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Hi, I have programmed an expert advisor and is working well! It does everything I need it to do, except that there is one bug or flaw in my advisor. I use an oscillator to get the trend, and then either open a long or short. If the trend goes the other way, it closes the current trade and opens...

I have a MACD version that is supposedly more accurate. It uses EMA for the signal calculation as well. I tried making the same MACD by modifying the MACD in MT4 but it is not coming up with the same numbers. Can we port this over to MT4? I've been working on this for a long time, and I've labeled a

Hi! My name is Nimrod Tony D'souza, I am basically 25 years old from Bombay, India and a part-time forex trader. I would like to introduce to you a system thats made by me, extremely easy to use, deadly accuracy and the most important part, you dont have to think, you dont need to learn rocket...

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, an Interview with Alexei Ermolaev has been published (http://championship.mql4.com/2007/news/297/). Alexei is a newbie in automated trading. He does not have much experence in it. He works with statistical approaches to analysis, so he...

Hi, To what extent is the "backtester" influenced by the demo account server apart from spread, stop level etc.? TIA

MANY systems, to be honest appear to be profitable in a few months of forward testing (auto or manual). however, are these consistent? Onlypivot appears excellent? Has this been proven success for more than a year ? HAMA PAD ? Stentz ? Delta9 ? Braintrend ? ACStrend ? XO Method ? HAS appears good?...

Hi folks Here below are two charts from FXDD and North finance On the North Finance chart a whole day's bar for 14 november is missing ,therefore EA is using the bar for the 13 th as high low for the previous day. The FXDD chart is correct and shows the bar for the 14 th This is proof that...

I am trying to find an indicator that sounds an alarm and sends an e-mail for bollinger band tags for MT4. As common as I think this strategy is, I am surprised that I have not been able to find it anywhere. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Investing in Oil as a spot comodity Crude Oil has been a dominant factor in the increasingly volatile global markets lately, as the commodity makes historic climbs toward $100 a barrel. It is important for traders and investors to understand the causes involved in the changing oil prices and how...

Hi, Gaps EA need improvements. If the gap is greater or equal than 3 pips, it will open an order. The TP is determined from the gap too. If it is higher than 6 pips, TP will be set 3 pips as the last three trades said. Otherwise TP remains 1 pip. I bet that this EA will not place TP that is higher...

Hi Traders where i can find the indicator: Waddah Attar Explosion Thanks

Hi, What are the precise rules for the server/tester opening an OP_BUY position from an OP_BUYLIMIT ticket. Does the price in the OP_BUYLIMIT ticket have to be equalled exactly? What happens if the Ask jumps below the price in the OP_BUYLIMIT ticket by a considerable margin? How is slippage...

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If anyone has used SQL profiler, this might be familiar...Basically when the code runs, the SQL profiler spits out very detailed output of each and every line of the code operation. Is it possible to run EA like that may be using an external var external bool Enable_Debug_Mode = true|false if true...

Hi all I want to make an expert advisor that uses ZigZag to decide when it should buy or sell and I want to use iCustom to access the Zigzag values. Can anyone shows a simple example about it and a little explanes about it. Thanks

Hi all I'm a beginner of mql4 programming I need som information about draw_section. How does it work exactly? What is the difference betwin draw_line and draw_section? Can anyone explain about it or show me some refrences about it in the internet? Thanks

New MetaTrader 4 Mobile Smartphone Edition User Guide has been published at http://www.metaquotes.net/files/metatrader4mobile_se_en.chm New user guide is the complete description of the mobile terminal for Smartphones. User guide includes following descriptions: installation, program interface,...

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, the article Statistical Report #2 has been published (http://championship.mql4.com/2007/news/295/). We go on collecting and analyzing statistical data obtained in the course of the Automated Trading Championship 2007. The results of the...

I do not know anything about coding and was hoping someone could help me with a simple system I am testing. If there is an EA already doing this it would be great if you could let me know. I need an expert that can reverse an open position when a trailing S/L is hit. let me include an example....

Can anyone code this scalping EA when price starts walking the Bollinger Bands, which normally very large move, as opposed to when it moves back into bands, which normally is very short (pips) move. The above will happen when both ADX and DI- or DI+ are rising. I have traded successfully under those...

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...I want to create a comment only "expert" to display on my charts when I manually trade, just to remind me to "not over trade". Can I just set up a string, then define it, or what is the normal parameters to use? + =

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On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, the article Jury Session Record of the 12th of November 2007 has been published (http://championship.mql4.com/2007/news/291/). At the session, the Jury discussed disqualification of several Participants. Eight more Participants dropped out...

Hi Rosh, Thank you for your answer, but it was spot Forex I was trading, not CFD's. I was trying to close my position in GBP/JPY. Any ideas please? sparoweagle5

Hi, Could anyone kindly help me to translate the following programs into English? 1. Link: Automated Choice of Brokerage Company for an Efficient Operation of Expert Advisors - MQL4 Articles 2. Link: MT4TerminalSync - System for the Synchronization of MetaTrader 4 Terminals - MQL4 Articles The...

Hi.. Can any body help me with the following idea as an EA? I guess it is basic and it is based on moving average crosses with some money management tricks. The specification are: Open a trade with a cross and exit it with cross in the opposite direction. 1. If your first trade is in profit, then

On the 'Order' page, 'Instant Execution', the yellow bar is blank (no wording). How do I close my position, please? sparoweagle5

Hi. Can anyone tell me why the below code does not place trade arrows correctly. The 'price' placement is fine, but it fails to always place it at the right bar, often placing arrows many bars in the past, not Bar 0, the current bar. btw ArrowNum is of Global Integer type. ArrowNum++;...