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Get name of a class programmatically at run-time

Hi all -- is there a straightforward way to find out the name of a class during run-time? I hoped MQL would have some predefined macro akin to __FILE__ or __FUNCTION__ but, alas, there is no __CLASS__... Predefined Macro Substitutions - Named Constants - Constants, Enumerations and Structures - MQL5

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MT5 brokers for US citizens / residents

Hello all, I was trying to understand which brokers support the MT5 platform and are regulated in the USA or accept American clients, but can't seem to find much in the way of authoritative information online about this. What restrictions are there for US citizens / residents in this space

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WebRequest(): how to handle HTTP 303 response downloading shared files from Google Drive?

Hello all, Wondering if someone could point me in the right direction vis-a-vis an issue I'm facing with WebRequest() when attempting to download shared files from Google Drive, e.g. sample file linked below: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1-PtADmc85Tws_RcRF9nGJ0LkkBvv3DWO&export=download Attached

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Using "standard" MetaQuotes MT5 for all accounts, instead of broker-specific installers

Hi folks, quick question as I'm rebuilding my development workstation... What are the advantages and disadvantages of installing only one terminal for MT5 and another for MT4 , i.e. official versions downloaded from MetaQuotes website, to access all my demo accounts from different brokers as opposed

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CHistoryOrderInfo: missing Select(void) and Select(ulong ticket) methods??? COrderInfo has them both...

Hello all... I finally managed to get my head around the benefit of using these 4 classes of the Standard Library for working with active/historic orders, deals and positions -- CPositionInfo , CDealInfo , COrderInfo , CHistoryOrderInfo . Not sure if this could be a bug in the header file

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OnTradeTransaction: unexpected data received in transaction event data... bug or something else?

Dear all -- I'm debugging some code for trade event processing with the newer OnTradeTransaction() function as opposed to the parameter-less OnTrade() which requires doing some "guesswork" going through lists of orders (active & historic), deals and positions... void OnTradeTransaction ( const

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Who develops EAs using the CExpert/CExpertSignal OOP framework, aka Strategy Modules from the Standard Library?

Hello to all MQL5 gurus :-) Can you please let me know if you personally develop/extend these set of classes from the Strategy Modules (MQL5\Include\Expert) to build your own trading bots? If not, have you come across others relying on this or know how widespread it is used by the MQL community

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Using MQL5 Standard Library in MQL4

Hi all, I have been working primarily on MT4 which has undoubtedly the broadest support among my brokers, only a couple offer MT5 and not necessarily with the same instruments I want to trade with my algorithms. Recently I started delving much deeper into MQL5 and its standard library classes for