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Hi, I'm writing an EA that will mostly use daily updating signals (i.e. market data is PERIOD_D1) but the EA will then select an appropriate time intra-day to trade (i.e. will need to make a per tick decision, until the trade is made) There is

Hi, I'm trying to write the simplest EA in MQL5 and it's really not a fun experience. Firstly I tried to write the EA from the ground up and find it incredibly cumbersome to do even the simplest things, for example to get a couple of prices:  

Hi, Sometimes I like to think in daily returns for a security (!) So for instance, I'd like to know the volatility ( standard deviation ) of the last year of daily returns of EURUSD. Unfortunately I cannot find a quick way to get this in MQL5. iSTD

Hi, I just switched from MT4 to MT5 and what a pain converting from MQL4 to MQL5. A major problem I cannot solve is how to have several orders (MT4) in the same symbol each with a different stop loss (SL). E.g. Order 1, buy opened at 1.22, SL 1.20

Hi, I'm trying to cycle through all the symbols that are available in MT4. Not just the symbols that are currently displayed in MarketWatch. I use the following (abridged) code: int numSymbols= SymbolsTotal ( false ); string symbol= SymbolName

Hi, I know this has come up many times before but I still cannot work out a generic way to calculate the account currency swap (typically USD) for ANY symbol (whether currency, commodity, equity, etc.) See below for example code which leaves a lot of

Hi, I'm used to thinking of currency trades in USD notional exposure (i.e. 100,000 lots of TRYZAR would be 28,400 USDZAR) And USD would be my deposit currency. Is there an easy way to get USD exposure (or deposit currency exposure) from FX orders in

Hi, I'm a relative newbie to MQL4 (but not programming). I have created a new EA. I find when I run the EA it somehow defaults to the symbol at the top of the Market watch window, in this case USDCHF. I.e. the Symbols() function returns USDCHF. The