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Bars not on chart after testing, but backtest seems fine?

I ran a backtest on some data and in the backtester the prices, profits, tick history all look fine. However the chart that shows after the backtest skips 2-3 years and so all trades appear to fall during this gap. This is 2019-10 and suddenly jumping to 2025-10. However, in the backtester, things

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Expert OnTick not called for every tick, but indicators is.

So I was experimenting to try and fully understand the way that Experts and Indicators work, especially for slow indicators. But when I did a base-case test, just an Expert with a fast indicator, I noticed that the OnTick (or at least the print inside the ontick) does not call sometimes, even though

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Why is there no PlotIndexGETString?

I want to write a script to export the values of the current indicators on the chart, but I cannot give them nice label names because there is no function to get the buffer name

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Bar exists when backtested, but not on real charts

Left is my EURUSD 1H chart, right is the backtester during a test around the same time. I noticed this because I use the Python API to get data, and as on the left, the 6th hour bar does not exist, but it was traded on. Can anyone explain this

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Could be one of 2 functions.....

I am trying to use CArrayList with a custom class, but when I try to Add to it, it doesn't seem to know which function to use - is this a bug in the platform? How can I specify? class EntryLevel { public : void EntryLevel( double p, bool d) : price(p), direction(d) {} double price;

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Wrong example in docs.

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/series/ispread The example is not an example of ispread

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[Another BUG] Symbol_trade_tick_value not accurate in backtester.

Screenshot is a printout of SYMBOL_TRADE_TICK_VALUE using a script on US30 symbol, and then run as part of an EA (exact same calling code). My account is in JPY, so the script is correctly showing that the value of one tick is about 10 yen. But in the backtester, this is just ignored, and is

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[Bug] secondary charts in strategy tester don't use tester template

Please make all of the symbols used in the strategy tester use the tester template file, instead of just the first one

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ChartScreenShot not working as expected

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/chart_operations/chartscreenshot align_mode= ALIGN_LEFT works as expected, it takes data from the left side of the chart window as much WIDTH as it can but this is not what I want because it misaligns the end of the charts (weekends etc). So I tried A LIGN_RIGHT (the

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Bug in debugger watch window?

Why is the value 1 when i multiply by (1) in brackets?? Am I missing something here? size*(2) = 2 But it seems those are the not values actually used in the code. In the watch window, multiplying by something in (brackets) causes the value to appear as whatever is in the brackets