Hello, I have EA which opens order during London session (I am working on 1Hr time frame). If order is open then EA should not open new order in same session if already open order survives the London session. Issue with EA is it keeps on opening new order even open order exist. Can someone help me...

In this article we will discuss about a widespread, well-known key element of technical analysis. Why do you think technical analysis especially some elements work so well for financial markets? Why do you think Fibonacci levels are usually strictly followed? Because thousands and billions of...

Can leaving the PC on 24/5 at home be hazardous? Other than a UPS, which devices I should think? A laptop or a desktop? Room temperature? Should I think to setup a fire alarm? Would it be safe in bedroom? Any experience ... and if possible I would like to see the photos of your home trading setups...

hi there , why i'm saying this error  "Connection state: authorization failed. Please check your trading account login and password."

So far i know icons/wingdings require  price/time values to be plotted.  Is there any trick to plot icons as a label on charts? (at a fixed x/y coordinate offsets )

Hi Everyone, I'll appreciate if anyone can here.  I have spend amount of time in internet trying to find a "Script to Close Multiply Open Orders - Close All " but without success. I've tried many scripts and instruction provided in internet but none have being successful. I thought to seek help here...

hi , Can I run expert advisor  at the expense of demo ? Thanks .

thread rules only daily charts any currency must Sl and TP try to explain trade reason No bickering

Hello everybody, While I was studying Technical Analysis I made a lot of Photoshop imagesto show words of wisdom that was said by writers of technical analysis books. Ibuild this thread to share those pictures with you and I hope they could helpyou to find them interesting. I encourage you also to...

I'm trying to update my phone number. In order to do that it requests me to verify the change also to my  old phone number but I don't have access to that number anymore. I have already contacted support. I have opened a ticket and they closed the case with the advice to post to forum. Is there any...

Hi, Is there a way to create multidimensional array of buffers in MQL4. This topic has been discussed in various threads, but I couldn't find a direct way to define an array like: double buffers[3][]; SetIndexBuffer(0,buffers[0]); The closest I could find was using OOPS concepts https://www.mql5...

any indicator that puts auto stop and auto take? I am scalp, I would very much like an indicator that would do this. I operate on the mt5 platform

Well, the asset moves as I’ve predicted. I think that I can earn even more on USD/JPY! Definitely, the show must go on =) 

Hi I am trying to run my MetaTrader setup on VMware since I mainly use Linux every day. Everything was great this morning and not that everything is still running fine through VPN but on my client, it deleted all of my licences for my EA´s... Has anyone had this problem and is there a solution. I...

Hello all. After calling CustomTicksDelete() method, ticks are properly deleted from ticks database of the custom symbol. But, when adding new ticks to the database results in error if their times_msc value happens before the last time_msc value that was there. Only ticks added after are able to be...

I'm worried about opening this thread, because I'm afraid I'm not talking about a particular major, I'm a junior trader, but I want to talk about this thread. 1. How to use the signal to trade 2. How to use the oversell and oversell indicator 3. How to optimize the signal and reduce the frequent...

Hi All, It has taken me over 6 years and I've finally become a consistent profitable full time trader thanks to this strategy. The strategy is very simple and would only take a few minutes of screen time per day (using 4HR candles). I'd like to thank 'bigbear3391' for his guidance and inspiration!...

Ok guys, this is the end of my forex path...... It took me 5 years to make this(coding lasted for few days), but the method itself was developed for years. Bassicaly I took all of my knowledge, mixed it, coded it, optimize it........and done that for last 3 years. This ea is something with the...

and how to get the bar before the open position bar?

In this thread we will build our own Bollinger Band strategy by combining our heads together. Let's discuss: DISCUSS: - what do you think is the best way to recognize RANGED and BREAKOUT? - what other indicators complement the Bollinger Band? - what is in your experience the best timeframe for...

i think maybe this line is wrong,but don't know why: double lot=NormalizeDouble(AccountInfoDouble(ACCOUNT_MARGIN_FREE)*MaximumRisk/((rt[1].high-rt[1].low+symb_ask-symb_bid)*SYMBOL_POINT),2); i want to use the high of the signal bar (the bar before the open bar) added the spread as stop when sell,...

After repeated requests to update Dolly to handle the new extra digit platforms i have decided to totally rewrite Dolly ( 2400 lines of code ) and i have taken the opportunity to include many new features to make the use of Dolly more user friendly, features such as 3 built in trend MAs / Entry Exit...

Found this trading system on another forum, seems people are getting good results from this. Enjoy mrtools

Today i will discuss a strategy I work on it for 3 years . i like it very much and i acheive daily from it nearly 100 pips This strategy has a take profit and stop loss But profits are greater than loses several times Advantages of this strategy 1.you are with the trend 2.ratio between stop loss...

I am embarking on developing an EA to trade a renko chart. From what I've read it appears I will need an ea placed on a live chart whose function is to send price information to an offline renko chart. Then a second EA sitting on the renko chart which will analyse trade criteria, place and manage...

Simple Ichimoku System. Some members remember Ichimoku informational template for Asctrend M5 elite section system thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/174756 and new set of this system from this post. It is so called Ichimoku informational template to check market condition on H4/D1 timeframe...

What features should be a good expert ?

Dear community I was quite lucky after backtesting of my EA, but after 2 days of real trading it went wrong whereas the backtesting got other results. So nearly same trades were done in backtesting and real trades but most of the real trades went in stop loss. I used different pings but same results...

Dear MQL5 support, My Signal is having a problem as attached screen shot,  The problem is happen because I entered the wrong investor password, but it should be correct for now. Appreciate your support to reinstate 

Here is a suggestion for a possible trading system... System one is MT4-Xard777.rar and System two is XARD-BOX.rar Enjoy... All the best Xard777

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

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...

I was wondering does metatrader 5 support stocks? not cfd stocks.   If so, which brokers supply stocks? 

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...

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, I want to know how to change my demo account to real account and also  trade with it directly.  By the way well I need a broker

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...

Stock Market A To Z: 26 Names, Themes And Trends To Watch (based on the article) A is for Apple "The stock trailed the broader market in 2016, but there may be tailwinds in 2017. Tax reform may include a provision that incentivizes the company to deploy its billions in foreign cash back to...

It is very sad that majority of the people that get involved in the forex business end up losing their money but I will explain the major reasons why this happens below: 1. Leverage and Margin - Trading on margin seems like a fast way to make quick profit however, this gives birth to greed as a...

Was trying to work on something and I was stuck because I couldn't really understand what volume on Mt4 platform truly represent . Don't get me wrong, I know volume represents the average trade activities for a particular period of time . But my question, does volume simply represent the number of...

Hello, I am currently using MT5 for futures and I was wondering if there would be any updated version where I can use charts based on volume or tick and not time. Ninjatrader, or TradeStation, Sierra all have this capability, but not Metatrader 5. Any help would be appreciated!

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...

Can anybody help me? This is an example of an American Stock's CFD. -3.32% every day for me doesn't make sense. Thank you

If I have a certain balance in my account, when trading with UK100 for example, will having 1:500 leverage reduce my margin requirement for the trade rather than 1:50 leverage? I already know what leverage does but I just want to know if it decrease margin required for a trade. 

I would like to involve OnInit() in a .mqh file so that OnInit() will be executed both in the main .ex4 file and in the .mqh file. Is this possible? One must then override OnInit() in the .mqh file in some way.

as the pic， 6 trades，how to get the chart of every trade？ how to see the most loss ？ before using it in real trading ，how to make sure it will not go wrong in reality？ thanks a lot！

how to make sure that my robot can only be used on one trading account?

Hi, My plan is join an Forex Prop Trader which use MT4, without EX support, and send order via a EA that I have on MT5. I don't know if I can use signals for that. I wish i could use another way to copy all the trades with slow delay. I have no problem requesting an job, i just need to know how it...

Hi guys I am trying to find a way to programmatically  re-initialise all of the active charts. What I tried is to write a loop that goes through all the active charts and change the TF to M1 and back to its previous TF. void InitialiseActiveCharts(){   long currChart,prevChart=ChartFirst();    int...

Hi guys, im trying to develop my EA. Im racing this problem: id set up moving everags is the same subwindow of Oscillator Stochastic, how Can i check if MA is higher then Stochastic level 90? Otherside, how can i get the value of the stochastic"'s level?Thank you in advance

Hi, i want to upload my ea for sale but get this error, anybody knows how to solve this issue? Thanks! test on EURUSD,H1 (netting)log files size exceeded 2095 MB, test terminated 2016.04.05 09:00:01 failed instant sell 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13854 [Invalid volume] 2016.04.05 09:00:01 failed instant...

Hi I wrote an ea and in that ea, I used an indicator which I bought from the market. when I want to backtest my strategy in mql5, if I check the visualization box everything is fine and works perfectly But if I don't check the visualization box ea won't work and do not open an order and it won't...

So I have a system where I open a new trade every 10 pips and close out the last trade.  The last trade is also modified to set the stop loss to 10 pips. Currently, I have a function that does this: void TradeCloser(){ //start            int total = OrdersTotal();            if (total >...

Hi i got an indicator that is based on tick data only. the problem is it uses some big average buffer, so each time i wanna use it i need to wait for the buffer to fill to get the first value (i could not wait, and start displaying curves right away, but the readings would be totally off without the...

Hello again mql5 community! Im back with another question im hoping someone has the answer for. I am trying to make a "scanForOrderModify" function that will add SL and TP when a BUYSTOP or SELLSTOP order is activated. This being my first time using pending orders instead of just market orders.......

Can we operate Terminal alerts set/get by mql4? I'm not talking abou this: https://docs.mql4.com/common/alert Talking about this which we can do on chart by right clikc on in tab "Alerts". If not, I'm sugest to do this. Need some scripts to delete all, I often have trash here or want some managment...

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...

@MetaQuotes Software Corp. There is many cases that I want see 1.0000 or 1.0 in in IndicatorDigits and Comment but MT4/5 doing NormalizeDouble that omitting zero.

Hi, I have a good Expert Advisor, written by me. But I can not add it to system expert advisors to mql5.com (Market). I get error "SendOrder error 131". Please help me, how I can fix this problem.

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...

Hello, I want to detect the relative minute candle number within a superior period. For example: Using the 1M timeframe, and the superior timeframe of 5 minutes. The first minute candle will be labelled 0, the second 1, the third 2, the forth 3, and the final candle 4. No matter what period or...

Hi All I am coding the following, the code returns no error but doesn't seem to do the calculation.        double Top =(iClose(Symbol(),0,i)-iOpen(Symbol(),0,i));      double Bottom = (iHigh(Symbol(),0,i)-iLow(Symbol(),0,i));      WVAD[i]=Top*iVolume(Symbol(),0,i)/Bottom; I tried to debug it by...

Hi my friends, I'm new to programming indicators, and I'm having some problems, hope you can help me. I'm trying to do a simple indicator of squeeze in bollinger bands. The indicator will go blue when the bollinger is outside keltner channel and red when its inside (all or just one line). The...

Hi, I want to place a moving average on heiken ashi chart in MT5. Couldn't figure how to do that. Help will be appreciated.

Here is a little guide on how to get the work done NOTE: An indicator can be of 2 format (extensions), .MQ4 and .EX4. MQ4 is the source code, and EX4 is the compiled version of the code. Step By Step 1) Download/Copy/Save the MQ4/EX4 file into your C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 4\experts\indicators...

Please help. Need a MT5 indicator that can send a notification in case of MAs crossover (e.g. EMA100 crosses above EMA200). Cannot find one... Don't need EA, buy/sell signals or arrows; only an indicator that send a notification to my phone. So just a couple of MAs, MA mode and period... that's all.

i learn to code mql5 and trying to create indicator. i know there is tons indi on this web that i can use. But i just want to learn how to code it. Here i try to draw histogram and line based on average of 3 high - low value of 3 candles. But i got this weird look on my script. Could some body...

Someone please help. datetime time=ObjectGet("name",OBJPROP_TIME2); gives a warning - possible loss of data due to type conversion. Why is it so? Thanks in advance 

Hi all, I am trying to build an indicator that uses the following formula and returns the expected value, so I can use the same chart as indicator_chart_window. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                    Quantiles.mqh...

Hi Everyone, I have a copy of MT4 sat on a windows server 2012 VPS. After an windows update today an indicator TMA.mq4 won't display, its either grey out in the navigator menu or it just won't load but is visible under indicators on the chart. Can anyone help or provide a work around. Jay

Hello everyone! Please bear with me, I searched everywhere and tried to fix this for many days now. Still no luck. When adding handles to other indicators from within custom indicator by calling either iMA(), iCustom or Trend.mqh class, the indicator often shows junk arrows when changing...

Hello. Can someone give me guidance ? I would like to test out some HTF indicators that come with various other indicators but , it comes up blank when I add to the chart. It's the same for all HTF indicators I try to use , not just one. Please let me know. thanks...

Some indicators which can be a filter to avoid big losses. If you have a great idea so you need a filter. To avoid any trading in none-trading zone. Please post your filters here. And please find the filter ... let's say ... 4 in one: FATL, SATL, RSTL, RFTL. In one indicator.

Fractal Adaptive Moving Average (FRAMA) Fractal Adaptive Moving Average Technical Indicator (FRAMA) was developed by John Ehlers. Ehler's Fractal Adaptive Moving Average (FRAMA) | Indicators https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/indicators/trend_indicators/fama Optimal parametrs to MT5 EA ?

Volume Profil & Range V6: Volume Profile + Range v6.0 (former TPO). Distribution of deals by price levels at a given time interval. Displayed as a histogram. The width of the histogram at the level means the number of transactions carried out on it.If a broker provides data on a real volume, the...

Smart Tunel Trading: The Smart tunnel is a smart robot for trading with an automatically drawn trend line to act with it and market movement.Enjoy :) Author: Ali Sabbaghi

Range weighted smoothed EMA: Range weighted smoothed EMA Author: Mladen Rakic

Range weighted EMA: Range weighted exponential moving average (EMA) Author: Mladen Rakic

Range weighted average MACD: Range weighted average MACD Author: Mladen Rakic

Range weighted average: Range weighted average - average that uuse the current volatility for weighted average calculation Author: Mladen Rakic

New article Third Generation Neural Networks: Deep Networks has been published: This article is dedicated to a new and perspective direction in machine learning - deep learning or, to be precise, deep neural networks. This is a brief review of second generation neural networks, the architecture of...

Filtered price: Filtered price using self adjusting deviation for price filtering Author: Mladen Rakic

Filtered WPR: Filtered WPR (Williams Percent Range) Author: Mladen Rakic

Filtered averages: Filtered averages Author: Mladen Rakic

Perfect trend line: Perfect trend line Author: Mladen Rakic

Non Repainting Supertrend Indicator: This is a new implementation of the SuperTrend indicator for MetaTrader 4. The SuperTrend indicator is an application of the concept of MAE (maximum adverse excursion), which was introduced by John Sweeney in the mid-nineties. Author: Rajandran R

TrendMeLeaveMe: Just draw Trend Up or Trend Down before the Expert Advisor "TrendMeLeaveMe" start. Set properties, run expert and go to sleep or work. Author: waddah attar

Triangular moving average: Triangular moving average Author: Mladen Rakic

Ehlers Fisher transform (original): Ehlers Fisher transform (as originally described in the book) Author: Mladen Rakic

Hi Guys... I'm just wondering if anyone has the same issue... my mql4 "Buttons" (OnChartEvent) on my MT4 charts are very delayed or un-responsive.... It's definitely got something to do with the Data Feed but I have no other way to explain this to you... You will either know what I am talking about...

int Close1B()  {   int      Close1B=-1;                  // None open.   for(int cnt=OrdersTotal()-1;cnt>=0;cnt--)     {      OrderSelect(cnt,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES);      //if( ! OrderSelect(cnt, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES) ) continue;      if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol()         &&...

Hi,How can I set the history tab of the MT4 iOS App to « Day » by default ?  Each time I run the iphone MT4 App it is by default on « Month » and when I set it to « Day » it’s ok only until next reopening of the App.  Thanks,

I have noticed that Rectangle Labels receive click priority over Labels, irrespective to the z-order assignment. Is this behavior deliberate? This can be seen by creating a rectangle label with z-order 0, which partially overlaps a label with z-order 100. When clicking on the "So" text not over the...

I noticed some strange differences pips profit betwen terminal and mql4 math. If we chose in terminal the profit in points and we have some int RealPipsLong = (OrderOpenPrice() - Bid)/Point; //for Longint RealPipsShort = (Ask - OrderOpenPrice())/Point; //for ShortComment(RealPipsLong + " " +...

Hi guys, I'm testing out on this new chart operation ChartXYToTimePrice() on a custom indicator for the new Mql4. But the price converted from CHARTEVENT_CLICK (x, y coordinates) behaves weirdly. Price converted from screen XY coordinates (obtained from mouse click event) is incorrect & appears to...

I am developing an Expert Advisor where I would like to implement FIFO support (closing orders according to order open time, sorted ASC). It it possible to use a similar logic described in this article: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/138127. It does not seems very straightforwarded though. My...

As we see  the values are difrent, description

Hi all I am currently backtesting Cyberia Trader and Profit Seven EA2 on a machine with 6 cores (x2 with Hyper Threading) and 16 GB RAM. It is really slow. How can I speed it up? Is it worthy of running it on a super computer in amazon web services. Please note that when I see the...

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...

I have isolated the issue to the brokers platform versions, I don't have a old build of the program to roll back and clean installs don't work with this issue...any suggestions

Hello,  I've read that MetaQuotes will no longer be supporting mt4 after this year. Does anyone know if ea's designed for mt4 will still operate correctly after this year?   Thanks, AJ 

Hi everyone!. I came across this article https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/2503. It is a pretty good way to create tabs on a gui panel. Is there a way to achieve the same results with using only standard libraries. Thanks in advance.

Hello. I am trying to change the text property of an object in a another chart but I don't know why it does not work. The following script is unable to set a new string: if ( ObjectSetString(131552086461923216, "testLabel", OBJPROP_TEXT, "message") )        Print("message updated with...