Hi All, Mind to share your experience here, what the difference between Live and Demo account others that Live account we are trading using real money to place a trade where demo account we are using "fake". What i am tring to ask,is there any disadvantages when testing a EA using Demo account?...

In MetaTrader 5 we provide the possibility to createcalculation frameworks for a tester to quicker calculate tradingstrategies. They are designed for conducting mass optimizingcalculations, when you can start across hundreds of tasks on remotecomputers. Besides, several agents can be installed on...

Hello all, Am trying to put an edit into the standard zig zag indicator. I want to change the depth calculation from bar based to percentage based. That is new highs or lows won't be drawn until price has moved a certain percentage from the last high or low. If I failed to make anything clear just...

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

Hi I'm install mt5 both on windows 7 pro on Virtual Machine (VM) hosted in Linux Mint notebook and straigth on linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. On VM it's oll OK, but on Linux it's impossible to install because ask proxy but I don't use a proxy. This problem stop installer. It's know in Internet but I don't...

How to check if the middle line in Bollinger indicator is some what straight or stable? See the following red circle in the image:   Kindly, let me know.

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

Hi i wonder who is the owner of this website? Is it MetaQuotes Software Corp? And where are thay based?

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...

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

Is there a website where I can watch all order flows concerning forex without paying platforms? Or do there exist free piaffas that give this service?

Is there any good forex manual trader who has good risk management and good profit every month? If you are a good forex trader, I am glad to cooperate with you.

USD/CAD The primary trend of USD/CAD is bullish on charts and price is trading above the trend line in its hourly chart. In hourly chart the price is sustaining above 200 day SMA and taking support of 50 day SMA indicating uptrend of the pair. Resistance level of 1.3780 and Support level of 1.3670...

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

What is an ECN Account? How do I know what type of account I have? THANKS

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...

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

I just started this thread as a continuation of the talking made on this topic (we can read it). Or ...to make it shorter: it was some discussion about forecasting/predicting of the next candle or direction of the movement or market condition evaluation. And it was around standard indiocators in...

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...

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...

Hello Trading Fellows. First, look on my strategy: - Everyday on 0:00 GMT I make two pending orders: 1. Buy @ yesterday high 2. Sell @ yesterday low TP and SL for example: TP:20pips SL:15pips end. On GBP/USD, TP: 20pips, SL: 15pips in 32 days I have: 8 loss = -120 pips 25 win = +500 pips On another...

Trading and training video (from youtube for example) about forex and financial market in general.  thread for April 2013 - look at this thread,  thread for May 2013 - look at here,for June 2013 is here.July thread 2013 is hereAugust thread 2013 is this oneSeptember thread 2013 is hereOctober thread...

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...

Hello everyone! Some years ago I found on another website, a strategy that works good and I added a little something that makes it even better. Here's the original strategy and then my little addon... <strategy> You make 1 trade per day on the EURUSD Your "day" ends at 4:59EST and starts at 5pm EST...

Hi I'm totaly beginner on MQL5 an EA programming... Is possible to include _Symbol="CHI50Cash" as trading option? Or? I don't see that this is possible!?! Best regards J

For three months at mql5, I learned about trading technology for three months. I found that Mr. Sergei was an excellent trader and a conscientious administrator. I visited many of his posts, and the content on the blog, and learned a lot of trade skills. I want to create this thread and invite him...

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

Hello!. I'm using this system alredy few monthes and this is very good. now I'm looking to make it Automatic, if someone can do it for me, I'll send him the Indicators and we will make EA together... SO, This is it: Enter Long: First sign,When the Violet up arrow apppers Second sign, when the price...

Same idea as with other: if you have a good idea for a Trading System? Post here and we will develop it (all ideas will be evaluated first).

Does anyone have a generic EA script that uses separate conditions for Buy, BuyExit, Sell and SellExit that doesn't allow opening multiple orders in the same direction. With my limited script writing ability I should be able to customize the various buy and sell conditions.  

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...

Hi, today I encountered  an issue when comes to calculating the order's performance. Assuming I would have bought stocks at 100$ and sell 105$ the gain is 5% according to foll equation (sold price - buy price)/buy price*100 = 5.00% However, considering the following price history I would get a...

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...

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

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.

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...

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 i reached in this poind which only way success is money managment i hope grow up an account from 10$ untill 100$ with money management and when i reach to it again grow it untill 1000$ regards

Hi, Are there any brokers allow trading both FX and stocks/index for the Hong Kong markets? Thank you in advance

The weekly share price stopped the bearish reversal and it was bounced from 110.32 support level to above to came back to Ichimoku cloud to the ranging market condition. Fow now, the price is on testing 121.85 resistance level to above for the reversal to the trendy primary bullish market condition...

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...

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...

Hello, Can any one please suggest me the best indicator for binary options trading? Thanks...

Bovespa Index Technical Analysis 2016, 10.04 - 17.04: branging bullish with ascending triangle pattern to be formed for the bullish trend to be continuing Daily price is located above 100-day SMA (100 SMA) and 200-day SMA (200 SMA) for the bullish market condition with the ranging within the...

Hey, the Bee is back again with questions. I've read a few threads, where traders take into account the percent of risk they're ready to take. (e.g. %5 of Free Margin or so) which is understandable. then I read some EA codes and some scripts, which try to calculate the lot size, based on where...

Hi there,I have been writing a few expert advisors for the past weeks and mostly they work well but for some reason I often find that on GBP currency pairs some of them only open 1 trade and no more. I have looked at the code in the debugger and I get the error "no money" when I execute OrderCheck....

Hi, I was "playing" with hedging to explore possibilities : it's very tempting, since it allows purely & simply to recover from a bad position taken.  The risk of these strategies is well-known : lot management. Comes ALWAYS a point, where the margin is stressed, the logical solution being to accept...

Hi there, I need someone to create an EA using a combination of support and resistance and an ADX (dashboard) indicator to use with , about 3 indicators, and these already have inputs...but i do not know how to code as yet, still teaching myself. Please advise if it would be possible to code those 3...

I have a system based on The RSI,&nbsp;two ma's (8 &amp; 4)&nbsp;and the McGinley Dynamic Indicator. I have changed some of the parameters of these from the defaults.&nbsp;I would like to have the system able to automatically open both short and long positions and then close them based on these...

Hi, I've searched for an 'upgrade' as I recently found that almost all Renko builders recalculate. I use Renko. The solution is to anchor it in time (set a start date) but i do not know how. I considered paid options but none release the source code. I get why but at the same time trust has to work...

Hello, Why does this script produce a out of range ? Thanks, Pierre //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                 stOutOfRange.mq5 |//|                        Copyright 2018, MetaQuotes Software Corp....

Hi, I'm looking to make an EA works with multiple currencies, there's a lot of indicator that show a meter based on a score or a index. Unfortunately, none of them's code is available. I've googled to find the formula, but ... didn't find nothing. Anyone knows such a formula please ?

hello, I've created a custom symbol from EUR/USD. In the backtest trades are working good but there are lots of errors "2018.04.21 18:13:02.839 Core 1 2008.10.29 01:02:00  no prices for symbol USDEUR_BASKET (1970.01.01 00:00:00 0.00000, 0.00000)"  although I use only the eur/usd and not...

#include<Trade\Trade.mqh>CTrade trade;void OnTick()   {      trade.Buy()   } What do I need to add/change to the code above so that it executes a buy order only once after I run the EA? I'm only newbie. Thanks!

HI.  I am running the following code for GBP/JPY: void OnTick() {   // get last tick   double last=SymbolInfoDouble(_Symbol, SYMBOL_LAST);   Print(last); or: MqlTick last_tick;    if(SymbolInfoTick(Symbol(),last_tick)) {       Print(last_tick.time,": Bid = ",last_tick.bid, " Ask = ",last_tick.ask...

Good Morning, Have someone please experienced this ? 1. Run a Strategy Tester of some Expert Advisor 2 Get the results via OPTIMIZATION RESULTS tab 3. Export to XML MS Excel 4. Open Excel and import XM file and get the error below Thanks in advance Regards, MRC ERRO XML em Tabela REASON...

Hi, I just switched from MT4 to MT5 and what a pain converting from MQL4 to MQL5. A major problem I cannot solve is how to have several orders (MT4) in the same symbol each with a different stop loss (SL). E.g. Order 1, buy opened at 1.22, SL 1.20 Order 2, buy opened at 1.25, SL 1.22 Order 3, buy...

Hi, I've stumbled upon EA Builder (www.eabuilder.com) and FxDreema (https://fxdreema.com). I suspect there are even more EA building tools out there. Which is best? Give your view here of which EA builder you prefer and why. I'll start - Between the two I checked out, I preferred EA Builder for its...

Hi all, I have written and currently run a mulit-symbol EA in MT4which monitors and trades a portfolio of appox 300 stock-CFD’s. I have effectively re-written it for MT5 because the brokerI now prefer, uses MT5 instead. The code uses a timer initiated For Loop which cyclesthrough the symbols, tests...

Is there Any Updated MQL5 Free Tutorial For Indicator? I'm looking for latest free tutorial in MQL5 about Indicator? I searched here but I only found 2010 old tutorial.

Hello, in the programming of my indicator i need the output data of two indicators, one of them is called X-ZZ.ex4 Use the iCustom function to call it, as follows: double valor=iCustom(NULL,0,"..\\Indicators\\X-ZZ.ex4",0,0,1); However i get an error in this line, saying not to recognize the file...

hi forum members i have indicator for draws arrows automatically on chart i tried this for last two month the winning ratio of the indicator is high. this indicator we can use binary and forex trading also. but problem is the indicator not draws the arrows on chart. i have source code for that...

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...

Is it possible to have one indicator draw simultaneously in chart window and in separate window?

Hello All, Inside the settings of this indicator is the option to show signals. When you do FX Fish will place buy, sell and exit indicators on the chart. This is different from the oscillator going from green to red crossing the 0 line. I'm hoping some kind soul can make a push alert so that when...

Here are a couple of interesting indicators from W.D. Gann (aren't they all?), as well as a link to his bio. W.D Gann Methods , Time and Price & Trading Experts *** Gann also studied and applied astrology to trading. Therefore, also included are a couple of astro indicators that wasn't available...

This would've been an excellent Triangle Indicator. Anyone wants to code this one and upload it online for free? Of course, this one must repaint.

Signal Bars has come of age so i thought that i would start a new thread with the latest version This version Signal Bars v7 has some new features, the User can select which Timeframes they want displayed and the indicator can now be placed into any indicator window to help free up chart space. One...

The RSI Signal indicator plots buy\sell arrows when RSI crosses the overbought\oversold levels. It produces high probability reversals signals. It also alerts you when a signal is taking place. Download here: Great trading! as requested by Bossxero, the indicator is attached.

This one is for those that use metatrader 5 Metatrader 5, unfortunately, did some things that hardly are logical. One of the things done by it is that builtin averages (and all the other builtin indicators) are not functions any more. That is as big a nonsense as it can get. Instead of making...

Hi, I have a recurring problem that happens on my MT5 indicators. When I open a new chart and attach the indicator to the chart, the history is sometimes still loading. That also happens when I change the time frame of the chart. When this situation occurs the indicators don't draw anything. On a...

Hello all, I need to calculate iMA from custom values, for instance Open-Close. I was able to get this only by creating a separate indicator that calculates Open-Close values. Partial code: // open-close calculation handlehoc = iCustom(_Symbol, _Period, "Custom\\oc");// MA of open-closehma =...

If I wanted to use MT4 or MT5 just as "dumb terminal" to place trades, i.e. not use the charting... then what could I place in the chart area that I could watch instead of charts to give me some interesting information - like a dashboard.

VFX London Breakout: Expert Advisor which trades breakouts in several pairs during the London Session. Author: Vinicius de Oliveira

Vortex: According to original description of the authors (Etienne Botes and Douglas Siepman) of the Vortex indicator: After thoroughly researching technical tools, we concluded that the concept of the Directional Movement Index (DMI) offered the most accurate way to identify trend...

TradePanel: Simple one click trade panel, typically useful for scalpers and day traders. Note: The current chart symbol can be switched by writing the desired one in the symbol box. Author: MhFx7

Daily Pivot Points shifted for different day start time: This indicator is another implementation of daily pivot points that allows the time for pivot point calculation to be advanced or delayed from the server time. It considers any Saturday trading to be Friday and any Sunday trading to be Monday...

New article How to create a graphical panel of any complexity level has been published: The article provides a detailed explanation of how to create a panel on the basis of the CAppDialog class and how to add controls to the panel. It includes the description of the panel structure and a scheme of...

McGinley Dynamic Indicator: The McGinley Dynamic indicator is designed to follow prices, avoiding whipsaws that are given when conventional Moving Averages are used. Conventional Moving Averages have a fixed period and therefore a fixed speed. As a result, price separation occurs when the...

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...

New article How to build and test a Binary Options strategy with the MetaTrader 4 Strategy Tester has been published: Tutorial to build and test a Binary Options strategy in Strategy-Tester of Metatrader 4 with Binary-Options-Strategy-Tester utility from marketplace. The concept contains the...

BB MACD Extended: BB MACD is a MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) indicator variation with an addition of Bollinger Bands, which helps in detecting trend change points and measuring current trend's strength. The indicator is separated into three parts: The "line" part which is the...

Weekly Fibo Levels: Calculation is based on current week open and previous week range. Due to its nature it probably best fits for a long term traders. Author: Mladen Rakic

Lossless MA: The EA opens trades at the intersection of the fast and the slow MAs. It has the function of outstaying the losses. Author: Vladimir Tkach

Martin for small deposits: Martingale based Expert Advisor specially designed for small deposits. Author: Vladimir Karputov

Waddah Attar Explosion: Indicator Waddah_Attar_Explosion is very powerful. It alerts you to buy , sell , exit buy and exit sell. Author: waddah attar

New article MetaQuotes ID in MetaTrader Mobile Terminal is published: Android and iOS powered devices offer us many features we do not even know about. One of these features is push notifications allowing us to receive personal messages, regardless of our phone number or mobile network operator....

Stochastic Divergence: Divergence based on a standard Stochastic with Alert and language selection. The Stochastic is not required to be present on the chart. However, if a standard Stochastic is attached, the divergence lines will be drawn both on the chart and in the indicator window, and the...

I am having a problem I haven't seen before. Can someone advise me? Thank you.

I made a custom moving average alert system in MQL4 that is suppose to alert me each time my two moving averages cross each other. I am quite new to coding so for whatever reason I get an alert but it is exactly one candle late. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the code for my Custom...

Hi, Hello, I'm trying to introduce an equity control within code of ea to improve it.  For example imagine I have an ea called EA1 ; this one will trade in min Lots with its own MagicNumber EA2 will trade with regular Lots, different MagicNumber, same conditions as EA1 plus one: only allow trade if...

string sy=Symbol();      double bid=MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_BID);      double lot=MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_LOTSIZE);      double point=MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_POINT);      double tickSize=MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_TICKSIZE);            double oneLotDatum = lot * bid;      double...

Hi Folks.  i was looking for a similar topic and couldn't.. I have MT4 on my laptop and there is no problem with, I also tried to install at my work computer, I think it is might related to a permission, I'm not an admin but I have some of those privileges, as can install, uninstall, etc. after...

hello double tickValue = MarketInfo(NULL, MODE_TICKVALUE);  EA strategy tester gives tickValue = 1 , instead of tickvalue in the deposit currecy So this instruction wont work while in strategy tester ? Thnaks

Hello guys! I noticed today that if I put the mouse over the SL or TP of an order it shows the amount of loss or profit that would be made if achieved on a box, is there any function to return that value on MQL4? Image of the box is below: Thanks a lot:)

Simple Ichimoku Scalping. It is some variation of the settings of the Simple Ichimoku System. This Ichimoku template was improved onto Simple Ichimoku Scalping. On this thread you can find this Simple Ichimoku Scalping for Metatrader 4 and Metatrader 5. Installation for Metatrader 5. - download...

OK I have finally achieved what I have been working on for the last month except its backwards. I assume I need to reverse my index direction? The bottom graph is what I'm trying to create. The top is where I have made it so far. As you can see the numbers seem to match pretty good however my lines...

I have 100 index buffers. I only want to draw 8 lines. The rest are there for calculation. How to I only draw 8. I have the ones I want to draw set to the first 8 indexes (0-7) I dont know how to stop the rest from drawing other than opening up the indicator settings window and setting the color to...

Hello everyone, I'm not making any progress with this code atm. If I attempt to modify the code "Forum_Test" = "Indenifier not declared ". My question. CForum_Test can see variables, but Forum_Test.Run() will fail. I'm still trying to understand classes....

Hi all, I have this extern variable in my EA that is called "index". Before the EA runs in the main window, I would need the user to select one out of three pre-determined values (for example, the three values could be 0,1,2 and the user selects 1). However, to choose one of the values, the user...

I have some problem with the tester in MT4 build 1118 A) after optimization I can test the selected results only once , the second time I get a different results, the third time no result (empty graph windows ) B) after optimization if I try to close MT4 it freeze  C) the tester is twice slow...

Would just like to ask why in the following code: void OnTick(){   double MyPoint;   if(Digits==3 || Digits==5) MyPoint=Point*10; , why the Point*10? It was generated by a certain code generator. Mainly used to multiply the MyPoint to the inputted Take Profit to convert it into pips. Thank you in...

I draw a horizontal line at 1.3000 price level. I would like to have a sample code which send a market order at this price level when price cross that horizontal line. OrderType and LotSize will be specified in description of the line. Thank you very much!