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Lowest VIX in 4 years... how do you adapt?

The indices market is extremely slow these days and I'm not seeing many trading opportunities... The VIX is at 12.25 right now, what do you do when VIX is this low? Do you switch to other markets or do you just take a break? Also curious about Forex traders, are you seeing a similar problem

Getting EA's approved by prop firms without the source files?

Hi, I've recently been looking to start trading with prop firms and I noticed that they usually ask that you send mq5 and ex5 files to get your EA's approved either before or after passing the challenges... Does anyone have experience navigating this because I've got many questions and concerns: 1

Correlating instruments as indicators, pros and cons?

Hi, interested in hearing your opinions on this... I day trade NASDAQ, and since I work on small timeframes, I need to be able to make decisions quickly. I sometimes look at correlating instruments as indicators to inform my trade decisions, examples of what I will look at: -VWAPs -Pivot Points -MFI

How to clone a terminal?

Is there a simple way to clone a terminal? I mean clone literally everything. I am trying to use two different terminals connected to the same trading account, but I want to be able to easily clone all the options and default drawing tool settings from one terminal to the other. If possible, I'd

Wrong value returned by SYMBOL_TRADE_TICK_VALUE_LOSS

Alain Verleyen once wrote in another thread that some brokers provide the wrong value. I think my broker is doing this. What should I do? Should I tell them or should I change my code to adapt to it? What happens is the EA calculates lot sizes for a position based on the tick value returned by

Terminal64.exe is crashing my new computer - Bad news and good news

Hi everyone, I bought a refurbished PC a few weeks ago and recently it started crashing very often (blue screens with different stop codes) but I couldn't figure out if it was hardware or software related and it was making me very worried after having tried to fix it with all possible solutions I

SymbolInfoInteger(NULL,SYMBOL_SWAP_MODE) returns an impossible value not included in the MT5 documentation!?!

SymbolInfoInteger(NULL,SYMBOL_SWAP_MODE) should only return values from 0 to 8, but with crypto pairs on a demo account I use to test code, it will return 9...? I'm not sure if this can give a clue as to what is causing this but the symbol names with this broker all have an extension, and for a pair

Does TRADE_RETCODE_DONE_PARTIAL mean IOC market order partially filled?

The documentation says: Only part of the request was completed I just want to generate an alert if ever it happens, but are we 100% sure what the return code means? Even though most of us probably never got that error code and can't test it in a demo or strategy tester , do we know if we would get

Question about when the tick size is smaller than the actual minium price changes

Hey everyone, If using a demo or the strategy tester , orders are always filled at the exact order price. So if your broker rounds all its tick prices to the nearest 1$ while allowing you to place orders with a tick size precision of 0.01$, then this means you'll get very misleading results in demo

Are SYMBOL_VOLUME_STEP & SYMBOL_VOLUME_MIN ever different?

Are SYMBOL_VOLUME_STEP and SYMBOL_VOLUME_MIN ever different? I have never seen an instrument where the minimum volume wasn't the same as the volume step value. Did you ever see an example where it wasn't the same? Do you think it's possible even though you might have never seen it

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