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

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

Hello everyone,  I was trying to collect the data with MT5 and only the OHLC values  of the candles with the their respective color. I am quite confused, when I see that my data say nothing about the candles as shown in the figure:   As I am collecting the candles data with their respective color...

I have searched solutions for a solid hour now and I can't find anything to fix my issue. Whenever I install MT5 on my mac, I get a pop up asking for proxy service information. I do not use a proxy server. Each time I hit cancel, MT5 tells me, "Something went wrong. Please try again later." I have...

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

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

{1}# What are the 5 Most Important performance metrics you (should) lookfor, in choosing a profitable trading signal? Why is EACH so critical to you?Bless!! More to be in a position to give than to be in a position to have to begiven. Let us share... 1#Monthly Performance > 18% (Most recent 30 days)...

Hello I developed an expert and I want to test it for the past year but I have data of a month back. How can I get the last year's GBPUSD history data of one minute My broker said it had nothing to do with him. And I tried to download from a few sites but it came out inaccurate ? and another...

I found an error in MT5 when I imported bars in my custom symbol: I set the import shift 7 (timezone shift) but the platform doesn't shift the data. Can you help me pls?

I'm not a full-time pro, however I've used MT5 for about 6 years now. Build 1755 seemed to be the best / most stable version yet. I'm still using build 1755 for EA development (using the genetic algo on back-testing), as it seems to be the most stable version for various reasons; 1. 1755...

Any new software inevitably contains bugs that are not alwayspossible to detect even under the most rigorous in-house testing. Wetherefore attach great importance to all user reports about issues inour programs and try to answer each one of them. In order to improve feedback from MetaTrader 5 end...

Well, the asset moves as I’ve predicted. I think that I can earn even more on USD/JPY! Definitely, the show must go on =) 

This mql5 code is giving error as shown. Why and how to fix it? "[" invalid index value Thanks template<typename T>uint arrayUnshift(T &arr[], T val){  uint newSize = ArraySize(arr) + 1;  T newArray[newSize];  //double click on the line in the metaeditor description moves the cursor to the end of...

Hello I developed an expert and I want to test it for the past year but I have data of a month back. How can I get the last year's GBPUSD history data of one minute My broker said it had nothing to do with him. And I tried to download from a few sites but it came out inaccurate ?

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...

trading based on 73.6% logic _______________________________ step 1 : Calculate High, and Low values of EOD step 2 : Calculate  High-low value step 3 : Calculate 73.6 % of High-low value and name as spread. buy entry : _________ Add spread value with Low value, that will be the buy entry stoploss is...

Dear All, As this is my first post on this forum you may think that i am a newbie which i am for sure in comparing with some forex gurus like Igorad, but after spending couple of years in losing money, researching, losing money, researching and finally earning money i don't feel like one . I...

I have searched the internet and forum, as well as the market available product, there are quite a number of such strategy. I also developed my own code. It is not as difficult as other strategy, it is more like a module to place order, rather than a strategy. However when I use it i realize it is...

PRACTICAL USE of the Correlation Theory This article is focused on explaining how currency correlations can be used in a very practical way. Our goal is not to dive into theory or theoretical models but show how correlations can help solve practical trading-related decisions. The Forex Correlation...

What features should be a good expert ?

Hello everybody,is it possible to create an EA based on this indicator?All further information I will write down, sobadl the question was clarified ...

Hi guys, which trading system is the best for you? and Why?

The new HIGH GAIN SYSTEM , professional trading .

Forex Profit System – MT4 Indicators and Template 780 pips profit – last two week results Today we will show you another great trading system, we are test it for two weeks on eur/usd and gbp/usd pairs and archive over 750 pips from eight trades (seven wins, one lose trade). You can download forex...

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...

Ok guys, this is the end of my forex path...... It took me 5 years to make this(coding lasted for few days), but the method itself was developed for years. Bassicaly I took all of my knowledge, mixed it, coded it, optimize it........and done that for last 3 years. This ea is something with 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...

Which strategy is best to close profitable positions ?

Useful chart set-up for those who trade intraday. I use it to assess targets and set stops whilst trading the daily pivot range for my intraday trades.  I don't use it for entries, but i'm sure it can be used as such... Built around ADR 14 Static (from open) and Dynamic (current high/low of day),...

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...

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

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 all, I am  developing multi currency EA and trying to implement trailing stop functionality in EA.  I need to check pip difference between current price and position opening price  and if the difference is more then N number of pips then change stop loss to specific price. For this purpose i was...

Hi all, I am using MACD indicator in MQL5. The problem I am facing is MACD is giving different values in code then front-end. But the value I received in code is as follows:  -0.02428525001140258 please help. Thanks

How to get info from times and sales? I know that has MarketBookGet() for the market depth, but not for times and sales.

Hi, I would like to just get the value of a custom indicator in an Expert Advisor, here is my code : double   IndicatorBuffer[]; int      HandleIndicator = 0;int OnInit(){   HandleIndicator = iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_CURRENT,"MAindicator","EURUSD",PERIOD_CURRENT);      Print("iCustom HANDLE...

Please, how I can check if market is open or closed in MT5, I cant find answer. something similar to MT4 - MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_TRADEALLOWED) this command doesn't exist in MT5 anymore. Thank you

Tjahjadi Budiali2018.08.11 08:40 Dear Anyone, Can someone help to convert this mql4 to mql5 for open trade and close trade ? This is the mql4 for open trade that I want to use in mql5 but please using OrderSendAsync() :              string koment = komentar + DoubleToStr(MarketInfo(Pair1, MODE_ASK)...

Hi All, I have recently purchased an indicator online, and it has no input parameters. Trade signals are up & down arrows, buy on up and sell on down arrows. I used icustom to call this indicator to get up & down arrow. On testing I found only sell trade works fine although up arrow appears on chart...

Hey Gentleman , would it be possible to code an ea which does the following : 1)drawing a box for a certain time period ..for example  7.00-8.00 am  or 3.00-5.00 pm (start and end time of the box should be adjustable ) 2)after the box is drawn the ea should place 2 pending orders .. No.1 = Buy Stop...

Dear All, ACCOUNT BALANCE:10000. 00 USD Tried to place an oder through EA. CTrade::OrderSend: instant buy 10.00 EURUSD at 1.27443 tp: 1.28443 [not enough money] Got an error:not enough money why? please advise.

How to get the pointer of an object by name?I created a local object in a function using the new operator and added it to a CObject array declared in global scope. Now in another function I want to get the pointer of that object by the object name.Is there a function that will do this or will I have...

hi. I reinstalled meta trader 5 and during test my expert, this error accures. how can i fix it?

Moved indicator window up by moving indicator code to the top in template.tpl file BUT cannot drag trade levels anymore. How

Hi All When I do backtesting, OrderSend sometimes failed to open trade, but I got no error (e.g. error 0) when I use GetLastError() to check. Why is this the case? what could possibly wrong in here and fail to open trade? Many thanks

I have an EA that I already use both on demo and production accounts. The EA works as expected on those accounts. However, I´m having issues with strategy tester. On ST the trade results are not accounted. All the trades appear in the history tag with the correct entries and outs, but the financial...

If the EA is in-active for about a week , does it automatically becomes dis-abled ? Under which situations does the EA disables it's self? *NB: The EA is on a VPS platform.

Hi, I have a RSI Bases Indicator, and every new candle make it less accurate, like on picture (Custom/Default RSI) The Indicator Window is moving the lines to the left, so much. What is happening? Thanks

Hello I'm pretty new here, so I was wondering is there a indicator that can show you the sell and buy properties of your current orders in a currency pair? Lets say I have 10 sell orders of 0.10 and same amount of buy -  so it should say the sum of them 1.00 buy and 1.00 sell Thanks in advance

Hi, Is there any indicator that shows ticks like John F. Carter uses for trend changes? Been looking for a while and couldn't get anything clear yet. Thanks for help!

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...

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, I have been looking for an MT5 indicator which would give an alert when price crosses upper or lower bollinger band. The alerts i prefer are an arrow/dot on the chart, pop up and an push notification. Something like this famous MT4 indicator BolliToucher would be ideal.  <advertising...

Hi, thanks for being present in here. I ordered an Indicator based on RSI that load everything like it should, but when a new candle opens the new RSI value go to 0. Sometimes it back to normal, some times don't. What should i look on code to fix that? I asked developer to fix, but he sent me a...

Of adaptive lookbackThe Adaptive Lookback (period finder) is truly a market-driven indicator used to determine the variable lookback period for many different indicators, instead of a traditional, fixed figure. It is based on the frequency of market swings - the time between swing highs or swing...

Hi I am looking for an indicator in mql5 that plots colored rectangles for the 4 main forex sessions. Something like https://www.mql5.com/en/code/10513 (4 sessions by Andrew) but for mt5 instead of mt4, hopefully well written in OOP. Any suggestions? Thanks

Where can I find a signal like this BUY or SELL. that has Entry StopLoss an Take Profiit. Price action is High and Low Test Bar...@ 1/3 of the body of candle sticks, regardless of color. See attached Picture. Anyone who can developed like this...Share your expertise guys...Thank you.

Hello Everyone! I don't have the US Dollar Index (USDX / DXY) as a part of my platform but I use it a lot in my trading. Usually I use the chart off of TradingView but this can be troublesome. I can switch brokers to a broker that offers it as a part of their MT4 platform, or I can download a...

Hi I'am looking for an adapt ZigZag showing the cumulative volume for each ZigZag Do you have any ideas to build up a Zigzag with cymulative volume?

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...

Hi there, I have created this simple alert function : double Alert_Higher_Level =  ObjectGet( "Alert_Lines_Higher", OBJPROP_PRICE1);                  if (Bid > Alert_Higher_Level &&...

Hi all, I want to import a variable x[i] from indicator1.mq4 file and use it in indicator2.mq4file. Is it possible to do this?

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...

New article Interview with Irina Korobeinikova (irishka.rf) is published: Having a female member on the MQL5.community is rare. This interview was inspired by a one of a kind case. Irina Korobeinikova (irishka.rf) is a fifteen-year-old programmer from Izhevsk. She is currently the only girl who...

Close Master: EA that can delete pending orders, close open orders and close terminal at certain time. Author: Il Anokhin

Spread: Trader's simple assistant. The MQL5 Spread indicator shows the current spread of the currency pair on a chart. The last parameter of the MQL5 Spread indicator normalizes spread to the common decimal view for brokers with nonstandard quotes (parameter set to true). Author: Igor...

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

VR Engulfing Pattern: A simple indicator, which informs the trader about the appearance of "Bullish Engulfing" or "Bearish Engulfing" candlestick patterns on all timeframes. Author: Vladimir Pastushak

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...

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

Fractured Fractals: The Expert Advisor uses the Fractals indicator signals to place pending orders and trail the Stop Loss level of positions. Author: Vladimir Karputov

super-signals: The semaphore arrow indicator of trend change Fig.1 The super-signals indicator Author: Nikolay Kositsin

Patterns_EA: The Expert Advisor is based on 30 popular candlestick patterns. Author: Scriptor

Alexav SpeedUp M1: Simultaneous opening of two opposite positions. Trailing Stop. Author: Vladimir Karputov

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....

Volty channel stops: Volty channel stops t is based on ATR and money risk and it makes it an interesting indicator, since the usage of money risk in indicators is not that usual. This version of the indicator has some additions compared to the original (like choice of smoothing methods, that can be...

Volty channel stops on JMA: Volty channel stops on JMA It is based on ATR and money risk and it makes it an interesting indicator, since the usage of money risk in indicators is not that usual. This version of the indicator has some additions compared to the original (like using the well known JMA...

Hi how to get the log data (journal tab) by mql code? Please help. Regard.

Hello again, I need to stop calculating a function because of CPU. I created a BUTTON. TRUE state => I call + dysplay my_function. FALSE state => I hide the dysplayed grapical objects and indications. (but the function is still there and take CPU ressources). How can I stop / kill the function's...

How I can implement a validation of EA based on a date, if it is greater than that date show a message "the EA has expired..."?

Hi, how do I make this EA able to make several trades but only on different symbols? I hope you understand how I mean? Thanks in advance. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                rsi-automated.mq4...

Hola a todos Disculpen la molestia Quisiera saber si me pueden ayudar a obtener los datos de el indicador personalizado que adjunto, para agregar un filtro a mi EA. Me ha servido mucho ya que identifica las tendencias de otras temporalidades basado en una MA con período común, y lo que quiero es...

Hello, I think it's too complicated for me to use properly MQLInfoInteger() - ot always return 0 for me. For example:  Print("MQLInfoInteger(MQL_CODEPAGE) on Init: ", MQLInfoInteger(MQL_CODEPAGE)); MQLSetInteger(MQL_CODEPAGE, 850); Print("MQLInfoInteger(MQL_CODEPAGE) after codepage change: ",...

Newbie here,  Can anyone please tell me how to code your own alerts for RSI indicator? Thanks!

Hi, It there a indicator that is exactly the same as setting a alert on MT4 but it has the option that when prices closes above a certain price, or when price closes below a certain price level on a particular timeframe then a alert is sent? I think this is a great option that is missing on MT4. Do...

I know it isn't a new problem but with new ESMA rules (about leverages) it became "interesting" for me. Generally now we have a different leverage for each symbol. But I know only the function AccountLeverage() (or with the same result AccountInfoInteger(ACCOUNT_LEVERAGE) ) that provides something...

hello I have  a problem. If I input a value which is lower than minimum of take-profit, then I would like to show log. I think mininum of stoploss is "MarketInfo(symbol, MODE_STOPLEVEL)", but I have no idea  how can I get the minumum of take profit... could you help me? thank you in advance.

Hello, I am trying to create persistent set of data for an array, as a test, but it doesn't work. This is the code: void OnTick(){  int multi[][3];  if (ArraySize(multi) == 0) {    Print("Array size = 0");    ArrayResize(multi,3);    multi[0][0] = 1;    multi[0][1] = 2;    multi[0][2] =...

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...

Hello I have a question about slippage. I've tested each diffrent slippage values  about OrderSend() and OrderClose() ,but results are still same. (I tested slipage 5 and 100) what is role of slippage???  thank you in advance

Hello I'm begginer. I was searching about that, but I can't find about class (excepted?) indicator, profile, history,array and others. and F1( MQL4 Reference)  is not understanded. I was typing as follows. Ticket t();      // Class namedelete &t; but It is not working ~Ticket()  (=destructor ) How...

I have generated a few demo accounts b/c everytime I set one up, it won't allow me to login. I've taken a picture of the pw generated so I know I am using the same pw.  What am I doing wrong?