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Help with Time Zone Handling and Data Fetching in MT5

I’m reaching out for some clarification about how MT5 handles time zone offsets when fetching historical data. Here’s the scenario: My current local time in Budapest (UTC+2) is 10:34 AM . The broker’s time zone is Cyprus (UTC+3) , so it's 11:34 AM in Cyprus. UTC time is currently 8:34 AM . I assumed

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How to fetch whether a symbol currently accepts orders via MT5 Python API?

As in the title, I want to have realtime information via MT5 in Python whether a given symbol currently allows trading or not. I want to have the same real-time information as what I have when opening MetaTrader and attempting to buy/sell a given instrument. The UI will not allow me do that for

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Meta Trader in invisible/headless mode?

I have a script that launches the Meta Trader terminal and runs some EAs on a regular basis. For this, I use an MQL config file that I run this way: C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 5 \terminal64.exe /config:path\to\MetaTrader\folder\config\custom_config.ini The problem is that the Meta Trader window

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MQL config file to automatically log in?

Based on the documentation which lists a Login and a Password entries, I thought creating my custom config file that would allow me to run EAs programatically from a Windows command line should be a relatively straightforward task. I created the following very basic .ini file, almost identical to

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Inbuilt AMA inconsistency when using iCustom

I have a working script - to a huge part thanks to the precious help I had received from this forum. The script now successfully performs the following steps: gets a filename input and reads the corresponding csv file that contains Yahoo Finance OHLCV data for a given stock, e.g. Microsoft

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Calculating RSI on array from csv file in MQL5?

I have a bunch of csv files in MQL5/Files and a function that reads a csv into an array called output_arr[]. The function prototype is: void ReadCsvData( double &output_arr[], string ticker, string column= "close" ) It works fine and I am able to view close prices (or any other OHLCV values) in the

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iCustom on array?

I know that for some indicators there exists an ...OnArray() version in MQL4 (e.g.: iMAOnArray(), iRSIOnArray() etc.). I want to apply any custom indicator on an arbitrary array but it seems iCustom() doesn't support this. I'd be surprised if indicator calculation on an array of values was only

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Efficiently reading in a csv file?

I placed "AAPL.csv" into the MetaTrader terminal folder 's Files subfolder (MQL4/Files) to be accessible by the EA. The structure of this csv is as follows: Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Adj Close,Volume 1980 - 12 - 12 , 0.1283479928970337 , 0.1289059966802597 , 0.1283479928970337 , 0.1283479928970337

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EA to open position based on consecutive PSAR values

Hi there, I am new to MQL4 programming and came across the following practice problem online: create an EA which checks the previous N = 10 candles and if PSAR is consecutively above than iOpen() for all these N = 10 candles, open a sell position; if PSAR is consecutively below iOpen() for N = 10

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How to draw MA of OBV indicator?

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie who recently started learning MQL4. I've been struggling with the problem below for quite a while now without success. Basically what I'd like to achieve is having the OBV indicator with a moving average in a separate indicator window. I used the OBV.mq4 for a start and