I contacted support to request a refund and also provided screen capture of the errors code and another screen for the vendor chat with no response. The MQL Customer service Directed me to ask here, what are my options 

Hello, I would like to know how can I treat a parameter from metatrader 4 platform definition instead of treat the error. In the MetaTrader 4 we have a parameter that can set up the EA only to work with Long or Short positions, or the both. Well, I would like to treat this parameter in my code to...

I  don't know if I'm posting in the right section (sorry if I'm wrong). I would like to sugget to developers if in the future they can fix/improve the limitation of zoom in/out. The steps of zoom are too wide and not totally customized.  Thank you in advance :)  Regards Giovanni

The first time I meet with the administrator that without contact without a word removed the topic because he criticizes the program

Hello, I have the message 'Financial operations are limited' for 5 days and I have no response from technical support despite several reminders. Do you know how long it takes to get an answer? There I can not renew my server and my subscription :( I am a little disappointed. Fred

Hello Although i didn't do anything to delete or load any scripts into the mt4 program, the timeframe tool bar disappeared after i have closed the software. I've tried reinstall, and reboot my computer, but nothing helped the View>toolbar>timeframe remain ticked but i just dont see it anywhere,...

Say it has input like this in EA preset input string  BL="L1,L2,L3,L4"; how do I process this input into a string array like? BLS=(L1,L2,L3,L4); Thanks in advance.

I would like a bar width in between these two sizes can someone make a indicator for this ?

I tried to export ticks data using Python and I got the data, but I don't identify what does 2, 4, 6, 312, 344, 376 flag codes means?

I have a question. I think it is good idea to add Broker Commissions, Custom Spreads & slippages, Swaps and others custom settings in MT5 Backtester. Could it be possible to add all those features??? Thank you

How could I export live data to Excel from MetaTrade? I would like to export Open, High, low and Close, also Vol and time to a excel worksheet.

Hi Everyone, I have an issue and trying from 3 to 4 days to solve it, But still can't solved it. I am not able to hold/capture the price on which our signal is generated or where my entry condition is true. for example if today i got the signal of buying and  i capture it by "ASK" price code...

I know we can launch the terminal through command line using a config file as argument in order to automatically start Strategy Tester and automate the testing process.  But what if I need to do this several times, testing the EA with different SET files? Do I have to launch and close the...

Hello Community, Consider the following function:  bool trailStop(double trailingSta, double trailingSto) {          double tSL;          RefreshRates();         for(int i = OrdersTotal()-1; i >= 0; i--) {            if(!OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)){...

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...

I do not understand why this function do not give me back the magic number and the symbol of the position that is open   long  magic;   ulong  ticket;   string symbol;   ulong total=PositionsTotal();   for(int i=total-1; i>=0; i--){     ticket=PositionGetTicket(i);       PositionSelect(ticket);...

hello everybody,  we have the zigzag indicator, every time the candle make high higher then the candle before, the zigzag will follow the new high right ? once the candle stop making any new higher the zigzag will wait for a low right ? i want to mark the high and low of the candle that stops the...

Hey,guys hows it going I just wanted to know do any of you wish you could download an older version of a EA or indicator you bought from the marketplace. Because sometimes developers make changes to the EA, in an update and it ends up preforming worst than it was previously . And you have no...

Hi every one, I've started to investigate and implement a series of simple strategies based on simple technical analysis such as resistance, support, simple price actions. Does every one now any indicators based on tick data and not time frames such as m1,m15,m30,... ? I am searching for some...

I have spent quite a while trying to get my MQl5 up to scratch I have bought a few books and am stummped over a new feature in MQL5 CopyBuffer. I have tried using it ion my code and keep finding it a nusence. In my expert advisors I have the code inside the tick function where I am I going wrong I...

257 Pips, One Afternoon, One Rusty Old Indicator (--- spreads = 225 pips ---) DISCOVER SCALP TO FREEDOM K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Sweetie) FOREX TRADING SYSTEM Let's give 6 pips average from not getting out at best --- below still seems to give: 177 pips in an afternoon?? I put the good old indicator...

Unfortunately, I am unable to createa blog so I have created this thread until blog services are fixed, at whichpoint this thread will be transferred to my blog. I used to be a manual trader for a long time: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/179446  However, I no longerenjoy the relentless screen time...

Whats up traders, I've came across a strategy which prove promising with manual back testing which I'm sure is a old strategy for the pro's.  Explanation of strategy: 15M Chart. Rules to buy: Signal - MACD cross above 0. Only take trade if Stochastic and RSI is above 50. Rules to sell: Signal - MACD...

[MT5] I was wondering if it is possible to code a custom system/ea to apply to my strategy that can search and take trades on multiple timeframes at once and return the results on one backtest report/equity graph?  Does anyone know if this would be possible? or if not, what are the specific MT5...

Which is the better system, trend or reversal trading?  Many indicators and EAs seem to be for reversal trading but is it really the best way to trade? Anybody know of any good EA that specifically utilizes trend analysis without resorting to a grid strategy or any form of Martingale?

Hi, I think it would be quite interesting to see the outcome of Martingale- or Grid-EAs which were optimized by Atrificial Intellingence and or neural networks. As for Martingale- or Grid-EAsthe the crash risk is very high - I would like to know what the AI or an NN would tell us. Does anybody...

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

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 Scorpion and everybody. I wrote this EA based on DPO indicator,but my programming is bad. Anyone can Rewrote this EA w/this settings: DPO period=120 Buy Level= 0.0030 Sell Level= -0.0030 TP=250 EURUSD/GBPUSD 300 or more SL=100 TS=? May be Required,but in my backtest is running ok without SL. Best...

Brain System. 8 indicators in total (see in download area). Some people said that it is great system. I did not try yet. I am very affraid for every great systems. I want to try but I fear. Because of great.

Now and while bitcoin has extra ordinary movement who can suggest a reasonable strategy to forecast its next movement? it will break its current top or will it will be resistance in future?

Disappointed - contacted the desk, no answer yet.  Any solution guys?  Appreciate,  Dan

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

Just curious about anyone trading preferences, I mean what do you prefer to trade Forex, Stocks, Futures? Is well known that Forex is the greatest market hands down, but unfortunately it doesn't offer certain analysis tools such as true volume, the book or TRIN, TICK, VIX tools which can be very...

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...

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...

Hello, Where can I find an example of EA to trade stocks or ETFs? An EA based on a moving average would be fine. Thanks in advance, Pierre

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...

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, anyone knows how to buy Dax future real-time data ? Thanks!!! 

Chicago Mercantile Exchange offers Currency Futures options and the historical data is available. Is there any backtesting tool for Currency Futures Options? I am looking at plotting the implied volatility of a constant delta options . For example the 30 day 25 delta for EurUsd futures contract...

Hi, For Indian Market, Strategy Tester in EA is not working but it is working for Indicators. There are two possiblites to work Make it work in EA indian market account (or), Copying the symbol data and load to other mt4 demo account and test How to do ? Suggest me with solutions

Monthly Forecast for USDTRY 1950-2018 1960-1977 %235 2001-2018 %249 1978-2000 %1394 Source: CBT-EVDS Data Central

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

Can someone help here ... the operator is overloaded, actually it should work  //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                     PlusPlus.mq5 |//+------------------------------------------------------------------+struct...

I'm trying to make an EA that trades off of arrows and a SL line printed with buffers from a custom indicator heres the code so far, I was wondering if anyone could help me with it literally all I want it to do is buy/sell when the respective arrow is printed, set the SL for those trades, and close...

So I'm trying to turn an indicator I wrote into an EA. I coded the logic into the indicator so the buffers draw a line where my SLs should be, as well as drawing arrows where my entries and exits are. How would i phrase it using iCustom so that it places my trades based on those buffers? Would it...

I have not registered any signals yet. Why does the notification say the account has been registered?

Dear All, Can you please confirm if we can create EA which will be used for Meta 5 but indicator itself is for Meta 4?  Regards, 

Hi! Is there anyone who has a lot of knowledge of the MT4 VPS server? I have a subscription to this VPS server, but the platform does not connect to the VPS server I have paid for (at least that is what I think). Take a look at the attached image. Can someone help me with this, please?

Hello, I need a macro or a programme which can export 1000 last bars for a given list of currency pairs and time  frames (eg EURUSD, USDCAD,USDCHF AND GBPCAD) - DAILY AND HOURLY TIMEFRAMES, I need this as fast as possible - can you help me?? Dave

A simple math functionlike this brings a totally wrong result, and this served me a bug in an EA which I was searching for months!!! MT5 Build 2085, but I am very sure this is the same in earlier versions, cause this is also the same with C# ... unbelievable but true.  void SimpleMath() {...

Description: Telegram 4 MQL was made to make the life of an automtic trader a bit more convenient or better to say it was made to spare nerves. Suitable questions while operating an autotrading systems are: Was the order correctly executed?Did an situation change an unusual way so that I need to...

Hi guys, I am using an EA to go through a few symbols in a list and also a few time frames, it worked good ,but lately i get a few errors for invalid request. I am using the CTrade library to open and manage the trades, and considering i dont work with the request struct directly i dont understand...

Hi, is there a way to make iBarShift to return indexes from left to right? I like to work with Arrays where 0 means the oldest bar, butiBarShift return it the other way round. Test case in OnCalculate:   for(int bar_number=prev_calculated; bar_number<rates_total;       bar_number++)...

Hello everybody, I'm searching for a good advise from experienced seller. I'd like to offer my EA  using MQL5 market...however I can't pass automatic test which is obligatory. While testing I receive message "test on EURUSD,H1 tester takes too long time" I assume that the reason of that are bad...

i don't know programming. I am giving i'e EA open first lot 0.01 2nd lot 0.02 third 0.04 4th 0.08 every double from last, i need every thing is fine only all lots open same size means if i set 0.01 lot second lot 0.01 third 0.01 4th 0.01 i am copying here if any expert please help me and modify i...

Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum and looking for a Programmer that specializes in Mql4. So far I have hired 2 programmers for this EA. The first quit, the second made an EA the does n't work. I did n't think this was that complex. I need an EA that enters trades when I'm asleep or at work, and...

Hi,while uploading to metaquotes a new indicator,I receive the following error message:test on EURUSD,H1 (netting)not synchronized with trade serverwhat does it means?thank you

Hello, I am working on some functions such as base64_encode and base64_decode. https://www.mql5.com/en/code/8098 But I realize that StringGetChar and CharToStr do not give the same result with extended ASCII (ASCII code > 127 and code < 256) Is this a bug? void testStringChar(ushort chr){  string...

Hello Guys I need help in creating the Currency strength formula that works on comparing the correlation of 8 major pairs that looks like below 50 is neutral, below 40 is weak currency, above 60 is strong currency Anyone can help on giving the formula on how to calculate those? thanks

instead of Bid I want to put Dailyopen ObjectCreate(LineName, OBJ_HLINE, 0, 0, Bid - pipDistance*Point); in below "daily open" indicator code i have put horizontal lines code but instead of Bid price i want horizontal lines on daily open. try to edit by compile error. Any Help Highly appreciated...

#property copyright "Dusan Fajler"#property link      "http://www.mql5.com"//--- indicator settings#property indicator_chart_window#property indicator_buffers 2#property indicator_plots   1#property indicator_type1   DRAW_LINE#property indicator_color1  clrBlue, clrYellow, clrGreen, clrRed,...

Hello Community, I kindly ask if someone has a ZigZag version (MT5/mt5 source file) calculated on open/close price instead of high/low?. @Vladimir Karputov  Do you have an idea?. I have looked in the CodeBase but I couldn't find it. So it would be grateful if someone can post here a version of it....

any helps ??

I have bought an Indicator but whwn I click on the link to install, link doesn't open. Could you please help me?

Are there any indicators/tools/methods for determining cycles? I am interested in finding daily cycles and also finding cycles on shorter time frames as well. As a side note:Does anyone know of certain times of the day when price is likely to reverse its direction? thank you

Hi all... I'm dedicating this thread to all indicators by John Ehler's in the hope that we can get/make as many of them for MT4 as possible. Please post any MT4 John Ehlers indicators that you have here as outlined in his books "Rocket Science for Traders", "Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and...

Hello. I am trying to implement the iFractals and there's something definitely wrong with it. Due to the fact that I can not get the proper result on my own code, I tried to use the example from the documentation  https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/indicators/ifractals I just copied and pasted the code...

Hello smart people! Among the many indicators I found this. This seems to me to be quite accurate. I've been testing it for some time. But there is one problem. This indicator does not work with BUY Alerts. Maybe someone has experience with this indicator? Maybe someone has an improved...

I decided to make some indicators' review based on trading experience and using them inside manual trading systems. So, please find the first thread about Stochastic Oscillator. Feel free to add or write any comments concerning this indicator about how to use it inside trading systes, how to trade...

Does any one know if it is possible to add/download a favourite inticator to any smart phone version of Meter Trader 4 of 5? Thanks in view of your kind reply and assistance.

Hi, I am looking for a simple histogram indicator that plots the size of each bar (high-low). Is that readily available from somewhere does anyone know or should I make a job in the freelance section? It seems like an incredibly simply data set that I imagine should available somewhere? Thanks

Export Calculated Prices & Indicator Buffers: Export tool for OHLC prices, calculated prices & indicator buffers Author: cbc387429

RIS Solar System: It is based on solar winds joy and modified based on that. It is giving some good performance Author: Praveen Elango

Camarilla Flat and Clear: The code consists of lines created according to the opening, closing, low and high values of prices. Author: Erdem Bozyel

Smoothed CCI: Smoothed CCI Author: Mladen Rakic 

New article Grokking market "memory" through differentiation and entropy analysis has been published: The scope of use of fractional differentiation is wide enough. For example, a differentiated series is usually input into machine learning algorithms. The problem is that it is...

New article How to Test a Trading Robot Before Buying it from MQL5 Market is published: MQL5 Market allows you to test a trading robot and its features before buying it. Every Expert Advisor offered in MQL5 Market comes with a demo version that can be tested in the Strategy Tester. It is quite...

Unity: Multi-asset cluster indicator taking all currencies as a sum of squares forming market unity (1.0) Author: Stanislav Korotky

Elliott Wave Oscillator: A good oscillator for helping you count Elliot waves. Author: Hossein Nouri

MultiTrader: Trading and analysis dashboard which usually provides great trading opportunities during daytime. Author: Mani Heshmat

New article Evaluating the ability of Fractal index and Hurst exponent to predict financial time series has been published: Studies related to search for the fractal behavior of financial data suggest that behind the seemingly chaotic behavior of economic time series there are...

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...

iTRADE: Do you rely on your analysis and just want help on position sizing and how and when to take profit ? Do you have a lot of open positions and you need to reduse your DD and release some margin? Author: Antonis Michos

Balance Graph HTML: Display interactive HTML graph of the account balance inside the web browser. Author: amrali

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

Hi guys, I just used CHARTEVENT_KEYDOWN this way: if (lparam=="A")... Is it somehow possible to check if SHIFT and A are pressed? I didn't find anything about it in the MQL4 docs.

Hello Im quite new to MT4 coding. Ive written a couple of indicators but I find that despite trying different commands (ObjectDelete, ObjectsDeleteAll, ObjectsRedraw) in the init section of the code I cannot get my drawn objects to be redrawn unless I switch from one timeframe to another eg 5M to...

An EA is master pieces of the author and copyrighted, must be great if MQ4 Vendor can make automatically generated some code to make all compiled EA is can not decompile by hacker or by everyone except MQ4 vendor. if anybody agree please reply this thread, or if do not like reply with reason too....

Hello, Does anyone know where I can find an indicator that takes in price values, which when reached or surpassed will cause the indicator to send a sound alert?

Helweg / Stendahl value charts (from "Dynamic trading indicators" book) I guess this one was not made for metatrader yet since it was not possible to draw histograms with one end not being zero. With metatrader 5 that is possible, so here it is (it is metatrader 5 version only since some of the...

Hi everyone, I am new to trading and would like to understand how to import live data from MT4 to Excel (Excel 2013). I have looked through other threads posted on here previously that advise on this and still cannot seem to make it work. Thus far I have tried to simply import a bid price to excel,...

I have a issue in mt4 andriod app metaquotes id not registered.

Hey guys, I sometimes want to see the Bill Williams Fractal indicator in my charts and I wondered if it is somehow possible to insert it by just pressing a key. Removing it can be simply done by ChartIndicatorDelete() but I have no idea how to insert it.  Any ideas if this is possible? Thanks!

Hi, I have a label object with an OBJPROP_CORNER=CORNER_RIGHT_UPPER. The label shows a dynamic value, so the the width of the label is also dynamic. Because of the upper right corner the label widens to the left side. Question: How can I get the left x-coordinate (means the end to the left) of that...

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...

Hi, I changed my trading server for my signal providing trading account and now I can't put it back for sale. Error message: Authorization failed. Please check trading account data.  Keeps appearing whenever I try to make a change to it. Login, investor password and server are all good to go so I...

Hello everyone, How can i solve the problem of error 130 & 129 here:ticket=OrderSend("NZDCHF",OP_BUY,1.0,Open[0],0,Low[0]-200*Point,High[0]+200*Point,NULL,0,0,Green);

I have been succsessfully using the mt4 platforms on my desktop and iphone for over 18 months. Last week a notice to update came on the desktop screen. I wasn't able to perform the update at that time and can't get the update option to show back up on the screen. My desktop mt4 platform stopped...

I have installed the Meta Trader on my pc, but I have trouble in setting it up. In the pip my system, it has been mentioned to do the following 4hr. Chart Settings: 5 EMA applied to the close 10 EMA applied to the close Stochastics (10,3,3) (Use slow and simple settings) RSI (9) (Simple) When I...

Anyone know why I'm getting this error when testing XAUUSD? 2019.07.17 13:44:20.671    2019.06.28 23:54:59  MACD Lite XAUUSD,M1: unknown symbol name EURUSD for OrderSend function