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Hi Everyone, Just wanted to know out of interest what everyones thoughts are on drawdown when backtesting an EA. What would you say is a good drawdown. What would you say is to high? Im testing on the 1HR TF Cheers

Attached is the Script I use to enter a trade and assign a Magic No. But this executes the trade right away. Is there a way to modify it (or a different script out there) which will allow for PENDING ORDER EXECUTION (buy/sell stop and buy/sell limit orders) while being able to ASSIGN MAGIC NO. Thank...

Hi I just bought pda phone HTC touch ( http://www.htc.com/product/03-product_htctouch.htm) with windows mobile 6. I could not install MT4 mobile , error message - not compatible. How can I make this work? thanks

does any one know where i can get the source code for the mt4 manage take profit?

When I open a chart I only see options for four pairs of AUD and 6 pairs of EUR. How do I see other pairs like GBPUSD

Hi all, I'm looking for some RSI based EA that works as follows: - looks for 1hr RSI(x) to go below 30 to set an alert flag - opens a long entry the very moment RSI climbs above 30 Anyone knows where I can find one? TIA!

Just curious, my demo account through a non-labeled/MIG Investments MT4 platform is showing a bunch of 5min candlesticks with a volume of 1 and OHLC as all the same. My feed on a live IBFX account is totally normal for the same period however. I tried clearing all the data from the history center...

what does this error mean? '\end_of_program' - unbalanced left parenthesis thanks

Does anyone know of any indicator that can point out a triangle formation like shown in the attachment. TIA. Hendrick

Hi friends Here you can find the best AE that I see until this moment. This is a product from varios persons like a Kalenzo, fxnewbie, Alejandro Galindo, Newdigital, A lot of people help me for to do this AE. The stadment you can see is very very good in 90% cuality, but need some more details. I am...

Hello, I need a day filter script for ZLR ea. For example ea can trade only from 8:00-14:00 THU, WE, FRI Can you help me ? thanks

I need someone to please help me out here. At moment I am using the cross of a cci 14 and ma 7 in the same window. But I also want to see the cci 50. Now the 50 and 14 cci obviuosly don't match up with scalling. I have tried using the Double CCI indicator, but then applying the ma to 'first...

How hard would it be to create this: a box that has fib lines inside? I don't know if it would be an indicator or script but here's what I envision: I use monthly pivots and my indicator has no midpoints, so I use a fib tool to mark the 50% point between say, R1 & R2. I noticed that there is often a

Hi there all. I have a quick question regarding the way that new history data is processed by custom indicators, probbaly best expressed by example. Lets assume I have a custom indicator and attach it to the EURUSD D1 chart. Every time a new quote is available for EURUSD the custom indicator...

Is there any indicator which ONLY displays the current DAY's pivot lines. I donot want it to display the previous days pivot lines. Thanks in advance for your replies/time. Kent

I'm sorry my english is not good enough. I'm a newbie here, I just try to build my own EA,. It's far to perfect but for longterm is profitable. This EA is free absolutly. I want you try it. EA condition, public purpose : ======================== - Pair : GBP/USD - TimeFrame : M5 - Min. Deposite :...

Hi All, I've been away for some time as I realized that a 100% profitable mechanical system with a mini account does not seem to be profitable without some risk and proper money management (pulling out capital every once in a while). I'm now more involved in news trading, which with some technical

Hello I need a script made in API I think I need a script that can open trade at a specific time every day and close it again. my mail is: ps@fratelli.dk

On the Automated Trading Championship 2007 website, article "List of Symbols Is Reduced" has been published (http://championship.mql4.com/2007/news/182/). Unfortunately, the list of symbols will be reduced from 23 to 12 on technical grounds. Now, this list is absolutely the same as that of the...

Hi, Is there a method/code to color the newly forming bar until completed? i.e. color it in pink until its fully formed/completed before using including it in my analysis. Any help/insight would be appreciated. DD

Now GBP/USD trade on 2.0380. Today we will test 2.04 - it is very strong psychical barrier. Breaking this level will opening us new high. Poissible the pair will reach 2.06 in the end of month.

Is it possible to make an EA, that at a set time will run the mt4 optimizer and then update its parameters with a new set of optimized parameters?

Hello guys, If you do not mind, I am going to start a thread and put all favorable swing trades which I trade on many currency pairs. I am a Swing trader, so do not get bored! I will use a net value to calculate the net of my positions, profit & loss in pips for all trades. this way I can...

Hi All, Can anyone tell me why the "MA Cross Indicators" I've downloaded off this site then installed on my MT4 platform will not sound audible alarms. They seem to display the moving averages fine but with no audible signals. Must I attach a particular wave file in my indicator folder, and if so

I had a EA made for the midline method I have been testing, and paid for it. But the guy that made it gave up I guess. I works right, just didnt finish it. Needs trialing stop and magic number. would also like to at martingale type MM abailbility to it. Anyone interested PM me please.

Hi Fellow Traders I am a forex trader and also manage client accounts privately, from 10K on up. In the days of hightech eas, get rich quick hyips, maybe it ought not be forgotten that there is always the possibility to trade forex the good old fashioned way. I will post my results here at the end...

Hi, this should be an easy question for most of you but i just couldn't figure it out. I draw a horizontal line let say its name is "Horizontal Line 1234". I want to use EA to detect when the price cross that line. So i put something like if (Ask >= ObjectGetValueByShift("Horizontal Line 1234"...

When using genetic optimization in the latest build of MT4 I need to filter the results in Excel afterwards because the exact same result for a particular set of parameters will appear multiple times (possible 100X) in my set of results for an optimization pass. Is this a bug, or is it something to