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Chart Time Zone

It seems charts on MT5 display time axis in the trade server's time zone . Is my understanding correct ? If yes, is the behaviour intentional ? Can the chart's time zone be changed somehow

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EAs on multiple workspaces of same MT5 terminal

EAs do not seem to be running in parallel when put on different workspaces in same MT5 terminal. Switching workspace seems to be reloading and initializing the EAs losing current state. I was expecting to be able to spread my EAs across multiple workspaces and switch to observe status and control as

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How to deal with situation where losers outweigh the winners on EMA crossing ?

I have built an EA with EMA crossing logic. It works very well in backtesting , generating BUY and SELL positions when the fast and slow EMA lines are crossing. However, the profit is sadly lost when unexpectedly the trend reverses against the EMA indication, which is something I have been unable to

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MQL5 Storage service interruption

MQL5 Storage is often becoming unresponsive This has been linked to background maintenance in the past and it has been characterized as acceptable. However, this time it has taken significantly longer than usual, more than a day. I am afraid that without this service I cannot share custom Experts

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Storage service is not working

Many hours have passed since I started getting "Common Error" response while using MQL5 Storage Service. Usually, this is due to scheduled maintenance, but this time it has taken too long to recover. Is the service working? I am relying on this for shared projects

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How to convert SL price to StopLevel for CMoneyFixedRisk

I am trying to make use of CMoneyFixedRisk class but it seems to be asking for a "StopLevel" which is expressed in "PriceLevelUnit" while my SL is calculated as a price value. Is there a way to convert my SL price and have the money management class choose the correct lot size

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not enough free space in MQL5 Storage service

While experimenting with Shared Projects, I started creating and deleting files to understand how this feature works. After a while I stopped being able to commit changes with error "not enough free space in MQL5 Storage service". I also couldn't find anywhere in MQL5 a way to purchase storage