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I'm wondering what happens eventwise when we stop the strategy tester . Is there no event triggered when this happens? Let me explain: My EA opens and writes lines to a file. The file is closed at the OnDeinit() event. All is fine when I run the EA

I'm wondering if Metaquotes is planning such feature or not. My opinion is that databases for automated trading is a must. I've tried several librairies for db access, ADO, MySQL, SQL Server and SQLLite to name a few. All are rather old and not

Hello, I'm stuck with my new indicator because it is still not clear which is the current bar's value in the buffer array. Is it 0 or rates_total-1? I'm confused. Here it the code of the OnCalculate() function , which displays two MAs. What I'd like

Hello, All is in the title. How do we subscribe to this forum topics? Is it even possible? Thanks

Hello, Can someone help in having the strategy tester visualisation to update smoothly? Is there any special command to update the visualisation? Sometimes it does not update. I can make it update by moving the chart with the mouse but it is often

I went into this problem recently. I use Trade.PositionClose from the library to close a position. Looking at its code, it uses TRADE_ACTION_CLOSE_BY, which means it is closing by opening a trade in the opposite direction. Problem is that on a pair

Hello, All is in the title. If anyone can explain, when closing a position, the difference between TRADE_ACTION_DEAL and TRADE_ACTION_CLOSE_BY. Apparently is it the same? In the Trade.mqh file, it is closing using TRADE_ACTION_DEAL. With my broker

Hello metatraders, Is there a way to increase the memory available to strategy tester agents ? After a few passes my agents are very often showing a red icon on their left. All I can do is restart MT5, but is is annoying, and anyway I plan my EA to