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.

If technology duplicates every two years, does it also mean that forex market trading robots will become better, making the marker ever harder to profit? If the answer is yes then in 10 years, forex market will become 32x harder to profit, is that correct?

Yes, I sell trading applications and signals and I am ready to share my margin with affiliates Yes, I am a community member and I would like to recommend my favorite applications and signals for a fee No, I will not participate in the affiliate program, though I sell trading applications and signals...

I personally know a lot of traders that can create their own EA's very well, but somehow they still choose to trade manually, why this phenomenon happens? There are big disavantages, for example 1 person cannot monitor multiple markets at the same time, or work around the clock

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 have been waiting for over a month now. I submitted a photo of my documents and they responded over a week later saying to take a picture of the document in my hand and also a photo of the request to take a picture open on my computer with me next to the photo. I have done all of this and it has...

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 =) 

If it's like a wave, so if you develop 2 indicators to detect: a- the return point b- the equilibrium is above or bellow the price then you can basically predict the marker. If it behaves like waves so it's predictable, because after the return point the price will move directly to equilibrium, so...

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

Hello Guys... I am looking for an EA which perform ALL the below functions 1) Enter buy @ the open of the Candle when the previous bar of the Candle is Bull or Vice Versa 2) Set a stop loss & take profit of 20 3) Trades only with the specified time period. Regards, Sanjay    

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...

Between 30 and 70 Percent average Or 20/80?

Hi, If a signal provider trades with a balance of... lets say 10k USD. WIll my trades be copied exactly if I have 10k BRL for example?  Just to note, 1USD = almost 4BRL. I'm asking because I just found a broker that trades with BRL and that would be great for me (wont be exposed to exchange rates)....

Hi All, I subscribed to a signal and we have the same amount and currency. My trades have always a smaller lot size (i.e he has a 0.44 lot size and I have 0.41). The weird part is my size lots are getting smaller despite the overall amount increasing. What I need to do to get the same lot size?...

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...

I was affraid to open this thread. Why? because it is difficult to manage many threads on one forum. Anyway - I will try :) So, we are talking about SIGNAL SYSTEMS

Hello, I created a forex plan of trading, it's based on hedging, low groth of money, but safe, but needs to be tested by you to see how it will do, let's get started open both of the pictures ( sorry if it looks crappy) and take a look at them it's rules of opening trades, assuming we are on BUY...

The system was posted by bradman when he needed this system coded. The system is simple. Long when HMA trend is up, and short when HMA trend is down. Attached is the EA, automated script for metatrader 4, and indicator of this system. You must install both of them. This expert advisor features: You...

Greetings, I, like many others, have been searching for the perfect trading system, and I believe I have found it. I'm writing to ask you to examine this system and provide any constructive feedback that you might have. When I say "perfect" trading system, I do not mean to imply that it has no...

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...

I connect with a signal and it has neither Stop Loss nor Take Profit. Am I expected to close it or allow it run continuously? Please help

What is the filter? In signal processing, the function of a filter is to remove unwanted parts of the signal, such as random noise, or to extract useful parts of the signal, such as the components lying within a certain frequency range. Ok. Why digital? A digital filter uses a digital processor to...

I want to say that my nick 'newdigital' is not connected with digital filters. But I started this thread to discuss and explain about trading strategies based on the digital filters only. And to understand how to implement those filters. All about digital filters you may find https://www.mql5...

This is Ilan-TrioKS v1.45 - /English Version/ - The new SUPER Expert Advisor. Working with all pairs. TimeFrame - M15. Please test it.

Thanks to Hendrick Stam for sharing this winning system and expert advisor. This EA (Phoenix 4 Contest) is currently 2nd place at ATC 2006 hosted by MetaQuotes. Phoenix_4_CONTEST.mq4: running live at ACT 2006. phoenix_ea_v5_6_03.mq4: the latest version. Hendrick: It’s time to start a new thread...

hello master trader. Recently I learned trading strategy using trend line but I have difficult to identify trend. and that I want to ask. how to identify trend changes using trend line. as shown below the picture above is an example of a scenario for a trend change. of the two images above which are...

Please find some indicators which are forecasting something. First is i-DRProjections_v.0.1. This indicator shows the support and resistance of current day forecasting on the base of previous day. All the calculation is based on Thomas R. DeMark book "New Science of Technical Analysis".

Locked-in Range Analysis (abbr. LRA) is the futures market analysis method, described in the ebook "Locked-in Range Analysis: Why most traders must lose money in the futures market (Forex)" by Tom Leksey, which minimizes an uncertainty in the futures market. LRA is the method of interpreting the...

This Ea is one I have backtested and achieved 90% modeling quality on four and five digit brokers and have found good results.I enclose Ea and backtest report.

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...

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...

Keen observers of price behaviour have no doubt discovered that from time to time, gaps appear in the normal price sequencing. These can usually be seen clearest on a technical chart. Gaps are areas on a chart where the price of a financial instrument has moved either up or down with no...

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.

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...

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...

Hello, I currently read about companies developing CQG and Interactive Brokers bridges for MT5. And this is great news, something that I have actually been waiting for a long time. But besides the announcement I still found no broker  offering access to the CME and COMEX via MT5? Does...

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...

Hi there, Does anyone know how to get the Sugar charts to load? They've been added more than one week ago and all it says is "WAITING TO UPDATE". Still very new at this - Go easy on me :)

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 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...

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...

I want to prepare an EA that will send limit orders as market orders whan price is rached. Example.In Eur/USD price is 1.16593 and is going down and the EA want to buy at 1.16574. When price reaches that price, the EA sends a market order. The problem is to avoid ANY negative slippage even if there...

What is the cause, how to remove this ? JS      2       00:07:19.699    Core 1  2017.06.01 00:02:00   failed instant buy 2.20 EURUSD at 1.12470 [Trade disabled]QM      0       00:07:19.699    Core 1  2017.06.01 00:02:00   #error: strategy24.mq5::place_order. code=4756 bar=528466 price=1.12470000...

after clicking download on the expert that I want, MT5 opens up, but nothing happens. mql5.com is added under the experts tab in the options menu... What now?

Hello,  I have an EA written in mql5, everything works properly in both live trading and strategy tester. However some times when trying to update local buffers of the indicators the ea is dependent on, it turns an error 4116. This is totally strange to me as all the indicators were attached to the...

Hi, ------------------------------------------------------- Question 1: somewhere inside position-managing parts of my EA, i need to close an open position. Since I have the ticket of that position, I can easily close it using standard class function Ctrade bool RES =  PositionClose(ticket,...

https://github.com/Roffild/RoffildLibrary Please do not delete or move this topic.

Here is the indicator which is returning the time remaining for the new bar: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                              CandleTimeStationary|//|                                                                  |//|...

Dear Any Programmers, I need help fixing this code At the moment only the Add Missing Stop Loss is working. I need to Add Missing Take Profit to be working aswell. Below is the specific part of the file I need looking at. Thank you void InsertStopLoss(int ticket){   //Inserts a stop los into a trade...

Hi, I try to use a CandleTrail function on a simple MAcross system and it works but I have many [Invalid stops] errors and I don't know why. Can someone help me fix this problem? 

Hi all, I'm using the CTrade class to place a pending order and retrieve the executed price when the order gets executed, however I keep getting a value of 0. This is the MqlTradeResult I get : MqlTradeResult{  retcode:10009 deal:0 order:2 volume:1.47 price:0.0 bid:11766.129999999999199645 ask:11767...

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

Hi, I am trying to learn about Expert Advisory strategy tester. Just as a test I would like to calculate if I opened a position above the 200MA and then closed it when it closed below again or at say 50 pips and again for the opposite. Can anyone assist me in getting this to work on EA Strategy...

Hello Everyone, I'm developing my first EA. I got to write one, and it works perfectly well on the strategy tester.  My EA does the following: I specify a pair of currencies, say currency1 and currency2. When it starts, the EA buys immediately the currency1. Afterwards, it checks the conditions A &...

I have tested a number of EAs on the Marketplace which show strong backtesting ability but fail in forward testing, these were run on tick charts. Of course the sellers present their backtesting results which look spectacular. Can anyone explain what is going on here? Is this a case of deception by...

Hi there. to assist my automated trading via EA-s in MT5 I would need a database in which/from which I could read/write data using mql code. I've seen some posts explaining how to connect MT5 with MySql, have tried that, but it's a bit difficult, while writes to DB are straight forward, reads from...

Good day Everyone, I have a custom made indicator that draws Red/Blue arrow when CCI cross the ZERO LINE. What I want is that the arrow are drawn far away so that i can see the High/Low of the candlestick. I want it to look like the Yellow/Green arrows. How will I do? I know it involves programming...

Hello MLaden or anyone that can help, Could you please give me the link to the latest version of MLaden's Currency Strength MTF Indicator.  I downloaded a version from the Elite Indicators thread but it is not working on the current MT4 build. Many thanks to all who contribute to this wonderful...

Hi all,   anyone knows any good indicator which can detect situation like below where price is flat but volume building up  or having high values? Regards

RSI indicator We are continuing discussion about the indicators. We have the following thread: Parabolic SAR indicator Momentum indicator Stochastic Oscillator Divergence Indicator Now we are talking about RSI. "Technical Analysis from A to Z": OverviewThe Relative Strength Index ("RSI") is a...

Can someone help with that? I made an indicator that work well, but sometime when change the symbol or time frame in the chart get this error. Here is the part of code than have problem. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| Custom indicator iteration...

Hi, I am trying to link buttons states according each other. When I press (true) a button, all the others are unpressed (false). bool TLR_Button_1_State       =ObjectGetInteger(0,"TLR_Button_1"       ,OBJPROP_STATE);   bool TLR_Button_2_State      =ObjectGetInteger(0,"TLR_Button_2"...

Hi, I'm trying to convert this custom indicator that I originally coded in MQL4 into a new MQL5 custom indicator. However, the IndicatorCounted() function that I previously used doesn't exist in MQL5... I read multiple posts regarding this subject but none of them seemed to be able to replace this...

What is the best trend indicator / What is the best trend indicator code?

Hi All What is your favorite indicator, that makes you a constant profit? thanks for sharing

Hello Group, I found this indicator for bar numbering which was written in MT4  https://www.mql5.com/en/code/19248 I tried to convert it to MT5 however am getting lot of compilation errors, can some of you gurus out here please help convert this MT5, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Folks, I am adapting an indicator but i am not able to do the following task. The indicator must be drawn until (rates_total-X) ....what I get is ok but at rates_total-X a vertical line is drown and the folliwing values are 0. How can I draw the line until (rates_total-X) skipping drawing the...

Hi there, I need to find time after a "datetime". Exactly 15 min after a by-hand-pre-defined datetime. The datetime is not a multiple of "15 min". It begins 1 min before the previous hour and it ends 15 min after. here in the image below what i need to do : How can I do this please ? Kind regards.

It seems that David Stendahl can not help him self Where his name appears "attached" to some indicator or TA way, it sure is worth trying it out and studying it. The basis for these were originally published in the Stocks & Commodities July 1996 issue (attached the original article here). Do not be...

Is there a way to detect currency strength of 2 currencies for current chart in multiple timeframes? If yes, how to do that?

Is there an  alternative  symbol  or conversion in MT5 for ' SYMBOL_STOPSIGN '. Thank you.

Bcrypt: Class for working with AES-256 encryption. This class makes use of the MQL5 built-in function CryptEncode() to encrypt/decrypt data. Also, it converts the generated data by CryptEncoded() into a HEX string and vice-versa. Author: Romeu Bertho

New article Mini Market Emulator or Manual Strategy Tester has been published: Mini Market Emulator is an indicator designed for partial emulation of work in the terminal. Presumably, it can be used to test "manual" strategies of market analysis and trading. Here are the main actions that can be...

Schaff trend RSX mtf: Schaff Trend RSX with an option to work in multi timeframe mode. Timeframes supported are all the possible timeframes supported by MetaTrader 5 and it has 3 "special" timeframes: Next higher timeframe: first higher timeframe compared to active chart, Second higher...

I bought a custom indicator and I can't run it. I attached the journay in terms of whats happening with the indicator. please can someone help me out here?

New article MQL5 Cookbook: Writing the History of Deals to a File and Creating Balance Charts for Each Symbol in Excel has been published: When communicating in various forums, I often used examples of my test results displayed as screenshots of Microsoft Excel charts. I have many times been asked...

Hedging_Zone_Recovery_Area: This is my version of Zone Recovery Hedging Strategy Ea with two moving averages. It works on any time frame, you should try it on demo account. Zone Recovery is an advanced hedging system. When the market goes against you by certain number of pips, you open an...

Rainbow Oscillator: Based on Mel Widner's Rainbow Average (that is similar to Guppy MMA), here is an oscillator version. The indicator is mainly intended to show the trend of the market. But, using the levels (that are dynamic - they depend on the market changes), you can use it to assess...

Rocket RSI: As described in the May 2018 edition of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities by John F. Ehlers. This indicators is an enhancement to the traditional RSI for detecting cyclical reverses. This indicator has two settings: RSILength - This needs to be half the dominant cycle...

New article Creating Neural Network EAs Using MQL5 Wizard and Hlaiman EA Generator has been published: The article describes a method of automated creation of neural network EAs using MQL5 Wizard and Hlaiman EA Generator. It shows you how you can easily start working with neural networks, without...

RSISignal: Features Displays 3 RSI lines of different periods and the MA of the first RSI line (smoothed RSI), Displays the MA of the smoothed RSI. The crosses of smoothed RSI and its MA can be used as the signals, Displays histogram for RSI or its Moving Average, Colored level lines, Two color MA...

Martingale Bone Crusher: The EA uses martingale strategy: it enters trades according to the price that is above or below Moving Average. If we lose a trade then the EA will take a new trade in the opposite direction with a multiplied lot size. This Martingale EA can work on all pairs and all...

Rainbow Oscillator - Binary: Based on Mel Widner's Rainbow Average (that is similar to Guppy MMA), here is a binary version of Rainbow Oscillator. It shows only two states: state up. state down. That makes it suitable for cases when a simple access to indicator values is required...

New article Multi-symbol balance graph in MetaTrader 5 has been published: The article provides an example of an MQL application with its graphical interface featuring multi-symbol balance and deposit drawdown graphs based on the last test results. If the EA has already been tested before clicking...

AutoFib TradeZones: Auto updating fib retracer showing zones for range trading/breakouts. Author: Benjamin Joshua Nash

New article How to Access the MySQL Database from MQL5 (MQL4) has been published: The article describes the development of an interface between MQL and the MySQL database. It discusses existing practical solutions and offers a more convenient way to implement a library for working with databases....

Can someone help me to solver this error!

Hello, have someone an idea or codes snippet for me that an ea only open so much trades that i have define in an input value. Now i use this if(OrdersTotal() >= maxOrders) {Print("Maximum Orders");        return;} but it looks like it is not working very well. 

Hello MQL community, I just started to learn the MQL language and I am currently trying to build my first EA. So in my first EA I want to only do a CALL or PUT when the fractal+diamond occurred two candlesticks apart (See image for example)    If the Fractal (the yingyang symbol is green) The Value...

The thread about threads: what's going around the forum everywhere    ============ MT5, mql5, mql5.com suggestions for improvement thread ============ Requests & Ideas The beginning Requests & Ideas, the beginning - the thread &nbsp, Suggestions for Trading System thread  After Requests & Ideas...

Hi, I am trying to learn how to create a simple robot. Basically as an example I want it to buy when the daily price closes above a MA (144 as example) and then close when the closing prices closes Below the MA, but when I test it I don't get any trades and I get the following 2018.05.24 16:24:56...

Does anyone out there have a clue on how to get this to work, inside a CAppDiolog box?  I'm trying to make several dialog boxes, inside a main dashboard box, but I need to get the main Dashboard to scroll up and down.  Does anyone know how this thing works?  When I put my smaller dialog boxes inside...

Hi, I want to get computer name in mql4 in order to make original log file including computer name which MetaTrader runs. I think it is possible using GetComputerName function in kernel32.dll, but I don't know how to implement it in mql4. I found a kernel32 api example and modified it, but it...

Where is the best place to put this code? Now I put in the OnTick() function but if disconnected(internet) calling OnTick() does not occur! Which function mql4 call every 1 second? if(!IsConnected(){     Print("No connection!");}

hello , can any one help ?   i have an indicator in seperate window, i want modify it so it can load on main chart window .

All of a sudden one of my FFCal news indicators is giving this error in build 1080 using the EventSetTimer function. It worked perfectly fine in previous builds, was there something change that I am missing?

Hi! Would like to ask for your opinions and comments on the structure of the following code.  My main concerns are as on the: 1. The code is a template. The specifics of Open & Close conditions are negligible. So are the values of extern variables. My main goal is to create a template where I can...

Hi The following is getting me a "Possible loss of data due to type conversion". // Now retrieve all stylescolor  Color1   =         ObjectGet(Label1, OBJPROP_COLOR); But I can't get it: what could this ObjectGet give other than color data?

Hi guys Iam trying to write an EA that opens trades on USDJPY based on  values Nikkei (JPN225 is the CFD index in mybroker). The EAcollects data on the data of the Nikkei during the day     Nikkei_Open=iOpen("JPN225",PERIOD_D1,0);    Nikkei_Close=iClose("JPN225",PERIOD_D1,0) When I runit on backtest...

It occurs when I call EventSetMillisecondTimer() and once it happens, the whole EA goes down. The only official documentation I found is this: https://docs.mql4.com/eventfunctions/eventsetmillisecondtimer. There's, however, no detailed description of a proper usage of this function nor how to...

Can anyone advise how to make input parameters by iCustom? Please see the attached picture. Is this correct? double indicator = iCustom(NULL,0,"indicator name",0,"Alert name",false,false,false,false,"alert.wav",0,1);