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Considering customers go through a verification and confirmation process on MQL5, (tagged requirements, "requirements negotiation) to be able to give out programming jobs, don't they have a right to own the programmed indicator/Expert advisor software? This question has become pertinent because I

Hi Everyone, Can any of you help me with the Sginal that I bought? It is not working. how can I make it work on my account and make auto sales

Theres an empty message in my inbox , what is that

Hi, few weeks ago I installed MetaTrader 5, testing some strategies everything fine, after the friday update, simply doesn't work to test strategies. 1. I delete everything from %appdata% related to MetaTrader 2. Installed again and still nothing CS 0 10 : 08 : 23.456 Startup

Help me unlock I want to buy products from the store Yesterday, my credit card app was not unlocked. causing payment failure

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

Is there any way to avoid this? Right now, I have to right-click, go to the Object List, and check the checkboxes in order to make them selectable every time I close and reopen MT5 (or double click on them)

Hi I ordered freelance jobs and I have 2 Kenyan developers accepting job then stop replying. Duration promised time has passed. I requested for arbitration. It’s been 7 days and nothing is happening. What do I do? I want to get my money unlocked

URGENT HELP NEEDED !! I have an ea uses grid like strategy, it places orders above and below pricea at a configured distance, it worked magicaly on the first 3 months of 2025, but since the late of march, it underperformed dramaticaly across the majority of pairs, i have a spread filter, and if i

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Any new software inevitably contains bugs that are not alwayspossible to detect even under the most rigorous in-house testing. Wetherefore attach great importance to all user reports about issues inour programs and try to answer each one of them. In order to improve feedback from MetaTrader 5 end...

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

Hello, I have had to create this separate account on MQL - my actual main MQL account is -AZ- Since Friday last week, all of a sudden, I am unable to access my main account: it initially stated that the password was incorrect, which was very strange - and the first thought I had was that someone

This is the thread about Brainwashing system. We will start with original version of this system and will improve it later. ========== Just something about the history. There are 3 famous signals system (manual trading systems based on signal indicators): Asctrend, BrainTrend and Brainwashing. First

I started my journey in trading five months ago. Since then, I’ve studied all kinds of strategies— ICT, SMC, price action, and more— but none of them really worked for me, mostly because of the wide stop losses. Eventually, I switched to a demo account to develop and refine my own strategy. I

Hello all, I have been trading the Forex market for 4 years and I need automated trading strategies due to a change in my employment status (and I'm not a very profitable trader and need a change in direction.) I am looking to find out if anyone has past/present experience or considering automated

im trying to test a new hft ea but get the error message invalid price . i think its the buy and sell stops that are too close to chart price. how can i find out if thats whats happening, and what hte min distance should be

I need help if anyone know how to do this or has a bot please reach out to me

Hey everyone, I had a trade on silver (XAGUSD) that got really close to my take profit — just a few pips away — but then it reversed. Now I'm not sure what to do. Should I close it manually or leave it and see if it goes back up? The bot I'm using was showing a continuation lower, but price bounced

Guys, I have been trading since 2011, I have tried nearly 2000 strategies, I have build almost 2000 Eas and indicators, on this olatform and on other platform, but I have not really found what works, what actually works? and does such a thing exists

Hi guys, I just start a trading discussion about what the best method to identify trend. We know there are three type of trend: 1. Up Trend 2. Down Trend 3. Sideway. How we identify Trend? Thanks in Advanced

Hello, I would like to conduct a study on the signals available in MT4 and MT5. For this, I would like to have the data displayed on the website in a .csv or similar format. Is it possible to extract them from the web? Thank you very much

Signals provider broker uses 'XAUUSD.' (with a period) Subscribers broker uses 'XAUUSD' (without a period) According to https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/10773#q13, automatic mapping should make a match on the first 6 characters. However the subscribers MT5 terminal (build 4755) logs "no symbol found"

Hi Guys Realy Great Stuff you are presenting here. I wanted to share this indicator with you. The Indicator is to show the candel sticks reversal patterns. I know that there is 2 or 3 indicators are doing the same as this one. But what I added in this indicator is to recognize the full pattern not

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

Dear friends/Brothers/Sisters, I want to start this post regarding Price Action. I want people to help about what I know. Please Respond this post, Share the way you know and learn the way I know. I am not a master but a trader like others and also like to know how others doing. Reply and Keep in...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

I used to use metatrader4 when I was messing with Forex, but I have funds that I'd like to use out of my stock porfolio to trade one particuarl stock which goes up and down $1-2/day pretty much all the time. I'd like to set metatrader up to say, sell at a certain price, then buy at $2.00 lower, then

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

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

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

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

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

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, I've noticed this ever since I switched to MT5 and multi-agent testing around 2 years ago. When testing with all local agents (I have not yet used cloud testing) the task scheduler does not distribute tasks optimally - particularly when getting "near" the end of testing. For genetic optimisation

How to increase the font size of the opening price on the chart

Hello, I have Garnet. However, it is difficult to know which signals are available, as many are not available though listed. Is there a filter or some other way to only display the signals compatible with Gartnet and Metatrader? Thanks

i have a take profit of " 150 " points but , I'd like to partially close a position if it get 50 points profits then modify the remaining position with a take profit ( 100 points) , here's my code the problem is that the position closes fully at 50 points , i understand why but can't figure out how

I have looked and searched the forum and cannot find a proper answer on how to copy set files in the most updated MT5 version. I saw a YouTube video that says the set files are in the Preset folder but it was an old video and my current version of MT5 does not have a Preset Folder. My situation is I

Looking to build good backtesting (optimisation) pc. - whats better for backtesting (optimisation) on MT5, ryzen 9 7950x or intel i9 13900k My understanding is that AMD does better on the multicore but Intel beats it on single core processing. Also will 64gb ram be enough or should I splash put on

Hi every body, I used to trade manually since many years. But today I want to automatise some of my algorithmics systems. Is it possible to create a robot who can manage 20 or 22 instruments on a single account, with the possibility to calculate the quantities according to previous results ? Thanks

Hello I'm trying to build a multi currency ea that works in the mt5 strategy tester. i'm not a professional programmer but i tried i've read the articles on this website about that and tried but with no luck i couldn't understand the method because they use about 3-5 include files linking to each

Dear All i was trying a trading strategy to buy or sell all the USD Currency pairs together, i only check the daily strength of the USD, then i take decision to buy or sell (open 7 positions), then i check after so many hours, sometimes waiting for days looking  for total positive profit after that...

What is MQL5 Wizard : The MetaTrader 5 Trading Platform includes the MQL5 Wizard , which allows to quickly generate code of an Expert Advisor (Expert Advisor builder). With MQL5 Wizard, knowledge of programming languages is no longer a prerequisite for creating trading robots . In the past, it

Hi guys nayone can help me to understund why not write the file .csv in File foder? this is my code #property strict double spreadSumCurrentMinute = 0.0 ; datetime currentM1BarTime = 0 ; string FileName; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ int OnInit () { string

Right after midnight (00:19 for example), I got the equity that drops significantly and temporarily, it all goes back to normal levels after midnight. my EA is a grid that consists of buys and sells. I tried to hedge my grid before midnight so that there are the same number of buys and sells but the

I'm mostly talking about issues with the "Visual Mode" of the strategy tester 1) If I start a backtest, but then stop it using the stop button of the main MT5 window and then try to start a new backtest by clicking "Start" : it doesn't work. I have to go to the Visual Mode window and click stop

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

Hello, How to know the number of the week? MqlDateTime gives a lot of info, but I did not find the number of the week. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//|                                                   WeekNumber.mq5 |//|...

How do I find out where the error is, everything is ok when compiling

Hello MT folks, I have a sample indicator I extracted. On the 1-minute timeframe, the data displayed on the indicator appears the same on the chart as I have extracted. But immediately, I switch the timeframe to 4 hours, the data displayed on the indicator is mostly slightly different in decimals

I have an indicator that plots 3 buffers. The first is a line (buffer number 0) and the other two are arrows (bufer numbers 1 and 2) that lie on that line (see picture). With this order of the buffers, the indicator is plotted in a desirable way (the arrows overlap the line). Unfortunately, when

Different zigzag's indicators please post here

Through experimentation one night, I figured out it was very easy to calculate the truest pivots in the market with minimal code by calculating the candles moving backwards in time rather than forwards. Moving backwards in time isn't reality, and of course we always move forwards in live trading

what do i do in this case ? thanks (its an indicator)

Hey erveryone hope you guys are doing well. I got an mlq5 code am trying to fix the deletion logic for invalidated logic but it is failing no matter waht i edit. Tried also chatgpt and deepseek but nothing fixes the issure. i have added candle lookbar, invalidation closes ,alert trigger deletes all

I'm pretty new to this and reading all the articles and blogs never gives you a straight answer. Always uses words like maybe , on the other hand, if. Its never clear. Does anyone have a good source for news and forecast? Regards Trevor

Hello, I'm trying to send a message to my Telegram bot using WebRequest() in MetaTrader 5, but it consistently fails with error code 4006 . Here's what I've already done: Allowed WebRequest in MT5 under Tools > Options > Expert Advisors Added the URL: https://api.telegram.org/ Restarted MT5 after

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can someone give their indicators source code, cuz i am facing some problems and chatgpt can't solve it, i need an indicator that gives signal so my indicator gives buy and buy stop signal, sometime it's giving wrong buy stop signals, also indicator shows old arrows on the loaded chart but stops

Is there an indicator or plot property to send the fill in the background ? thanks

hello every one, i wrote an indicator which colored some candles red or green based on a special condition. i want to convert it to mql4 , but it seems candle draw function is not in mql4. would you please help me. thank you so much --------

Fibo Levels indicator. Fully forecasting.

void ShowBS( string CodeName, int BarIndex) { datetime targetTime = iTime ( NULL , Period (), BarIndex); ObjectCreate ( 0 , CodeName, OBJ_TEXT , 1 , targetTime, 9 ); ObjectSetInteger ( 0 , CodeName, OBJPROP_COLOR , clrYellow ); ObjectSetInteger ( 0 , CodeName, OBJPROP_FONTSIZE , 8

Show Positions on Custom Chart (or standard chart) for MT5 : This indicator is a utility that shows labelled trade levels on any chart. If you want to replace your native trade levels on a native chart, then turn off "Show trade levels" in your F8 Chart Properties and attach this indicator. If you

Check out the new article: From Basic to Intermediate: Array (III) . In this article, we will look at how to work with arrays in MQL5, including how to pass information between functions and procedures using arrays. The purpose is to prepare you for what will be demonstrated and explained in future

Check out the new article: ALGLIB library optimization methods (Part I) . In this article, we will get acquainted with the ALGLIB library optimization methods for MQL5. The article includes simple and clear examples of using ALGLIB to solve optimization problems, which will make mastering the

Double Moving Averages With Fibonacci : This indicator combines two moving averages to generate buy/sell signals based on crossovers. It also plots Fibonacci retracement levels using recent swing highs and lows for support/resistance. Visual arrows mark trade signals, and optional alerts notify

Check out the new article: Automating Trading Strategies in MQL5 (Part 18): Envelopes Trend Bounce Scalping - Core Infrastructure and Signal Generation (Part I) . In this article, we build the core infrastructure for the Envelopes Trend Bounce Scalping Expert Advisor in MQL5. We initialize envelopes

SniperJaw EA : SniperJaw EA is a one-trade-at-a-time robot that uses the Alligator indicator (Jaw, Teeth, Lips) to follow the trend. You can control the trade size with LotSize, choose to close trades on opposite signal with UseEntryToExit, or use TakeProfit and StopLoss in pips if set. Slippage is

Check out the new article: How to Create an Interactive MQL5 Dashboard/Panel Using the Controls Class (Part 2): Adding Button Responsiveness . In this article, we focus on transforming our static MQL5 dashboard panel into an interactive tool by enabling button responsiveness. We explore how to

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: Market Analysis Using a Pattern Transformer . When we use models to analyze the market situation, we mainly focus on the candlestick. However, it has long been known that candlestick patterns can help in predicting future price movements. In

MQL5 Program Packer: This is MQL5 project packer: assemble all source and resource files from dependencies into a single ZIP. Author: Stanislav Korotky

Equity and Balance Indicator - History based : This indicator reads the trade history and plots the Cumulative P & L over time, helping visual traders to see how much money they are making or losing over time. This current version has a difference of 0.02% marginal error, due to rounding floats, and

BreakRevertPro EA Adaptive Trading Edge for Breakout Mean Reversion : BreakRevertPro EA merges breakout and mean reversion strategies with adaptive SL/TP and multi-timeframe ATR trailing stops for flexible trading in volatile markets. Author: Mustafa Seyyid Sahin

Check out the new article: Advanced Memory Management and Optimization Techniques in MQL5 . Discover practical techniques to optimize memory usage in MQL5 trading systems. Learn to build efficient, stable, and fast-performing Expert Advisors and indicators. We’ll explore how memory really works in

AveragePrice : Indicator for calculating the average price of open positions, you can use the magic number if you want to separate the positions of just one robot, but the zero number is for manual operations. Author: Francisco Gomes Da Silva

2 Moving Averages : 2 Moving Averages is a custom MQL4 indicator that uses two moving averages (fast and slow) to identify potential trend changes and generate buy or sell signals based on crossover points. It enhances signal reliability by optionally integrating support and resistance levels

Swaps Monitor for a Single Symbol : A simple utility for monitoring long and short swaps of a single symbol. If your broker-dealer's swaps are specified in points instead of account currency, this utility automatically converts points into account currency. Swaps are tripled on Wednesday. Horizontal

Guys, Ive been trying to withdraw funds from my MQL5 account and MQL5 frustrating my effort. I created a webmoney account to receive funds and their response was "Our payment provider does not support your region" Please let me know how an international payment system such as webmoney is not

I started this thread to post all news/signals indicators and EAs we have now and will have in the future.

I am not able to run new optimization test on MT4 backtesting further, as every time I try to run it I get zero results and on the journal it says something like this "There were <n> passes done during optimization". I have searched the interenet and have performed the following without any

Hey all! Does anyone know of an effective way that I could extract the trade history from strategy tester after it is complete, into excel? I am currently doing this manually at the moment, but is a very long process when I am back-testing on 20+ pairs... Is it possible to use Macro's within excel...

Anyone fancy taking a look at this EA , when back tested in strategy on the 1m chart XAUUSD with TP 100 , the results are amazing, however in live I cant get it to be profitable? here's the script : //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Expert Advisor

All lessons of Codersguru: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/175653 Mql - Metatrader Development Course | www.metatrader.info https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/172885 All Codersguru lessons + questions/replies and so on are on this section Metatrader 4 mql 4 - Development course - Forex-TSD Book: https...

Hi guys!  I was looking for an automatic lot size calculator based on a horizontal line. All the stuff I have found are position size calculators, but then you have to manually enter the lot number in the Red/blue chart with the buy/sell buttons. I need something that automatically calculate the lot...

TRiX (3 Exponential) indicator for MetaTrader 4. The TRIX is a trend-following indicator used by triple smoothing of price and looking for anomalies and rate of change. How To Use TRIX How To Use TRIX Download here: Click here to download Great trading

Hello guys, I have a very simple indicator drawn in a subwindow, the code of which is below: #property indicator_separate_window #property indicator_buffers 2 #property indicator_minimum 0 #property indicator_color1 Lime #property indicator_color2 Red double val1[]; double val2[]; double dXecn = 1 ;

Hi lovely community :) I'm having some issues with Strategy Tester and really need a hand. I did have a look around and I've tried a few solutions but to no avail. When I run a EA that I've made I get no results at all. Completely blank. I'm trying to figure out where I'm going wrong. I've check

Hi. People Lately history center is not working and I can't download any historical data. Is this due to planed schedule ? or Is it happen since new build 950 ? Just want to clarify what is going on. Kind regards.

Can someone please help me with the above issue, i cant download historical data for any symbol, its showing only little data and when try to download i will get error " there is no new data for pair "XXX", i have tried multiple pairs but nothing is working, download and re-install the MT4, switch

Hi Guys, Just started working on the MT4 platform and there is something that I just can't figure out and its being a real pain. Each time I backtest an EA using the "Strategy tester" and I open a chart for it, the chart opens with a black background and white bars. Since I prefer working with...

I have a back testing program that only accepts indicators as DLL's. Does anyone know if it's possible to convert an MQ4 indicator to a DLL? If so, could you please tell me what I need to do in order to convert it? Thanks

Is it possible to change the delimiter from semicolon to a comma? I am exporting data to a program that will not recognize the semicolon