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Different values from Moving Average indicator and its value plotted in the chart

Hi everybody, I'm taking my first steps in MQL5, in particular I'm testing the moving average indicator. I wrote the following lines of code to print the moving average value as soon as I receive a new H1 candle (with period "14", calculated on H1 timeframe, with mode EMA and on PRICE_CLOSE). static

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Specify an absolute path in FileOpen function

Hi everybody, I've read the MQL5 documentation about FileOpen function and in the examples it's always specified a relative path (starting from c:\Program Files\MetaTrader 5 Terminal\Tester\Agent-127.0.0.1-3000\MQL5\Files\ folder). Do you know if it is possible to specify an absolute file path and

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Get now timestamp during backtest

Hi everybody, I need to get the current datetime in a string, possibly in a SQL format (e.g. 2019-04-07 15:37:02). I've tried three methods of MQL5 standard library: TimeCurrent TimeGMT TimeLocal but during backtest they all return the same date that is not the actual date. I need to get the