Chart Browser
This is a powerful addition to your MetaTrader 5 toolkit designed to optimize market analysis and performance. This Expert Advisor serves as automated trading software. It is utilized to monitor financial markets and execute trades based on predefined algorithmic rules, enabling precise position management without the need for constant manual oversight.
How to Setup and Use Chart Browser
1. Installation: Open the "File" menu, select "Open Data Folder," navigate to MQL/Experts, paste your file, and restart the terminal.
2. Activation: Drag the EA from the Navigator onto a chart, ensure "Allow live trading" is checked in the Common tab, and verify the AutoTrading button is green.
3. Optimization: Right-click your chart, choose "Expert List," click "Properties" to adjust inputs, and save your preferred setup as a set file for future use.
4. Maintenance: Regularly check the "Experts" tab in the terminal window to monitor trade logs and potential execution errors.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why is my EA not opening trades? A: Check the "AutoTrading" button, ensure "Allow live trading" is enabled, and verify your broker allows automated trading on your account type.
Q: Can I run multiple EAs on one chart? A: No, each chart can only host one active EA; however, you can open multiple charts for different currency pairs to run several EAs.
Q: What does the "smiley face" icon mean? A: A smiley face in the top-right corner of the chart indicates the EA is successfully running; a frowny face means it is disabled.
Description & Settings
This utility allows you to view lists of all open charts, running expert advisers, indicators, and scripts. All the lists are sorted in alphabetic order (case-sensitive). In any list you may select an item (either chart or MQL-program) and click the button Go to switch to corresponding chart instantly. The lists provide 2-way binding of the charts and MQL-programs.
All lists contain primary and secondary elements. Primary elements are shown without padding and enumerate the tab's major content (for example, in the chart list each primary element is a chart name in the form "symbol timeframe"; in the indicator list each element is an indicator name, etc).
Secondary elements are shown with a padding. Each secondary element is bound to previous primary element. For example, in the chart list there can be multiple secondary elements under specific chart, representing expert adviser (marked by "[E]"), indicators (marked by "[I]"), or script (marked by "[S]"), running on that chart. If a chart has no programs attached, there are no secondary elements for it.
In the tabs which provide lists of MQL-programs the secondary elements are charts. Each primary element (expert, indicator, or script) is always followed by a row with its chart name (secondary element).
If a chart has subwindows, their number is also displayed after the chart name.
Indicator name is appended with a tuple "<n;m>", where n is an index of window/subwindow where the indicator is placed (0 means the main window), and m is an index (0-based) of the indicator in that window/subwindow.
Number of primary elements on the current tab is displayed in the dialog title.
THE FILE ChartBrowser.bundle.mq5 IS GENERATED BY MQL5 PACKER UTILITY TO PASS THE CODEBASE VALIDATION PROCESS, WHICH DOES NOT SUPPORT MORE THAN 32 SOURCE FILES IN ONE PROGRAM! TO GET ACTUAL SOURCE CODES WITH SEPARATE HEADER FILES PLEASE EXTRACT THEM FROM THE ATTACHED ARCHIVE ChartBrowser.mq5.zip, PRESERVING FOLDER HIERARCHY.
Animated screenshot is provided below.
You don't need to read and understand everything in the articles to get it working. It can be helpful only if you're going to develop GUI for your own program.
Here is how the declarative part of this GUI looks like in MQL (can be used as an example of GUI layout for MQL developers):
The tabbed control is simulated by 4 customized buttons (TabButton class).
