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Hello, Do you listen any music while you trade? I have tried with many different kinds, but I think classical music is the most appropriate to remain discipline focus and calm . Any replies are appreciated. Let's start

I want to know how many people from Indonesia is joining this forum. If you're from Indonesia, please comment this topic..Thank you..

MetaQuotes has launched new MQL5.community information channels on Facebook, X.com (Twitter), and Telegram. These channels provide daily publications of relevant technical materials from the MQL5.com Articles and CodeBase sections. They are designed to promptly update developers on algorithmic

Good afternoon, everyone, I know that there are machine learning and statistics enthusiasts on the forum. I propose to discuss in this topic (without holivars), share and enrich our own knowledge bank in this interesting field. For beginners and not only there is a good theoretical resource in

This thread discusses MQL5 code examples. There will be examples of how to get data from indicators, how to program advisors ... in general, any questions from beginner to the MQL5 language. If you are just starting to get acquainted with the MetaTrader 5 terminal, then I can recommend the

Hi fam! Am a total newbie in the forex niche... Just signed up here on this platform... Please where do i start from? I need help... Anyone willing to put me through?

Can 1 VPS contain several brokers

Dear experienced traders, After I upload an EA to MQL5 VPS, if I open MT5 again, will the EA upload to MQL5 VPS again automatically? Thank you in advance and best wishes, Sky

Can i get any Free Tutorial for Forex Trading ? I am new in Forex trading

Hi, I'm looking  for a list of brokers that offer "Netting Mode" trading for real accounts. Thanks! BM

I am Facing the Issue and am Unable to Withdraw, Everytime the error is " Declined by issuing bank ". I've only got revert form the mql5 team to "check if i allowed the region the card is located in. Also i don't have any paypal option, Webmoney has just terrible conversion rate. I can't withdraw

Hi on my chart for mt5 my screen is flashing red for some reason only mt5 on the chart bit dose that Only that account is doing that I’ve cleaned all cache and restarted the app I’ve got no indicators on No drawings on Only the chart section dose that Running iOS 18.3.2 Mt5 build 4950

Hello! I have issue with the Toolbox on Mac - it is not working properly anymore. Somehow I dragged it to separate window, but I can't get it back on place downside of the terminal. I can't zoom it and do not see anything now. Pictures are attached. Please help me. Thank you

I downloaded MT4, but during the installation process, it installed MT5 instead

Question: Would you be willing to trade any system or strategy you want on your $10000 account and turn every trade you take into a win trade (of $200 or $20) or a breakeven trade and have only a small theoretical chance of losing let's say $600 in worst case scenario? Some traders would probably...

The whole point is that you don't have to run separate EAs that trade specific strategies. A centralized solution has many advantages such a system is better risk management between strategies. We can block signals if we detect multiple similar signals. We can dynamically calculate the lot size

Hello, Article : https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/series/iclose iClose, iHigh, iLow, iOpen these values provide the current/Live/real-time candle information or previously closed candle information?. How can iClose value is possible for Current candle because ones the candle is closed, it became

Hi everyone, I have a question about the SendNotification() function in MQL5. According to the official documentation, the function has a limit of 255 characters for a single push notification. However, I conducted a test where I sent a message with 1024 characters, and the notification was still

Hi I saw a very interesting Strategy from a Professional Trader...and I was looking for a way to receive alerts when this trade setup happens in any cryptocurrency or forex pair, etc.... "The price action compresses and the MACD goes relatively FLAT for a period of 3-15 minutes Second, we observe a

Hello all I have tested many strategies and many other stuff but i did not found them more accurant then basic analysis of the market. i mean,the Price Patterns. 1. harmony indicators : here and here. 2. candelsticks reversal patterns is here. 3. Price Patterns : - Price Patterns

Hello, I am sharing my strategy, which I am using for manual trading, and I am planning to build an EA based on this strategy soon. This strategy works for all currency pairs and timeframes, but the recommended timeframes are M1, M5, M15, and M30. This strategy is currently giving me an 80% win

I'm curious about the effectiveness of a weekly adaptive optimization approach compared to sticking with a single, static rule for EA (Expert Advisor) strategies. Consider an EA that has already been built with one year of optimization. What if we update it every week with slight adjustments based

Hi all, I was not able to successfully exploit this divergence wit han EA, anybody has any idea on how to optimize this theoritical strategy

The buyers are the loser and helpless from MQL stuffs

As from the title, I mean which method has the best ratio safety/profitability for you (support resistance based, atr based, range based, time based etc etc.) Share your opinion...

Hello, How can I identify a trend or trend reversal (counter-trend) using RSI, Stochastic, and Bollinger Bands ? What are the recommended settings for RSI, Stochastic, and Bollinger Bands

This thread won't be about a question or problem, but rather about the anouncement of the presentation and documentation of an exciting trading concept. I plan to do a series of postings here in order to keep you guys updated. Anybody who has an opinion on the topic, please don't hesitate to comment...

Excuse for my english, i hope to be able explain my idea for trading system Ok I'd like to present a very simple and profitable way to trade eur usd only one important indicator: sma 14,,,,,,,, when price cross sma 14 we take position 5 minutes setting short when price was over sma 1 lot long...

I just started this thread as a continuation of the talking made on this topic (we can read it). Or ...to make it shorter: it was some discussion about forecasting/predicting of the next candle or direction of the movement or market condition evaluation. And it was around standard indiocators in

Hey guys, dumb questions from a noob I just created a demo account on ****** to try their MT5 and I'm trying to find the emini futures in there (S&P 500) but I simply can't. Their website says they support it, but I just can't find it. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here

Hello all, I am new to the MT5 platform & my background is in trading E-Mini S&P500 futures. Of course, I am interested in algorithmic trading but I have not been able to find any source code for this particular instrument. I would appreciate any guidance or assistance in finding some expert

Hi @ all, i´m new with MT 5 and wanted to know if its possible to trade on sim/demo account other markets than forex? For instance, NQ, SP500, etc. For now i only see forex markets to choose from. Any ideas? Thanks

Hi. How much would it cost to make this DOM?

SP500 and NASDAQ Indexes are not up to date and have been disabled for some time now. Is anyone else experiencing this

good day. I'm new here, and I can't find an answer. Please advise: I downloaded a couple of "free" EAs to MT5 and I need to backtest them via "test". But I have a problem that it is counting my profit as a few dollars. I have something set up wrong. I need to set it up for back-testing on stocks and

If BTC/USD has support at $68,000 and resistance at $70,000, what type of group or person would keep dumping at $70,000 when they make very little profit from a buy at $69,000

Newbie question I know..trying to place a leveraged buy order for stock RNG.N. Current ask price is at 32,950. Account balance is 103€ with the same free margin (no other open positions) and a 1:200 leverage. For 50 stocks this should be enough, right? Stop loss is not set. Still getting the "not

I know this is possible on demo accounts, but on real accounts? Anyone who operates with this strategy on a real account

Hi, I have data export from NT8 and need to import it in MT5 but the formats compatible with the two platforms are clearly different. Is there a process/tool to automate this

Hello all, I'm a software engineer with a C++ background and have been using metatrader for a long time. I've been importing chart data into custom symbols successfully however, I lately have been needing to import historic prices; and in this area, MT5 is limited. The issue --seems to-- lie in the

Dear all, I am trying to import historical data (M1) to MT5 from my Tradestation account. I have export the data in csv format and below there are some rows as example: "Date","Time","Open","High","Low","Close","TotalVolume" 1/2/2008,03:01:00,3841.00,3842.25,3840.25,3841.75,184

MetaQuotes Software and oneZero Financial Systems announce a new connectivity gateway for integration with Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., available through the oneZero Hub product. The gateway provides the possibility to trade stocks, futures and other exchange traded instruments on the largest...

does the future contracts on mt5 automatically rollover? Like ES, YM, NQ

Hi I have been trading UNLEVERAGED ETFs on non metatrader broker of Indices (NASDAQ100,S&P500) and Metals(Gold, Silver) . I was always buying .Long The reason for this choice was because no Swap is being charged and I can hold a position for months without much stress. I will now seek MT5 brokers

Hi All, If I run the onTick function to tell me CurrentTime, how can I filter the EA to do actions only when the time is :00 seconds? Thanks for the answers

How to copyright / protect your expert advisor for MT5? Which code should be added? Or when you want to copyright to a certain ip address or Name of User

Can you tell me if this is a realistic tester figure? And is this a good or bad result for a year with a deposit of $3,000

Hi, I'm trying to test a strategy in MT5 created in SQ. In SQ, the strategy looks great, but in MT5, it doesn't execute any trades. The tester log shows the following message every time it apparently attempts to execute a trade: Any idea what the error could be? 01:10:43.129 Core 1 2024.02.16

my errors do not happen often, however, I know that it will happen on 8 of 16 cores/threads if i start optimiser with all 16 threads enabled. But makes sense to me that it would so i never start optimiser with more than 6. But I am getting 1 core, never the same core, every 16 hours or so, with the

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we buy and sell in the stock market. This discussion is about understanding how computers use AI to make quick trading decisions. We will look into how AI can spot patterns in the market, make predictions, and decide when it’s a good time to trade

Where can I learn neural network in mql5? Or which book can I use to learn neural network in mql5 or mql4

string TestROC_( int nPeriod, string cPair) { int i; int sizeOfnResultROC = nPeriod; double nResultROC[]; double nResultClose; double nResult; double nResultAbs; double nResultA; double nResultB; int nRow = 2; int nCol = 3;

Hi everyone, I'm in the process of designing an EA for AUD/USD, NZD/USD, GBP/USD, and EUR/USD. My strategy enters trades on the 5-minute timeframe (M5), based on EMA50 crossing over EMA200, with confirmation from the 1-hour trend direction (H1 EMA50). I'm setting slippage to 1 pip. Before I go

Greetings, Is there a way to Automate Trading from TradingView to MT4/MT5 ? Simply what I am trying to do is to set conditions for opening the trade based on an indicator, for example, the Super Trend indicator on TradingView gives Buy/Sell signals. I want my trades to be opened on MT4/MT5 after the

I’ve recently started programming and I’ve encountered a small issue. I’m using MetaEditor through my broker’s terminal (Puprime). After compiling the file and sending it to someone using a different broker, they receive an error message stating that a newer version is required. Does this mean I

my source: if (condition1) { operator1; } else if (condition2) { operator2; } else if (condition3) { operator3; } //but metaeditor " catl+," format this： if (condition1) { operator1; } else if (condition2) { operator2; } else if (condition3) { operator3; } my condition1,2,3 are same

Good day. Say someone asks me to "Modify their trade closing by Including a delay to function A" Function A closes trades when an indicstor gets a particular setup. When modification is done as per specific requirements. How ever clients main problem wasnt what they asked for. But it is that

I am coding an EA for trading SAR. My bear positions, based on the SAR, never action. All bull positions work fine. Using counters for each function I have confirmed that every function works as required. values. in the below code simply refers to a pre-made structure. void OnTick () {

How to write iCCOnArray for RSI in mql5

i'm trying to make an indicator that works on M1, it checks if the minute candle closed above previous hour high or below previous hour low and marks it, it seems i have a problem with getting previous hour high and low, the below code works but not consistent, sometimes it marks candles that did

i used to have multiple moving averages on my chart and it worked flawlessly until earlier today i only have one ma and wanted to add more, but no matter what settings i put into the ma, when i click save nothing new was added, and only the first moving average remains. is this some kind of a bug or

Hi all, I am looking for an Indicator with show Divergence on the macd version i attach below , with a sound alert signal. Can any one programer help out please. Thank you

a nice indicator i think green GBP /red USD se the pic

Can someone convert this ADR or recreate it for MT5 (MT4 Source Code Included)

Can anyone out there advise if there's an MT5 version of this indicator? Even a recreated version with the features highlighted in green (from the MT4 version, for which I don't have the source code) doesn't help—I've been unable to find an MT5 ADR indicator that matches the settings and delivers

Different zigzag's indicators please post here

Hi all. I'm trying to make simple indi which will speed up placing sup/res lines on the chart. It will place Hline on mouse click only while holding (ctrl for Blue or shift for Red line) but I don't know how to combine CHARTEVENT_KEYDOWN & CHARTEVENT_CLICK or I'm doing it the wrong way? Can...

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hi everyone i have an issue with my indicator, the arrow buffer is filling with some strange values that draws wrong signals on charts here is the issue picture and here is the code: #property strict #property indicator_chart_window #property indicator_buffers 5 #property indicator_plots 2

Hello. In MT4 I had a MTF MA indicator and it is working nice. The problem is that I can't find any sample in MT5 which works the similar. Simply, I want to use 1 min chart and I want to attach to that chart SMA calculated on 15 min chart. I can't solve that. Any help will be very useful. Thanks

I'm experiencing an issue with the FX Trend indicator, which I acquired from the marketplace, as it is not attaching to my charts. I've already corresponded with indicator's developer, and based on our communication it appears that my installation and setup procedures are correct. The developer has

Hi, I have this sample code for the MTF RSI indicator. The first thing we check in onCalculate is whether the number of bars calculated by the RSI handle matches the number of bars in the selected timeframe. If they don’t match, the function returns zero. This works well in the open market, and

Dear Fellows I am trying to customize Volume Profile indicator https://www.mql5.com/en/code/47784 and make it EA Friendly to get signals for POC Price (png attached), HVN and LVN Prices. Google search did not helped much and all the VP Indicators lack the Buffers. Is it really impossible to created

Can someone please help with installing 09_Pretty_Normal.set file to my market profile indicator? I opened the market profile indicator in the editor nut i don't see anything like in the file here is what I see, not sure how to use this. s00=- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - VisualMode=1

Chande Kroll Stop : Chande Kroll Stop indicator - stop levels for short and long positions. Author: Artyom Trishkin

Multiple EA Tracking with a Magic Number Based Profit and Loss Live Dashboard in MQL5 : Whether you’re running multiple trading robots simultaneously or just one sophisticated strategy, keeping track of each Expert Advisor’s performance can be surprisingly time-consuming. MetaTrader 5 (MT5)

Check out the new article: Atmosphere Clouds Model Optimization (ACMO): Theory . The article is devoted to the metaheuristic Atmosphere Clouds Model Optimization (ACMO) algorithm, which simulates the behavior of clouds to solve optimization problems. The algorithm uses the principles of cloud

Check out the new article: Price Action Analysis Toolkit Development (Part 19): ZigZag Analyzer . Every price action trader manually uses trendlines to confirm trends and spot potential turning or continuation levels. In this series on developing a price action analysis toolkit, we introduce a tool

2-Pair Correlation EA – Free Expert Advisor for Safe and Profitable Crypto Trading! : 2-Pair Correlation EA – Free, Adaptive Crypto Trading Automation The 2-Pair Correlation EA is a free Expert Advisor that trades BTC/USD and ETH/USD, capitalizing on their price correlation. The EA opens trades when

New article Payments and payment methods is published: MQL5.community built-in services offer great opportunities both to MQL5 developers and ordinary traders with no programming skills. But all these features can't be implemented without in-house secure payment system, that provides a convenient

New Candle or Bar formation. : This Bot detects the open of a new candle on any set timeframe, thereby making it easier to run a one-time code, place trades and call other functions. The code is written in the OnTick() function. Author: Clinton Dennis Edem

Check out the new article: Developing a Trading System Based on the Order Book (Part I): Indicator . Depth of Market is undoubtedly a very important element for executing fast trades, especially in High Frequency Trading (HFT) algorithms. In this series of articles, we will look at this type of

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: Hierarchical Feature Learning for Point Clouds . We continue to study algorithms for extracting features from a point cloud. In this article, we will get acquainted with the mechanisms for increasing the efficiency of the PointNet method. As

Indiana Jones Mean Reversion EA : This is a simple mean reversion EA Author: Yashar Seyyedin

Check out the new article: Statistical Arbitrage Through Mean Reversion in Pairs Trading: Beating the Market by Math . This article describes the fundamentals of portfolio-level statistical arbitrage. Its goal is to facilitate the understanding of the principles of statistical arbitrage to readers

Check out the new article: Mastering Market Dynamics: Creating a Support and Resistance Strategy Expert Advisor (EA) . A comprehensive guide to developing an automated trading algorithm based on the Support and Resistance strategy. Detailed information on all aspects of creating an expert advisor in

Check out the new article: MQL5 Wizard Techniques you should know (Part 53): Market Facilitation Index . The Market Facilitation Index is another Bill Williams Indicator that is intended to measure the efficiency of price movement in tandem with volume. As always, we look at the various patterns of

Check out the new article: Creating a Trading Administrator Panel in MQL5 (Part IX): Code Organization (V): AnalyticsPanel Class . In this discussion, we explore how to retrieve real-time market data and trading account information, perform various calculations, and display the results on a custom

Check out the new article: Introduction to MQL5 (Part 15): A Beginner's Guide to Building Custom Indicators (IV) . In this article, you'll learn how to build a price action indicator in MQL5, focusing on key points like low (L), high (H), higher low (HL), higher high (HH), lower low (LL), and lower

0 I'm trying to create a simple EA tool in MT4 so that I can drag and drop two lines on the chart, and based on input parameters it calculates lot size, and then when I press execute, it enters a limit order with the entry price and stop loss price. As you can see I'm consistently getting the error

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Good morning everyone, Is someone can help me understand the difference between : bands_shift [in]  The indicator shift relative to the chart. shift [in]  Index of the value taken from the indicator buffer (shift relative to the current bar the given amount of periods ago). Thanks a lot for...

Hi, Mr. Guru could you please help me to constantly refresh an ea after each tick movement. I have tried everything, But I just can't make it refresh constantly. What lines of code must I insert to keep an ea and indicator refresh after every tick ? Tnx

Using a Mac First post and I am sorry if this is in the wrong place. My Navigator window and Market Watch have become undocked.....sure it was my fault. Now, I can't get either back docked?? Does anyone know how to fit this? It is a really silly problem to have without any way to get it back

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Hi - for some reason, my MT4 is not compiling. I'd be super grateful if someone could help compile this into an ex4. Any help very gratefully received, thank you. Love and Light //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| EMA + Stochastic Trend EA with Customisable

I am trying to make a Indicator based on the RSI + BollingerBands + MA My Indicator doing great job by creating Arrows and Vertical line for Signal when matching the conditions but the problem is it not showing RSI, Bollinger Bands and MA in Chart. Currently it showing like this : I want like this

Please Help. Please Guide. I am running windows 10. I am posting here because I am stuck Running MT4 on 43 inch 4K Monitor and need Help as I can't return this Monitor. I do not face this issue on 32 inch Full HD Monitor anytime. I bought a 43 inch 4K Monitor. But the Candles appear VERY THIN with...

What is the most efficient way to get unlimited Stochastic Alerts? I wanted to get notifications when bitcoin or ANY altcoin returns back from below 20 or returns back from above 80 in stochastic (I also would be interested in forex Stochastic Alerts etc) Is there a way to get these Stochastic

Is there some sort of valid reason as to why MT4 ( Version 4, Build 1440 ) has, all of a sudden, decided to continue to tell me that my SMTP credentials are incorrent, despite the fact that they're not, MT5 does not have any issue with my credentials whatsoever? There is no reason that I can work

Good evening, fellow MT4ites! So up until last week (November 2020) my MT4 platform (Version 4.00 Build 1311) suddenly seized sending email alerts. My SMTP details are correct, including the port number (587). I used SendGrid and now I'm using Sendinblue to see if it was an issue with SendGrid

Hi . I had mt4 years ago ,upgraded to mt5 a couple of years after and now I want to go back to mt4 only problem is that even after deleting all data and uninstalling mt5 when I download mt4 the I can't install custom indicators any more (They just don't show up in list of indicators in the trading