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...

I'm trying to start programming bots again, but MT5 keeps shutting itself down a couple seconds after opening. Not sure what is happening? Tried re-installing it and same problem. Anyone else experience this and/or find a solution?

Hello, I'm backtesting an EA, but I receive completely different results on two different brokers (GMT offset is equal to -7200 for both brokers). One probable reason is that on one broker time stamp of historical data looks erroneous. Look at attachment: 2017.07.08 is Saturday, but historical data...

Hi, The new ESMA regulations coming on 1 Aug for all EU/UK traders meaning we can only trade to a max leverage of 1:30. Are there any non EU/UK brokers we can use to trade at a higher leverage? Thanks Shaun

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...

Hey all ...after updating MT5, kaspersky pops up and say its a malware -> metaeditor64.exe -> Trojan.win32.khalesi.gju Nothing found on google and the link from kp goes to /dev/404 ...............naaaaahh Reinstall software does not help .... does someone had this too ?? Thanks & Regards

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

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.

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...

Hello to everybody, My goal is read PIP(s) from an attached chart; i.e. I would like writing an EA which reads PIP from a graph starting from an initial date (for example Sept. 11, 2011) to an ending date (for example to 12 Dec. 2011). Is there some articles, or somethng else, from which could...

Anyone know of an EA thats simply buys/sells a break of the high/low of the previous bar, like on the daily or weekly charts ?? I am assuming that there must be something out there as simple as that, but I couldnt find any EA's on this forum or on Strategy builders forum with this idea. I did some...

This is where I will post my analysis.

EURUSD, GBPUSD, EURGBP, USDCHF, USDCAD, AUDUSD, USDJPY, EURJPY, GBPJPY, USDMXN, Not currency: XAUUSD (Gold)

Greetings! Would just like to ask why when I backtest using the parameters of optimization, the backtest results are radically different from when I optimized it? Did I miss something? Isn't it that optimization is akin to a backtest en masse? Spread is fixed. Basically all i did is uncheck the...

I have troubles in compiling the following method: #include <Controls\DatePicker.mqh> CDatePicker CFormDialog::createDate(x1,y1) {    CDatePicker date;    int x1 =10;    int x2 =30;    int y1 =20;    int y2 =40; //--- create    if(!date.Create(m_chart_id,m_name+"Date",m_subwin,x1,y1,x2,y2))...

Hey guys, I have question, it can sounds ridicilious but im new here so please don t hate me.  The question is, can i use EA on real account, like can i use EA with real money account. Thank you very much, kind regards :)

I am new to EA's.  Any recommendations for what I should buy for MT4?

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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...

Do this system enough for Trading path ? 

My dream which I would achieve is to develop best FOREX EA in the World. I've created something which earns in every circumstances, instead of crashing in last 2 years.Anyone has idea how to / what to change, fix, improve in the existing EA? What to add/change? Look (those settings are: 1 000 EURO...

I notice ATR is being used to compute the average pip movement for the market, and has been used as a volatility indicator. Anyone knows if there are other indicators that can perform the same function or better? Thanks. Provide links here if you have.

Does anyone has a gold trading system?

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...

Hi everyone, I've been manually trading for a while and I'd like to start trading by Expert Advisor using moving averages cross. The only thing is I'm new with coding (honestly I don't know about it) and it's quite difficult for me to put logic into coding software. I have tried a couple of...

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...

It is simple trading strategies. m217irr mentioned about it here but I did not understand it in that time. This strategy is very good for the beginners and I started my forex with this strategy some years ago. And not me only. I know that Tartan started with this strategy as well and finally we have...

Simple Ichimoku System. Some members remember Ichimoku informational template for Asctrend M5 elite section system thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/174756 and new set of this system from this post. It is so called Ichimoku informational template to check market condition on H4/D1 timeframe...

Question: Would you be willing to trade any system or strategy you want on your $10000 account and turn every trade you take into a win trade (of $200 or $20) or a breakeven trade and have only a small theoretical chance of losing let's say $600 in worst case scenario? Some traders would probably...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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

Hi, While reviewing the trades executed last week I've noticed that (apparently) one of my EAs initiated a trade on the Live account (at hours 3.00 on 12.07.18)  but it didn't also re-initiated it on the Strategy tester (that I ran today 15.07.18). It seems that one of the criteria was met on the...

Hi I need help with coding in EA to 'print margin utilized for symbol'  If I have EAs running on 3 different currency charts, the EA on each of those charts should only print the margin utilized by that chart symbol.  Taking on new orders for that symbol would have EA on its chart to recalculate and...

I have 2 equations written in my code (actually more but just to keep it simple), both should have exactly the same result. When I tested it though it turned out not to be true because when I did : if(value1==value2){ ....... } The code was not executed. So I decided to Print these two values and...

What is the best Expert Martingale?

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...

Hi, I've been working on a EA for some months and got some very interesting results without optimization. Below is a graph using fixed 0.01 lots from 2012 to 2017 on EURUSD: The problem is that in 2012 there was a situation where my account could have easily reached a margin call (I mean, it reached...

Hi there guys, I'm new to all this and I've been doing okay recently but I always been thinking of something exists (if it doesn't then I'd be willing to pay for it to make it a thing at some point) but basically I want an EA that has a range for profit so imagine if I want whatever currency to hit...

With two trials to get the profit of the last closed position (Hedging account), I am not arriving anywhere. The first trial is personal, and it goes like this: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| Ask: MQL4...

When I cancel the Server during the month,  can I restart it within the same month without paying again for the same month ?  How do I know when there is no left-over EA in the VPS when I clear all EAs ?

Hello, I'm trying to automatically take screenshots of charts that have Indicators on them but sometimes the indicator windows are empty. I'm guessing it is because the Expert Advisor tries to capture the image the same moment the Indicator is redrawn. For example the two screenshots below were...

How to calculate the time of the last two TICK (ms) and the price?

Hi, I've stumbled upon <link removed> and <link removed>. 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 <link removed> for its simplicity. However, I had to...

I need to run about 5 terminals on one vps Could anyone recommend a VPS for that?

It has happened more than once that I open my virtual machine (google cloud) and Metatrader is closed. I'm pretty sure that I've left both Metatrader and the bots ON. What I'm doing is opening the Metatrader and turn on the robots again (when possible before the market opens). Do you know what the...

Hi all, I'm trying to backtest my algorithm which trades on Gold futures connected to COMEX. I am using the every tick based on real ticks option but I seem to be getting innacurate results which are simply too good to be true. I know this for a fact because it says my system wouldn't have lost a...

I'm planning to ask a Job for an EA based on RSI Divergence, but the procedure of the ea requires the Indicator that analyses Divergence in RSI. Does anyone have and RSI Divergence Indicator for mt5 that i could use as base? Thanks

Dear all Attached is an indicator called HMA Hull moving average i would like to add arrows or alert once the color is changed from buy to sell or vise versa I would like to get an arrows which should be listed in colors windows not in the input one any help and thanks in advanced Mohd  

Hello developers, I have MTF CCI indicato. I need one modification. I want to add color fill option between the levels. i.e. I want to fill blue color between +100 to -100. Can someone help me in this regard? Thanks.

Hi there, does anyone know how I would add a specific start time and end time to this indicator so that it doesn't cover the whole day? //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                    ColorBars.mq5 |//|...

hi i want to make adjust to object when state is active, but the case happend then didn't adjusted  int x = IndicatorCounted();   if (x < 0) return (-1);        for (int L =1; L<Bars; L++) {   //for (int L = Bars-1; L>= 1; L--) {  // int U= L> MaxHistoryBars;     if (...

Hi I was asking if it's possible to use EA's and custom indicators on my android phone and how?

Hi all, I'm looking for RSI that auto draw trend line to its peaks, min 2. and gives alert when the trend line broke

======================================================================================== formula this indicator input symbol1 = currency 1 input symbol2 = currency 2 SpX2 = Absolute(Close from currency 1 - Close from currency 2)*100,000 and have zero line now Plot "SpX2" to chart same  macd and RSI...

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 all, I have an idea :  - hide/show (not delete) objects on the graph (channels, rectangles, lines...etc)  with a same prefix (My_Prefix_Object1, My_Prefix_Object2, My_Prefix_Object3...etc). My question : Is it possible to do it ? Maybe with "ObjectFind" (?) And how hide/show ? .......

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 Mentors, Would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me to add alert to my indicator //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------input string __________1__________="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";input string __________2__________="=ARROW CODE=";//ARROW...

Hi, I got a csv file with a list of data: Datetime, and values. These are the values of an indicator at certain moments, calculated in excel/mathlab. How can I import these data to appear on my screen (either oin the main window or separate one) ? Thnx in advance for you help ! Twoci

Hi As requested a Force Index Candles plus i have added in a Force Index MTF, The MTF is designed to work on Higher or equal timeframes to the timeframe currently selected, If the timeframe is set to 0 then it works the same as a NON MTF indicator. force_index_candles.ex4 force_index_mtf.ex4

Hello all,I am trying to put the "CHART_AUTOSCROL" parameter false...when i use the wheel of the mouse.I succed with a simple click             if (id==CHARTEVENT_CLICK)            // if (id==CHART_MOUSE_SCROLL)                  {                        bool...

New article Trade Operations in MQL5 - It's Easy is published: Almost all traders come to market to make money but some traders also enjoy the process itself. However, it is not only manual trading that can provide you with an exciting experience. Automated trading systems development can also be...

LotScalp: EA scalper 1430% = 2011!!! Author: clickpaypal

Expert Advisor 3 Level ZZ Semafor: This Expert Advisor is based on 3_Level_ZZ_Semafor indicators. Author: ultimatefx

JSON Parser: This is a Class for the new MQL4 that parses JSON. It requires the Hash.mqh class. Author: ydrol

Limit orders Pro: This script provides quick work with a large number of pending orders in the market and contains functions for placing, changing, and deleting of orders within the your price range. Author: Yurij Izyumov

Break-Even Master: The Expert Advisor that moves the stop loss to breakeven after reaching certain profit. Author: Il Anokhin

New article Graphical Interfaces V: The List View Element (Chapter 2) has been published: In the previous chapter, we wrote classes for creating vertical and horizontal scrollbars. In this chapter, we will implement them. We will write a class for creating the list view element, a compound part of...

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

Large Time Frame: Indicator LargeTimeFrame. It draws the candlesticks of a larger timeframe on the chart. Author: John Smith

New article Working with sockets in MQL, or How to become a signal provider has been published: Sockets… What in our IT world could possibly exist without them? Dating back to 1982, and hardly changed up to the present time, they smoothly work for us every second. This is the foundation of network,...

Renko 2.0: A complete Renko chart indicator with wicks for MetaTrader 5. Inspired by Renko for MQL5 by Serhii Ivanenko https://www.mql5.com/en/code/1299 and Renko Live Charts v4.13 for MQL4 by Tim Welch https://www.mql5.com/pt/code/11739 Configure using Tick Size, Pip Size or Points. Author:...

Tma Slope: TMA Slope indicator (non-repainting version). Author: Alexandre Julien-Pelletier

DEMA_Range_Channel: A channel formed by two Double Exponential Moving Averages based on averaged High and Low timeseries. Author: Nikolay Kositsin

Exp_BrainTrend2_AbsolutelyNoLagLwma_MMRec: Two independent trading systems using indicators BrainTrend2 and AbsolutelyNoLagLWMA within one EA, with an option of changing the size of the future trade depending on the results of the previous ones for this trading system. Author: Nikolay Kositsin

given the following two arrays: string symbols[]=      {       "USDCHF","GBPUSD","USDJPY","EURUSD","AUDUSD","USDCAD","EURCHF","EURGBP",       "EURJPY","EURCAD","EURAUD","GBPCHF","GBPJPY","CHFJPY","NZDUSD","NZDJPY",       "CADCHF","EURNZD","AUDJPY","AUDCHF","AUDCAD","AUDNZD","CADJPY","USDSGD",...

Hi everyone. I am trying to program a new trading system (very simple one) which consists of 1 MMA crossover with 2 type of exits. One stop loss based on volatility and another one which is a kind of trailing stop based on the breakout. I.e. if I have a long position, it will be closed when the...

hi ..am traying to find the highest high among number of candles using the function  iHighest and iHigh first i used a loope for(int i=shif2;i<=(shif);i++) and want to find the Highest High within  or between  shif and shif2  using the code  double Highesthigh  = iHigh(NULL,0,iHighest(NULL, 0...

hi why the mt4 dosn't remember my last use all ways have to setup the tools and all the other helpers

Hello, Does anyone know where I can find an indicator that takes in price values, which when reached or surpassed will cause the indicator to send a sound alert?

Hey, Is it possible to edit the iFractals function. It returns previous values based only on 5 candle tops and bottoms. 2 lower candles either side of high. Can it be edited to return a previous fractal value of this with 3,4 or 5 candles either side of the fractal ? My suspicion is as it is a built...

Hi  I wrote a function for set SL equal to OrderOpenPrice.  It is working but in strategy tester  Journal I see many errors befor and even after this action . would you please tell me whats wrong? void RiskFree()  {   bool result;   for(int i=OrdersTotal()-1;i>=0;i--)     {      if(OrderSelect(i...

Hi This code needs to open/create a file to write in, so that the content of the file will ONLY have what is being written by this code. GetLastError() is reporting 5011. Could some one please show why and how to fix it? The docs says File must be opened with FILE_BIN flag, but I want to write text...

Hi guys, i had problems with one of my EAs, after normalizing prices i still got outputs like this: I dont know why this is there, considering all prices are normalized.Ill send my code, if someone could help! Thanks       double stoplevel=MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_STOPLEVEL)*point;      double...

Hello, I am trying to write a grid trading EA which opens 4 or 5 trades at one time and I am planning to set profit target in Pips. So  I have written a snippet of code to calculate the profit of all the open trades in Pips (regardless of the lot size). Which means if one position is 10 pips in...

Hello everyone, I would like to know how I can to send another pending order after the previous order becomes a real order. Look the example extern double Distance = 20; OrderSend(Symbol(), OP_BUYLIMIT, Lot, Ask-Distance*Point, 1, 0, 0, "comment", Magic, 0, CLR_NONE);   When opening a BUY order,...

Hello everyone. I would like to draw a sine wave with specific frequency and amplitude on the graph. I have created an indicator but it has three problems.1) When changing timeframe the frequency changes.2) The wave never exceeds the last candle.Instead of creating an indicator, perhaps it would be...

Hi guys, I recently tried my EA on a new MT4 platform of a new broker (FXCM) and aparently their system doesnt accept the OrdeCloseBy function. It returns "error 3" I tried all possible settings to avoid the problem without success. My EA works fine on more than 10 other MT4 different brokers and...

Hey guys, I'm making this idea around old XMT Scalper system, as the developer has been inactive since early 2017 I'd like to continue from the base they left. I saw ASSAR EA based on the exact same code, they claim that it has some variations but I'm not sure about that. They've based Assar from...

Its from their liquidity provider from back then? MT4 backtester proceeds to "model tick data" since before there were ticks on the broker? I just want to gather raw tick data from my broker from as far back in time as possible. 1m frame only goes for six months, so I decided since I only need the...