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stop losses not showing up in backtest

im trying a basic stochastic EA which works great until it doesn't. I've put just a stop loss in the input variables clicked Ok but the stop loss doesn't show when back testing. anything silly I've missed

EA buying and selling switches to opposite

hi I'm back testing a moving average Cross over and for three quarters of the backtest its really profitable but then in the last quarter it suddenly sells when it should buy and vice versa. How can it do this

backtesting EA's

Hello I'm new to MT5 and never used automated trading before. I'm quite intriged by the potential and decided to makae the leap. I've imported quite a few EA's but when I watch them perform in the Strategy Tester Window they never buy or sell at the right times. Has anyone encountered something

mql5 programming courses

hi I'm new to mt5 and haven't done any programming in years. I thought it would come back to me fairly quickly but had a bit of a scare when I seen the expert Advisor code. Does anyone know if there are any mql5 courses available

trading signals

hi I've being looking into subscribing to those signals as they do seem impressive. has anyone had anyone had any bad experiences? and how much is a credit. Andrew

EA not showing up in MT5 after downloading

Hi, I've never used any of the Metatrader software packages before but have decided to make the leap and give MT5 (demo - AlpariUK) a try. I downloaded an EA from the Code Base and put it in the Experts folder. When I re-start or refresh MT5 the EA dosn't show up. Is this because its only a demo