Hi, In the last few days MQL5 has "locked" my funds and won't allow any withdrawals.  I have sent a message to them but no reply yet. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks Gary

Do you have interest or hobby outside trading ?, or some jokes and humor for other forumer ? or maybe something else ?, Well, why don't show it here. Life is NOT all about trading or programming, and so is this topic, and you must participate in this topic ;D.

Hi A signal being copied to my MT4 has WTI, in the Market Watch, there are few WTIxy where x is the letter for the month and y is the year, "expiry date". How do I manage this symbole, I am only a speculator and not a commercial, i.e. do I need to keep changing the symbole to the next month before...

Hello I have applied as a seller, my request was pending beause I needed to upload ID photos. I did that, I uploaded the photos, but my stratus remains still pending since then. Can you please tell me if still things are missing, or just update and clear my seller status so I can start working?...

Can someone help, please. I am new to this site and am getting quite lost. I have some issues with some newly purchased software. How do I contact the vendor? Thanks in advance. Arnold

I have been trying to varify my account in mql5 but its not sending me the text ! I raised the matter to mql5 team and nobody responded !! Its been a week now. What to do ?

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...

Hi I noticed a signal which I like to copy but the instrument it uses is GOLDm# which when I start to type in a new row in the Market Watch, I get XAU..., will it work and if so, which symbole will it work with as I see 3 different instruments in my MT5 all start with XAU. Thanks

Hey guys, i really need your help on this one. I have another account witg plus500 and i really love the feature to place order at night when my markets are closed and than the system will p,ace the pending order automatically for my underlyings. I have another account at XM and using mt5. Obviously...

Hi As it's clear I can get current session property by SymbolInfoDouble(_Symbol,SYMBOL_SESSION_PRICE_LIMIT_MIN) but what about previous sessions? Is it possible? More explaining: In the market I'm working in where there is another close price that change by weighted average of trades by volume done...

Hi Anyone knows why my MT4 build 950 is not showing any products from the market section.  I am using Windows Vista on my Desktop.  I have MT4 build 940 installed in my Macbook running Windows 7 and is running just fine.  Can anyone you help me please?   Thank you 

Hi Guys, I need to get the Moving Average value at the previous candle. I want to extract the value at the middle of candle. Currrently I have this code (MQL4): lastCandleMA = NormalizeDouble(iMA(_Symbol, _Period, MA_Period, 0, MA_Method, PRICE_CLOSE, 1), Digits); The returned value of the code...

I would like to open a subwindow via expert advisor but I do not see any Chart function that can open a subwindow without attaching an indicator(shell code with #property indicator_separate_window) I can not attach the #property indicator_separate_window to an expert advisor without the compiler...

Hello. I have some issue. I can't login to MQL5 community on MT5. (WIN10) this logs  2019.08.21 23:49:49.576 MQL5.community authorization failed 2019.08.21 23:49:51.806 MQL5 Market failed to get list of user products (www.mql5.com:443 send failed [401:...

hi, i'm trying to withdraw with paypal but the button is disabled..  i withdrawed from paypal for 3-4 years.. something has changed?! 

Hello, I wonder if there are people here that use data science methods to test their systems, or if people are interested in that subject. Maybe it is possible to come to a higher level of reliability of indicators and EA's? Greetings, Henk Vedder

Good day.  I meet a friend of mine and he told me of a system using Bollinger bands peaks and troughs to determine levels of Support and resistance and also possible areas of consolidation.  where there is a peak/trough we expect the current price at that set peak (NB not of candles or market), to...

is there are profitable technical strategy that works across all pairs? what in your opinion is the best strategy throughout all market conditions to run?

This thread won't be about a question or problem, but rather about the anouncement of the presentation and documentation of an exciting trading concept. I plan to do a series of postings here in order to keep you guys updated. Anybody who has an opinion on the topic, please don't hesitate to comment...

HELLO ! I need a straddle EA  or pending order EA for forex.

Description of trading system (zip'ed html file) and some indicators (with the description inside the code - use MetaEditor to read).

What features should be a good expert ?

Hey guys! I wrote a small EA sending alerts to the terminal ,however, whenever the condition is met, it sends an alert every second.. Would you please help me have only one alert when the condition is met? Thanks a lot, the code is below! Martin #property copyright "Copyright 2019,...

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

Renko Ashi Trading System 2 Please read the pdf manual for this system. Good luck everyone. PS: Reuploaded the fixed ma in applied price indicator. Special thanks to FXchaser PS: Reuploaded the fixed macd alert indicator. Special thanks to Puzzlebird PS: Reuploaded a Special Settings Template for...

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 is there signals that is suitable for US market? No martingale  no hedging and low leverage, 1:50

When our account details are with one signal provider and the balance and leverage are the same! how is it possible? The signal transmitter trades 3 lots But it trades in my account of 0.05 lots How to make the transaction equal? Please help me

*sorry for the long post i wasnt sure as to post this method or not as it is not 100% mechanical,which is what the majority of people(or should i say people new to forex and scouring the forums) are looking for these days or even worse some sort of bot to do it for them. as i say not 100% mechanical...

HI,Which strategy is best for BTCUSD?

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

Hello. I try to use the Strategy Tester to test my EA, buit get the message "no more than 1000 symbols can be selected" each time. I guess it's because my EA tries to trade more than  1000 stocks and the MT5 limits the max number of symbols that can be selected.  I tried to unselect the symbols in...

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...

Hey everyone, I`ve been trying to create a Custom Symbol that updates with the market. I tried using the Synthetic instrument formula but I get an "Unkown Parser Error" because the instrument starts with #. Does anyone know a way to circumvent this?

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

Basically, I want my EA to manage open trades with OrderModify(). My EA is programmed to take trades when 2 Moving Averages are crossing. Every time the 2 Moving Averages cross, it opens 2 trades. Trade 1: Take Profit = 1.0 * ATR Stop Loss = 1.5 * ATR Trade 2: No Take Profit Stop Loss = 1.5 * ATR...

Hi, is there any body who can tell me how can I do not show the indicators in strategy tester visualization mode. I used IndicatorRelease() but it does not work at all. please advise

Hi, i am beginner with mql5 i have this function in MQL4  double get_Lot_from_last_ord(string SYM, int MAGIC){   double LastLot=0;   for(int i=OrdersHistoryTotal()-1; i>=0; i--)   {      if(OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_HISTORY))         if(OrderSymbol()==SYM && OrderMagicNumber()==MAGIC)...

Basically, I want my EA to manage open trades with OrderModify().  My EA is programmed to take trades when 2 Moving Averages are crossing. Every time the 2 Moving Averages cross, it opens 2 trades. Trade 1: Take Profit = 1.0 * ATR Stop Loss = 1.5 * ATR Trade 2: No Take Profit Stop Loss = 1.5 * ATR...

Hi fellow coders, Is there a way in MQL5 code (a global variable maybe?) to get the name of the SET file being used by the EA? I have searched the forum but cannot find any examples. I have coded an EA and I am testing the same EA on different accounts with different SET files and I want to...

Hi all, first post and am happy to join the conversation. I am having difficulty with a simple bot I am creating (not for live trading, just practice coding). The premise of the bot is simple: - It checks if the 2nd and 3rd last candles are either both bullish or both bearish - It checks if the last...

please help me with an ea of this indicator to automatically open orders on blue arrow/red arrow order should close automatically on next blue/red arrow at the same time open a new order.. Thanks the indicator is the white zigzag line on this picture below.....

Hello, I stumbled upon an issue during the development of an Expert Advisor and I was wondering if anyone had any idea that might help. I get an "Invalid Price" error in backtest when the Expert Advisor tries to close a position on XAUUSD on a specific broker. The error messages my Expert Advisor...

I got a little confused on this indicator I can't get the right values And the expert does not emit any signal I asked the programmers for guidance on this Thanks everyone//+------------------------------------------------------------------+extern int       MaPeriod         = 20;           // Hama...

Dear All, I just rented my first VPS from MQL5 via my MT4 platform today.  I set up my charts with the EAs that I wanted to upload to the VPS as demonstrated on the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGSHrX-QAOU&index=2&list=PLltlMLQ7OLeKRRhrpy-pZ6REWYUf6W3SV As near as I can tell from the...

Hello, I've been building EA's for some time now and it seems (to me) like I've finally made it. However, Im kind of affraid of running my bot on live account. Many tests were proffitable, dropdowns are small and tick history is 98% quality [report attached (unfortunately not in English but should...

HI When I transfer EA MQL5 to vps in a journal he writes it to me "initializing of 'My expert" failed with code 1", "Expert "My Expert" removed"What I do wrong, on my computer EA worked fine. Mathi

Please, how I can check if market is open or closed in MT5, I cant find answer. something similar to MT4 - MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_TRADEALLOWED) this command doesn't exist in MT5 anymore. Thank you

Hi, is there any idea how to check an account is under investor mode / trader mode using a function in MQL4? I have used IsTradeAllowed but it is actually used to check AutoTrading button. Thanks.

if EA does not deviation setting, is it set in MT5 option setting?

Hi guys, New here and i'm looking for some information on MVI i'm looking to find out how it is calculated so i can improve the data into excel. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, adboy14

Hi, I am not sure if this question is in the correct space or not (please advise if not). Is it possible to accept the price feed in MQL5 and redraw the bars? I would like to remove the pipette data and have the pricing rounded to pips. This will make the bars a little more blocky but the aim is to...

Can someone guide me to some info on the use of this wild looking thing, I understand it can help determine the change in the slop of a MA.

Hi all, i'm learning MQL5 and i have a problem with a simple indicator. Indicator take the highest value of last 5 (you can change it by input window but it's default value) close candles for each period. Debugging the program show that all variables are correctly calculated but when i add the...

I have been trying to purchase a technical indicator using a debit card from Mastercard. Each time I entered the Card number the box is highlighted in red and when I click on Place Order it does not process. What could be the Problem? Is it that Mastercard is not accepted for payments on this site?...

Hello, I am trying to export just the today's data from every stock from my watch list (around 250 assets) using the following code (based on https://www.mql5.com/pt/code/1252). void OnStart(){        uint start = GetTickCount();//--- Get symbols from list        string strSymbols =...

Hi, I am having a few unexpected issues assigning previous values on a buffer. I get the array out of range error. I am sharing the code : for(int i=1;i<Bars(Symbol(),PERIOD_M1)-1;i++)        {        for(int k=ArraySize(info)-2;k>=0;k--)         {        // Print("1 ",info[k].symb," 2 ",info[k]...

Hello altogether, I used to trade via MT4 (that was a while back). Now I wanted to start trading again and installed the MT5 Software. Back in my MT4 times I used this indicator --> https://www.mql5.com/de/code/12266 <-- to display certain times in my chart, which was (and hopefully will be again)...

datetime openTodayTime=iTime(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0); datetime openYesterdayTime=iTime(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,1); int openTodayBar=iBarShift(Symbol(),PERIOD_M15,openTodayTime);int openYesterdayBar=iBarShift(Symbol(),PERIOD_M15,openYesterdayTime);Print("openTodayBar="...

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

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

Hi, I got a csv file with a list of data: Datetime, and values. These are the values of an indicator at certain moments, calculated in excel/mathlab. How can I import these data to appear on my screen (either oin the main window or separate one) ? Thnx in advance for you help ! Twoci

Some indicators with alert/signals with author's comments: - EMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter two Exponential Moving Average periods and it'll tell you when they crossed. - SMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter two Simple Moving Average periods and it'll tell you when they crossed. - SMMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter...

Hello I'm getting confused as how to apply renko to MT4 - I've read quite a lot, but it's not getting through my stupid head :-) Can anyone help please? Is there just an indicator I can drop onto the chart? Thanks so much.

Is it possible to overlay a BB onto the CCI indicator without special/unique coding? My coding skills are rudimentary at best. I thought perhaps it would just drag and drop, but that did not seem to work.

Adaptive Moving Average - AMA: Short description. Author: Mladen Rakic

MAxCD: Three Moving Averages Convergence/Divergence - Indicator for MT5 Author: Roberto Jacobs

New article MQL5.community Payment System is published: MQL5.community built-in services offer great opportunities both to MQL5 developers and ordinary traders with no programming skills. But all these features can't be implemented without in-house secure payment system, that provides a convenient...

DoubleUp с изгибом: The Expert Advisor works comparing iCCI and iMACD indicators. Author: Vladimir Karputov

New article Creating Multi-Expert Advisors on the basis of Trading Models is published: Using the object-oriented approach in MQL5 greatly simplifies the creation of multi-currency/multi-system /multi-time-frame Expert Advisors. Just imagine, your single EA trades on several dozens of trading...

Milestone: Trade 5min charts mostly EURUSD. Added news filter from Forex Factory and stops. Loads of versions inside. Good luck Author: Trevor Schuil

NewsReleaseEA: NewsReleaseEA is an expert to trade about economic news uses pending orders. Expert receives data for events from 'http://forexfactory.com'." The expert can trade up 28 (31 with yuan) pairs from one chart. Expert has the option for manual strategy (user strategy) or uses one...

iMax3: iMAX3 indicator - Fast Trend Detector Author: Scriptor

All In One Divergence: Indicator to trade divergence. One of 30 indicators can be selected. This indicator is based on code from the original author Petr, published by Aleh Sasonka. As per users' requests in comments, some improvements were made, specifically: Trading...

New article The Golden Rule of Traders has been published: In order to make profits based on high expectations, we must understand three basic principles of good trading: 1) know your risk when entering the market; 2) cut your losses early and allow your profit to run; 3) know the expectation of...

Candle Size Info: This simple indicator shows information about size of candle in pips, include size of the shadow. It's very useful too Binary Options operations. Author: Janderson FFerreira

Volume Profile + Range v6.0: Volume Profile + Range v6.0 (former TPO). Distribution of deals by price levels at a given time interval. Displayed as a histogram. Author: Olexiy Polyakov

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...

RSI Candles: Improved version inspired by RSI_candles by © mladen 2018 https://www.mql5.com/en/code/20968 Author: Soewono Effendi 

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

Iam interested inMetaTrader4MobileTrading. Iamcontacting youtoaskwhatare the technicalindicators availablefor this release. I wantto know ifyoucan change the originalparameters ofeachtechnicalindicator oraddanynewtechnicalindicator. What arethelimitations ofthisversion? Could yourecommend...

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 all traders, i found Heiken Ashi Doji Alert on FF, but i need the histogram version, is there anybody here has it? thank's in advance. regards

Hello All Im new to MQL4 and programming :) i just started to learn, i need to know how can i write an expert to 1) find the biggest body of last 20 candle 2) calculate the size of body i really appreciate if you help me to learn :) Thanks Mostafa

I would like to include a redistributable font using the #resource directive, as suggested here: If "::" is used in font name, the font is downloaded from EX4 resource.  However, I cannot get the compiler to recognize any font types. The error is always "unknown resource type". Has anybody had any...

Hi, Tried to get help for mt4 programming but all time i am  being redirected to mt5 website. Could anybody help me to let me know how can i put stoploss and takeprofit in my simple moving average EA? Thanks.

Hi friend , Is it possible to get High and Low of a candle by click on it? I need ti get information of a candle by click on it.

Im looking for a working News Indicator that can be referenced through iCustom functions.

Hi, When hovering over an object you usually see a default tooltip. With vertical lines, for example, it is 3 rows: 1, the object's name, 2, the object's description, 3, the price at which your mouse pointer is intersecting that line. You can change this with something like: ObjectSetString(0...

I've racked my brain around this language. Nothing makes sense to me. All I want is to get in and out of trades based on a couple of indies. ANY help would be appreciated. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|...

Dear sir, 1) I had created an expert advisor for me, when i run the expert advisors, Memory used by metrader is going on increasing and cpu usage is also going on and on What is the Reason behind it and How to solve it, Expecting your replay , Thank you sir

I'd like to open up my latest development idea to other members of the forum. I started out with a simple EMA Cross EA and started chopping and changing it. What I now have is an EA that checks the current trend my confirming up or down trend against M5, M15, M30 and H1 timeframes. When al four TF...

hi  i'm going crazy, so i'm asking for your help.. maybe i need some fresh eyes.. i'm tryng to create a custom indicator, based on a MT4 indicator -already on my Indicators folder- but when i select it when my metatrader is running, the sistem crahes and i need to restart it.  i'm leaving here the...

hi to everyone, i have a problem with my mt4 , after i add indicator or EA with ex4 to my mt4 folders i cant see them in indicator list and i just can see it in expert list and when i klick on it ,says that is not an expert so uyou cant run it. even in meta editor i just  see mq4 files and none of...

Hello people, I am trying to solve the current problem. In mql4 there is no command which would add an indicator to a chart like in mql5 ChartIndicatorAdd(). It is really sad. I want my ea to initiate an indicator. Scrolling forums i came across with such solution but it isn't working properly....