Basim Al Rosan

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MT5 gives different execution price at market at same time on different optimisation runs

Using my EA which runs multicurrency, re-running same optimisation or even same test will randomly result with slight variation in results once or twice in 10 times. I can sometimes repeat several times in a row, same result comes, then suddenly i repeat again and slightly different result. When i

Indicator Values Storing in Array

Hello, I am wondering what would you consider a better practice for storing values of an indicator. Keeping a seperate Array to store values for each indicator or having one array where you temporary use it to store values and clear for each indicator? Example below for a moving average indicator

SAR Calcualtion in MT5 vs MT4

Hello, Does anyone know if MT5 use a different way to calculate Parabolic SAR indicator vs. MT4? If you do a comparison of SAR indicator using same settings, currency and broker on MT4 vs. MT5 you get very different SAR values (see attached screenshot). The difference is big enough to even change

News Trading /Fundamentals using MT5

Just wondering a general question if anyone uses MT5 to trade based on the news or fundamentals using automated EA´s of their own (or 3rd party) I thought it was one of the key benefits of MT5 over MT4 but as I am now just starting to look into it I notice they miss some key information, e.g

PositionSelect Strange Behaviour on Hedge orders

Hello, I have a function to limit the number of trades I open at the same time by using the magicNumber, as shown below. It works perfectly when limited to having one order open at a time. However I am trying to test being able to have a max of 2 orders, one order in each direction open (1 short and

Colours Use in Strategy Tester

I have searched endlessly and check many sources but this seems to be never explained. Question 1: Anyone understand what determines the colours on the chart dotplot of results from strategy tester optimisation? (see photo) so far from what I can tell (note: starting balance is 50K in example and