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I understand that the "hedging" techique in its simple form is not allowed in the MT5 platform  due to regulatory restrictions in the US. That does not worry me, I do not use that technique. Are there other restrictions that are also implemented

I refer to history data on a pair that does not have a window open, the EA runs on another pair. Is the history data updated continouisly on that other pair or do I have to have a window open on that other pair too

I know I can check the hours but is there a simple test that can be done to determine if the market is open or closed

Trying to convert my MQL4 code to MQL5. I have done some rudimentary coding in MQL5. My MQL4 code is an EA that takes a position sliced into 4 parts. All start out with the same SL. 3 have fixed TP.  When first postion reaches TP the rest has

I am placing 4 orders with spaced TP. Question is which is best  - Place order,  modify order  4 times  or  - Place all orders first  - Then modify them

I am extracting all trades from account history as well from trades and storing in a MySQL database I would like to get the funding info too like deposits and withdrawals. Is it possible? Did not find any information in the MQL4 documentation

I have a MQL4 library that my EA uses. The library has several variables declared on a global scope as well as functions . The content in these variables are preserved between calls to the library. It functions a bit like an object with properties

There must be something essential that I dont understand. I have now tried 2 different methods to place 2 trades with different TP-levels.  Split position. 1. Just place  2 trades with differen TP-levels. Does not work, both trades ends up

Running Strategy Tester. I place 2 trades in succesion for the same pair. The only difference is the takeprofit level. In the Journal the result is: 2012.01.08 00:05:50    Core 1    2011.09.21 21:35:40   order

What is a simple method to figure out that the last trade done was a loss

There are quite a few things to relearn in MQL5. Sometimes its a struggle. But there are also great benefits. One feature i absolutely love is the "struct". It makes returning several different values and data types from a function so simple and

Creating a new library with a simple test function and use it in an EA does not work now. Some month ago I converted a MQL4 library containing a logging funktion. It still works fine except that it does not work to add new functionality to it. The

After a lot of trial and error, guesswork  and using the  debugger I got it solved! Many days and many hours of frustration.  But,  "Nothing beats perserveance" I guess it can be expanded to retrieve more than one field but for my

I have code like below that runs fine in MQL4. I have put the code in MQL5 with the addition of the ANSI UNICODE transformation. I have also searched this site and all over the internet for examples retrieving data from MySQL from MQL5. 

In MQL4 I have been using "Comments" to display information in the left upper corner. It is 15 lines. Trying to use the same technique in MQL5 does not seem to work. Lines are not replaced, they are added. What I have found in MQL5 is

So I tried to figure it out. This is my code in "OnInit() -------------------- int stoM30; MqlParam pars[5]; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Expert initialization

I have a library "Logger" that has its main function "Loggit" This is code that comes from MT4: #property library #property copyright "Copyright 2011, Maieutic." #property link      "http://www.maieutic.com" #property

I am converting my EA to  MQL5; I hit a stumblestone on how to use iStochastic . I found examples on how to setup an handle for the indicator So far so good. So I got the handle.  Now I just want to retrieve the signal line value for the

I see that the architecture for historical data is changed in MT5. I have read the article discussing how the new concept work. I have recently experienced a lot of problems with missing data on MT4 with Alpari UK. Specifically large gaps with

This code works: string getSTRField(string query) { string result; string row; int length=StringLen(query); int res2 = mysql_real_query(mysql,query,length); int res = mysql_store_result(mysql); if(res==0) { Print("result of query stored =