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MT5 Strategy Tester / Graph tab - suggestion

Hello, Just a post with a suggestion regarding how the balance and equity curves are displayed. It seems the balance curve makes a gap each time a profitable/loosing trade is opened/or right after entry (no gap if the trade is breakeven), and not when such a trade is actually closed. So basically

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MT5 suggestions

Hello, May I ask if there's a topic/web page where suggestions can be posted? Can't find it. Here is one: allowing the user to adjust the column width in the Data Window panel. Always a mess to use a large chart window while still seeing the OHLC/datetime information. As an alternative, the column

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MT5 Tester: saved optimization cache is incomplete

Hi all, When exporting the optimization cache file of an optimization and when importing them again later on in the Optimization tab, it seems the chart of scores becomes incomplete and shows a much lower number of passes (see enclosed pictures original vs saved/exported/reimported). Is it possible

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proxy server options requested when installing MT5

Hi! I'm getting a 'proxy server options' message when installing a previous version of MT5, while there's no issue when installing the latest one (that I'm not happy with, in this early 9/2024 due to the excessive virtual memory allocation per agent). I have the same issue on my laptop and on my VPS

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EA interacting with/sending input to a library

Hi! One of my compiled EAs calls an MT5 library and I would like to control what the library does by specifying inputs from a second EA that I would create. Though, even if quite familiar with building EA for trading purposes, I don't know the structure of a simplified EA sending inputs to a

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MT5 strategy tester - low number of passes in the forward assessment phase

Hi! Currently performing a slow complete optimization on my EA, but quite astonished to see that the number of passes covered in the forward phase is much lower than in the optimization phase ( Optimization Results ). I assume MT5 only considers the best passes of the optimization phase to assess

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Agent manager not working?

Hi! I 'm trying to use the cores of my own laptop from my VPS . Both have MT5 terminal open . Went to Agents Manager on laptop to set up the agents and get the IP address + ports . So should be fine . Then added them in MT5 terminal on VPS (agents tab) , but once an optimization launched, these

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ICM historical tick data (as provided by MetaQuotes) for backtesting in MT5

Hi! IC Markets apparently receives historical tick data for its instruments from Metaquotes (according to their support chat at least). Though, ICM recently reduced their historical tick data on their servers to 2024 onwards. Being interested to use ICM historical tick data ( instead of

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editing ticks.dat files

Hi, I'd like to edit ticks.dat files in the /bases/.../ticks/ folder to reflect the start/end month of my .tkc files (I've merged two different historical periods for a broker). Is this possible in a way or another

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Request for development - single tests displaying ready-to-use charts

Hi MetaQuotes team, A request for development hopefully for a next update in the near future. Currently, when right clicking on an optimization result to run a single test, MT5 displays the trades on the chart with a standard display/template, and not all indicators are on it. It would be so much