Hi everyone, Am new to the metatrader platform and community and need more clarification on which is more reliable for me to use between Trading signals and EA.  Pls someone share useful details or opinons Thanks

I want to deposit money from Paypal, Since my phone cannot download Google Play, so I download Metatrader 4 apk,I login to MQL5 successfully, error message come out "MetaQuotes ID  unfortunately your phone does not support this function" when I press MQID How to then ??

MQL5 has change the display of signal, how do you find the new look? I noticed that now signal subscribers don't have an option to see when last a trade was open, what is the average time a trade has been hold on. I just think its vital for people to know how long a signal provider hold onto open...

Hi, after clicking on an EA to download, everytime it appears with a web page which states the address wasnt understood. Does anyone know why this occurs?

Hi I am totally new to this.Can you please tell me what expert advisor to use for auto trading

Below are step by step instructions, of how to subscribe to a MΤ4 signal: 1. Register a MQL5 account: https://www.mql5.com/en/auth_register  2. Open your MT4 platform and go to Menu >> Tools >> Optios and click on the Community tab. There you put your Login and Password of your MQL5 account and...

Hi all, I have been trying, without success, to create a moving median indicator using MathMedian(), such as MathMedian(prices). Can anyone give me a clue on how to fetch the prices, put into an array, calculate using MathMedian()? Many thanks, Arthur.

I am trying to read the last line time value from a csv file. Check the following: 2018-07-26 11:04:00 1.17272 1.17275 1.17267 1.172722018-07-26 11:05:00 1.17272 1.17273 1.17265 1.172682018-07-26 11:06:00 1.17268 1.17273 1.17261 1.17264 The above is sample data. I have tried the following code and...

See the following code I tried:   string currenttime=IntegerToString(time.year)+"-0"+                      IntegerToString(time.mon)+"-"+                      IntegerToString(time.day)+ " "+                      IntegerToString(time.hour)+ ":"+                      IntegerToString(time.min)+ ":00";...

I download the library of the last MT4 version  https://www.mql5.com/en/code/19703 Experts\Article09\TestLibrary03 The Edit is always flickering. This is a great library,but we hardly create anything because of the bug.

I am running EA on my home computer, everytime when I hear the heavy fan sound from the computer, I am worry about its health. Is there anyway can improve the EA efficiency? original code: for(int i=0; i<OrdersTotal(); i++) I am using below, instead of call OrderTotal() for each i. int...

Hi Traders Im new to MT5  so I apolagise if this is the wrong place to ask for tech help in advance I have tried to use the help search. I and am having a problem with the view on new pairs that I open.  4 pairs  I can open and view EURUSD,GBPUSD,USDCHF,USDJPY but when I open any other chart/pair I...

hi is it possible to show all chart tabs on MT4? i have about 30 over charts opened and instead of scrolling left and right is there a way to show all tabs, aka two layers of tabs etc? thank you

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...

Hi! I'm new on mql5. I had been trying to close all positions when you remove the EA manually using the OnDeInit() function, but when is called, it says 'Trading is Disabled' ... I don't know if by doing it in OnDeInit() is the right way, or if I'm doing something wrong. Can somebody help me...

if I may offer my opinion..... Hedging is a method to limit risk. Consider this scenario..... You may consider an investment in ABC Oil to be a good as you feel that it will outperform the market. However you know that the whole oil sector can be volatile, so if the sector falls, ABC Oil will fall...

Hi everybody! I've found a signal provider for MT5 and now I'm wondering about the letter "m" behind the name of the currency pair (as you can see in the screen below). Can anyone explain to me the meaning of this letter and furthermore, if there are any restrictions for copy-trading.

Greetings, I, like many others, have been searching for the perfect trading system, and I believe I have found it. I'm writing to ask you to examine this system and provide any constructive feedback that you might have. When I say "perfect" trading system, I do not mean to imply that it has no...

Recently started looking at various signal providers here on MQL5 site. Noticed that one cannot search within the platform, by name, for a signal. This seems ridiculous. So am wondering, is there a way, on this site when logged in and looking at a signal, to "favorite" it so when in the platform, it...

Hi.  Can you guys please help me to figure out what parameters do I have to input so I can have the MA Indicator going through the opening and the closing of all the candles. Thank you very much.

Folks, I am introducing Pin Bar Trading, I am developing this method from FF, I respect them a lot, but I want to avoid any conflicting interest, that's why I post in this forum. I develop a Pin Bar Indicator and it is still evolving, I think this forum can give me more support, because many of the...

Some people asked me on the other forums about re-enter. But I am not using any indicator for re-enter. So I decided to create some simple trading system with re-enter based on indicator's arrow on the chart. Let's name it as PriceChannel Parabolic system. M1 timeframe. This is image for EURUSD...

Some people say that it is the best signal system in the world. It is very famous system and it was developed in the interesting way: Russians recognized this system for MetaTrader some years ago and this western trading system was not very profitable (I am talking about MetaTrader only) but had as...

I want to say that my nick 'newdigital' is not connected with digital filters. But I started this thread to discuss and explain about trading strategies based on the digital filters only. And to understand how to implement those filters. All about digital filters you may find https://www.mql5...

Locked-in Range Analysis (abbr. LRA) is the futures market analysis method, described in the ebook "Locked-in Range Analysis: Why most traders must lose money in the futures market (Forex)" by Tom Leksey, which minimizes an uncertainty in the futures market. LRA is the method of interpreting the...

hello master trader. Recently I learned trading strategy using trend line but I have difficult to identify trend. and that I want to ask. how to identify trend changes using trend line. as shown below the picture above is an example of a scenario for a trend change. of the two images above which are...

This is Ilan-TrioKS v1.45 - /English Version/ - The new SUPER Expert Advisor. Working with all pairs. TimeFrame - M15. Please test it.

The system was posted by bradman when he needed this system coded. The system is simple. Long when HMA trend is up, and short when HMA trend is down. Attached is the EA, automated script for metatrader 4, and indicator of this system. You must install both of them. This expert advisor features: You...

HI, my dear traders, this system is very simple,as well as very effective. no any confusing more indicators, no more complex strategy. this is a cool system. It is based on Renko chart. 1. open 1minute chart of EUR/USD. 2. add renkolive ea in to this chart 3. open 2minute offline chart of EUR/USD...

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

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...

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...

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...

I've searched through the internet, but did not find a documentation or informal data on proper order book (Depth of Market, DOM) structure and content. There are numerous articles about what the order book is in general and many examples of trading by it. But there's no exact information what is...

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...

Dears,  so  I had a sell trade that had a SL@133150, it got stopped @1.33151, BUT in the chart it did not touched any the SL level (max level in the cart was 1.13343) . Also, other friends of mine that did exactly the same trade, did not had the same issue. The also have different broker than mine....

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...

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

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

Hello, is anyone aware of any futures broker that offer its client the MT5 trading platform? Is there a list of those? I mean real futures, not CFDs. Futures that trade on CME Globex and Eurex exchanges. Thank you.

Hi, in this topic we discuss our forecast of whether EUR/USD will move strong during the next period, or not. As for now, there is a difficult situation of the EUR/USD. It sticks at its price of 1.154 and has no real ability to reliabely grow up or down. Thus you see that on 29/30.05 we had the same...

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...

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...

Hi everyone. I have been trying to set a variable in an indicator and then pass it to an Expert Advisor. I was wondering if anyone can help me with what am I doing wrong and how I should get the values that I need. Brief explanation: I have been trying to get the 'double' value for expertVar[0] and...

Hi there, i was running experts on my demo account and also want to use some on my real account. But when i change something in demo it also changes in real and vicevera. same with closing windows it does it in both accounts. is this normal? Anyway to work around this? else the demo account is kind...

DOES ANYONE KNOWS AMONG PROFESSIONAL TRADERS HOW TO CODE AN EA TO DIAGNOSE FLASH CRASH OF MARKET LIKE. JAN 2015 CHF PAIRS FLASH CRASH? WHICH STRATEGY AND COD WORKS BETTER. THIS IS CRUCIAL FOR ANY ROBOT. THANK YOU

I'm trying to create a new indicator that calculates the sum of a array (matrix of 5 symbols with correlation) and divides by a specified number. The calculation is correct, but i'm having problems with the indicator plot. Probably in the OnCalculate part. i want the indicator look like a moving...

Hi everyone,  I just try to select the order ticket of largest lot order from my current trading pool, buying and selling. From some of sample just write like following, but as my understanding, it just return the random ticket rather than largest one.  Is anyone could advise me this is right or not...

Hello, I was wondering whether anybody could help with something that's really beginning to wind me up... Whenever I backtest an EA the system runs it, however no results pull through. In the journal it says "failed to open a short/long position" many times over. Admittedly my level of experience...

i have tested several brokers and they all fail. maximum 2 months of M1 price history there. i have seen lots of programmers here in mql5.com that can test their systems in 10 years or even 15  years. this problem is remaining in mt5 too. does someone have any solution.

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

Dear coder  pls help us this ea he can not open the touch the  upper and lower band he can open in early upper and lower band anyone fix this thank you 

Hallo, just want some help. If in mql4 I use:   double MG1 =  MarketInfo(Pair1, MODE_MARGINREQUIRED), so how to get the same result in mql5, since there is no MODE_MARGINREQUIRED in mql5 ? Thank you for any help

* Sorry English is not my native language I want to create multiple custom symbols and import historical data from a csv I have managed to do this however the .hcc file is large and the writing speed is slow. I do not know so much programming in my mind he is reading line by line and then writing...

Hello is posible to use File functions with flag FILE_COMMON on MQL Cloud Agents?? Thanks

Hello! I'm using the last version of MT5 (build 1881) and I'm having some troubles in strategy tester with a custom indicator with 7 buffers. The indicator works perfectly when I put it in the chart and works fine too when I put it in an EA and runs the advisor in real time mode. When I run the EA...

Hi Anyplace on the web that you can get those strategy tester reports evaluated? Reports do a find job of the basic details if you only had one symbol on it. I love the amount of details you get with myfxbook.com and others but you cannot upload a statement as far as I know of. Anyone had any...

Hello  I wish to write an EA that sends a File to a server. I am aware of SendFTP but do not want the user to be aware of the FTP details of the server as via SendFTP the user has to specify them. Hence can someone provide a method sending a File to FTP sever where the server FTP details are  coded...

Hi all As above, Can I draw on both chart window and separate window at the same time?  for example, if I want to draw my customer indicator on separate window, and also draw arrow on chart window to show buy/sell point, how to do it please? 

so i modified this indicator https://www.mql5.com/en/code/102 but got this error //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                          PivotPointUniversal.mq5 |//|                                               Copyright VDV Soft...

Good Day I'm asking for a help for creating murrey math lines that shows the previous levels before it repaints. The purpose of this is to backtest a strategy using the MML saving yourself from doing live trades for testing that may take a lot of time instead of reviewing the previous levels and...

Hello there, I have created an object type OBJ_ARROW that is shown on the chart using: ObjectCreate(Chart,"Top",OBJ_ARROW,0,Time,Price); So, anyone knows how to set the digits of the number shown when I put the cursor on it? (like figure below) I didn't find anything related to it. Thanks!

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....

Hello Folks, this question may be already answered 100ths of times. So pls dont rip my head off. I simply couldnt find an answer. What i want: I want to program an indicator based on any timeframe and then i want this indicator displayed as an overlay on any lower timeframe price chart. Lets say a...

Hi, I was thinking about creating an indicator that identifies abnormal volumes, considering a previous inputs of mean volume by time (ie, each hour would have its mean volume to be compared). Does anybody have something developed in that way? Tks

There's any way to make my Indicator do the Calculation only when the candle closes? My indicator makes calculations for every close value. When I put it to the graphic it's so heavy that seems like the internet is ultra slow. Making calculations for every last price, as for code matter, the last...

Hi everyone, When we creat Fibonacci Retracement manually on chart, we can get its level value(50%, 100% etc) as below. Then how is it possilbe to get the actual price of each level value ? Thank you X :-) void OnChartEvent(const int id, const long&amp; lparam,...

hallo to all. i want combine this folowed indicators in a ea: (thank you mladen/vladimir) https://www.mql5.com/de/code/20474 (asymetric bands) https://www.mql5.com/de/code/129 (extrapolartion)  to read out the buffer of extrapolartion is my problem. in asymetric bands it works well. has anyone an...

Hi All, Iam using SuperTrend in my strategy using icustom fucntions "  iCustom(Symbol(),60,"SuperTrend",10,2.0,0,1);"  The EA is wrking fine on actual live account. But if I want to back test for previous period the Super Trend value is not recognised in the backtest. I have tried to download the...

In indicators we can define a color as the property of the plotted indicator. How can I make color indexes to use in a graphic object?

Hey guys. I need some help. I need an indicator that will set a horizontal line on a chart and essentially alert me when price hits it. I've scoured the internet and tried most of the line alerts available but they're not fit for purpose. Issues i've found with other line price alert indicators is...

need help to modify some setting in my indicator <Decompiled Code Removed>

Hi all, https://www.mql5.com/en/code/viewcode/180/129748/iunima_mtf.mq5 here u can find the code for iunima_mtf indicator which draws multitimeframe moving averages on a given timeframe. It does not include the linear regression line which i want to add. The simplest way I thought is to use the...

Renko-Fractals-Grid: This EA uses "Renko" box size on MetaTrader 4 chart. When a Renko box is created (not visible, only calculated in pips) and price reaches the level where there was a fractal, the EA enters a trade. It is recommended to use the EA on 1 Hour and smaller timeframes (on...

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

New article Graphical Interfaces X: Updates for Easy And Fast Library (Build 2) has been published: Since the publication of the previous article in the series, Easy And Fast library has received some new features. The library structure and code have been partially optimized slightly reducing CPU...

Trendsignal indicator version 2: Trendsignal indicator with potential area drawn on chart. Author: pankaj bhaban

New article How to create Requirements Specification for ordering a trading robot has been published: Are you trading using your own strategy? If your system rules can be formally described as software algorithms, it is better to entrust trading to an automated Expert Advisor. A robot does not need...

JMA_StDev: The JMA adaptive moving average with additional trend strength indication using colored dots based on the standard deviation algorithm. Author: Nikolay Kositsin

New article Comparative analysis of 10 flat trading strategies has been published: The article explores the advantages and disadvantages of trading in flat periods. The ten strategies created and tested within this article are based on the tracking of price movements inside a channel. Each strategy...

MA_BBands_YXF: The indicator is a combination of MA channels and Bollinger Bands. Author: johnsun888

Elder Impulse System: The Elder Impulse System indicator identifies transitions where a trend speeds up or slows down. Author: Cuong Thai

New article MQL5.community Payment System is published: MQL5.community built-in services offer great opportunities both to MQL5 developers and ordinary traders with no programming skills. But all these features can't be implemented without in-house secure payment system, that provides a convenient...

iTrend ADXVMA: Very well known iTrend indicator but that uses ADXVMA for calculation. Due to ADXVMA properties it tends to have "flat" periods during the ranging periods, that makes it less sensitive to false changes and combined with iTrend calculation, it seems to be useful combination....

CloseOrders (With further filtering): This script allows you to close orders with one click, filtering by profit, loss, magic number and comment. Author: MQL4AutoTrading

DailyPivotPoints: The DailyPivot Points indicator helps to get the idea of the future market movements, unlike other tools that are usually behind the market. Author: MetaQuotes Software Corp.

New article Creating a Multi-Currency Multi-System Expert Advisor has been published: I believe there are quite a few traders who trade more than one trading symbol and use multiple strategies. This approach does not only allow you to potentially increase your profit but to also minimize the risk...

Self Optimizing RSI or MFI Trader: This robot optimizes the values it uses for overbought and oversold based on what would have been profitable during the Optimization periods(bars) back. Using the strategy of selling when the index indicator crosses below overbought and buying when the index...

Can I run an Expert Advisor (EA) on multiple shares at the same time. So for example flag all stocks with RSI > 80% ?

I have an expert running on a GBPAUD chart. Its job is to open other charts and apply a template if certain criteria is met for other pairs. Occasionally it will open a chart for the same pair more than once, and so I run a check when each chart is open to close duplicate charts. The problem is that...

I want to design a custom indicator which prints two lines, one which trails below price in an uptrend and another which trails above price in an downtrend. The closest thing I have seen to this is like an ATR Stop indicator as pictured below. Is it possible to instruct one of the two lines to stop...

I've been trying to find an MT4 indicator that draws vertical lines at specific times that on mouseover shows a description of that line just like the default vertical line MT4 has. Thanks for any help someone might provide

If I use indicator buffers, they are always displayed on the chart. How can I NOT display them and still have their values calculated? I need only the values, but not the visible part, but I want still to use the indicator buffers because their size is handled automatically by MT4. For example, the...

Hi the market products are not showing in the mt4 market tab .. please see attached pic even though the MQL balance and all the other tabs including the Signals tab seem to still be functioning normally Any help / ideas very much appreciated 

I understand the basics of making an expert advisor and have seen some posts that mention that I should use iCustom function to access my indicator in an expert advisor, but it's not too clear. I want to make an expert advisor that takes a trade when the "X" and arrow appear at the same time, as in...

Hey everyone, for an EA I can program that for example F7 key is called and the properties of the EA open. For a custom indicator I know I can open via the indicator's list or via double klick on a line or bollinger band or so. Is there a way to call a special key like F7 or programm a user defined...

Hello! I have just bought a system for forex-trading and so far it has performed well but there is one problem with it,it doesn´t do the trades it self so I have to sit by the computer alot and perform the buy- sell-orders myself.I have been trying to learn some programming but I realize that it...

I'm in high-frequency trading, because their VPS are more than 200, so he from the official website to buy a month VPS. Thought order speed will be faster, as a result, your order did not change fast. Discovered, after today, I replay the same platform, the same EA, the same signal, the official...

Hi All, Im rather new here and I want to create a simple system where I look at the high and low of the first 1 hour candle at a start time (in this case 9.00).  If after this first 1 hour the rate goes above the high, than sell. If it goes below the low than sell. What I did so far is the following...

Hi, sir I are not familiar with English.Please understand me  ------------------------------------------------------------  I want to ordermodify at Specific time for example evry four hour,, in other word,, evry new H4 candle,,   Hour() = 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 0.   When i use the function Hour() ,  can...

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 &nbsp, Suggestions for Trading System thread  After Requests & Ideas...

Hi! Does anyone know a math formula to calculate a dinamic TP based on SL distance. The smaller the SL-the bigger TP and the bigger SL-the smaller TP?

I have found a indicator on this website which provides previous day (or week / /month) high and low prices.  I want to use this as the basis of creating my own EA to place buystops and sellstops at the previous day high and low.   Link: https://www.mql5.com/en/code/14410 I can see the code I want...