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...

Couple of days ago I noticed all subscribe buttons on the site that are normally green are now grayed out. When I try to renew or sub in MT4 I get errors saying that renewals are not available. Yes, I do have money in my account. I opened a Service Desk ticket, but the response (as always) was...

Why is it when i counts up the Version 1 code works but when i counts down as shown below in Version 2 code it gives array out of range error? Version 1 with i counting forwards //--- indicator settings#property indicator_chart_window#property indicator_buffers 2 #property indicator_plots 1...

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

Since today I can not visit https://www.mql5.com/  using Google Chrome Version 75.0.3770.142 (Official Build) (32-bit) It keeps on crashing Chrome. Anyone has similiar issue ? No issue using Firefox.

What is maximum number of friends you can have on MQL5?

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...

This link provided to me by RaptorUK, give me the idea that it would be interesting to have a place here on the site to share such links. So I opened a new topic, it will be moderated to follow the rules as usual, but also about the content. Everyone can post but have to provide a quote and the...

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.

Hallo i have subscribed and all is active. he have placed trades on his own account but i didn`t get them. can someone tell me why i don`t get them trades copied on my mt4 

I found a script that exports X amount of candles, history. that's what it spits out: 2019.07.22,16:56,1,1.24840,1.24856,1.24837,1.24855, but i want only close price without any commas, what do i have to delete for it works? all my attempts failed or result in the...

I want to know how many people from Indonesia is joining this forum. If you're from Indonesia, please comment this topic..Thank you..

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

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 ?? 

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...

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...

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...

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

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!

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 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...

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

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...

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

Hello when I execute the EA, the buy order is created but the error 130 message(invalid stop loss)  is displayed for the function ordermodify ()? I used ordermodify() function beceause in my broker I can't created makret or pending order with stop loss and takeprofit levels....

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

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

Hi, 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...

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

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...

Multi Symbol Chart: The indicator plots candlestick formations for four symbols in one separate window. Author: pipPod

New article Expert Advisor featuring GUI: Adding functionality (part II)has been published: This is the second part of the article showing the development of a multi-symbol signal Expert Advisor for manual trading. We have already created the graphical interface. It is now time...

Pending orders UP: The scripts places multiple pending orders higher than the current price. Author: Vladimir Karputov

SAW_system_1: The SAW_system_1 Expert Advisor places pending orders on the basis of the volatility for the last N days. Author: Dmitriy Demidov

Elliott Waves Indicator: The indicator helps to use the Elliott waves, as described in the book "Trade Chaos" by Bill Williams. Author: Vladimir Khlystov

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?

i am trying to understand the licensing concept for mt4 indicators  please have a look at the code and tell me if its the right and effective way of using the account number and time protection i have highlighted the license code...

The thread about threads: what's going around the forum everywhere    ============ MT5, mql5, mql5.com suggestions for improvement thread ============ Requests & Ideas The beginning Requests & Ideas, the beginning - the thread   Suggestions for Trading System thread  After Requests &...

Hi since I have moved from Android Kitkat 4.4.4 to Android 9 Pie, MT4 sound notifications ( Metaquotes ID messages ) are not handled correctly. This seems to be an issue of compatiblity between MT4 and the new flexible way how Android 9 manages the notifications. All the "MESSAGES" settings (...

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

Hello I'm wondering how many Binary Options brokers use MT4 as the platform to trade from directly? As far as I know there are: Noa FX, GMDFX, Go Markets, AL Trade and Core Liquidity Markets. Does anyone know of any others or can recommend good ones? Thank you very much.

Hello Is it possible to save Strategy tester chart/graphic and all actions after completed backtest? When I start strategy tester it overwrites old file everytime(.fxt).  Renaming fxt file can work maybe, but how can I open any fxt file manually? Probably this question is answered many times. But I...

Hi i am trying to code a very simple EA but i'm not a programmer and i've never made an EA before. I took the MACD Sample from MT4 and edited some parts and deleted all the rest that i thought i don't need. I'm sure my code is really horrible I would like the EA to work like this: My custom...