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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 =

Is it possible to call MT4 or MT5 from an external program written in C++ or Visual Basic? And possibly pass some information

I am struggling with retrieving a single data value from MySQL. There are quite a few samples around both for MT4 and MT5. I have tried a few of them and they work. But they all retrieve complete rows of data from MySQL. I want to retrieve a single

I am struggling with retrieving data from MySQL. There are quite a few samples around both for MT4 and MT5. I have tried a few of them and they work. But they all retrieve complete rows of data from MySQL. I want to retrieve single values with

I have spent hours searching for code samples showing how to retrieve a single value from MySQL. All samples are returning complete rows. They work. But I want to do qualified retrivals like "Select xxx from table1 where yyy equals zzz"

Hello. I am working on a quite large and complex EA in MT4. There are some features I miss in MQL4 especially passing objects and/or type "structs" to sub functions and specifically returning them to the calling function. Since many of my routines

I have written a few DLL:s for MT4. One of them was a 2-way communication with Excel. One problem I had was that MT4 is good at talking to C++ but can not talk to Visual Basic. On the other hand talking to Excel from C++ is awkward to put it