Hi I started with AUD200 thro pepperstone with a leverage of 1:1. When I try to buy 0.01 of AUDUSD, I get "Not enough Money"? What am i doing wrong?  Ta G

Hello, I am facing an issue lately with opening or installing MetaTrader 4 from any broker to my laptop with the latest windows update. any suggestions? when installing message appear <<Sorry, something went wrong: try again later! >> and when trying to open a message pops up saying that the...

in the mail screen you have balance available balance free margin and then margin level it reads 99k % can anyone explain how this works please and what is/means/keep it high :/ thank you if you answer :)

Hey dear members... Could you please tell me wich NEWS of economic calender will have a big impact on the EUR/USD Like yesterday the USD Unemployment Rate (FEB), USD Change in Non-farm Payrolls (FEB)? I need to know wich news will make the eur fall or rise that much ! Thx

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 dear... how to write or make a script  to expert advisor to make instruction like this: When open order buy floating -300pip Stop order or sleep order  ea... thanks

Hello, I downloaded -csv trade datas from a broker and now I want to import them for running my BackTest EA directly from the graph, instead of opening the .csv file as I am forced to do now. It is the same way I have done in MQL4. But I have any idea how to do it. Advanced thanks to everybody will...

I have plotted the same real candles as it is from the chart 0 to indicator sub window. The I drag and dropped the bollinger bands on both the windows. I found a hell lot of difference in the bands scale or placement inside the window. I do not understand how to get it right. Please help me. Here is...

I purchased the indicator for $10 back a couple of months ago.   I have been trying to activate it from demo mode to active (real) mode... This is my first time purchase (indicator), and I am having trouble, Do not understand the process.  or just lacking... Help is required at this time. Can any...

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...

So I've found a very good indicator that follows the trend well. I'm currently using a fixed take profit, which works well enough. But I believe it is closing trades much to early, as the trend sometimes continues two times or 3 times the set take profit. I've tried trailing stop, but I'm unable to...

Do you have interest or hobby outside trading ?, or some jokes and humor for other forumer ? or maybe something else ?, Well, why don't show it here. Life is NOT all about trading or programming, and so is this topic, and you must participate in this topic ;D.

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

Hi programmers, I'm using IndicatorCreate function in order to load my custom indicator in memory with parameters  MqlParam format. All works perfectly, but how could I choose the applied price ? Thank you, Erwann.

Hi all,  A question about slippage if anyone has time:  Context: I understand in the world of retail trading, at times, we are limited by the shear speed at which the market can move during the time it takes to place an order and get it executed through an intermediary broker. Also, I believe levels...

i am a professional trader that have been in the marketplace since 9 years ago . check tens of thousands of EAs , indicators , strategies like price action , ichimuko etc... and can assure you 99% of them not work in long term. because market is unpredictable and full of uncertainty. so no one can...

1-3, 3-5, 5-8, 8-10, As much as my RAM/CPU allows

I have an indicators that I use on the Metatrader 4 platform (MT4). I have attached them in this post. Here is what I am hoping for. Can somebody please take these indicators and convert them over to the metastock format? I have Metastock . I would really appreciate this and thank you in advance for...

i m using customized fib indicator and it is ok but i have one problem with it that its fibo line is very thin  can anyone add option to control fibo lines width? 

Hello everyone! Some years ago I found on another website, a strategy that works good and I added a little something that makes it even better. Here's the original strategy and then my little addon... <strategy> You make 1 trade per day on the EURUSD Your "day" ends at 4:59EST and starts at 5pm EST...

Hi guys, I just start a trading discussion about what the best method to identify trend. We know there are three type of trend: 1. Up Trend 2. Down Trend 3. Sideway. How we identify Trend? Thanks in Advanced.

Hi Is there anyone who has to deal with the carry Trade ? https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/491

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...

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Is it able to build a EA using LSTM RNN model in Metatrader?  I have done some research and found something called FANN, however it seems to work with simple neural network only. 

Hi guys I am trying some experts on Activtrades but They give only 6 months of history.  Can You help me please? only for EUR USD....  minimun 2 years  in .csv frame: 1 min 5min 15min 30min 60min 240min 1 day thanks in advance for helpful

Hi I am new forex trader.tell me your opinions. Thanks. 

Does anyone know what is the name of the EA using in the photo above? It seem like this robot is quite aggressive in entry as you can see there are quite a lot of red arrow and blue arrow in the chart area. I just guessing those arrows are means for buy and sell location, and you can see there are...

I have been trying out different strategies from internet, however, I can't seem to get out of losing cycle. I am already overwhelmed because I lost my money in forex. It was my fault that I lost money. I have tried my best to educate myself (babypips, books, articles) and find the best trading...

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...

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...

A Bullish RSI14 Reversal Signal for Dow Jones Industrial.

If I have a certain balance in my account, when trading with UK100 for example, will having 1:500 leverage reduce my margin requirement for the trade rather than 1:50 leverage? I already know what leverage does but I just want to know if it decrease margin required for a trade. 

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...

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...

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...

Google April-June 2017 Forecast: weekly ranging to be stated or the secondary correction to be continuing; 853 resistance is the key The weekly shares price is on secondary correctional movement within the primary bullish market condition: the price is located above Ichimoku cloud for the correction...

CAC 40 January-March 2017 Forecast: bullish with key resistance at 4924.69 W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price broke 4860.85 resistance level to above on close weekly bar with 4924.69 as a nearest bullish target to re-enter. Thus, the weekly price is...

Download Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h3f859ghwf58v5l/BinaryEasy%20Dolly%2015%20FibBreakOut.rar After watching different youtube videos about different systems It came into my mind to try an build an binary options strategy towards CJA's (TSD) Dolly 15 system. Make an breakout strategy that...

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.

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

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...

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...

is is possible to set the start time for the strategy tester? it's always starting at 00:00 when there is rather little movement. I tried searching google and mt4/mt5 forum but no clue. I adjusted my system time/time-zone but without any effect. thanks in advance

Hi All I am in the process of turning my trading system into an EA on mql4. I have written a candle indicator that the EA will use, the problem is my entry is on subsequent candles, either the next one to signal or the one after. I and looking for suggestions of how to look at 1st & 2nd candles...

I am trying to add an icon to my EA. When I try to compile the code #property icon "C:\Users\Goliath\Desktop\Advisor\Logo\AlphaSeeker.ico" I get the following error. cannot open icon file 'C:\Users\Goliath\Desktop\Advisor\C:\Users\Goliath\Desktop\Advisor\Logo\AlphaSeeker.ico' I am not a...

Hi folks! Newbie comes again... My next task is to build an include file (mqh) to use with expert advisor (generate). It is an expert signal based solely on bid/ask spread (BAS, for convenience), based on ticks. So, if the current BAS is higher than the last three ones, it is a no go. Or it least...

hello all members here I want to create EA with my strategy I completed most steps but I didn't know how to do the most important part which is the function and orders I want to start with either buy or sell with 12 pips tp and sl 12 pips ///if hit take profit then open other same position buy buy...

Hi people! I am still a newbie (35 days) of MQL5, so please be patient. I assembled a simple EA with the Wizard -> Expert Advisor (generate), using intraday time filter (ITF), trailing and fixed trailing volume. However, I want all trades be closed as 16:00, and decided to change the code: void...

who can please create EA for this mt4 strategy for binary option, free of charge?

I have searched everywhere but cannot find the function/code that will allow me to specify a dropdown options list for an Input variable in MQL4. Can anyone help me please?

I'm trying to figure out a way to create a looping alert that won't shut off until I click a button on the MT4. I need it to continuously loop forever until it's disabled. I'm using my MT4 to wake me up during the night when the price hits a certain target, but to do that I need to have my MT4 play...

Hi I there any way to open buy+sell order at the same price level? The issue of pending orders is that time to time 1 order is opened but the other no. If the 2 orders are nor opened at the same price level the use of "ordercloseby" will result in a small loss. Thanks

I have a strange/incorrect value or the Moving Average 21 which I do not understand: my MA settings(both in side the EA and the indicator on the chart) are: method: MODE_EMA price: PRICE_CLOSE shift: 0 period: 21 please see attached screen shot. on the left, inside the gray rectangle(retrieved via...

Hello  i hope any one help me in this problem  i have expert EX4 i want to decompiler it and get the code mql4  if there any protection tool  to used it with ex4 to add licence code and account number or expairy date 

CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THE CODE TO CANCEL PENDING ORDERS ONCE THERE ARE NO TRADES IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OPEN?

Cliff notes: TLDR, how do you automatically switch off a griding EA stopping it from even starting a grid when the account is being smashed for margin by another EA, one MT4 terminal on one account.    Hello, Would  any appreciate any help, or any inputs. Pretty standard Forex situation.  You have...

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to create and show N lines where N as an Input of the user. It looks I must declare at the beginning the  #property indicator_buffers 3 #property indicator_plots   3 and for each I have to declare the style, color, type and width. I have tried to write the...

Signal Bars has come of age so i thought that i would start a new thread with the latest version This version Signal Bars v7 has some new features, the User can select which Timeframes they want displayed and the indicator can now be placed into any indicator window to help free up chart space. One...

Please who know the real name of this indicator?If anyone has it mq4 file that has alert, should please upload it here

Hi All, I would like to convert directional movement indicator from TradingView Pine script to mq4? Can anyone do it? Tradingview directional movement indicator is more accurate than mt4 ADX indicator. Tradingview directional movement indicator has both settings for ADX and Directional movement. 

Here there are the differences between Prev_calculated and Prev_calculated-1 in bars loop using prev_calculated-1 int OnCalculate(const int rates_total,                const int prev_calculated,                const datetime &time[],                const double &open[],                const double...

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...

Hello, I'm trying to add a WebRequest() to my indicator but keep getting 'Error in WebRequest. Error code  =4060'. I have already added the URL https://google.com to Tools > Options > Expert Advisors. Does WebRequest() work only with expert advisors? Thanks! int OnCalculate(const int rates_total...

I tryed to collect everything about one indicator: Stochastic Oscillator. "Technical Analysis from A to Z": OverviewSto.chas.tic (sto kas'tik) adj. 2. Math. designating a process having an infinite progression of jointly distributed random variables. --- Webster's New World Dictionary The Stochastic...

Hello Pro Coders, Im aPhong, new to FX & Im learning coding as well. Could anyone share a MQ4 file of whatever scanner you have like Pinbar , Harmonic ... scanner that will work on different pairs & multi timeframes without loading lots of charts? Im tring to code simple Pinbar scanner but after a...

Hi everyone Please help me to add alert to this arrows indicator for MT5. I tried but I'm not programmer  thank you in advance guys

Which is a better indicator ?

Hi, A HAPPY NEW YEAR! Guys :) I'm struggling with Wingdings input int Code = 221;void OnStart()&nbsp;&nbsp;{ ObjectCreate(0,"TEST",OBJ_LABEL,0,0,0); ObjectSetInteger(0,"TEST",OBJPROP_XDISTANCE,200); ObjectSetInteger(0,"TEST",OBJPROP_YDISTANCE,200); ObjectSetInteger(0,"TEST"...

Below is a simple test script. It uses CopyHigh() to grab the high of the week so that I can create an envelope around the daily highs. Thus, it runs on PERIOD_D1 chart and pulls PERIOD_W1 values. It works as I would expect on the chart (picture 1). But in the Visualization window of the Tester, I...

Hi all, I'm new to MQL5 and I have a question about getting indicator data from another timeframe. Let's say I want to draw H1 Envelopes no matter what interval is displayed (M5, M15, M30 etc.). It means that for example on M15 the lines of the indicator should have the same value (or not?). For now...

#property strict#property indicator_separate_window#property indicator_buffers 2#property indicator_plots   2//--- plot bbwidth#property indicator_label1  "bbwidth"#property indicator_type1   DRAW_NONE#property indicator_color1  clrGreenYellow#property indicator_style1  STYLE_SOLID#property...

New article 950 websites broadcast the Economic Calendar from MetaQuotes has been published: The widget provides websites with a detailed release schedule of 500 indicators and indices, of the world's largest economies. Thus, traders quickly receive up-to-date information on all important events...

New article Synchronizing several same-symbol charts on different timeframes has been published: When making trading decisions, we often have to analyze charts on several timeframes. At the same time, these charts often contain graphical objects. Applying the same objects to all charts is...

TREND FINDER: " TREND FINDER" EA Trades when there is a breakout from historical minimum/maximum. Author: Aharon Tzadik

Symbol Movement: This custom indicator will show you 28 pair's daily candle range, High-Low range, candle bullishness or bearishness from real tick market. So you can understand the overall market situation very short time. You can change the default timeframe from Daily to any period and default...

New article Why Is MQL5 Market the Best Place for Selling Trading Strategies and Technical Indicators is published: We have created MQL5 Market to help Expert Advisors and indicators developers with selling their products. MQL5.community Market provides Expert Advisors developers with the already...

Shved Supply and Demand: The indicator showing the supply and demand zones. Author: Vasyl Nosal

Optimal F for MQL5 (per Ralph Vince): This calculates Optimal f using the Geometric Mean. Per Ralph Vince, "In trading we can count on our wins being for varying amounts andour losses being for varying amounts. Therefore the Kelly formulas could not give us the correct optimal f."So, using his...

Renko-Fractals-Grid: This EA uses "Renko" box size on MetaTrader 4 chart. When a Renko box is created (not visible, only calculated in pips) and price reaches the level where there was a fractal, the EA enters a trade. It is recommended to use the EA on 1 Hour and smaller timeframes (on...

New article Using MetaTrader 5 Indicators with ENCOG Machine Learning Framework for Timeseries Prediction is published: This article presents connecting MetaTrader 5 to ENCOG - Advanced Neural Network and Machine Learning Framework. It contains description and implementation of a simple neural...

Triple fast ema Hull: Triple fast ema Hull Author: Mladen Rakic

Fast ema Hull average: Fast ema Hull average Author: Mladen Rakic

Fast EMA: Fast EMA Author: Mladen Rakic

ASCtrend: The indicator generates signals for entering the market using colored dots. Author: Nikolay Kositsin

CCI and Martin: The EA based on iCCI (Commodity Channel Index, CCI) indicator plus managing position volumes using martingale. The EA uses iCCI (Commodity Channel Index, CCI) indicator value on the last four bars and Open/Close prices on the last three bars. A position opening signal is checked if...

New article Universal RSI indicator for working in two directions simultaneously has been published: When developing trading algorithms, we often encounter a problem: how to determine where a trend/flat begins and ends? In this article, we try to create a universal indicator, in which we try to...

Hi I want to run few EA's at the same time and on the same MT4. The EA will be on 1-5 minutes charts, dealing with different entry orders, SL, trailing and so on. My main concern is if I am going to get delays on my entry orders, and is this will be the case how can I solve this problem, like...

Hello there, I have problem in processing my orders in MT4. When I open an order or want to put SL/TP for my order it is going sleep and then giving me TIme Out error. Please see the attached snap shots. May anyone tell me how to fix it? Thanks in advanced

Hello, i wanna now if it's possible to see pips and profit/loss number on take profit and stop loss line. Like in Oanda app. Thanks for answer.

Hi, I can't download indicators from MQL5 site unless they are posted in a Zip File or mq4 and ex4 format. If the indicator is like on the picture, then I can't download it. When I press the "Yes, I have Metatrader 4" and the OPEN "metaeditor.exe" LINK, then nothing happens. Also, I set the mq4...

Hi, Hi need to preserve a string variable from reset when I change TF. GlobalVariableSet is not a solution for me because I need to apply more times the same indicator on the chart with different properties, so to work correctly the GlobalVariable should have a different name for each indicator...

please show me the code,thank u.

Hi all, I tried to install the MT4 platform on a Ubunt cloud server - version 12.04 - but I have an error. I tried with Wine and with PlayonLinux but I have the same error: the operating system is not valid. Is there a problem with the latest Ubuntu version? 

Hello, I saw that there is an OrderCloseBy method. I also saw that when using the UI of the MT4 (build 224) and creating a new order manually there is another type of order "Multiple Close By" (This option only exists if you have opposite trades opened, for example EURUSD buy and EURUSD sell). How...

I have tried few of the libraries in the codebase but I couldn't get them to work. Thanks in advance,

Hi, has anybody found how to get the info of a) market closed - in 509 you can get the error-msg ERR_MARKET_CLOSED132Market is closed.if you send an order and the market is closed - I would prefer a value from MarketInfo() or TerminalInfoInteger() as a closed market is .th. different than...

Hi everyone! So in the moment i'm trying to build a indicator in the subwindow using   ObjectSetCreate() ObjectSetText() ObjectSet() for text and SetIndexBuffer() SetIndexStyle() SetIndexLabel() for the indicator.  Problem 1) The line up between a text line and the indicator line change by resizing...

Hi, i like to know if somewhere is a codesnippet for a info panel on chart. Now i am working with comments to show informations on chart. But this inforemations will be overwritten bei chart candles or something else. I like to have an panel which is in front of all objects on charts. There i want...

Hello every one, I am working on a indicator based on this one : https://www.mql5.com/ru/code/9780 I am modifying it in histogram version by changing : "DRAW_LINE" with "DRAW_HISTOGRAM" . My problem is that my code, drawing all histogram bars in one color dependig on the current candle's color...

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?

I tried to search for a similar problem, but couldn't find it. I use a snippet to read an URL from MetaTrader, found here: https://forum.mql4.com/60608/page2 This works when I put the code in the OnTimer (or OnInit) function, but not when I put it in a own function which I call from the OnTimer...