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Worried about encryption algorithm
I consult a Trading Forum in Indonesia I think that shares cracked EAs. I ABSOLUTELY NEVER use cracked EAs (this is not for me), let me be perfectly clear, but I noticed that EAs from the marketplace here get cracked this plummeted my trust in the encryption algorithm. I thought that using the Cloud
Optimizing an automatic "strategy finder"
I want to create a "robot" that would automatically find strategies, based on the indicators requested and some basic operands (>, <, ==, etc) the key is that I want to backtest using only OHLC data, NOT as an expert advisor. the way I test indicators now, is that I make a "backtest" but within an
Why is that? "every tick" vs "every tick based on real ticks"
I backtested an EA on MT5 when I select "every tick based on real ticks ", I got a losing backtest : but when I choose "only ticks". I got a good result : the EA has a lot of positive reviews, so it's actually working live I think so why the discrepancy with real tick backtest ? I don't understand
history check timeout
2022.10 . 04 14 : 36 : 44.455 Tester Cloud servers switched off 2022.10 . 04 14 : 37 : 19.685 Tester F40: history check started 2022.10 . 04 14 : 37 : 30.494 Tester F40: history check timeout 2022.10 . 04 14 : 37 : 30.494 Tester F40: no history data from 2010.01 . 01 00 : 00 to 2011.01 . 01 00
I thought Pending Orders could only have Positive Slippage ?
i'm testing something right now, on MT5 and I got some pretty high slippage but it is negative slippage (I set a Sell Stop @ 1.30710 and it opens @ 1.30675) I thought only positive slippage was possible when using a Pending Order thanks Jeff
I can't figure this out
Hi I'm trying to make my spread filter work again, as it was working perfectly before and now it isn't and for the life of me I can't figure out why. In my trading routine I check for low spreads : double maxSpread = 0.4 ; int spread = SymbolInfoInteger (pair, SYMBOL_SPREAD ); if (spread <=
question about POSITION_MAGIC and POSITION_IDENTIFIER
Hi I've read in the doc that the Magic number of a position can be changed (swap, etc) without user input of course, so my question is simple, how am i supposed to know if a position has been opened by my EA if I can't use Magic numbers anymore? I could use Identifiers (as stated in the doc) but
what's up with these prices errors ?
It's not the first time it happens. Wrong price is used instead of the right one, resulting in an enormous loss in the backtest I don't think my code is wrong, because error comes and goes. BTW it's an OPEN PRICE backtest I restart MT5 and error is gone
How to get around max number parameters in iCustom ?
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 the EA rather than recompiling the indicator with
viruses by activating DLL ?
Hi I'd like to know if it would be possible for an EA or an indi with DLL activated to download a virus from the internet and then run it ? i'm kinda afraid of EAs or indis that can run shellExecute thanks jeff