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Cloud network

When I enable cloud network for optimization in the strategy tester, it looks like i am limited to a certain number of tasks. How can I make sure that all networks are used and there is no limit to the tasks

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Validation failed [Invalid Volume]

When uploading an EA to the market, it fails validation due to invalid volume error: test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) strategy tester report 22 total trades test on XAUUSD,D1 (netting) log files size exceeded 2080 MB, test terminated 2022.04.11 15:39:28 failed market sell 0.15 XAUUSD, close #47 buy 0.15

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Invalid volume

I get this error: failed instant buy 0.05 AUDCAD at 0.97083, close #2 sell 0.05 AUDCAD 0.97620111 [ Invalid volume ] I do not understand if the invalid volume error is related to opening the position or with closing the position. Before opening positions, I do the following checks to avoid using an

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Draw trendline on RSI

i, I am trying to make an indicator that draws a horizontal line from current RSI value and plotting X bars back. I have made an indicator that does it on price, but I am not sure how to do the same thing on the RSI indicator. Can anyone guide me in the right direction? attached is a screenshot of

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How to read txt or csv files

I am trying to read a txt file and am not sure what the best way to do this in mql4 is. (I am not very familiar with mql4) In mql5 I use the following method to read the txt file and use that data as a string variable called NewsFile within my program: #resource "HighImpactNews.txt" as string

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Invalid volume

I get this error: 2019.06.28 04:54:04 failed instant sell 0.41 XAUUSD at 1423.09 [ Invalid volume ] However, I do run checks to look at size and lotstep before sending order. Can anyone see what I do wrong? void executeSell() { // check if enough free margin double margin; if ( OrderCalcMargin

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Delete pending orders on deInit

Hi, I am having troubles deleting pending orders when I release the EA from chart. OnDeInit() I use the following code void OnDeinit ( const int reason) { //--- // delete pending orders for ( int i= 0 ; i< OrdersTotal (); i++) if ( OrderGetTicket (i)) if ( OrderGetString (

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Error handling - freeze level

I get this error: failed cancel order #10 sell stop 0.35 XAUUSD at 1310.86 sl: 1313.16 tp: 1308.56 [ Invalid stops ] I assume it is because the price is too close to the order before the EA sends a request to delete the order. I use this function to delete orders, and I do check for freeze level

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mt5 strategy tester - connection closed

Hi, today when I opened mt5 strategy tester I am getting an error, while it was working fine when I turned off my pc last night. When trying to backtest I get the message "connection closed" on core 1. I have tried to install a new mt5 terminal but I get the same error message. Does anyone know what

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Optimizing on minor fx pairs using custom symbols

When optimizing (on every tick) with mt5 stretagy tester on minor FX pairs I notice that the tester downloads tick data from major forex pairs before running the optimisation. For example if I optimize on AUDCAD(custom symbol) the tester donwloads tick data form USDCAD and AUDUSD before running the