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ok I open trades on monday at 00:00 and I close them on Friday at 20:59 now i'm trying to find the swap value computationally. here is what we know : the swap for long is -3.36 (only buys traded) the mode is POINTS (SYMBOL_SWAP_MODE  = 1)

Hi I got a new PC and i'm wondering which drive would be better to install Metatrader 5 ? Is it the standard main SSD drive (C:) ? or is it better to install it on a separate non-SSD, non-external drive (D:) ? (so that it optimizes the speed access

Hi I've noticed recently some discrepancies from broker to broker and from MT4 to MT5 in the values of each candle prices (OHLC prices). Sometimes they are really different I think i've read that the candle values (OHLC) of a bar are actually based

hi in MT5, is it possible to determine the friday market close time by analysing past candles (determine what is the last candle time and go with that value) ? or is it not reliable ? thanks Jeff

i use iCustom to compute an indicator with a varying period. i use doubles for the period, for precision, but if I put the variable directly in the iCustom command line, it bugs and loops forever. if I use "(int)variable" then it doesn't loop it took

hi I have a friend he has a problem to publish a code on the Market. As I have a seller account, can i try to pass the tests for him ? Will he be able to put the code on the market afterwards if i do that , won't it be considered a duplicate ? I

hi I'm not sure if it's since the last update, but i had a demo account on Roboforex, with a lot of real tick data, and today I reopened MT5 and all the forex symbols are gone, only some crypto and russian indices are available.  i created a new

Hi MT5 is one of the best if not THE best trading tool on the planet. But through the years, i've collected some possible improvements that could be made to the already amazing platform If you have propositions, please post them here. 1) possibility

Hi When I perform an open price backtest, i got a difference between the ask and bid of 20 points, even if i set the spread to a fixed smaller value in the settings. this is disconcerting, as you would expect to have the set spread and not a big

Hi I created a small indicator that retrieves all the ticks from "barsAgo" bars ago. when I enter bigger numbers like here : 287 on USDCHF M15, no ticks are retrieved. 2020.05.10 12:37:51.088 Ticks verify 01_ (USDCHF,M15) Pair = USDCHF 15 2020.05.10

Hi I have an indicator that changes its value several times inside ONE candle. Of course all is drawn is the last value Is there a way to draw the curve with higher definition than just one value for each bar ?  and if yes what are the steps to

My VPS crashes randomly and very often recently (almost every day) i looked in the log event viewer and i got these kind of errors "Activation context generation failed for "C :\Program Files (x86)\RSA MetaTrader 4 Terminal\terminal.exe ".Error in

i need to measure a distance from a peak on a custom curve the problem is that the curve value changes with the parameters i use. sometimes it can be from -50 to +100 or from 1.213 to 1.214 for example so my question is : how to compute a value that

Hi i got an indicator that has too many parameters for the iCustom function call in an EA. i got a "' iCustom' - wrong parameters count " error in MT5 how can i get around that problem ? i'd like to be able to change the indicator parameters inside

Firstly thanks so much for implementing such a tool, it gives me complete peace of mind that my tools won't be cracked. i got a question though, because it is online protection, will the indis/EAs won't work on an offline computer? thanks Jeff

Hi i'm currently trying to debug a MT5 indicator that randomly freezes the platform. I have to force the close then reopen it (i tried to wait for a long time to see if it gets its hand back but it didn't happen) it freezes when i click "ok" after

Hi i found interesting the VPS kind that Metaquotes offers; i think because of its nature it cannot crash but i wanna have an opinion of people who used it regularly. also i think it doesn't need reboots or updates ? thanks for help Jeff

Hi i'm trying to come up with a setup that uses two VPS to secure trading if a VPS crashes, then the other takes control . My question is : If I send two orders on the exact same tick from two different VPS on the same account , will there be two