My neighbour asked me to ask this. He has been banned for so called Applying for decompile job.  If a customer provides an mq4 file and asked for it to be modified, so as to represent data from bigger time chart How is your that a decompile job.  Please may you share more light. Dear moderators  www...

Hello, I am copying a friend of mine I am also using a rented VPS from mql5 I configured the signal copying to use up to 95% of my deposit My capital is 3.1 times larger than his My equity is 2.95 times larger than his (I also have some opened positions of my own) Problem: He opened a volume 0.03,...

So I have an EA I have dev'ed and its running fine and profiting etc. But when I make a copy of it adding a "2" to the end of the filename before extension ".mq5" and then test the exact copy it sits and does no trades? Also having issues with strategy tester updating the list of EA's Even my...

I'm wondering how paid libraries are licensed and activated ? If I use such library and I put this EA on market as paid product, do buyers of my EA also have to license / to buy the library license ?  [link to the Market product was deleted by moderator] I found nothing in the forum after trying to...

Howdy,  I want to use the Stdlib CHashMap in my class. However I can't seem to get past the declaration 🤬 class CurrencyIndexPanel : public Leaderboard {   private:            CHashMap <string, TableRow*>* _currencies;   It throws these errors '<' - semicolon expected        CurrencyIndexPanel...

I have a Demo Account that is on a specific server.  Is there a way that I can log on with the WebTerminal to have it display on my website?

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

i need help with my ea on getting an object name function to trade

I have been optimizing my expert advisors for over a year. Everything works fine until last month when my testing agents were automatically disabled. My PC have ample storage left and I have tried reinstalling Windows, but nothing works. Please help! This is the error shown in the journal section....

Hi Codersguru, I would like an indicator(/EA) that reacts to users' commands: the indicator would do a task upon the striking of "F5", "Ctrl+P", or of any assigned key of my choice: start { ... if ("Key event") function(x1,x2); ... } function(x1,x2) { ... Print("Hey it's Saturday for goodness...

I have rented the best currency strenght indicator, and downloaded to my account in MT4 platform. The author mentioned there are 50 activation to do: 1 already downloaded to platform, and the balance 49 are not done. Please guide how to activate the indicator to run fully.

Guys I Rented a Synchronization Tool for a year recently .And now there is an update available for the product .But there is no option for me to updated .Any idea how to do It ?? 

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)){...

Hello, I am newbee and very hurry in finding how to request request arbitration in MQL5 job. Simply I can not find the button/link to do it. Thanks for replies !

void OnStart()   {    int a='A';    int b='$';    string c='?';        string d='\xAE';      Print(a,b,c,d);   }

Hi im looking for programer to code this EA. EA will open two pending orders: 1) Buy Stop higher then last candle maximum 2) Sell Stop lower then last candle minimum Distance beetwen last candle and pending orders will be set by user. When new candle appear EA recalculate distance and move pending...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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);...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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

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...

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!

Hello Everyone I have a problem in optimization passes. I've searched a lot but none of questions nor the answers in the forum was the one solving this problem. The problem is that I have some Boolean parameters in my inputs which when they are set as false there is no need to optimize some other...

I have a template, when it confirm the parameters of the strategy to a buy/sell, the template insert an object (arrow). I'm wondering if there a chance to build an EA which indentify the buy arrow or sell arrow and open a trade or if is better with a condicional command to open the trade if the...

Hi My broker is IG and I have an EA that I wish to use. I have some experience with MT4 with VPS but I've not used one for a while. My issue is that I purchased a VPS so my EA can run always online and despite not seeing any obvious issues and the EA working perfectly whilst using the IG MT4...

When I use Meta Editor IDE, as soon as compilation finishes, the scripts gets removed / reloaded immediately in Trading Terminal. How can I achieve the same behaviour (reload / reinit scripts), when using command line compilation? I can nicely compile the scripts using command line compilation, but...

Hi Guys, I'm working on my new EA which has an ability to open a pending order in the opposite direction of the last closed order. I've been searching and testing for days now but there's a weird malfunction (sometimes EA is opening a lot pending orders at once, and most of the time not opening any...

Hello I receive this error when I using backtest mt5  on stocks  :   Error opening BUY position by ABC. : '(null)' I tried some broker , same error again, Is it any solution ?! Thanks

Any good articles on how to make use of neural network or machine learning in identifying market inefficiencies and forming EA? More specifically, what kinds of neural network architecture/machine learning techniques, usage of features, how to train it, and how to perform backtest.

Hi all I would like to check in the expert advisor if the markt is open/close. What's the easiest way to do that? I don't want do check that over time. I also need to know when the market open again after the short close every day at 11pm. Thanks FX_TA

Hi, I didn't find any good doc about how to handle 3 & 4 digits for my EAs.  My code looks like this:  double buySL = Ask - SL * _Point;  double buyTP =  Ask + TP * _Point;       int openBuy(double buySL =...

Dear All i was trying a trading strategy to buy or sell all the USD Currency pairs together, i only check the daily strength of the USD, then i take decision to buy or sell (open 7 positions), then i check after so many hours, sometimes waiting for days looking  for total positive profit after that...

Hi everyone, i trey this cod for close open order after 1H but cant close after 1H. can you help me and repair  for this cod. tanks for all. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                                  |//|...

Hi! Does anyone of you know of an EA that opens a trade when price crosses the first MA and closes when price crosses the second MA? Can be a semi-automatic script too. MT4 This is NOT a MA crossover EA of which there are plenty. Thank you! Ben

Hi, I this thread I plan to represent some interesting EAs with Casino Games Strategies (Roulette for example). In the 1st version I don't use any technical analysis. The main feature is Money Management for the Roulette. Try to optimize inputs for best performance. Very important parameter is...

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...

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

Hi! I try to make a trendline that starts at the current bar and is draw 20 bars in the future, I tried to use this code below but it do not work, Code is Mql5. Any suggestions? ObjectDelete(0,"H5"); ObjectCreate(0,"H5",OBJ_TREND,0,TimeCurrent(),H5,time[-20],H5); ObjectSetInteger(0,"H5"...

Hi, The Goldminer Indicator is a pretty old and well know indicator for MT4... there are several versions of it around the internet. I was looking for a version the runs on MT5 but I couldn't find any. Does anyone have it? I tried but I could not convert it from mql4 to mql5 :( If needed, here is...

Something I have been working some time ago. Multi pair MACD Multi pair CoeffOfLine

Daos anybody here who can say me why in the hell this indicator won't work? Thank you

We are continuing discussion about the indicators. We have the following thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/175886 https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177239 https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177358 https://www.forex-tsd.com/forum/debates-discussions/9785-rsi-indicator https://www.mql5.com/en/forum https...

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...

New article Studying candlestick analysis techniques (part III): Library for pattern operations has been published: The purpose of this article is to create a custom tool, which would enable users to receive and use the entire array of information about patterns discussed earlier. We will create a...

Volatility ratio: Volatility ratio - standard deviations based Author: Mladen Rakic

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...

Nema MACD: MACD calculated using the NEMA. Author: Mladen Rakic

New article Library for easy and quick development of MetaTrader programs (part VIII): Order and position modification events has been published: In the previous articles, we started creating a large cross-platform library simplifying the development of programs for MetaTrader 5...

Virtual Robot: Virtual Robot Author: Szymon Palczynski

Get M1 OHLC data for MetaTrader 4 backtesting: Usually most brokers do not provide M1 data over 3 months in MetaTrader 4, but they provide M1 data over 3 years in MetaTrader 5. So we can use this tool to obtain the M1 data in MetaTrader 5 tester and save the data into .hst file for...

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

Show Pips: Information about profit, points, percent, spread and time remaining until the close the bar on the current currency pair and timeframe in a compact and convenient form. Author: Roman Podpora

AR extrapolation of price: This indicator uses an autoregresive model to extrapolate prices. The indicator plots two curves: the blue curve represents the model outputs during its fitting, the red curve shows predicted future prices. Author: Vladimir UseDiff=false: UseDiff=true:

New article Scraping bond yield data from the web has been published: Automate the collection of interest rate data to improve the performance of an Expert Advisor. Automated trading is based almost entirely on technical indicators that use past price action to forecast future price action. However,...

Relative ATR: Shows what % the current ATR is relative to it's historical value. Author: uwy

Tipu CCI: I have modified the original code for Tipu CCI published in the Market by removing the compatibility with Tipu Panel. This version of Tipu CCI is for learning purposes and is open for anyone who is interested in developing an Expert Advisor using this indicator. Here is an example...

Buy Sell Stop Buttons: "Buy Sell Stop Buttons" EA sets up 3 buttons for manual trading and allows to predetermine trailing stoploss & take profit, open and close all trades at once. Author: Aharon Tzadik

Head and Shoulders: "Head and Shoulders" naked trading price action EA draws 2 mini Trend Lines with "Fractals" on chart and trades with "Head and Shoulders" strategy,has Trailing Stop Loss &Take Profit works with all time frames major forex pairs and stocks NASDAQ. Author: Aharon...

I want have access on the  one-hour bars and at the same time on the 15 minute bars in my indicator: int limit = rates_total;    int count=prev_calculated;              for(int ac=limit-count; ac>=0; ac--)        {                                                 double High_H1_0 = iHigh(_Symbol...

Hello Everyone, Does anyone know how I can convert a date to a week number in mql4? Thank you for your Time EK

Can I ask for clarification what does profit calculate? Why are the value varies, when I hard code tp for 55 pip and sl for 45 pip? Why does there are 5 point different (55 -> 50 & 45 -> 50)?

Hey community, how can alerts be deleted without shutting the terminal down and restart it again? I like to delete the alert window lets say every hour or every day. Is there a function or so? Thanks a lot!

HI I am not a programmer ..... only can program EAS through an APPS  I am looking for an indicator which set a green arrow below a candel when a buy order open in MT4 and set a red arrow above the candle when a seel order open  by searching the web i had found this one (attached) but it set an arrow...

Hi to all experts here, I am new on trading and just started using Meta4 for FX trading some weeks ago. May i know that is Meta4 mobile apps has the function to preset SL & TP  ? Which means the SL & TP will be automatically set when open a new trade. I googled search about this topic and found out...

Good morning MQL4 friends, I need your advice and some "How to do " lines from you. I would like to develop enhanced data display linked to MT4 but I do not know how to proceed. I am ready to learn. I imagine that I have to develop .dll ? But how ? Please, to better understand what I would like,...

I didn't find any ChartGetInteger() function showing if the crosshair is enabled. Are there other possibilites?

Hello, I use MT4 and all the trendlines and horizontal lines I draw, show up in different charts.  For exemple, the USDCHF trendline shows on the AUDUSD chart and that goes on and on, always messed up... Is there anything I am missing? Could this be a problem with the broker/server? Thank you so...

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...

Regarding indicators and time frames in the code. https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/constants/chartconstants/enum_timeframes EI: imomentum https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/indicators/imomentum Question: Where noted and regarding the time frames. What is expected to happen when you select a static...

Hi,  I'm trying to understand the Didi_index indicator 1st question: Does 1 and 2 provide the same outcome for CurtaBuffer [i]? double A;int i = 1;1)  CurtaBuffer [i] /= MediaBuffer [i];2) A = CurtaBuffer [i] / MediaBuffer [i];    CurtaBuffer [i] = A; 2nd question:  In the code below I received this...

Previous to MT4 Build 600 the establishment of the hierarchical order of lines and labels on a chart, drawn by different indicators and regardless of the order of the indicators as listed in the chart list of indicators, was a splendidly simple and exacting task. All it took was the addition of an...

Does anyone know if it is possible to have Sound and Push notifications at the same time? If not, is there a way to batch convert existing from either Sound to Push in one go?

Hi guys. I'm trying to read second column from csv file so could anybody help me?