commodities.I has been designed by David Kolachi and he has shared it mostly on forexfactory and kolachitrader.net. I will be posting the text and rules of the Kolachi Method and...

Please find indicator (in download area) which is forecasting the support and resistance of current day based of previous day. All the calculation is based on Thomas R. DeMark book "New Science of Technical Analysis". Works on the timeframe less than H4 (including H4 of course).

Hi, today I encountered  an issue when comes to calculating the order's performance. Assuming I would have bought stocks at 100$ and sell 105$ the gain is 5% according to foll equation (sold price - buy price)/buy price*100 = 5.00% However, considering the following price history I would get a...

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...

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...

Dax Index January-March 2017 Forecast: flat within bullish with key resistance at 11,649 W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price broke 11,485 level to above on close weekly bar with 11,649 as a nearest bullish target to re-enter. Thus, the weekly price is...

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, 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.

hello i reached in this poind which only way success is money managment i hope grow up an account from 10$ untill 100$ with money management and when i reach to it again grow it untill 1000$ regards

Hi, Are there any brokers allow trading both FX and stocks/index for the Hong Kong markets? Thank you in advance

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...

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

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...

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...

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...

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

Bovespa Index Technical Analysis 2016, 10.04 - 17.04: branging bullish with ascending triangle pattern to be formed for the bullish trend to be continuing Daily price is located above 100-day SMA (100 SMA) and 200-day SMA (200 SMA) for the bullish market condition with the ranging within the...

HI, can anyone help me to explain what does 'end of test' means in Strategy Tester MT5? And I also get status with 'so 11.87%', what does it mean? TIA.

Hi, I've searched for an 'upgrade' as I recently found that almost all Renko builders recalculate. I use Renko. The solution is to anchor it in time (set a start date) but i do not know how. I considered paid options but none release the source code. I get why but at the same time trust has to work...

Hi, I've stumbled upon EA Builder (www.eabuilder.com) and FxDreema (https://fxdreema.com). I suspect there are even more EA building tools out there. Which is best? Give your view here of which EA builder you prefer and why. I'll start - Between the two I checked out, I preferred EA Builder for its...

Can We define functions that like  Print("Hello","World"," !"); http://www.equestionanswers.com/c/variadic-function.php Can I define these fuctions in mql4 or mql5?

I get this error when loading metatrader from the command line with a config.ini file 2013.03.27 21:43:46 Exception Encountered an improper argument. This error happens if the following functions are contained in the EA: void OnTesterInit()void OnTesterPass()void OnTesterDeinit() I do not...

Guys, I need help on EA for taking profit only after MA crossover. The setup would be : - TP if the price cross the MA - No open position and SL, just for taking profit Many I found is for open trade and SL. Or could u suggest EA that could be modified into that by certain setup. Thanks in advance...

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...

Hello, It's an Expert. Why this EA does not display my "indicator" on the chart? Thanks, Pierre //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                    eaHighLow.mq5 |//|                        Copyright 2018, MetaQuotes Software...

How do I code my EA to collect the last closed order's profit/loss? I can track the p/l for live orders, and if I close the order, I can collect the data... but if the system closes the order... for whatever reason... I don't know how to collect the data. Chuck

For me, volatility situations were always times when I decided to shutdown my EA. I felt that my servers would never be fast enough to trade news or, for example, central bank decisions. Now and then I try to keep up with new developments, so my question would be if there are any positive news about...

Hello, Why does this script produce a out of range ? Thanks, Pierre //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                 stOutOfRange.mq5 |//|                        Copyright 2018, MetaQuotes Software Corp....

Hi, is there any way to compare the results from our Expert Advisor with the "buy and hold" alternative. That is, if we buy at the first position opened by our tester and then we just hold that until the end of our test (this is useful because if we are testing a bullish market we could think our...

Hello friends, I'm looking for some custom codes, it will be very helpful for me if any one provides me. I have already created an EA but I'm have to make some changes in it. I'm looking for simple codes. 1) The order should open only if LAST CLOSED TRADE LOT size is X (Variable). 2) The order...

How to get length of enum and item in MQL4/MQL5 ? For example, there has an enum definition: enum ENUM_FRUIT {APPLE, BANANA, GRAPE}; Next, I want to use it in loop: for (int i = 0; i < length_of_enum; i++) { Print(EnumToString(get_enum_item(i)));} How to implement this requirement? I've...

Good morning, I have an EA that I created and have been using it for the past year but now I'm trying to make it "better" and one of the things that I need to do is find a better way to add orders. Today, I use the MqlTradeRequest and MqlTradeResult so I can add order, but by using that, sometimes a...

Hi all, I've been wanting to have the ability to plot indicators from different timeframes on my chart, but MT doesn't have this capability built in. (Does anyone know of any charting programs that do this natively?) As an example, if you're following the IWCR system, it'd be nice to be able to...

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...

Hi, I have a recurring problem that happens on my MT5 indicators. When I open a new chart and attach the indicator to the chart, the history is sometimes still loading. That also happens when I change the time frame of the chart. When this situation occurs the indicators don't draw anything. On a...

Hello all, I need to calculate iMA from custom values, for instance Open-Close. I was able to get this only by creating a separate indicator that calculates Open-Close values. Partial code: // open-close calculation handlehoc = iCustom(_Symbol, _Period, "Custom\\oc");// MA of open-closehma =...

If I wanted to use MT4 or MT5 just as "dumb terminal" to place trades, i.e. not use the charting... then what could I place in the chart area that I could watch instead of charts to give me some interesting information - like a dashboard.

Hello I'm trying to find a Para SAR with a Trend Filter. For example, alert would show when Para changes direction but is above/below an EMA or multiple EMA levels. Does anyone know of one? Thanks!

The RSI Signal indicator plots buy\sell arrows when RSI crosses the overbought\oversold levels. It produces high probability reversals signals. It also alerts you when a signal is taking place. Download here: Great trading! as requested by Bossxero, the indicator is attached.

Dear traders, programmers... I am very disappointed about my trading results, and am in real need of any sort of help, I just want to get my lost money back, which was a total of 8 years of hard work. I appreciate your kind support.

Hi all, I was wondering if there was a public version or a buy version of the TD Indicator which contains a complete Setup, Combo & Aggressive 13 including TDST levels ? I've searched online for any recent versions and I'm only finding it on Pine Script only. I've come across it in Mq4 but its not...

FxPulse 4.0 - Free MT4 indicator news. Support 11 languages: English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Indonesian. Real time Economic news! It's 100% Free! Pulse Fx 4.0 provides you with real-time news right on the chart!

Different zigzag's indicators please post here.

Hi All, My first post, after some long time reading and using MT5. Recently i started like all others with creating an own EA. I have created multiple indicators before and used them in my EA with success. Only since a week i have started using a new indicator which i did not created my self i found...

Hello guys  i am looking for a CCI cross indicator which will show a signal when the line close above -100 or below 100 thank or your help

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...

Hi All Is there any advantage of the implementation of mq5 indicators compared to mq4. The mq5 by comparison seem to be all over the place code wise and requires so much more resource coding wise.  one call in oninit, 2 global variables.  Has anyone managed to get to get it down to one or 2 lines?...

RoNz Auto SL-TS-TP v.2: EA for Automatic StopLoss, Take Profit, Profit Lock, and Trailing Stop. SL and TP could be hidden. Author: Roni Nafrianto

Simple Single Layer Perceptron EA: The EA using single layer Perceptron. Author: Kei Sanada

EMA Levels MTF: There seems to be at a moment serious lack of multi timeframe versions of MetaTrader 5 indicators. Since there is no real reason for that, here is one more multi timeframe version. This is a multi timeframe version of EMA Levels. Timeframes supported are all the possible...

Schaff trend RSX mtf: Schaff Trend RSX with an option to work in multi timeframe mode. 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...

EMA Cross Contest Hedged: A trading system based on three indicators: two iMAs (Moving Average) and iMACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence, MACD). Author: Vladimir Karputov

New article MQL for "Dummies": How to Design and Construct Object Classes is published: By creating a sample program of visual design, we demonstrate how to design and construct classes in MQL5. The article is written for beginner programmers, who are working on MT5 applications. We propose a...

New article Money Management by Vince. Implementation as a module for MQL5 Wizard has been published: The article is based on 'The Mathematics of Money Management' by Ralph Vince. It provides the description of empirical and parametric methods used for finding the optimal size of a trading lot. Also...

All Pivot Points: An indicator for drawing all important Pivot Points including: "Classic", "Camarilla", "Woodie", "Floor", "Fibonacci", "Fibonacci_Retracement". Author: Hossein Nouri

Hedging_Zone_Recovery_Area: This is my version of Zone Recovery Hedging Strategy Ea with two moving averages. It works on any time frame, you should try it on demo account. Zone Recovery is an advanced hedging system. When the market goes against you by certain number of pips, you open an...

Schaff Trend RSI MTF: Schaff Trend RSI with an option to work in multi timeframe mode too. 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...

Lossless MA: The EA opens trades at the intersection of the fast and the slow MAs. It has the function of outstaying the losses. Author: Vladimir Tkach

Tipu Renko Live: Tipu Renko Live is a modified version of Renko Charts that can be plotted on a normal time frame. Author: Kaleem Haider

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...

ThirdPartyTicks: A library for working with a third-party tick archive. Author: fxsaber

Improve: An Expert Advisor based on two iMAs (Moving Average,MA) and one iRSI (Relative Strength Index, RSI). It tracks virtual profit. Works on two symbols. Author: Vladimir Karputov

I've been Googling for a while, but can't turn anything up. Is there a way to retrieve the currently active profile name in code? lastprofile.ini contains, unsurprisingly, the last profile name, not the current one. Thanks

if i have any ea that opens multiple buy positions and sell positions and i would like to close 0.01 lots of any of the buy positions for example then what is the least complicated way of doing that ?  for example , the ea i coded opens 4 different buy positions with different lot sizes at different...

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 all, I try to insert a variable into the custom indicator that returns to me the closest (lowest) BAR index (for example CCI) where value is greater than 100. example: For last 10 bars CCI have values [0, 50, 50, 20, 50, 99, 103, 102, 101, 0] extern int CCI_period = 14;extern int range= 10;//----...

Hi, i'm having problem to code this indicator, i need to call functions in specific order placed on extern variables, example, if first is 1, second is 2, it should call the 3 functions, functionone first, then function2, and after complete, repeat in a loop, so how can i code it? Thanks for any...

MetaTrader 4 verison 4.0 Bulid 840 WONT COPY/INSERT/SHOW INDICATORS/CUSTOM INDICATORS IN MT4 (MAC using wine) The indicator wont show in my navigator or or indicator folder, I can't copy any indicator thats in the folder or paste a indicator in that folder. I can't copy or paste anything in the mt4....

Hi, i need help to code this, can someone help me to do it? double r;int start()                                     {if (test()==10)change r value///QUESTION, how can i change return value of test function (r) to another value, if that condition happens?...

I have a school project (due this Friday) and I'm stuck on an MT4 EA. It takes my SL and TP perfectly - just not my Entry. I made the TA for it first and it prints the RIGHT results to my screen, but it won't work correctly for the EA. I can't figure out why? Anyone here want to take a look. Its a...

Hi, I've been using <Deleted> for sometime now. I think it is good, BUT, I want to backtest a strategy that uses loops in the code, and believe it or not, but you can't write loops using <Deleted> language! So, I started looking for other backtesting software, preferably for free, I found and...

for example, when I type the path "#include <Arrays\ArrayChar.mqh>" by myself, meta editor shows can't open ... include file However, it works when you copy the path form the following website...what's wrong? https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/standardlibrary/datastructures/carraychar

please help me with this code I need to use v keys to right: (AaBb) // First need to check if VK_CAPITAL is ON?           keybd_event(VK_SHIFT, 0, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0);// Press Shift Key           keybd_event(VK_A, 0, WM_COMMAND, 0);              // Press A Key (To Right A not a)...

Hi there, I tried and tried to get the open date of the previous year. Can you help me please ? Now, i do it like this but, it's not "pro" datetime  PREV_YEAR_OPEN_DATE=D'2017.01.001 0:00';   datetime PREV_MONTH_OPEN_DATE=iTime(Symbol(),PERIOD_MN1,1);datetime PREV_WEEK_OPEN_DATE=iTime(Symbol()...

Hello friends, I´m working in my EA estrategy, if someone has these indicators for MTF. I will be enormously grateful

Hello all, Can anyone pls help me to check out where is the problem with my EA? It open some trade where the condition set is not met.Below is the attached file of my code Appreciate your help. Thank, Newbie

Hi guys, In my project I'm using an OBJ_RECTANGLE_LABEL object to draw a fixed position rectangle. It works fine, but I have a problem. When I open and close positions with my expert advisor, these methods draw arrows and lines on the chart (that's normal). When those objects get my fixed position...