Anybody use strategy tester and get good results but then take the EA to Live demo and it does not perform well?

Too Bad! Why Force To upgrade to the Version 1170.. I have bee used MT4 For over 10 year!, After Mt5 bee working! Here seen to be no more upgrade need! for MT4. But Why Force to upgrade? My PC is In Working Great Windows XP with 2G Ram! After force upgrade MT4 to 1170, No more Can run in Win XP....

Hi, Is there a way to execute some code immediately upon completion of a bar? I'm currently using OnTick but this means that the price would have already changed since the completion of the last bar. I want to trigger an event as soon as the closing price is recorded for the last bar, i.e. before...

See attached screen. Expected bahavior: Tick value copied from source symbol = 5 USD.

 What the heck causes this because it keeps coming back after a while then I contact support(which takes weeks) and things get sorted then after a few months again the red error again appears. This is definately frustrating to me and my clients and not good at all for business.

Support for Windows XP/Windows 2003/Windows Vista to be discontinued after 01 October 2017 Windows XP was released almost 16 years ago, on 25th of October, 2001. It is now considered to be an outdated operating system. Microsoft stopped supporting this system 3 years ago, because potential hardware...

hi, when i subscribe to a signal, does that copy also the lot size automatically  ? or it pick the current lot size ?

Hi my friends, what do you think about management money when trading ? 

Hi, I have been experimenting with using OrderSend and the CTrade class to submit orders. As an example I want to submit a buy order at a specific price regardless which direction the price is moving.  When I tested the Buy method it doesn't always observe the price specified in the order and can...

Sometimes I develop indicators for mt5, when I must set a prices, it s written clearly price cannot be under 30$ Right now if you check the indicators section you can notice 2 strange things: Most of products are from the same authors that maybe pushed most "different" indicators in the same moment...

Hello folks,  Today I noticed there is a site which is selling all our products without our consent. I am not sure if it is a legitimate site authorized by MQL5 or a scam. I am kindly requesting you to google the name of your products. You will see what site it is and what it is doing by our names....

hello i dont Know Much About Coding, I only know some very Basic stuff (Total beginner Stuff) i found this indicator, although its not a very good indicator and it also repaint and adjust previous indicator history as the time pases but still want to study the code so can anybody Explain...

Hello, I need help!  I am receiving the error on MT4  this morning. It was working fine yesterday and the take profit column is not highlited green. I am using MQL5 server and it is green. Does anyone know why?  Will this affect my profit? Thanks. Justice

Hi People!  I need my EA to have an option to trade only BUY or SELL at a time, so basically i will change it in "inputs". Also i want to add timing, so it will trade only in specified hours... Kindly help..much aprreciated Thank you kind people !

Help!! Help!!! The after upgrade to 1170Version! All over ten year Log file been deleted!!! been Hell!!!! Now!!!Help Me!! the MT4 Auto Delete my "Experts" tabs. log file.just keep few day,not over a week! HOW to Fix the Bug Version!!

simple trand reverse ea with templet and indecetar .i hope this is bes for all trader. thanks

Undoubtedly, trading forex is very difficult and people try to design their own trading strategy with indicators and expert advisors. However, now for the silly question: is there any consensus on some strategies/systems (not asking about EAs) being better than others? Is there such a...

A friend asked me if it’s possible to make money by“Martingale”.  On my opinion, in every area could exist a professionalmaking an incredible job! My response to that question is always yes. I believetalented traders can actually make a lot of money using “Martingale” system. Thetrue is that the...

Which strategy is best to close profitable positions ?

Does anyone know which software can backtest multiple types of trading? For example, I buy EURUSD and sell GBPUSD at the same time. Because I did not test this function in MT4.

This is the thread about Brainwashing system. We will start with original version of this system and will improve it later. ========== Just something about the history. There are 3 famous signals system (manual trading systems based on signal indicators): Asctrend, BrainTrend and Brainwashing. First...

Hello everyone, I haven’t been in contact with foreign exchange for a long time. I happened to see an article about T101 on the Internet. I was interested. I got a general understanding. I don’t think it can be understood. Because this trading system has been going on for many years, I found it. For...

Hi all what is your NFP strategy ? today is NFP FriAug 212:50amJPY Monetary Base y/y 38.0%43.2%36.0% 2:30amAUD PPI q/q 0.1%0.5%0.3% 7:00amGBP Nationwide HPI m/m 0.4%0.3% 8:00amEUR Spanish Unemployment Change -80.0K-127.2K 8:30amCHF SVME PMI 53.151.9 9:30amGBP Construction...

Does anyone have a Center of Gravity Indicator with alerts to test?

Hi Guys, New to this forum !  Please free to add friends and know more about each other trading strategy ! My current strategy : Trend trading with Ichimoku and Volumes Daily/Weekly/Monthly   Happy Trading !

On my opinion, “Automated Trading Systems” does notpay attention to the Ratios. However, by automating your system there are zerochances of falling in love for a deal, which is good since no one is lookingfor love here! In the other hand, very few traders can actually automatesomething different....

Hello guys I am watching for a EA which copies Whatsapp messages to an EA. Does anyone know an EA? i already build a program to read out SL TP and BUY SELL. If i copy them in a Text is it possible that an EA can read them and copy in to a signal? Hope for help thanks. Regards Steve

Can anyone tell how to trade ? Open Date Close date Symbol Action Lots SL(Pips) TP(Pips) Open Price Close Price Pips Profit (USD) 12.19.2013 08:53 12.19.2013 15:05 XAUUSD Sell 50 93.4 1204.24 1194.9 93.4 46400 12.19.2013 08:53 12.19.2013 15...

MT5 appears to be primarily focused on forex trading and has many bots in the market for this.  Since recently enabling futures not sure if they have any bots for futures trading.  Anyone aware of some good bots for futures trading (e.g. S&P 500)?

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

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

Hello, I got an expert advisor whit a strategy that needs a low spread to work, I need a spread of 1 or lower, also I need to put at least 400 pending orders to  work propertly. I´ve been looking through several brokers but no one feets my needs. Do you know any broker whit these requirements?...

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

Hi. My provider, ig,  currently only offers currencies in mt4. How can I get stock quotes in mt4 from another provider? Any one to recommend?

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...

We are pleased to announce about the geographic expansion of the company by the establishing of a new representative office. MetaFintechLLC has become the company's official agent in thelargest international business center of the Middle East - Dubai,  UnitedArab Emirates. MetaFintech will be...

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 all, I am new to this forum and I have recently downloaded MT5. Now I want data for Indian Stocks. Can someone help me who are authorized data vendor for India Exchange NSE for MT5. There are many data vendors for Amibroker and Ninjatrader in India but not for MT5. How I can import historical...

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...

There is an opinion that from time to time some great capital, who knows SL in small enterprises, is playing against the market to defeat them and their machines. On mql5.com, I read that in the last days there was a loss of 4 to 5 million baks in the group of salesmen. This is a huge loss of...

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.

CAC 40 January-March 2017 Forecast: bullish with key resistance at 4924.69 W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price broke 4860.85 resistance level to above on close weekly bar with 4924.69 as a nearest bullish target to re-enter. Thus, the weekly price is...

What it is: Below, you'll find my Swiss Army EA. I've designed it so that it can manage orders in your MT4 terminal using a large variety of methods. Features includes breakevens, trailing stops, setting/removing for takeprofits and stoplosses, and many close-out conditions; you also have ability...

Hello, I am trying to set initial stop at 3 times current ATR. I want to get current ATR with:  input double          ATRHandle                    =iATR(_Symbol,PERIOD_CURRENT,14); and use it like this: input double          Signal_StopLevel             =3*ATRHandle; But I get "constant expected"...

I developed a EA that only work for GBPJPY M5 and special broker , if it is possible to sell it at MQL5 Market ?  Now it can't pass the validation , errors as : test on EURUSD,H1 there are no trading operationstest on NZDUSD,H1there are no trading operations test on GBPUSDcheck,M30 there are no...

I'm trying to build my first EA and honestly i'm mostly using copy and paste but i cannot see why this is not working the way i want it to. The idea is to move my stop loss up to the Low or High of the candle with a shift of 2 but once its placed it should not move back. In this example i have a Buy...

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...

To be clearer, If I gave a developer the expert advisor file can he/she remaster it for a newer version of MT? Just have some thoughts for the future. Thanks

I am using MQL4 4.00 build1170 (20/dec/2018). When I am using "strict" mode (#property strict) in a EA to generate an ex4 file, I found this ex4 file has some problem:  The name of the external variables will not be shown; instead, it is showing the comments following that external variable. For...

Terms and Conditions: You describe (you provide) the idea, I place an open MQL5 code in this branch, I place this code in a CodeBase. &nbsp, I specify the author of the idea and the author of a MQL5 code in a code, The coding services are provided "as is" and you use them at your own risk. List of...

Hello, I have an Expert Advisor which is using different external Indicators. Now I have seen that it's just possible to sell an EA in the MQL Market as one ex4 file. So it's not possible to attach external Indicators. What i the easiest way to implement the external Indicators in to the EA ex4...

Hi everyone,  I'm creating this post in order to fix my unsolvable problem.  In my opinion, my script is good ( no warning and no error message ) but when i want to do some backtest, nothing is happening.  For information and to help the comprehension of this script, I just want 1 trade by 1.  In...

Hi,  Is there any convertor or other "simple" way to convert an MT4 EA to MT5 EA? I got the ex4 and mq4 file.. I couldn`t find any proper info on the internet, so I guess, its not very easy.. Thanks..

Hello guys, I start by admiting I am a noob in coding, I only recently begun to understand some basics and I try to build my own EA for testings, gathering parts of code from all the library from many EAs out there However I am stuck at this thing that I can't find anywhere any code: I want to...

HI All I have a problem and I have some questions. I trade in my country stock market and I have an EA that send order but the orders that sent by the EA not accepted in market trading core. that was my problem. and my questions are: how they understand the orders sent by an EA? what is difference...

Hello Everybody, I used "DT Oscillator" in my EA by iCustom Function, But when I backtest, the error shows that "DT Oscillator EURUSD.I,H1: incorrect start position 1057 for ArrayMaximum function", How can I fix it? DT Oscillator indicator is attached. Thanks

Hello There ; I've developed an EA to one client when he sent me yesterday night very strange screenshot. The problem as the trading history shows "Live" , there were orders which had invalid take profit level " The TP was lower than order price for buy and the TP was Higher than open for sell" ....

I have added the RVI indicaror to my EA but I just want to confirm I have used it correctly: RVIp = External input I have used MODE_MAIN and MODE_SIGNAL for the 2 lines = is this correct? If not, what should I use? RVIm0   = iRVI(Symbol(),0,RVIp,MODE_MAIN,0); RVIs0   = iRVI(Symbol(),0,RVIp...

Many indicators appear to have been developed for the stock market and then transplanted into the Forex market. The markets are fundamentally different so, which are the indicators developed exclusively for the Forex market?

this indicator sends notifications way too late or only when i refresh or jump between timeframes i would much rather it send notifications exactly when the arrow appears or similar operation im not sure why it only does it when i refresh or change timeframes is there someone that can make the...

Hi, Unfortunately my search didn't yield any results in the MQL5 constants/functions. Is there any way to read out the current value that was put into the one click trade panel? Your help is much appreciated. I am getting back to MQL5 programming after some time of absent, so please be patient with...

Can someone tell me or help me edit this, how to make the indicator synchronize with current chart? Thanks //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|                                                         Test.mq4 | //|...

is there anyone that can add notifications to this indicator operation needed 1. when support band manifest send buy/support notification 2.when resistance band manifest send sell/resistance notification simple... thank you

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me in coding this indicator, which is supposed to be better than the RSI. It was featured on the February issue of the "Technical Analysis of Stock and Commodities Magazine". It can be found in these 2 places: Thank you.

Hi,I don't know if it is the right session for writing my question. I would like to sell an indicator (for example X) that call for another my indicator (for example Y) Y will be free can I sell X on market session? thank's in advance

Hola, tengo inconvenientes con este códigoInt índice =iHighest (NULL, 0, MODE_HIGH, 76,39); Técnicamente me tendría que devolver un valor entre 76-39, pero de devuelve 108, ya probé con rangos como 50-20, 81-17, pero todas me dan una barra fuera del rango que establezco.  Agradecería su ayuda 

Hello, I have an Indicator which calls an another CPU heavy custom indicator (on 7 different currencies). So, in the Init function I create the 7 handles and within OnCalculate I use CopyBuffer to get the data.  Sometimes this indicator starts normally but sometimes it seems the buffers are not...

https://www.mql5.com/ja/docs/standardlibrary/controls/cpanel I have try to build up the Cpanel by copying the example that written at the bottom of this page. By clicking the resize button in the dialog, I have a situation as the attached image instead . Did I missed anything? 

I am trying to use MT4 ZMQ bridge interface(please refer to https://github.com/bonnevoyager/node-mt4-zmq-bridge) to do some development work.Have registered a VPS,is there any one knows how to get the URL or IP/Port of the MT VPS?

How does one bring back the alert box for indicators on to the screen if one has closed it by mistake? If an indicator has an alert, the pop-up box appears on screen when there is an alert. One can then close that pop-up box. Yet how does one bring that back on screen without waiting for the next...

Hello, I've been modifying the dema example indicator and I dont understand what I'm doing wrong, I've read and re-read references but I still dont get it. Please help! I've tried both  setting #property   parameters and what you see in the code below, what am I doing wrong ?...

All Arrow Buy/Sell with Alert, but only arrow without oscilator etc. ?! Pure chart with alert arrows, points ;). Stoch comeback cross arrow with alert ? RSI comeback cross arrow with alert ? CCI comeback cross arrow with alert ? ASI comeback cross arrow with alert ? Williams comeback cross arrow...

New article Library for easy and quick development of MetaTrader programs (part II). Collection of historical orders and deals has been published: In the first part, we started creating a large cross-platform library simplifying the development of programs for MetaTrader 5 and MetaTrader 4 platforms...

Consolidation Breakout: "Consolidation Breakout" naked trading price action EA draws 3 Trend Lines with "Fractals" on chart and trades after convergence breakouts,has Trailing Stop Loss &Take Profit works with all time frames major forex pairs and stocks NASDAQ. Author: Aharon Tzadik

Simple Horizontal Grid: A round-number horizontal web with continuous auto-adjusting. Author: Ovo Cz

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...

FuzzyNet Fuzzy Logic Library: FuzzyNet is one of the most popular mathematical libraries for creating fuzzy models Fuzzy Logic Library for Microsoft.Net (FuzzyNet) is an easy to use component that implements Mamdani and Sugeno fuzzy inference systems. FuzzyNet includes: 5 membership functions...

New article Fuzzy logic to create manual trading strategies has been published: This article suggests the ways of improving manual trading strategy by applying fuzzy set theory. As an example we have provided a step-by-step description of the strategy search and the selection of its parameters,...

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

TryME: try me... Author: Antonis Michos

MartingailExpert: The EA uses the values of the Stochastic indicator on the H4 timeframe to open a position, and after that it builds up based on the martingale principle. Author: Михаил

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

EUR/GBP H4 EA: EA will trade a fix lot as you select and close as per the EA base indicator STRATEGY MARKET Tickmill-Live; EURGBP; H4ITs work only on Tickmill live broker account. without selected any date to back test Author: vishal kumar

"Forex Profit" System: Indicators Parabolic SAR and Exponential Moving Average are used in the system. Author: Юрий

Trend Reversal: "Trend Reversal"naked trading price action EA draws 4 Trend Lines with "Fractals"(2main+2small) on chart and trades with Trend Reversal,has Trailing Stop Loss &Take Profit works with all time frames major forex pairs and stocks NASDAQ. Author: Aharon Tzadik

RSI Bollinger Bands EA: RSI Bollinger Bands are used to establish overbought and oversold RSI regions for generation of short and long trading signals. Author: raposter

FFC - Forex Factory Calendar: Modified version of FF Calendar Indicator with new features. Author: awran5

Hi  I have my two Count Function to Winner trade and to Losses Trade  But I want to know if is possible modify the Count Function to do this if I have two Losses or Winner consecutive trade  and if is DayOfTheWeek ()==1 , and  Next Session trade is  DayOfTheWeek ()==2 The Count, ComeBack to 0 and...

Hi, I need to code for my system: - atr periods 7 - exponential ma of atr at 35 periods I think that it would be a good indicator for scalping strategy. Thx for your attention.

Hi everyone,   I have one trading system which I'd like to have as EA. This system is based on renko charts and mindhero indicator.  Why am I using renko charts? The reason is simple. Renko simply filters choppy market. Also it is very useful during news (I'll show you what I mean in example below)....

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Hello friends, I rarely use Strategy tester on my programs. It was suggested to me by a friend that strategy tester is a fabulous tool to carry out long term and short term testing for expert adviser's and indicators. Currently, I am still not convinced of it. Myself it seems to be a backward...

The market seems to be broken within my MT4.  I can not view products at all. I can search for them, but when I attempt to click on one to view it, it does nothing.  Also, when I go to my Purchased" page and click on the blue "Install" button, nothing happens.  I've attempted to logout and log back...

Hello I read in doc Mql4 that RefreshRates() updates the data of the current symbol. I understand: the data of the symbol of the card to which is attached the EA. (?) In this case, for a multi-pair EA, how to refresh the data of other pairs? Or I'm wrong? Thank you for your answers

when i put my indicator in the market it gave me this error  EX4 file must be compiled using <a target="_blank" href="http://docs.mql4.com/en/basis/preprosessor/compilation">#property strict</a> directive. what can i do to fix this error  thanks in advanced  

Hi friends, I'm trying to write some info from an array into a .bin file using FileWriteArray function and then read from that file and copy the file contents into another array using FileReadArray. As I checked the MQL4 documentation, I found out that it is not necessary to define the array size...

aiuto, ho smarrito la password per entrare nella piattaforma meta commercio 4 e non sono in grado di recuperarla (il consulente chemi ha seguito è scomparso e ha cambiato la password). cosa posso fare? thank you.

I devised an EA which I'm planning to run on my computer from 8:00 to 20:00 every trade day. I will shut down my computer every night and reload the EA every next morning. How can I simulate this case in strategy tester? Is there a function that reloads the EA (from the first line, including all the...

Hello all, I would like to understand why this code doesn't work. Some expert help please.  Code:     bool ShowGrid=ChartGetInteger(chart_id,CHART_SHOW_GRID,1,value);//         Grid not removed    int OffOnGrid=ChartGetInteger(Chart_ID,CHART_SHOW_GRID,window,value);//  Grid not removed 1) What does...

Sometimes I've come across EAs and indicators that are bundle into a exe file, which makes installation easier by putting all the right files in the all right folders to make it less confusing for the user to install. Apparently there are ones out there which even allow you to select what mt4...

Hi, I read about the new mql4(Build 600+) and already updated my EAs, now i have a question. How secure is the new protection against crackers and other types of executable cracking and modifying the code. EX: hex editing date of expiration, memory dumps, etc.. How secure is a simple time...

If you want to code an EA, or trade well, for using daily charts, you need the real GMT times for start & end of a forex day. Just asked oanda, and got the following answer: "Itis either 5pm new york time that the candle starts plotting or 12 midnight newyork time that the candle starts plotting....