{1}# What are the 5 Most Important performance metrics you (should) lookfor, in choosing a profitable trading signal? Why is EACH so critical to you?Bless!! More to be in a position to give than to be in a position to have to begiven. Let us share... 1#Monthly Performance > 18% (Most recent 30 days)...

Hello, I am still waiting to have my profile confirmation as a seller in order to work as a freelancer. Support asked me an additional picture to complete my profile which I sent. However I am still waiting.   I tried to contact the Service Desk but for this kind of case. When I try to send a...

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 have summed all my negative Dividends adjustments, and the value matches with signal withdraws (see image). 1st question: Do they affect my signal growth rate? 2st question: How commissions are treated? I couldn't find them on signal summary numbers. Do they affect my signal growth rate? As I...

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How do you calculate/evaluate the probability of your trade? Is there any actual systematic or defined structural method to do it?

Hello all, I would like to hire MT4 VPS but not exactly sure about 2 questions. Could you please help. 1/ I need my charts to be open all the time and will not run any EA's. All I need is to be able to access my charts and to be able to place trades from them.  2/ Do they run any maintenance and...

I have been registered as a seller last 2 years, but last 2 days it looks like i can not use Freelance service. I can proceed deposits/withdrawals, open new signal, add product to market, send messages etc, not obvious ban reason. I have access to Freelance session, but "Open new Job" and "Take...

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please help ! i've been trying to subscribe to live signal service but my terminal does not go beyond the select payment method page and the terminal displays a blank page please help ?

Hello friends        I am new at this ....with axi trader and mql5. I am Canadian and was trading using the user friendly etoro platform before our Govt regs stopped that!. You could  set your  risk 25x 100x 200x ect. I am unable to find this is this format ! Also I am unable to find when i select...

Hi friends... I go to share the EA that I find more lucrative. I wait that my friends make the same... Will be good for all we. Some improvements will be always wellcome MakeGrid_GbpUsd_Daily Period: Daily Date: 1/08/2005 05/11/2005 Inicial Deposit: 10000

Hello all. I would appreciate help.  I'm looking for a tool that can trail an order till it reaches breakeven. Then it is necessary that it do not trail anymore. Thanks in advance! 

Hello I recently updated the terminal through the live update for MT5. The terminal I initially downloaded from Alpari. I got the message "Terminal64.exe - entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library ole32.dll - message after MT5 live update " I fully uninstalled (deleted...

Hey guys, I have question, it can sounds ridicilious but im new here so please don t hate me.  The question is, can i use EA on real account, like can i use EA with real money account. Thank you very much, kind regards :)

Hello, I created a forex plan of trading, it's based on hedging, low groth of money, but safe, but needs to be tested by you to see how it will do, let's get started open both of the pictures ( sorry if it looks crappy) and take a look at them it's rules of opening trades, assuming we are on BUY...

Some people say that it is the best signal system in the world. It is very famous system and it was developed in the interesting way: Russians recognized this system for MetaTrader some years ago and this western trading system was not very profitable (I am talking about MetaTrader only) but had as...

Forex Profit System – MT4 Indicators and Template 780 pips profit – last two week results Today we will show you another great trading system, we are test it for two weeks on eur/usd and gbp/usd pairs and archive over 750 pips from eight trades (seven wins, one lose trade). You can download forex...

Hi, I added a new custom Symbol to MT5 (EuroStoxx Future Continuous Contract : json file in attachement) and imported bars data (setting the spread value of each minute bar to 0). When I run a backtest in this custom Symbol, the spread is always equal to 2. Is there a way to configure or influence...

I tested this system and have some suggestion about trading and so on. All BrainTrading indicators you may find here. Profiles_default files are here (and attached to this post as well). Shortly I may say the following. - Download all 8 indicators (and iTrend indicator as well - attached) in the...

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...

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.

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

Hi all, Do you know about correlation forex ? I am learning to complete my EA base on this strategy. Do you have any knowledge about that, please share it. Dominic

Shinigami ask me to put my latest indicators and templates.. so if you are new for reading this thread, please use this indy and template because this is what i use now after download this zip file, just go to page number....... (i forgot, sorry ) the rule is using h1 1. if 2 SMMA WEIGHTED CLOSE...

https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/mql5storage: MultiRobot is an open sources project.  This is a robot that will include several strategies. Each strategy is framed as an MQL5 class and can be turned on and off.  I will look for strategies in various open sources and program an...

I notice ATR is being used to compute the average pip movement for the market, and has been used as a volatility indicator. Anyone knows if there are other indicators that can perform the same function or better? Thanks. Provide links here if you have.

Ok guys, this is the end of my forex path...... It took me 5 years to make this(coding lasted for few days), but the method itself was developed for years. Bassicaly I took all of my knowledge, mixed it, coded it, optimize it........and done that for last 3 years. This ea is something with the...

Hi Alex and everybody, I have this indicator and trade manual w/this.It's based in trendlines and work very well.is it possible convert to EA? Thank's

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.

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...

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...

I've searched through the internet, but did not find a documentation or informal data on proper order book (Depth of Market, DOM) structure and content. There are numerous articles about what the order book is in general and many examples of trading by it. But there's no exact information what is...

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...

Dears,  so  I had a sell trade that had a SL@133150, it got stopped @1.33151, BUT in the chart it did not touched any the SL level (max level in the cart was 1.13343) . Also, other friends of mine that did exactly the same trade, did not had the same issue. The also have different broker than mine....

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

Can anybody help me? This is an example of an American Stock's CFD. -3.32% every day for me doesn't make sense. Thank you

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.

Hi, in this topic we discuss our forecast of whether EUR/USD will move strong during the next period, or not. As for now, there is a difficult situation of the EUR/USD. It sticks at its price of 1.154 and has no real ability to reliabely grow up or down. Thus you see that on 29/30.05 we had the same...

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...

Hi everyone,  Does anybody know how I can make my EA click to the one-click button rather than using OrderSend() function in the code?

DOES ANYONE KNOWS AMONG PROFESSIONAL TRADERS HOW TO CODE AN EA TO DIAGNOSE FLASH CRASH OF MARKET LIKE. JAN 2015 CHF PAIRS FLASH CRASH? WHICH STRATEGY AND COD WORKS BETTER. THIS IS CRUCIAL FOR ANY ROBOT. THANK YOU

Some time ago, on Elite section cturner and me begin the development of an Hedge EA that allow to hedge two currencys taking profit from the swing and from the swap. I think that for now there are too many people busy with the championship so, I 've decided to bring the EA to the public zone so...

I was looking to import historical data to several custom symbol as quickly as possible and thought about it: 0. Open the file 1. Read the entire csv file 2. Convert entire file to rows 3. Convert all rows into cells 4. Convert all cells to time, open, high, low, close, volume 5. Import all data to...

Hi, I have tried this code but I seems to get errors: static datetime oldTime;void OnTick(){if(oldTime != Time[0])      {      m_Trade.Buy(lot_size,_Symbol,Ask,(Ask-300*_Point),(Ask+500*_Point),NULL);      oldTime = Time[0];      }} 'Time' - undeclared identifier  1 error(s), 0...

Hi at all! i'm in test phase about 3/4 EA that i develop. For each 1 EA i examinate a poll of 38.000 - 45.000 test. so 1 session of complete backtesting of 1 EA need time as 8h - 12h (it change for result requests that i use). In this scenario i prefer disconnect MT4 connection (with account not...

I have an EA that I already use both on demo and production accounts. The EA works as expected on those accounts. However, I´m having issues with strategy tester. On ST the trade results are not accounted. All the trades appear in the history tag with the correct entries and outs, but the financial...

My EA uses some indicators that open subwindows (volume, RSI, Bulls bears, etc). How can I hide these subwindow indicators? It is hard to see the candles with a lot of subwindows... Tks by advance!

Hello all ! I have two machines with different MT5 builds installed. The oldest one is build 1643, downloaded from my brokerage account at ActivTrades. The newest one is buid 1730, downloaded directly from MetaQuotes. When trying to export the tick data file from the newest MT5 instance, I noticed...

* Sorry English is not my native language I want to create multiple custom symbols and import historical data from a csv I have managed to do this however the .hcc file is large and the writing speed is slow. I do not know so much programming in my mind he is reading line by line and then writing...

How to get info from times and sales? I know that has MarketBookGet() for the market depth, but not for times and sales.

Hi Everyone! i'm a beginner and i'm trying to create an EA which uses 3 Moving Averages. First i was using 2 MA, no Problem. But there a Problems with 3 MA. The Code: if(timestamp == iTime(Symbol(),Timeframe,0)) return;  timestamp = iTime(Symbol(),Timeframe,0);   double maFast = iMA(Symbol()...

Hello, I have searched and searched and can find nothing that helps me!  My problem is I have coded a custom indicator and the values of it change when you refresh the chart (right click and click 'refresh'). Once it has been refreshed once per bar, the values remain as correct. I call on this...

Since a time I've been thinking about to build an EA template sothat I don't need to write the whole codes but just the business logic. Here is my code: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                   MyTemplate.mq4...

Hello, how to close an opened position? For example, I opened a position in this manner: request.type=ORDER_TYPE_SELL;request.price=SymbolInfoDouble(Symbol(),SYMBOL_BID);   request.symbol=Symbol();request.volume=0.1;request.type_filling=ORDER_FILLING_FOK;request.sl=NormalizeDouble(stop_loss...

There's any way to make my Indicator do the Calculation only when the candle closes? My indicator makes calculations for every close value. When I put it to the graphic it's so heavy that seems like the internet is ultra slow. Making calculations for every last price, as for code matter, the last...

In indicators we can define a color as the property of the plotted indicator. How can I make color indexes to use in a graphic object?

Hey guys. I need some help. I need an indicator that will set a horizontal line on a chart and essentially alert me when price hits it. I've scoured the internet and tried most of the line alerts available but they're not fit for purpose. Issues i've found with other line price alert indicators is...

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Hi all, https://www.mql5.com/en/code/viewcode/180/129748/iunima_mtf.mq5 here u can find the code for iunima_mtf indicator which draws multitimeframe moving averages on a given timeframe. It does not include the linear regression line which i want to add. The simplest way I thought is to use the...

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...

Hi, I have a RSI Bases Indicator, and every new candle make it less accurate, like on picture (Custom/Default RSI) The Indicator Window is moving the lines to the left, so much. What is happening? Thanks

Hello I'm pretty new here, so I was wondering is there a indicator that can show you the sell and buy properties of your current orders in a currency pair? Lets say I have 10 sell orders of 0.10 and same amount of buy -  so it should say the sum of them 1.00 buy and 1.00 sell Thanks in advance

Hi, Is there any indicator that shows ticks like John F. Carter uses for trend changes? Been looking for a while and couldn't get anything clear yet. Thanks for help!

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....

Hello, I have been looking for an MT5 indicator which would give an alert when price crosses upper or lower bollinger band. The alerts i prefer are an arrow/dot on the chart, pop up and an push notification. Something like this famous MT4 indicator BolliToucher would be ideal.  <advertising...

Hi, thanks for being present in here. I ordered an Indicator based on RSI that load everything like it should, but when a new candle opens the new RSI value go to 0. Sometimes it back to normal, some times don't. What should i look on code to fix that? I asked developer to fix, but he sent me a...

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...

Hi I am looking for an indicator in mql5 that plots colored rectangles for the 4 main forex sessions. Something like https://www.mql5.com/en/code/10513 (4 sessions by Andrew) but for mt5 instead of mt4, hopefully well written in OOP. Any suggestions? Thanks

Where can I find a signal like this BUY or SELL. that has Entry StopLoss an Take Profiit. Price action is High and Low Test Bar...@ 1/3 of the body of candle sticks, regardless of color. See attached Picture. Anyone who can developed like this...Share your expertise guys...Thank you.

Colored Zerolag MACD: This is the MQL5 version of ZeroLag MACD that was available for MetaTrader 4 here: https://www.mql5.com/en/code/9993 Author: Farzin Sadeghi

Bullish and Bearish Engulfing: The EA trades based on the "Bullish and Bearish Engulfing" pattern. Author: Vladimir Karputov

MA_BBands_YXF: The indicator is a combination of MA channels and Bollinger Bands. Author: johnsun888

ZeroLag MACD Colored: The ZeroLag MACD Colored indicator is a modification of the ZeroLag MACD. Added coloring of the histogram bars relative to the previous bar, if the previous bar is below/above the current. Author: Pluto.ru

Four clicks to draw an arc-shaped channel: A quick way to draw an arc-shaped channel using four mouse clicks. Author: Nikolai Semko

Statistical Functions: Set of statistical functions which allows you to calculate some values describing timeseries like correlation between two time series, linear regression, standard deviation etc. Author: Herajika

SilverTrend_NRTR_HTF: Indicator SilverTrend_NRTR with the timeframe selection option available in input parameters, alerting and sending e-mails and push-messages when the indicator changes its color. Author: Nikolay Kositsin

New article Custom Indicators in MQL5 for Newbies is published: Any new subject seems complicated and hard-to-learn for a newbie. Subjects that we know seem very simple and clear to us. But we simply do not remember, that everyone has to study something from scratch, and even our native language....

Trend envelopes - parabolic weighted MA: Trend envelopes - parabolic weighted MA Author: Mladen Rakic

Trend envelopes - parabolic weighted MA - histo: Short description. Author: Mladen Rakic

DEMA trend: DEMA trend Author: Mladen Rakic

Choppy market index: Choppy market index Author: Mladen Rakic

How can I get data from MetaTrader5, pass it through a C++ program and do some processing on it, then send the result as some commands to MT5 to buy or sell?

LinearRegSlope V2: Moving average with the linear regression algorithm. Author: Nikolay Kositsin

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

Another Mandrine mod, this time just using regular Mandrine indicator setup, but if you choose you can filter your trades using fibs, the fibs draw on your chart automatically when Mandrine installed, they will be there whether you use them as filter or not, and if you do use them if the ma's cross...

I'm in high-frequency trading, because their VPS are more than 200, so he from the official website to buy a month VPS. Thought order speed will be faster, as a result, your order did not change fast. Discovered, after today, I replay the same platform, the same EA, the same signal, the official...

Strategy Tester no longer works after my broker recently changed its live server from GMT-5 to GMT+2. I've been having to switch back and forth to the old GMT-5 server to test, but that server now has completely gone away, and I have no means to test my EA. Please note that I am not talking about...

Hi i was trying to solve this problem with service desk but they redirected me here.. so i dont know who is in charge of signalls sellers but i need help. Recently i decided i will start selling my signals so i choosed one of my old ECn icmarket account and i started trading there according to...

Hello  I have a problem. I don't know why there occurs memory leak. I made class Ticket.mqh and TicketList.mqh(Vector) It is made for a convenient order. The destructor also work properly. But error of memory leak  occurs. I'm using two class and some objects (Label) This below of code is related...

I think time has come for this thread...Kindly place your repainters here...and...Voila!...they will become non - repainters, with my Magic touch and my programming skills... P.S.: You can place your decompiled, expired & ex files in here...makes no difference to me...the work will be done...that I...

Hello again, I need to stop calculating a function because of CPU. I created a BUTTON. TRUE state => I call + dysplay my_function. FALSE state => I hide the dysplayed grapical objects and indications. (but the function is still there and take CPU ressources). How can I stop / kill the function's...

Hi 1) I wanna do historical backtest from 2008 till 2018, How do I download to my MT4? Pls advice, Thanks.

Hey everyone, for an EA I can program that for example F7 key is called and the properties of the EA open. For a custom indicator I know I can open via the indicator's list or via double klick on a line or bollinger band or so. Is there a way to call a special key like F7 or programm a user defined...

I am currently subscribing two signals on two different accounts. But it only seems like the signal I have open om my MT4 mobile plattform is Running.  The account which I do not have open does not copy. Anyone who know what the problem might be? And how to resolve it?

I am trying to modify a sessions indicator so it only shows on lower time frames and does not clutter up my charts on larger timeframes. I had added just a delete all objects function which works but also ends up deleting trendlines or anything else I add to my chart. Is there a way to cycle...

I understand the basics of making an expert advisor and have seen some posts that mention that I should use iCustom function to access my indicator in an expert advisor, but it's not too clear. I want to make an expert advisor that takes a trade when the "X" and arrow appear at the same time, as in...

When I place a limit order, my mobile phone makes the tone twice but I expected it once. Changing the town on the phone does not have any effect (tone change expected). Turning the phone of and on did not fix it. Any idea how to fix this? My MT4 terminal has the following checked. Enable Push...

I hired a MQL5 VPS and hosted a trading ac. Now I have stopped trading with that broker and removed everything from my computer. I am unable to remove the trading ac from VPS. Though I used "MOVE" option still that trade ac is seen in the VPS. I have to remove this and host another trade on the VPS....

Hey,  Ive been trying to get an array working for a while and keep coming back to it after moving on too finish other things. Im simply wanting to store a fractal high/low value in it. I only need 3 stored so i can identify a change in trend so when the middle fractal is higher than the other two...