VPS : Virtual Private Server VDS : Virtual Dedicated Server what is the difference between two type of virtual servers? Basicly, VPS CAN BE OVERSOLD which can lead to poor performance if provider is greedy. VDS CAN NOT BE OVERSOLD and you always get the “dedicated” resources you paid for. which...

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

Instead of using the Horisontal Line standard in MT5. I'd love to have a, "object" price label right following BID,  But I don't have any experience at all with this. Thanks guys for the help. I believe this would be a huge improvement in MT5

Seen below, if all goes well, is an excerpt from my EA wherein the first function is called Oppternate, (a variation of Alternate, which is of course BUY/SELL/BUY/SELL) which causes any trades occurring WHILE the first of a series of trades is OPEN to be OPPOSITE the type of the first one of that...

Hi I have a problem with the virtual server with my EA. It just stopped and can not get it to run again . Ho Can I refresh the EA and get it active again Greetings, Johan

Disabling Auto Trading on your platform (computer) , does it stop the EA working on the VPS ?

Seem like my VPS can't trade since Friday. MQL5 London 7 .....

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 there, for some reason my signal isn't public anymore. It isn't under any other category,  I can only see it in 'All Signals'. I can't find it under Signals, when searching for myself. What happened?

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...

I don't see any robots in the market tab of the terminal. The market tab is empty. can you help me. Francois Bertrand

Hello, This site "tsetmc.com" is the Tehran stock market's website. When I use MT5, I connect to this server "MofidSecurities-Server" and it gets data from the Tehran stock market website online. My question is here: How does this server work? I mean do they pay money to "tsetmc.com" to get their...

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 have 4 signals. But 2 signals cant show to public, even cant be copied . I think my all signals have under 20% drawdown. Can anyone explain to me whts wrong?

Is service desk now a luxury only available for old accounts on this site, or am I missing something?

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

I have a trading system that i been using for quite sometimes now and its very profitably reliable. This system is very simple and straight, just some simple calculations. I need a good coder/programmer that would be able to convert it to EA. I will share the strategy, trade rules and the EA rules...

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 closed my platform to test the VPS operation using mytrade receiver. Once I saw trades placed on another platform, I opened the VPSplatform and the trades did not execute until I opened the VPS platform. I havesynced experts, indicators and signal. Will allowing DLL imports stop the VPSfrom...

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...

How to Trade the Gold Silver Ratio ?

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 ?

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...

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

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!

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...

Hi, I am very new on this topic. What I like to do is to write a neural network system, for automated trading on MT5. I know how to write a NN in Matlab or C++, but I don't know is it possible and good idea to learn MQL5 and try to write the NN in this language or not? Is MT5 IDE powerful enough for...

Hi guys, I want to make an EA only trade in certain time ranges? I can't seem to locate any tutorial on timers in the article section.  I'm also confused regarding the time here in MQL5, what time does all our platforms follow? our individual local time, or is there a universal time being used?...

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

hey :) I have an EA that creates signals for possible buy/sell entries by placing an arrow above/under the signal candle. my issue is, that depending on the chart wjere the EA is loaded thr arrows are placed too far away or too closely. please review attached images for examples. In case of a sell...

Hello, I run several EA on the same pair and same TF, and to read which EA opened a trade it's a total mess.. i always get entry starting with this number: 6999030 https://imagebin.ca/v/4PfESwcdYFn9 and i have no idea where it comes from. instead of this number coming from i don't know where i would...

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...

python requirements: easygui, openpyxl import osimport reimport sysfrom pathlib import Pathimport easygui as ezfrom openpyxl import Workbookdef parse_log(file: str):    if not Path(file).match('*.log'):        raise Exception('Error: Not a valid log file')    if 'MQL4' in file:        p = re...

Hi I am trying to follow along with the steps in article https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/830 but I am getting a lot of errors when I try to compile it, maybe someone can help me figure it out? Thanks in advance. Since there are to many characters to write it out here I attached the file.

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...

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

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...

Fibo Levels indicator. Fully forecasting.

Obviously length and offset can me changed, but I was thinking about changing the curve "on-the-go". Is that even possible? Why? When a fast trend reaches its peak, linear regression curve will cut it nicely, but if an opposite trend goes fast too (and right after previous peak), linear curve will...

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

Guys, what is the best indicator showing trend? I tried many and either they are too delayed or too vulnerable to pullbacks. I've have best experience building my own trendiness using - ADX 15x higher timeframe - CCI 15x higher timeframe I'm working with 1m timeframe. A trick which also works great...

Which is a better indicator ?

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?

New article Change Expert Advisor Parameters From the User Panel "On the Fly" is published: When developing complex Expert Advisors, the number of external parameters can be very large. And settings very often need to be changed manually, making the whole process very time-consuming, given a...

FIBONACCI: "FIBONACCI" EA Trades when there is a retracement from "FIBONACCI" levels. Author: Aharon Tzadik

New article Universal Expert Advisor: the Event Model and Trading Strategy Prototype (Part 2) has been published: This article continues the series of publications on a universal Expert Advisor model. This part describes in detail the original event model based on centralized data processing, and...

555 Scalper: 555 Scalper EA trades with two 5 exponential moving averages works on 5 minute frame major forex pairs. Author: Aharon Tzadik

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...

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...

Fishing: The Expert Advisor opens positions after the price passes the specified distance. 1 step up - sells, 1 step down - buys. Author: Vladimir Khlystov

Day Trader Market Profile: The indicator ыimulates the full structure of the market profile system that described by "James Dalton" in his book "Mind Over Markets". Author: Bassam Maamoon

VWAP Lite - Volume Weighted Average Price: VWAP is an intra-day calculation used primarily by algorithms and institutional traders to assess where a stock is trading relative to its volume weighted average for the day. Author: Felipe Almeida

New article Reversal patterns: Testing the Double top/bottom pattern has been published: Traders often look for trend reversal points since the price has the greatest potential for movement at the very beginning of a newly formed trend. Consequently, various reversal patterns are considered in the...

Martini: The EA without indicators with increasing lot size. Author: Vladimir Khlystov

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

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?

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...

Hello Everyone, While I am doing chart analysis I realized that MA, BB and some other indicators does not show on back history bars (even if I downloaded all History data for years , and Activated chart history bars to maximum) it happens when I am using EMA 500 or above, BB 99 or above any...

how can I make an Awesome oscillator Expert Adviser : The conditions of buying & selling plz & thank you

I need a pamm account , is anyone recommend me to there?  I m using this platform with paypal.

I need help programming an Advisor that will make a buy order in the min price of the last candle. Could someone send me the code? Thanks

Hi everyone, I would like to install MT4 on AWS EC2 or on some other VPS and possibly not on PC and I have some questions to ask: 1.Can I install MT4 on the base level with 1CPU and 1GB of RAM? 2.After 1 year how much do I spend with AWS EC2? 3.Are VPS better than value for money? 4.What OS do you...

Hi guys. I use WebRequest function, did add URL to Expert Advisors, and it works. But, sometime MT4 warning me: "Add the address xxxxxxx in the list of allowed URLs on tab Expert Advisors", alothough I added it. (Watch image attached) Anyone know what happened????? Thank you.

How to make an expert advisor / use with the automated trading feature with ex4 file only and without mq4?

Hello I need a help how to lock my EA/Script based on my login account number ? example: my login number in my broker is 12345 , and I want my EA/Script can run only inthat login number. also how to lock the EA/Script that can run in one broker only ? (example: my EA/Script can run only in...

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...

Could anyone please help me understand what these guys mean by this definitionBitwise Operations Complement to One Complement of the variable value up to one. The value of the expression contains 1 in all digits where the variable value contains 0, and 0 in all digits where the variable contains 1....

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.

hi..everyone..how to appear the one click trading button..i already use short cut key Alt + T also cannot..any idea how to solve this problem

hello programers We know how to get the time of first visible bar  ==> Time[0] But how to get   in easy way the chart  right border time (in datetime T)