Hello, Ever since I upgraded to version 4 of MT4, I now get the following error message after downloading a demo EA from the marketplace and running a backtest : 2024.02 . 06 10 : 16 : 57.812 2023.01 . 01 23 : 04 : 23 XXXXX: testing
Hello, I think I found a bug with MT4 on build 1353. I was back testing a trading robot on the symbol XAUUSD and it opens a long/buy position on 2016 July the 6th at 2:00 AM. This is using Dukascopy data. It opens at a price of 1368.81 and set a SL
Hello, I create a UI panel for my expert advisor and it uses the #resource keyword to import it in. I thought this was all that is needed, but when I compile my expert advisor, it doesn't embed the bitmap inside the ex4 file. It still complains that
Hello, I'm just interested in knowing which of these two methods happens while trading forex on brokers. a) When you open a market order, it will take a limit order off the order book. The broker uses an index price (Which is based off some official
Hello, Is there a way to sort the backtest optimizer by the win rate percent. I cant use custom max as I'm optimizing for an ea I dont have the source code for. My end goal is the find a setting where over the last 3 months, it has had a high profit
Hello, I have several broker accounts, one on MT4, one on MT5 and planning to open another one on MT5. The reason I have many is so that I can run each one with their own Expert Advisor and partition/split my risk - If one EA blows up an account, it
Hello, So Meta trader 5 allows you to use Custom Symbols. With custom symbols to an extent you can use an expert advisor you bought on the market and test against this. The idea behind testing using a custom symbol is that I can take some arbitary
Hello, Just out of interest, in Meta trader 5, when you right click the symbols watch and select symbols, then go to the built in symbol (Not a custom one) and then go over to the ticks tab and click "request" at the top right. Does this grab data
Hello, I have an EA I'm trying to test. I want to test it with data I have from my broker, not Metaquotes data as I want to ensure there isn't anything dodgy happening (The EA Purposely opens and closes positions when it was known in the past to be
Hello, I ran a backtest of my EA I'm building using the backtest optimizer. Started with 1000 USD, ran it over 2020 year data full tick data. Was surprised to find some entries that were producing 300K profit in a year with only starting 1000 USD -
Hello, I have an expert advisor which uploads a report (About 5 megabytes) at the end of the day to a URL using WebRequests. How much bandwidth are we allowed? It does not mention here: https://www.mql5.com/en/vps/rules
Hello, So I have a VPS setup to trade auto for me (the official ones where you sync your settings from the terminal and there doesnt seem to be any remote desktop connection thing). This works fine, however I have written an indicator that saves tick
So I tested a signal on my demo account and now I have a real live account. I successfully moved my VPS to the real account, but when I tried to move the signal and typed in my broker "ICMarkets-Live24", it said I had many options from the drop
