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On MT5 the time frame returned is often a large number not the minutes. This is a way to return the minutes into a variable:
https://fxdreema.com/shared/rCOJx10Bb

A backtest for 21 years with a starting balance of 100000 and a blatant equity drawdown, means a bad martingale setup. One that can be easily created, but one that most people already know is not worth the trouble, and a fake low-risk picture on your backtest just makes it even more worthless!

@nmbruno In this link you can see how to put the current symbol into a variable, and how to take the first 3 and last 3 and put them into separate variables, using these principles you should be able to do all you require, it doesn't whether the starting point is a constant or variable just make sure their named differently. Hope this helps

@TipsyWisdom We're not talking about women here

Ok, you are right, I have built projects with thousands of blocks,,, but these tend to consume computer power on back test, rather than actually make the bot better. Adding custom code blocks can considerably cut this, and speed things up (especially on backtest).

@zhahz If I click that shared link, click ex5, put EA on my mt5 it places a trade. If it's not for you unfortunately there is nothing that can be done and, you need to search for reasons this could happen.

I think you are wrong, they always work for me, create a small test project showing the problem... I don't see a trail block in your project

Yes. Any EA you build—whether in FXDreema, MQL, or Python—is a quant system if it expresses rules, logic, and measurable behaviour. FXDreema is just a visual interface for building algorithmic logic. The reason you don’t see many "quants" talking about it is because most quant developers prefer coding directly, but the underlying concept is the same.

@fxdreema Can you add NormalizeDouble to blocks that display stuff like profit. To me 2 numbers past the decimal place is all I ever need, and numbers something like 100.2356189876528 are too long and give un-relevent information.

How long is a bit of string? Some yes... some no... but people don't fill out a table of success, along there journey. But anyone that can do it with code, can do it with FX.

@fxdreema I see, don't know if it matters that much how the objective is achieved although what numbers are doing in the back ground probably don't matter, maybe if the option was just there for blocks that have a visual out put all needed would be achieved, if in the comment block you had a max digits option then all needed would be sorted. Good to know needed improvements are being done.

FFS, @gooseman Umm, you show your lack of understanding... the news can have a big impact, it is fractal, and on the daily chart often a minimal impact, but look at the same chart on the 5min and it can have a big impact, why do you think funded accounts have rules to news trading...

@kingrhuuu Make a start to your project, ask how to resolve any problems you come up against.

@oscarmothupi If you use daily candle 1 ID high & low, this is the pervious day.

@Wijnant as @ambrogio has said it's an int, in adjust you need something like this +Long_Position_Adjust pips

By DST I assume you mean daylight saving time, your broker will adjust for this, use server time, I think.

Add the indicator in my indicators, use indicator appear to place trade, the indicator will need buffers to place trade.

No one can help with such a limited amount of information

You can use this,
ChartXYToTimePrice(
long chart_id, // Chart ID
int x, // The X coordinate on the chart
int y, // The Y coordinate on the chart
int& sub_window, // The number of the subwindow
datetime& time, // Time on the chart
double& price // Price on the chart
);
in custom code, save into a variable, redraw line using variable, X & Y will stay the same but lines should move with time/price.

If indicator is above X but below Y it's within the limit