Freelance order for MT4 EA based on downloaded indicator. Is there any intellectual property infringement?

How to start with MT5 platform : summary. As our topic about "How to start with Metatrader 5" is going to be huge, here you find a summary, with main links. A very good article to learn how to use this site. How to start with MetaTrader and forex, the beginningFor a general overview of changements...

Hi, I am trying to figure out  what is the purpose of return(0)? In my if statement within the curly bracket, i tested with and without retrun(0) in it and the results is the same.  So, does it mean return(0) doesnt really serve any purpose? Please help.

Hello. I have a problem. At the beginning when I started to use the signal provider the trades copied. Now I see, that there are trades open from signal provider on his profile but there are no on my account. It does not copy now. Any advice? Thanks 

I use the indicator attached to show a H4 moving average in H1 Chart.[by setting the period parameter to H4 in a H1 chart.] But nothing is shown in the chart.  The function call BarsCalculated() returned with error code 4806. What is wrong with my code? How should i tackle this issue? thank you time...

I've set the email sending correctly and the testing is also successful. But in fact when an alert comes, I haven't got any email. In the Journal there is no record as well. What could be the problem? Thansk!

Hi all!! As funny as the topic might sound, its true. I'm looking for a "master Yoda" thats willing to teach me. I'm pretty new to MQL5 and trading, but I'm full dedicated at this (~15 hrs/day). That huge number of hours a day it's because I needed to learn MQL5 and understand what things do, some...

Hello, What "mathematical calculus" to double the bill getting 100pips a day? Example: $ 100 account with 100pips per day * " X " lots = $ 200 $ 200 account with 100pips per day * " X " lots = $ 400 $ 400 account with 100pips per day * " X " lots = $ 800 $ 800 account with 100pips per day * " X "...

hello, ive been studying this method for a while but i dont quite get it what is the requirements for the strategy to work and what are the pairs for that you should use  can someone please list all the pairs ? 

Very simple. Use the standard 8-10 pips renko bars, I prefer 8 pips. If you wanna use bitcoin, set it at 14000 pips(which is about 10 pips). So you wanna go to the four hour chart, and look for 3 bars and one candle reverse. After you see the price action setup, enter on the 2nd bar(in pictures)....

Good day.... My pc crashed and I had to re install all my software and now I cant see the indicators I purchased in my MT4.....

Dollar Index April-June 2017 Forecast: ranging correction W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the primary area of the chart. The price is on secondary correction which was started in the beginning of this year by bouncing from 103.80/102.27 resistance levels to below. For now, the price is...

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...

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

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...

Hi everyone. I wonder if it is possible to save/load template for several charts opened. For instance I have charts EURUSD,GBPPJPY,AUDUSD opened with different indicators attached (MACD,EMAs etc..) however not all indicators applied to all currency pairs. So now would like to save this "view" that...

Hi, I have developed successfully scalping strategiesfor the 60/30/15 minutes EUR/USD charts (1:1 risk/reward scalping strategies).But because of the Spread I cannot find any winning strategies for the 1/5minutes charts. Can anyone give a hint of what to think about for1/5 minutes charts (using...

Hello Traders! I appreciate if you leave me your valuable comments andopinions on this simple strategy which has been designed based on the standardindicators of MetaTrader. It uses only EMA and MACD.   First I consider H4 as my trading timeframe. Keeping this inmind, I look to the higher timeframe...

Hello guys, I am looking for a solution to my EA on how to open a position (BUY or SELL) on the exact moment the fast MA crosses the slow MA. All i have seen is rather on the closing of the last bar or on the opening of the next one. I want the EA to start a position (BUY or SELL) right after the...

Is it possible to disable manual trading (i.e. closing EA opened positions) when the EA is running in order to not interfere with the EA?

Hello everyone,  I'm fairly new to forex trading. I have been learning by reading different analysis on Tradingview from different professional traders and try to make sense of them. However, since I use a different broker the price is always different from the one in Tradingview and in my broker....

I place an order with take profit and stop loss within an EA. Is it possible to be notified of the stop loss execution of a placed order in the EA, without looking at the trade history? If I have to look at history, I must send a PostMessageA(main, WM_COMMAND, MT4_WMCMD_ALL_HISTORY, 0); that...

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 good is the MT5 tick data? Or should I import my TDS (TickDataSuite) MT4 Tick Data instead and use that to test?

Hi all, My EA is running on EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCHF, USDCAD and AUDUSD. My EA's traling stop doesn't work on only AUDUSD. It works well on the other currincies. It also works well about take profit and stoploss on AUDUSD. Have you never been face to face this problem. Best.

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

Hi all, I don't know if FxPro is 5-day New York Close Charts? Anyone can help? Thanks

Hi all, I have publihed my EA's signal on the mql5 four days ago. I read that there is no data under the slippage tabs on my signal. We know that low slippages is more suitable for subscribers. However, what does "No Data" mean? Good or bad? Best, Murat Y.

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...

Hi, I'm willing to put  Sell Limit / Buy Limit with specified date on Exchange. I can do by the terminal manually but PositionOpen does not accept entering time. https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/standardlibrary/tradeclasses/ctrade/ctradepositionopen Only OrderOpen accepts entering time but it'll not be...

When using MT4 Strategy Tester for CFD strategies, I noticed that the historical data for CFDs went back to only 2015, whereas FX historical data went back to 1980. I tried to download more data from History Centre, but I got the notification 'No new data for this pair' Is MT4s CFD historical data...

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...

RecentlyMetaQuotes Software introduced MetaFintech as its new representative office in theUAE.The company now announces its further expansion: Derivative System Technologies will act as its agent in South Africa. Thenew representative office will be responsible for the promotion of theMetaTrader...

Hello,Is their any broker who provide LME product to trade on mt5. Lead,zinc,aluminium, copper,nickel...

Introduction to Bonds (Part I) 1. Principal: This is the face value of the bond; the amount that the first bond buyer initially loaned to the company or government issuing the bond. This is also known as the par value. 2. Coupon Payment: This is the numeric amount of interest payments that are...

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...

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...

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!

Hi all,    In my search for option stragy builders i came across this link HERE but i just cant find in my MT5 platform this option. I cant find in builds news any update disabling this functionality. So... How can i use the Option Strategy Builder in MT5 ?? Thank you guys

The Worst Stocks Of 2016: First Solar It was decreased from 72 to 28 for this 2016!

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

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...

Hi How can I substract a value from the account balance? Simulate a withdraw while backtesting. Thank you

Converting from MT4 to MT% Usually in MT4 I backtest in Visual mode and can drag an indicator from the navigation tree and use it on the visual backtest. This allows lots of on chart event functions. So far I can not replicate this on MT5 Anyone know how to do this in MT5?

Hello, Can anyone help please? My expert advisors are not working. Let's take for example moving average, i attached it to the chart, it says initialized, i even get that smiley face on the top right corner, but it just doesn't show anything on the charts. It's the same with all my EA. There are no...

Hi , I have an issue, I am taking tick volume data and getting percent rates. The problem is that when i take the bullish and bearish tick data(both much above 0) and divide them and after that *100 , i get 0. I printed out everything and i find no logical reason for that. The data is taken with the...

How can I get the ArraySize of some Symbol MqlRates? Tks

tmSignal();   if (buy()&& (Bid>=RUDuentry && Bid<RUDutp1-min_distance*_Point && RUDuentry>0 && RUDutp1>0 && tmTrade==1 /*&& (dotsBuy<atrproju) && (dotsBT1<drangeh)*/))   {         OrderEntry(0,RUDutp1,RUDdentry);      }      if (sell() && (Bid<=RUDdentry && Bid>RUDdtp1+min_distance*_Point &&...

i write code bool CheckEmptyGridBuy(int magic) {  for(int trade = OrdersTotal()-1; trade >= 0; trade--)    {     if(OrderSelect(trade,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)&& OrderSymbol()==Symbol() && OrderType()==OP_BUY && OrderMagicNumber()==magic &&     (Ask-(GridStep*Point)<=OrderOpenPrice()||...

Hello Everyone, Been testing many EA's and some give same results as live accounts and some are totally different. Here are the questions for those long time traders and coders. Could EA here in MQL5 be trusted?If not, how do we avoid this? And why do MQL5 allow this? Do MQL5 screen sellers and...

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...

Hello, Can someone help me with my EA that I am building?  There is one piece that I am unable to understand.  Currently my EA opens the trade as soon as my EMAs cross.  But I only want the trade to open if the EMAs are confirmed at the candle close, along with my other criteria.  I've seen others...

I want to build an advisor that alert when price cross MA line. May abybody help about commands and/or FSB using

Hi! I want to execute/modify orders by reading a txt file which specified the SL, TP and EP. Is it possible to do so?

Hello, I've finally write an ea multipair for MT5 (5 pairs). But when I launch a BT with "Every tick" model I see that the local agent is used only for 0.2%. Obviously the BT is dramatically slow. I've always supposed that MT5 is about a joke, and I would like to know if this behaviour is normal in...

Hello, I've found a bug with Bars function, it worked great until build 1978. Description: Bars function call hangs on a newly created custom symbol or empty data symbol. Bug started from build 1983 and later. How to reproduce: Open a random chart and run the following piece of code (script): void...

Hello. In my EA I use comments to identify my orders. However when I partially close an order, it seems, that it closes the old order and opens new order with the remaining lot size, but the comment is no longer there. Is there a way how to carry on the comment when partially closing an order?

Hi, I am doing an indicator for stock market that starts at 9 AM. So I want get the first price of day and start or restart the calculation at 9 AM. I have tried this into OnCalculate, but it is not working MqlDateTime curDate;TimeCurrent(curDate);      if (curDate.hour < 9)      return 0; I...

Hello I have problem with this code. this indicator draw arrow with stochastic signal if above bellow kijun sen. but why this code not working ?    if(M_kijun_sen_value<Close[i] )  // EDITTED CODE <<<<-------------------  {   UP[i]=Low[i]-distance*MyPoint;   if(CTime!=Time[0])    {...

Dear All, I have an old collection which is giving alert when 2 ma crossover. But I need to add "Shift" option to get signal as per my own set up. So, If someone can help me to add this option, would highly appreciated. Here I am attaching the file, pls see and modify if possible to you. Thanks in...

Thanks in advance for all the recommendations :)

Masters, Inside one Symbol indicator, in OnCalculate(), I need to bring volume information of another Symbol. As I researched, I´ll need to use CopyRates(), but I don´t know the number of values I will need to bring from the another Symbol array. How can I use CopyRates() without knowing this? By...

I have a question about if something is possible on MT4 relating to Renko charts and a Currency Symbol Changer. This might not be possible like how I want it however. Is there a way to use Renko charts, but to use a Currency Symbol Changer so when I select a new FX pair on the Currency Symbol...

I need to study historical values of many indicators from metatrader. Is the a way to save for example in 1 minute interval , similar to format like in History center? Thanks for help.

Some of you might remember this one : originally it was a part of an expensive system. Than it was coded as dots because of the repainting problems in metatrader. Here is a version for metatrader 5 : slightly changed the look of it (Bollinger bands is drawn as the "shadow" in the background) Also...

Hi - I hope someone can help. I want to overlay an oscillator I've coded located in the bottom chart pane onto price - the top panel. The oscillator ranges between -10 and +10 with zero the centre point. When overlayed I'm not expecting it to align to price and will expect the line to 'float' over...

Hi everyone, It's a lot of time that I follow various threads here and you're so interesting! thanks for your indirect help! Anyway, now is the time to ask the comunity for a conspicuous help to build a personalized signal indicator based mainly on the Heikin Ashi and Demarker indicators! Can...

Hi all, Thanks for looking at this thread. I'm looking to develop a custom indicator and it appears to be printing out the correct value initially but it just stops when a new candle appears! I don't know why and this is giving me a real headache!!! Thanks for your help :)...

MetaTrader 5 provides two similar indicators: ADX and ADX Wilder. Apparently the latter is smoother. Which one is more useful? Is ADX Wilder less advanced, since it is the original version?

Hello friends, how are you? I'm a beginner and I'm creating a custom EA that opens and closes orders on the market by changing the color of the indicator line but I ran into "SetIndexBuffer" and "iCustom" to open buy and sell orders ... Has anyone ever gone through this obstacle? Anyone who has a...

What is wrong with this alert? That sound never ends and finally it freezes MT5.         manageAlerts(time[rates_total-1],rates_total);            return(rates_total);           }         //+------------------------------------------------------------------+         void manageAlerts(datetime...

I am looking for an indicator of the ADX that also has a MA in the indicator window. I want to be able to use it to say if ADX is above the MA(14) then it is okay to execute trades. I have been looking around for this but didn't have any luck. I am new here and if someone could help point me in the...

Normalized MACD - of averages: Normalized MACD of averages Author: Mladen Rakic

RSI Summed: RSI Summed Author: Mladen Rakic

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

New article How to Order an Expert Advisor and Obtain the Desired Result is published: How to write correctly the Requirement Specifications? What should and should not be expected from a programmer when ordering an Expert Advisor or an indicator? How to keep a dialog, what moments to pay special...

New article General information on Trading Signals for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 is published: MetaTrader 4 / MetaTrader 5 Trading Signals is a service allowing traders to copy trading operations of a Signals Provider. Our goal was to develop the new massively used service protecting...

TryME: try me... Author: Antonis Michos

Bollinger bands - squeeze: Bollinger bands - squeeze Author: Mladen Rakic

PSAR trader v2: Trades using parabolic SAR signals Author: Tonny Obare

JSON Serialization and Deserialization (native MQL): Serialization and deserialization of JSON protocol. The code is ported from a high-speed С++ library. Practical example: authorization on a website and parsing the response CJAVal jv;jv["login"]="Login"; // loginjv["password"]="Pass"; //...

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

Trend Line: "Trend Line" EA draws Gann Fan on chart and trades with its trend,has Trailing Stop Loss &Take Profit works with all time frames major forex pairs and stocks NASDAQ. Author: Aharon Tzadik

Channel20: high-low channel Author: 862699

Squeeze - on chart: Squeeze - on chart candles or bars Author: Mladen Rakic

Squeeze: Squeeze indicator Author: Mladen Rakic

I think time has come for this thread...Kindly place your repainters here...and...Voila!...they will become non - repainters, with my Magic touch and my programming skills... P.S.: You can place your decompiled, expired & ex files in here...makes no difference to me...the work will be done...that I...

Hi All, I'm trying to use the functions CopyTicks and CopyTicksRange in my MQL4 code but get the error "function not defined" CopyTicks: https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/series/copyticks CopyTicksRange: https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/series/copyticksrange It seems that these function doesn't available in...

Hi, I have a problem, my broker use commissions, when I use in my EA trail stop it close the trade without profit finaly because it from Open price to close price standpoint its ok  but than the commission is not included and the net trade is loss. how can I tell the EA only if net pips is more than...

Hello, I develop a simple little strategy that consists of opening 6 orders at a time from different pairs, and I want that when two pairs with the same magic number reach a certain profit on money together they close without touching the 4 remaining orders, after closing both first i also want them...

void latetradecloserbuy(){   int buy_trades_number = _get_number_of_trades(OP_BUY);      if(buy_trades_number==StartClosingTrades){   int order=0;   datetime first=0;   for(int i=OrdersTotal()-1;i>=0;i--){   OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS);   if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol() ){    if(first==0 ||...

Guys i need help with the following... I am trying to open a buy order 2 or 3 bars after fast ma crosses slow ma and when the rsi is greater than 50 as well as when both stochastic lines are greater than 50. A sell order for the opposite. The code below is an attempt at a buy order for the 1 minute...

They say that an average trader can work for about twothree years. Then he has enough money to buy Ferrari and spend the rest of the money on psychoanalyst and antidepressants. Well, drive your Ferrari and save the rest of the money by reading our next column. Making money is one of the funniest...

I can mark the minimum and maximum of the month, week and days, how do I mark the specific day that this event happened ? I need to put in a label

Hello all! I am trying to add an image to the chart using ResourceCreate, but for some reason I am getting error 5002: "Wrong file name". ResourceCreate("ChartImage","\\Images\\image.png") I have also tried this code, with the same error: ResourceCreate("ChartImage","\\Files\\image.png") I've also...

Well, here is an indicator that works almost like TTM scalper. The explanation for the "almost" : I did not "iron out" the occasional differences that happen between "my" version and TTM version. There are multiple reasons for that. Some of them : the logic of this one is quite clear and I do not...

I'd need to create a queue structure with the below interface but the size can increase at any time: double bucket[]; Enqueue(double val) // add as last item in the bucket double Dequeue() // remove the first item from the bucket double ReadFirst() // read the value of the first item in the bucket

Hi, I would like to ask if someone has already tried to accurately check if a certain trade is closed by stoploss or takeprofit. I have a function that deals with this but its not that accurate because it checks the orderhistory then checks the comment if it has "tp" or "sl" on it but the problem...

Hi All, My MT4 installation has been working just fine for some time. My "New Chart" drop-down menu showed 6 options: Forex-1 Forex-2 Forex-3 Metals Indices 1 Indices 2 Now "Forex-1" has just disappeared leaving the remaining 5 options.  Does anyone know the MT4 internals well enough to tell me...

Hi all, i made this ea which based on FANN neuro, i had created the network file and trained it with FANN Tool then i tried to create the neuro network by calling function: ann = f2M_create_from_file("Close.net");  and every time i got the same error (FANN_DOUBLE_ERROR) so always the output...