Christopher M A Holmes

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EA that uses MA value from a different symbol not the current chart symbol

The Expert advisor I’m developing trades Nasdaq index futures using the 150 day moving average for trading decisions. I have to use the generic @ENQ constant series to calculate the 150 day moving average because the current spot futures contract doesn’t have 150 days of history when it becomes the

Single EA strategy test not matching strategy optimization results

I ran the EA strategy optimization and then selected some of the individual results to run a single test. The single test results did not match the optimization results . The biggest difference was the drawdown% which is much higher with the single test. The number of trades was noticeably lower in

VPS: EA not working properly with VPS

My EA halts trading during specific times. This function works perfectly when running from my local machine. Once I started running on VPS it stopped working. For example..it should halt trading between 00:00 and 13:45, but it was still being halted after 14:00. See the log below. The code uses

VPS for demo account

Can you use MT5 virtual servers on demo account ? If so, can I then transfer it to a live account when I’m ready

Monthly purchases information on MT5 marketplace

I notice that the EA and indicator pages in the MT5/MT4 marketplace no longer show the total monthly purchases. Is there somewhere else i can find this information