MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 675

As I think understand it, when you are in a trade in a pair, neither of which are your deposit currency you have effectively gone short your deposit currency. You are exposed to 'cross currency risk' that your deposit currency will change relative to one or both of the currencies that your trade is...

Hello, I have developed a EA System that makes good profit in sideway market. Attach is a backtest with my EA from last week trading EURUSD 5 min Chart, it has make more then 30.000 Pips with 0.1 Lot. If the market move to a trend the risk become bigger to loose, but I think it is also a good

Hello,  I need to build an EA which will be running on one account and will obtain information from the second account like Equity level, Balance, Open trades, etc...  Any idea?  Thanks David 

Hi guys I got a simple question: How to calculate your average return? Given is ratio of successful trades (ratio):        60% risk per trade (risk):                             5% risk / reward ratio (R):                          2 My try:            ratio x risk  x R –(1-ratio) x risk...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can advise me on what is going on.  I use MT4 to send PUSH notifications to my android phone. When the phone receives a notification it displays in the notification area, but when I then click on it to see the whole message inside the MT4 app, there's no message there!...

ObjectDescription takes one input-the name of an object. What if I have multiple objects, each on different charts, with the same name? How do I distinguish them?

I’m usingMT4 build 675. I made an EA which opens  a market BUY and market SELL at the same time.Both trades have the same lot size. The BUYenters at 1.18436 and exits 1.18236 (20 pips loss). The SELL enters at 1.18431and exits at 1.18231 (20 pips profit). Spead is 0.5 pips. Now thestrategy tester...

I am looking for a functionality of Detaching/ Undocking the chart from metatrader terminal, so that the detached chart can be dragged to another monitor ( this is a multi monitor workstati I searched but couldn't find any script of fix for the issue. Can anybody guide on how to undock/ detach...

I've written my own EA over past few months and am now wanting to know if there was a quick way to determine whether or not their will be a conflict when applying this to multiple pairs?   I know this may sound like a daft question as demoing it first will highlight discrepancies and conflicting...

In order to calculate the total profit/loss of an open position, which one of the following equations is correct? double pl = OrderProfit()+OrderCommission()+OrderSwap(); or double pl = OrderProfit()-OrderCommission()+OrderSwap();

I have a problem in the terminology used my MQL4 book and documentation. What does "to close an opened order" mean? I understand what is "to close an open position", but not an order. As far as I know, one can have a pending order to either open, close or modify a position. When the order is...

Hello, do you have a plugin that allows me to quickly open a position? (Metratrader 4) Choose: Long or Short. Choose how many lots.  Choose how many pips take profit and stop loss to be below and above the current entry price.  Thank you 

Hello, I'm new to mql4 so I have some confusion. I want to get the total profit of all orders closed in my last trade ( i have a hedge trade). I know that you can get the profit from OrderProfit but how can you select the trade to get its info if the order is already closed? Please help...

I was curious as to how I would set up a signal line on the MACD chart? I have not been able to find it.

I am trying to trade from an automatically updating CSV file. The file is updated with the newer entries being appended to the bottom of the file about every 15 minutes interval. The resulting file is a record of several rows of data by date/time and value as shown below.  // filename: EURUSDxx.CSV...

This is what comes up when I go there: Ошибка сервера 403 - запрещено. Доступ запрещен. Предоставленные учетные данные не дают права на просмотр этого каталога или страницы.

Hi, somebody knows why the first time of the day I run a script asking for iHigh[1] with in a loop, system returns me what is the iHigh[2] (third bar starting from end) , and when I re-run the script the same day it returns me the real iHigh[1] (second bar starting from end, in fact yesterday's...

Is it possible to move an EA from one computer to another computer using the same MT4 version and inputting the magic numbers so that the EA continues to execute the open orders according to the EA?  I want to transfer my EA's to another computer but do not want to close out my existing positions or...

After downloading an EA off the Code Base 2 Days ago, I am No longer able to get access to the MQL4 Code base. The EA downloaded and installed on a chart OK. My MetaTrader Demo is currently operating Ok. I got a message pop-up from that New EA that said, your Demo acct. has expired. Call us or buy a...

Hi, I would like to ask you, whether is Windows XP platform still supported? I have a machine with clean Windows XP SP3 installation and I'm not able to install MetaTrader 4 software. When I run the installation, I get the message with missing library.     Could you help me? How can I install the...

If I have an EA that enters trades on a specific magic number, say 1000, then can I have multiple orders with the same magic number? Even if they are different order types? (buy limit, sell stop, etc) and even if its different symbols?

Hello,  I would like to receive the answer from responsible person from Metaquotes. Because my broker said that this is the BUG in Metaquotes and they dont compensate my big losses.  Last and this week I have the problems, when I opened the one order, the system opened not one order, but two orders...

Hi, I am learning mql4. I made an indicator to get in a certain way the candle strength and create a bull-bear curve. Please let me have your comments and any suggestions for improvement. I have added a detailed description, as comments inside the indicator file. Thanks for testing AndPra...

Please where is my mistake? I have a file that you downloaded in MT4 Files folder and I need to just write. Thank you    

How many character can it name of global variables? (max. enable long name)

Hi guys, I couldn't find here in the forum or documentation if is it possible to delete an object by getting his description only instead of the the name.  The application is to delete that Arrow object created by any EA when a position is opened as soon as it is created.  I tought about insert this...

Is there any method to test my ea with given input leverage? This is for testing purpose only to setup money management in live

Hi, i'm newbie here, i have developed simple EA wchich place pending orders at specific time. the broker dont allow to have expiration time less than 1 hour so i want EA to delete these orders 5 min after placing. Here's the code, can u help me? where am i wrong?...

I have been trying to rate myself as a trader. So far,the parameters I have been looking at are: 1. ProfitsI make 2. Strategies to reduce losses and risks 3. Knowledge in business 4. Loss-handling strategies What else can we look at when trying to determine whether one is a good trader

What function use to copy or export file.csv to the specified folder ?