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Are OnTick and OnTimer really not conflicting in the queue???
Dear people, There is a lot of "literature" in the forum about this, one above all the clarification offered by William Roeder here: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/321335 . Thus, please, can anybody explain this? //+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|
Troubles when backesting with [Market closed] error.
Dear people, After having read several times the other thread , I am fighting for understanding what's wrong in my backtesting. Let's say that I want to test a strategy on EURUSD, daily bars, using 1 minute OHLC precision. On my broker's (Darwinex) platform, market times for this instrument are
Different Trade event handling between visual and non-visual tester
Dear people, I have seen that there are already many threads reporting about differences between MT5 visual and non- visual testing . All focused on returns and there were discussions about data feeds, spreads and so on... And I found discussion not applicable to my problem. I have spot an example
Proposal: zero costs
By the way, while waiting for the solution of custom symbols ( https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/354642 )... The real reason for me to create custom symbols (which is a very long and cumbersome workaround) is the following: since I want to use the platform for research purposes (finding edges...) I am
Please help with custom symbols!
Dear people, After having tried to ask in an existing old thread ( https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/300712#comment_18993310 ) and having made a lot of experiments, I am here for asking again. Since I did not manage to create a custom symbol from a csv file, as reported by the author of the other thread
Buggish interaction between winfile_v600.mqh and PrintFormat
Hallo people, I was testing in mql5 the mql5-slightly-modified winfile_v600.mqh library provided to the community by the Mighty JC ( https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/150831 ). Now look at this strange behavior: if I write something like #include <winfile_v600.mqh> void OnStart () { int hdl =
Inaccurate documentation on constructors
Dear friends, Just to let you know (and perhaps MetaQuotes people could correct errors). I refer to https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/basis/types/classes#class , the article of the documentation that refers to structs, classes and their constructors (among others). There is a sentence that says: "The
Annoying features (or bugs) of MetaEditor 5
Dear friends, After years of MT4 I am starting out with MT5. What I report here is nothing "severe", but surely annoying. Two issues: matching brackets and recognition of functions. 1. I tried and re-tried to switch on and off the "Highlight matching brackets" option in the Tools dialogue, but
DLLSample.cpp not working
Dear friends, looking and searching around quite a lot did not find a solution, so here I am. Contex: I am running the examples in MT4 (mql4) I am running it on Windows 10 64-bit I am running it with VisualStudio 2019 The problem is that the standard distributed DLLSample.cpp (.sln) and the standard