Hi guys. I have EA (ex4 file) I want to add some filter on it so I have decided to make indicator that will calculate some algo and after it enable or disable auto trader or live trade. witch one will be possible. Please help me. Thank you.

Hi, anybody knows why every time I change the value of Stop Loss and Start, the Step and Stop will automatically change from 0 to other figures?  what is the impact on testing? what's their function? appreciate your reply

is it possible to export it with max pullback / high low during trades? google and search here did not help :( THANKS A LOT!

Hi, Anybody help me to solve my problem? coz service desk never respon my request... Thanks

Dear all, May I know why when I want to purchase VPS directly from MT4 through VISA card payment it always show me no internet connection as show attached? But I have not internet connection problem. Secondly, if I click renew automatically for my VPS, will it auto renew and auto deduct amount money...

Hello, My broker use only MT4, but I use MT5 and all my code in mql5. is it possible to make a connection between my mql5 code and my broker MT4 platform?

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

Scenario: 2 separate brokers who both have a NASDAQ100 index. When I calculate Lot value in USD (base currency), Broker 2 is 100X greater than Broker 1. The Calculation: double GetLotValue(string symbol, const double lotSize, double& pointValue, double& pipValue){        double contract =...

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.

I just installed new mt5 on my desktop with windows10 os.But the strategy tester has only testing function, no optimization function. Could anyone tell me why? Thx

Thenew MQL5 Community website at http://www.mql5.com keeps developing. Weinvite all of you to make your contribution to this development. Thenew MQL5is the evolutionary continuation of MQL4. The new language ischaracterized by the support of object oriented programming, by ahigher code execution...

I have a problem with this History Center. I have tried to use the Strategy Tester and it doesn't work correctly, because the EA is applied only for the last year. I know I have to download the history data for 2019, but I don't know how to do it. I have tried to find the History Center on the...

Hi,  When I open up MT4 and look at the symbols, there are a bunch of folders (assume downloaded from the broker) named as follows : I want to get rid of these folders and create my own symbol collections under new folders with meaningful names.  I know how to to hide symbols but I would like to be...

MetaQuotes Software Corp. continues to expand the opportunities of MQL5.community. On June 17th, two new services were launched on the website: Payments and Jobs. With these services, the website visitors will be able to order and pay for different works performed by other members of the community....

I  don't know if I'm posting in the right section (sorry if I'm wrong). I would like to sugget to developers if in the future they can fix/improve the limitation of zoom in/out. The steps of zoom are too wide and not totally customized.  Thank you in advance :)  Regards Giovanni

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, 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...

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...

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 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! Is there anyone who has a lot of knowledge of the MT4 VPS server? I have a subscription to this VPS server, but the platform does not connect to the VPS server I have paid for (at least that is what I think). Take a look at the attached image. Can someone help me with this, please?

Hello, I need a macro or a programme which can export 1000 last bars for a given list of currency pairs and time  frames (eg EURUSD, USDCAD,USDCHF AND GBPCAD) - DAILY AND HOURLY TIMEFRAMES, I need this as fast as possible - can you help me?? Dave

A simple math functionlike this brings a totally wrong result, and this served me a bug in an EA which I was searching for months!!! MT5 Build 2085, but I am very sure this is the same in earlier versions, cause this is also the same with C# ... unbelievable but true.  void SimpleMath() {...

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...

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

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...

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...

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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...

Hello smart people! Among the many indicators I found this. This seems to me to be quite accurate. I've been testing it for some time. But there is one problem. This indicator does not work with BUY Alerts. Maybe someone has experience with this indicator? Maybe someone has an improved...

Renko Level: The indicator displays the Renko bars on the MetaTrader 5 chart. Author: Vladimir Karputov

CamarillaFlatandClear: The code consists of lines created according to the opening, closing, low and high values of prices. Author: Erdem Bozyel

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

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...

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

Volatility adjusted WPR: Volatility adjusted WPR (Williams Percent Range) Author: Mladen Rakic

New article MQL5 Cookbook: Getting properties of an open hedge position has been published: MetaTrader 5 is a multi-asset platform. Moreover, it supports different position management systems. Such opportunities provide significantly expanded options for the implementation and formalization of...

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

RSI candles - lite ressource: Improved version based on RSI_candles by © mladen 2018 https://www.mql5.com/en/code/20968 Author: Soewono Effendi 

New article How to Post a Product in the Market is published: Publish your interesting applications in the Market, and they will be immediately available to all traders who use MetaTrader 5 worldwide. The Market is a great opportunity to earn, with an immediate transfer to the account and convenient...

Camarilla Flat and Clear: The code consists of lines created according to the opening, closing, low and high values of prices. Author: Erdem Bozyel

Hull moving average: Hull moving average (non-repainting version) Author: Mladen Rakic

EasyAndFastGUI library for creating graphical interfaces: The EasyAndFastGUI library allows creating graphical interfaces for custom MQL programs. Author: Anatoli Kazharski

New article Triangular arbitrage has been published: The article deals with the popular trading method - triangular arbitrage. Here we analyze the topic in as much detail as possible, consider the positive and negative aspects of the strategy and develop the ready-made Expert Advisor code. The...

CDownLoadHistory class: The CDownLoadHistory class provides the methods of historical data downloading in two modes: "visual" and "silent". 1. Visual mode The example of use of this mode is downloadhistoryvisualmode.mq5. The "history download mode" input parameter can be one of two modes:...

Hi. What I want to do is set my Trailing Stop Loss at e.g. 30 pips with an additional rule - it must allow for e.g. 60 pips of movement below the initial entry price of the trade before triggering & exiting the trade, if the price is above the initial trade entry price then it should function as a...

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.

i need someone to help me to create an expert advisor

I'm trying to determine direction of zigzag indicator with the icustom command. This is what i have so far: ZigZagHigh=iCustom(NULL,0,"ZigZag",MODE_HIGH,0); ZigZagLow=iCustom(NULL,0,"ZigZag",MODE_LOW,0); The lines are drawn on the chart, but both ZigZagHigh and ZigZagLow are equal tozero when I...

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...

Dear ALl My friends. I attach one Forex 1min scalping robot . I used this robot in live account its work well and get profit . But i observe each trade when this robot place buy order that place position is high and then going market down side same as sell order when this robot place order that...

Helweg / Stendahl value charts (from "Dynamic trading indicators" book) I guess this one was not made for metatrader yet since it was not possible to draw histograms with one end not being zero. With metatrader 5 that is possible, so here it is (it is metatrader 5 version only since some of the...

Hello.  Somebody could explain me why the position is opening out of reach (picture)?? I uinstalled MT4 , i tried my strategy in onother account. I will be grreatfull for explain my question   Best regards.  CODE::  ...    if (MovingAvarage1 > x && MovingAvarage2> y && MovingAvarage3 > z && i==0)...

Hi everyone, I am new to trading and would like to understand how to import live data from MT4 to Excel (Excel 2013). I have looked through other threads posted on here previously that advise on this and still cannot seem to make it work. Thus far I have tried to simply import a bid price to excel,...

All of a sudden one of my FFCal news indicators is giving this error in build 1080 using the EventSetTimer function. It worked perfectly fine in previous builds, was there something change that I am missing?

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I clked the x on some of my IG mt4 chart. How to get back original chart set up?

How do I create/assign an alpha name (i.e., MACD EA) so that it appears when I hover the mouse over an open trade?  This applies to EAs that I create and use. 

Hello, Does anyone know where I can find an indicator that takes in price values, which when reached or surpassed will cause the indicator to send a sound alert?