Questions from Beginners MQL5 MT5 MetaTrader 5 - page 1138

[Alexey Viktorov]

Anzhela Sityaeva:

Expert still creates a window with ChartIndicatorAdd and a blank indicator, then displays its information there.

Thank you for the idea, let's try it.

However, adding a ready indicator to a chart cannot be called creation of an indicator window. These are different actions...

[Anzhela Sityaeva]

Afternoon! Ctrl+A in MetaTrader5 sets the height of all indicator windows on the chart to a preset value. Question: - How can I change this value?

[Uladzimir Izerski]

Anzhela Sityaeva:
Hello! In MetaTrader5, Ctrl+A returns the height of all indicator windows on the chart to a preset value. Question: How can I change this value?

You don't understand the question.

Maybe that's what you want.

#property indicator_height 160 //Фиксированный размер окна

[MrBrooklin]

Hello!

I've never needed it before, so I didn't even think about it, but now I need to quickly find a certain date in a certain year. For example, I havea chart in front of me with the current date on the H1 timeframe and the currency pair EURUSD. I need to quickly move on the chart back by 5 years, say, to July 1. What are the best and, most importantly, fast (instant) ways to move to this date?

Respectfully, Vladimir.

[Artyom Trishkin]

MrBrooklin:

Hello!

I've never needed it before, so I didn't even think about it, but now I need to quickly find a certain date in a certain year. For example, I have a chart in front of me with the current date on the H1 timeframe and the currency pair EURUSD. I need to quickly move on the chart back by 5 years, say, to July 1. What are the available and, most importantly, fast ways to move?

Regards, Vladimir.

Press the spacebar and enter the date

[MrBrooklin]

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Artyom Trishkin, 2019.10.16 10:02

Press the spacebar and enter the date.

Thank you Artem!

Sincerely, Vladimir.

[Vladimir Karputov]

MrBrooklin:

Hello!

I've never needed it before, so I didn't even think about it, but now I need to quickly find a certain date in a certain year. For example, I have a chart in front of me with the current date on the H1 timeframe and the currency pair EURUSD. I need to quickly move on the chart back by 5 years, say, to July 1. What are the available and, most importantly, fast ways to move?

Regards, Vladimir.

Quick navigation bar:

Or alternatively: draw a vertical line, go to its properties and set the required date, Ctrl + B -> highlight the line and select "Show"

[Anzhela Sityaeva]

Uladzimir Izerski:

You don't understand the question.

Maybe that's what you need?

Thank you for your answer!

A little earlier, I asked a question related to this ( https://www.mql5.com/ru/forum/6343/page1133#comment_13526705)

I am trying to control the height of indicator window from Expert, but this method does not give me the desired result. However, the "hotkey" Ctrl+A sets the height of all windows to the default value.

Hence the question is it possible to change the set default value, if so how?

[MrBrooklin]

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Vladimir Karputov, 2019.10.16 10:08

Quick navigation bar:

Or alternatively: draw a vertical line, go to its properties and set the required date, Ctrl + B -> highlight the line and select "Show"

Thanks, Vladimir, for the tip!

Tried both options, it turned out that the quick navigation line is the fastest way.

Regards, Vladimir.

[Vlad Svetlov]

Hello, dear friends! I have a couple of modest questions for you)

1. How to output the volume of Buy, Sell and Buy+Sell positions in an Expert Advisor in an easier way?

For example: My Expert Advisor displays the amount of positions in Buy, Sell and Buy+Sell. I solved it with fighting) But I can't output volumes... For example: 3 buy positions opened by 0.1+0.3+0.5 lots =0.9 lots in total, 2 sell positions opened by 0.6+0.1 lots = 0.7 lots.

And all this in total: 0.9-0.7=0.2 lots. Buy=0.9 lot, Sell=0.7 lot, BuySell=0.2 lot...

DrawLABEL("rl orders",IntegerToString(b+s),180,415,clrWhiteSmoke,ANCHOR_CENTER);
DrawLABEL("rl ordersB",IntegerToString(b),180,383,clrWhiteSmoke,ANCHOR_CENTER); 
DrawLABEL("rl ordersS",IntegerToString(s),89,383,clrWhiteSmoke,ANCHOR_CENTER);

So you can get volumes like this...

2. The Expert Advisor displays "profit" by positions. How to make the background change depending on the result? For example: Profit - background is blue, loss - red...

EditCreate(0,"rl Profit",0,6,225,120,40,DoubleToString(0,2),"Arial",14,clrBlack,clrLightCyan,clrNONE,ALIGN_CENTER,true);

P.S. I am not a programmer, so do not push strongly)))) I do not have any info, I am not too much knowledge about it.) My EA is on MT5.

I want to be able to use it as an Expert Advisor in the future.