Hey dear members... Could you please tell me wich NEWS of economic calender will have a big impact on the EUR/USD Like yesterday the USD Unemployment Rate (FEB), USD Change in Non-farm Payrolls (FEB)? I need to know wich news will make the eur fall or rise that much ! Thx

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’m having a little loss right now, but I think I’ll close the deal with profit.  

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 =) 

The USD/CAD keeps its bullish trend, the next resistance may be the 1.3458 level and from there the price may try to stall or even break to the downside, but if oil keeps dropping, then we may see a breakout of that level. A breakdown of the bullish trendline may indicate a change in direction, but...

EUR/USD April-June 2017 Forecast: ranging rally within narrow s/r levels W1 price is below Ichimoku cloud for the primary bearish market condition with the ranging within the following support/resistance levels: 1.0828 resistance level located below the cloud in the beginning of the secondary rally...

I decided to create this thread to help to myself and to the others to start with Metatrader 5. I am experienced in MT4 and in forex in general (i hope : ) but we traders really need to collect all the information about it in one place. I will make some posts about 'how I am starting with MT5'....

Hi, I've developed a EA on MT5 and I run it on two VPS (same VPS provider, same VPS configuration, same broker, same instrument (DAX)) and I notice some diffence in the entry, that is one EA place the order but the other not. After some debug I discover that the CopyHigh, CopyClose, CopyOpen,...

Is there a way to reduce the budget of a job if the developer is late on a job? I don't think it is right that developers get the full money for a job which has a set and agreed time, as time is a big factor when considering price. I realise that being late isn't good for developer's ratings etc....

GBP/USD April-June 2017 Forecast: ranging below Ichimoku cloud for direction W1 price is below Ichimoku cloud for the bearish ranging market condition within the following support/resistance levels: 1.2569 resistance level located near and below Ichimoku cloud in the beginning of the secondary rally...

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...

I opened a VPS on MT5 and subscribed to signal, synced 'all' on the VPS, and I followed all steps etc. - then closed MT5 overnight. When opening MT5 today, it re-sync all positions (obviously had not sync overnight on the VPS?) and closed around $1,000 positions worth of losses... Auto trading is...

Hello Traders , I have designed certain EA which gives sound results. But in optimization it gives better results indeed. I just need to know if daily optimization of EA is a profitable strategy ??? Has any one tried it till date ?? If yes then what should be the frequency of optimization ??? (Daily...

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

Hi THere ! I hope this is the right place to ask. If not please let me know where to go and find a solution My problem is that I have installed the MT4 FBS platform and tried to connect to my MQL5 account but it doesn't seem to get the connection and I cannot see my product purchase in the interface...

I currently have my EA calculate values on the last x amount of bars - this however creates a huge lag during back testing - because of the "for loop" it looks like it executes on every tick. This is how the value check stars: //CHECK ID10T VALUES FOR BUY OR SELL if(BUY_ORDER   == 0 && SELL_ORDER...

i have an login for an fund management account the problem is i cant see the running trades but the history gets updated even without showing the trades on the terminal window ! is there any ways to see the running trades on terminal window ?

I was affraid to open this thread. Why? because it is difficult to manage many threads on one forum. Anyway - I will try :) So, we are talking about SIGNAL SYSTEMS

Dear ALL Is backtest using M1 time frame (derived from tick data suite) reliable ?  I mean 99.9% quality ? Is it trustworthy ? 

i am a professional trader that have been in the marketplace since 9 years ago . check tens of thousands of EAs , indicators , strategies like price action , ichimuko etc... and can assure you 99% of them not work in long term. because market is unpredictable and full of uncertainty. so no one can...

Hello everyone, Is there a very simple EA that check if there are open orders, and if not, immediately opens one in the trend direction ? So an ea that trades only if there is no open order, quite simply. Thanks for any help about this guys, regards

Hi, I have sreached that many people have asked about the question regarding " symbol found" problem, but didn't found an answer for it. Some of the reply for other people's answer is change broker and many reply regarding to change broker is that it doesn't help Please help or direct me how to...

In my code, I have a lot of these... //--------------------------------------------------------------- double eurusdask = MarketInfo("EURUSD",MODE_ASK); //--------------------------------------------------------------- and a lot of these......

Hi again, So this is my second indicator. And this indicator is created to be able to follow Jperl's Market Statistics thread on Traders Laboratory. Please read this summary document of that thread first. After reading that document lets discuss how can we use this approach in Forex trading... I am...

I'm copying a signal, I rented a Virtual Hosting machine, today the signal made the trade attached in screenshot, I opened my mt4 later to find these numbers instead ! ? what's going on, I'm new to this.

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 

Hi Alex and everybody, I have this indicator and trade manual w/this.It's based in trendlines and work very well.is it possible convert to EA? Thank's

Does MetaTrader provide a mechanism to develop custom price/volume data sources? If yes, can anyone point me to the documentation. I could not find it.

Hello all I have tested many strategies and many other stuff but i did not found them more accurant then basic analysis of the market. i mean,the Price Patterns. 1. harmony indicators: here and here. 2. candelsticks reversal patternsis here. 3. Price Patterns: - Price Patterns (Gartley,Butterfly,Bat...

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...

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!

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...

Google April-June 2017 Forecast: weekly ranging to be stated or the secondary correction to be continuing; 853 resistance is the key The weekly shares price is on secondary correctional movement within the primary bullish market condition: the price is located above Ichimoku cloud for the correction...

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...

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...

You must be willing to be open to a good working relationship. I am still somewhat a novice trader but I have two years experience. I'm self taught so just hmu with your cool with this.

Hi, I am quite new to MT4. Trading from the UK, I am more share and stock CFD person than Forex. By this, I would prefer to trade share prices than anything else.  My questions are as follow:  1) Do you guys know any betting companies with a great variety of shares and stocks on the MT4. Noticeably,...

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...

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

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...

This is my first time coding in MQL4 I'm not sure what the error is, I was following a video of youtube, and it seems my code has multiple errors even though it was the same, could this be because it was an old video and mql4 language updated? Here is the code below...

is there any broker that Guarantee order opening price? because wen i put a pending order it is possible that my order openes in higher or lower price than i want

Hi I have rented  vps for my EA, it means that if I turn off my computer, ¿ Will the EA's continue running ? Please

While testing an EA, I've got the following results. It's completely unrealistic and it mirrors a HUGE flaw at strategy tester, using every tick based on real ticks: when testing limit orders, orders are always placed at first at the book, so it's gets immediate execution. At demo accounts too. As...

#include <Trade\SymbolInfo.mqh> CSymbolInfo mysymbol; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Script program start function                                    | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ void OnStart()   {    double...

This is the code I have so far but for the sharpe ratio. int OnInit () {   if (IsTesting () || IsOptimization ()) GlobalVariableSet ("InitialBalance", AccountBalance ());   return (0);}void OnDeinit (const int reason) {   if (IsTesting () || IsOptimization ()) GlobalVariableDel...

Hi, I need help with setting up EA not to communicate with the server during margin call (when it tries to open new trades) resulting in the broker disabling the account. It sends this message during Margin Call - "Warning: Account may be disabled due to HyperActivity". I need to stop it from...

Hi, I'm looking for an EA for closing all current open position base on profit. meaning close all position when total open position in profit. like, some position will be in loss and some will be in profit. finally net in profit. Example, EURUSD- sell position and total loss 10$ GBPUSD-buy position...

Hello all, I want to build an EA for this purpose, "when account equity reach to defined value by user, close all positions of all symbols", I write below code, but it doesn't work.  Please help me for modify it. Thanks. #property strict#include <stdlib.mqh>extern int TargetEquity=5000;void...

Hi, I'm looking for a remote trade copier that connects two metatrader accounts without having to reroute to an external server. I searched all of the options in the market place and all of the remote trade copiers connect to their shady external servers. Is it possible to copy trades remotely...

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...

I got hidden results in the strategy optimizer. Not all results are displayed cause I got a better config that given by strategy optimizer, anyone knows why that?

Dear all, I'm trying to developing two very simple scripts (one for buy and one for sell) that allows me to open with just one click ten or more orders on different symbols and with different lot size. I don't care about TP and SL and other functions...I will manually close everything. I've...

As a newbie to forex trading industrial, particularly in EA programming.  I have found both MQL 4 and MQL 5 EA formation rather not so user friendly. After about two years of market observations/study/conclusions, I believe that I have found my own effective trading strategies and subsequently...

Hi, I'm trying to test a custom built Multi-currency EA. I connect to the cloud agents ok, but when the test begins to run, I get a long string of errors: Genetic pass tested with error "no memory in OnTick function (cannot get 4096 Kb, used 0 Mb)" also: Tested with error "critical runtime error...

Hi. From your experience. What tools are the most useful since developed by John Ehlers? Regards.

Hi there guys, Does anyone have this indicator to share? Where you can choose the type of MAs? I wanted one with VWMA (volume weighted moving average) crossing over SMA. Something similar to the indicator attached to this post. thanks

Hello, I'm in the process of writing an indicator with Moving Averages. The goal should be that the indicator will give an alert as soon as the wick of a closed candle touches a moving average. Roughly speaking, it should give a signal as soon as a retest has been done on a Moving Average candle by...

Hi. I am creating an indicator called Squeeze that uses the Bollinger Band and Keltner Channel. The Keltner Channel indicator is one that I got from the internet (for now), since it's not included in MQL5. https://gist.github.com/Industrial/8f98a5e360132a6faba38e02a137f6c0 I have several questions:...

I've been trying to set up my Gann Grid and Fan for over a year now but I can not. I read articles on this forum but still without result. Someone who wants to help me with this? How many pips per bar? Set date? etc..

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.

Hello, is it possible to define (return) the price level when (& where) two MA's cross (which is not the current price !) ? if so, how or where can I find information (code) ?

Hi there brothers. I think I opened a thread in the wrong forum, I am opening here then, which is the right place. I have this indicator here which I found at forexfactory called zigzag counter, which displays the total volume of each leg of the zigzag. What I wanted was for it to show the AVERAGE...

Does any one know if it is possible to add/download a favourite inticator to any smart phone version of Meter Trader 4 of 5? Thanks in view of your kind reply and assistance.

Hello, I have the traditionnal MACD indicator however, it does not want to scale properly. It scales the signal and MACD but not the histogram. So what happens is that the histogram will at times not be scalled properly in the window. But the signal line with MACD line is always scaled. As an...

I want to build a website with RSI table. Something like that: Problem is that I don't know from where grab rsi data. Or how can I grab it from metatrader. Can anyone help me?

i'v modified custom simple moving average code, and try to display the average of open and close price.. but only the openbuffer displayed, and the closebuffer is always set to 0 value. please help me to fix it.. thanks alot..

Hi How would you find a bar by a certain time for today Found this in the documentation, datetime date1 = D'2016.09.02 23:55'; But how do you use current day? Thanks for any help or pointers where or what I need to look at

Fibo Levels indicator. Fully forecasting.

Hi all, I've been wanting to have the ability to plot indicators from different timeframes on my chart, but MT doesn't have this capability built in. (Does anyone know of any charting programs that do this natively?) As an example, if you're following the IWCR system, it'd be nice to be able to...

New article Creating MQL5 Expert Advisors in minutes using EA Tree: Part One is published: EA Tree is the first drag and drop MetaTrader MQL5 Expert Advisor builder. You can create complex MQL5 using a very easy to use graphical user interface. In EA Tree, Expert Advisors are created by connecting...

Momentum ratio oscillator: Momentum ratio oscillator Author: Mladen Rakic

MARTINGALE VI HYBRID: This EA enters trades according to the conditions of two "Moving Averages". If the trade goes in the opposite direction after a predetermined number of pips, then it opens another trade in the same direction of the first trade. The process repeats itself until profit is...

New article Gap - a profitable strategy or 50/50? has been published: The article dwells on gaps — significant differences between a close price of a previous timeframe and an open price of the next one, as well as on forecasting a daily bar direction. Applying the GetOpenFileName function by the...

How can I get data from MetaTrader5, pass it through a C++ program and do some processing on it, then send the result as some commands to MT5 to buy or sell?

New article How to Exchange Data: A DLL for MQL5 in 10 Minutes is published: Now not so many developers remember how to write a simple DLL, and what are special features of different system binding. Using several examples, I will try to show the entire process of the simple DLL's creation in 10...

Normalizied MACD - self adjusting signal: Normalizied MACD - self adjusting signals Author: Mladen Rakic

BB stops - Hull average: BB stops - Hull average based with multiple stops included Author: Mladen Rakic

Phase change index 2: Phase change index 2 Author: Mladen Rakic

Trend intensity index: Trend intensity index Author: Mladen Rakic

Harmonic Pattern Finder V2: Indicator to display existent and emerging harmonic chart patterns. Author: Andre Enger

Trend detection index: Short description. Author: Mladen Rakic

Trade signal based on PullBack and Candle (for MQL5 Wizard): This is the trading signal of PullBack and Candle. The expert code for this strategy is automatically generated by the MQL 5 wizard. Author: Mike Fat

CCI and Martin: The EA based on iCCI (Commodity Channel Index, CCI) indicator plus managing position volumes using martingale. The EA uses iCCI (Commodity Channel Index, CCI) indicator value on the last four bars and Open/Close prices on the last three bars. A position opening signal is checked if...

Hi,  I am developing an algo based on Excel and VBA however I am finding some difficulties to code on MQL4. Can someone guide me how I can extract raw prices past data of all time-frames for all symbols into excel, please? Much Appreciated.

As part of my trading system I have a buy stop and sell stop pending order concurrently.  I have a stop loss trail code for when either trade is activated. In the event that the price fluctuates and activates both trades then the stop loss trailing code works. However if only one of the pending...

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...

My goal is threefold. 1) Log into and use MetaTrader MQL4 purely from python. I saw using MT4 from Python mentioned here. I don't know how well it works. It's a standalone python library (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/metatrader/0.0.1)  2) Use Python's ML capabilities within MQL4. I saw that here for...

I'm trying to write a code that will make a "Profit Target" which will subtract my profits in the past 24 hours and add my losses. But I think there is something wrong, can anyone help? int ProfitTarget = 1000{  for(int q = 0; q<OrdersHistoryTotal(); q++)   {     OrderSelect(q,SELECT_BY_POS...

Hi guys, is it somehow possible to change the default creation of an OBJ_FIBO with only 38/50/61 levels? I tried to delete one level by using OBJPROP_LEVELS but this value is always zero after creating an OBJ_FIBO. Any ideas? Maybe I can change the original code from Metaquotes in the library...

I have contacted the service desk about this issue. This is what I sent them.... Hello, Please either remove the option to download MT4 from your website or fix it so that it does actually download MT4 and not MT5. We are getting sick and tired of answering the same question over and over again....

Hi all, i'm having a tough time making my EA place stop orders only once at a given price. It places stop orders every tick which matches the price. I wanna be able to make multiple Buy stop and Sell Stops, but only one at a time. For example if there is a filled Buy stop order and another Buy...

My code is set up to be placed on only one pair, but it will trade on multiple. For instance... *Not Entire Code* //-----------------------------------------------------------------   {     if(gbp>0)       {         if(gbp-usd<(TradePoints*(-1)+1))           {             result=OrderSend("GBPUSD"...

Hallo, I just update my MT4 FXDD client terminal. The new updated client terminal gave an error code: 5004 which I didn't have in the old MT4 client terminal. I understand that error 5004 is about fileopen error. I have checked and I have done "fileclose" for every "fileopen". I have also checked...

Hi I get an error invalid trade volume when I try open lots like 11.23 but when I use 10 its fine. I'm using double lot variable. Why would that give me this error? Louis

I have written this small function which helps any programs to do the normalize of prices (without having to re-type the long normalize command), but it keeps giving this error. How can i solve this? //+------------------------------------------------------------------+double normMe(string ins,...

Good afternoon everyone, I am trying to calculate the net profit/net loss of an expert advisor for the current week. For some reason, this function always returns 0 during backtesting. double GetWeekProfits(){   int type, netprofit = 0;   datetime starttime = iTime(Symbol(), PERIOD_W1, 0);   for(int...

Hi All, back in October and again recently MS sent out major Windows 10 updates. Among other problems that these caused necessitating a factory reset, the MT4 purchased indicators disappear. Whilst they might still appear in the list under Navigator, they do not exist. Same for Templates and...

Hi i got an Object from an indicator (a simple regression channel determining trend) that i check to enter a trade or not, but my EA is a Multipair (i put it on one chart only and it trades all the pairs) so my question is : will it work correctly if i just call the iCustom with each symbol and read...