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I have tried multiple approaches to this, based on the documentation and on information I've found in this forum, and I can't get anything to work. Simple version: void CloseAllPositions() {     CTrade trade;

First some context:  As best I can tell, MQL5 can make use of events handled by the Terminal, but they python integration doesn't get or see those events. Mostly that's ok.  I don't particularly care about the events themselves (because I

Hi all. Trying to do   mt5.initialize()  (in python).  Works about half the time.  The other half of the time it times out, and then continues doing so on subsequent tries, for extended periods (sometimes hours) before it works

Does anyone know if there's any way to get the MT5 python integration to work on Mac M1 (arm). Python installs and runs fine on a Mac, but unsurprisingly, when I try: pip install MetaTrader5 I get: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies

I posted another similar question but maybe it's too complicated. Trying here for a related, but different/simpler question... The MQL5 documentation on this page  gives an example of a python script that can communicate with a broker, get some

Hi all. It is my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) that I can follow the instructions here to build the equivalent of an EA in python instead of MQL5, calling the python functions on that documentation page to handle all the broker

Details a bit vague here, to try to keep it brief. Happy to elaborate if needed. The MQL5 date and time functions include functions for getting time information in the time zone the EA is running in, or the broker's server's time zone , or the GMT

Hello all. Short version:  I've read everything I can find on this. Particularly the  MQL5 Reference > Trade Functions , and this awesome article (ORDERS, POSITIONS AND DEALS IN METATRADER 5) . We have Functions for active orders

Hello all:   I've always understood a position to be an aggregate of all open trades for a given symbol, but from what I can tell , I think: MT5/MQL5 considers a position and a trade to be the same thing. eg. I send two distinct market buy

Hi all.  Thanks for all the help so far with a few questions I've posted recently.  Here's another.  Well, a bunch of related ones... I've read a number of posts and the doc'n about Order vs Deal vs Position, including  this

Hi all.  I'm aware I can query the current account balance of course. I'm aware I can query historical data for bars, deals, and orders (for information at some point in the past). Is there any way to query what the account balance was at some

Hello all. I've read the documentation, as best as I can find.  If the answers to the following are in the documentation, please do feel free to just point me there. As far as I can tell:  In my EA, I can use printf() or PrintFormat() (

Hello all.  Any help appreciated... I have a multi-symbol, chart independent EA. It has many inputs. There's two relevant to this question. Let's call them T = timeframe or bar seconds, and N = "action intervals per bar". I want to break each

Is this a new ploy by MetaQuotes to force everyone to MT5? For what it's worth I'd love to only have to use MT5 and not 4, but many BROKERS don't support MT5 yet, and that's very frustrating.  Dear MetaQuotes: if you want us users to all to move

Hi all.  Confused...  On this page:  https://docs.mql4.com/customind/indicatordigits the 8th line of code is:  IndicatorDigits( Digits + 2 ); I also have the (MQL4)  source code for a Custom Indicator someone who knows what

Hello all.  New here.  First post.  Would love some help on this if anyone can advise... I've written the guts of a complex strategy in Javascript (node).  It takes some input parameters, and returns some output. To implement all

Hello all.   New here.  I've been learning MQL and doing some basic coding in the IDE.   The short TL;DR version of my question:  Is the MetaQuotes/MetaTrader IDE the ONLY way to code and build MQL solutions?  Or is there any