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Developing a decent EA

I know this question is a bit broad, but I would like to know what things you guys consider important when developing an EA. I don't mean stuff related to MQL5 itself, but regarding trading strategies instead. For example: Do you use indicators? Which ones? Does your analysis happen on multiple

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How do I know if my tick data is reliable?

I developed an EA that performs very well backtesting the last year, but when I run it on 2018 the result is a huge loss. 2019 also performs badly. I know that results in a certain year doesn't garantee results in other years. But I would like to be sure if this results are correct. How do I know if

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Ask, bid and close: How do they work?

Hello. I'm developing an EA to trade forex and I came upon a problem I can't seem to fix. I'm trying to buy and sell based on the CLOSE price , which is the price that is readable upon looking at the candles, but everytime a moment in which a trade is about to take place, the bot simply ignores my

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Back test and demo account have different stop losses

My stop loss is 10 pips, and my EA runs perfecly while backtesting. But when I change it to the demo account to test it in real time, a small percentage of my operations set a wrong stop loss. Normally it sets tio 8 pips and it simply doesn't make any sense for me. Why it sets correctly backtesting

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Can I run my EA in a renko chart?

I know Renko isn't native in MT5, but maybe there is a way to do it. I tried googling it but I didn't find anything. (Only people running backtests, but I would like to run it on a real account too)

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EA behaving differently in the demo account and backtesting

I developed a EA and it works perfecly fine when I run a backtest on it, but when I insert it on the chart using my demo account, it behaves differently. For example: In the backtest i run it using 1 lot, but for some reason in the demo account on real time it uses 2 lots. I didn't test it on the

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Slow performance in a especific function

My backtests take forever to execute when I call this function inside the OnTick: (currentDateLastCheck gets the current day, so I don't store the whole historic) void dailyGain(){ HistorySelect ( StringToTime (currentDateLastCheck), TimeCurrent ()); uint total= HistoryDealsTotal (); ulong

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How do I block new orders to be sent until the price hits a moving average?

I'm developing a new robot and I'm having trouble to figure this out.. Lets say my robot opened a new order and it hit my SL. How could I temporarily block new orders to be triggered until the price hits a moving average ? Examples would be great if possible