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News API For EA

Hi, What are some Forex news api's or similar that I can use for EA's? It seems that the usual Forex news api's are no longer working. https://ec.forexprostools.com/

Prevent Large Slippage With Metatrader 5 EA

Hi, Do any members have any tips to prevent major slippage during times of low liquidity or high volatility? I am developing an EA for scalping and running into issues with large slippage during certain times of the day. I would like to prevent trades that are more apt to slippage. I don't think the

Question About Difference Between Bloomberg & Prime Of Prime Brokers

Hi, What is the difference between pricing data coming from Bloomberg B-pipe and price data coming from a prime of prime broker? I still am unsure of the difference after trying to find the answer

EA using API

Is it possible to use a pricing feed api in a EA to trigger trades in mt4? Or is that not possible to use an outside api with a mt4 ea because of the the type of code used by mt4

Recommend a broker?

Does anyone recommend any brokers that allow: -US Traders -Have forex, commodity, energy, crypto, oil/gas trading -Allow api trading Any help would be appreciated. I am having trouble finding a brokers that meet these requirements

How to get refund or what to do with EA that was removed from market after purchase

Hi, An EA I purchased for $300 was removed from the market. The EA no longer works And I can no longer download it in MT4 after I sync to my MQL5 login. Is it possible to be refunded? I contacted MQL5 support but haven't heard back in over a week

Best Trailing Stop or Stop Loss

I am just reaching out to see what other stop losses are available for trading. Currently I am just using a simple 20 point trailing stop but interested in trying to capture larger moves. The only issue is some of my trades are fairly short and only have a small profit window before it will go in

Code for MT5 News Filter For EA

Does anyone know where I can find the coding to add a news filter to my MT5 EA? So I can pause my EA ... minutes before and after high, medium and low impact news

Automatically add a trailing stop loss or other sl/tp to all open orders

Is there a EA or utility that automatically ads a stoploss/take profit to already opened orders that were opened by a different EA? I am running into the issue of the EA I am using uses multiple magic numbers for the same currency pair depending on the trade. I am looking for an automatic way of