MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1038

One area that is not clear in the book or documentation is what the return codes should be from init(), deinit() and start() under the condition of success and failure? Should we always return 0 from these?

Doesn't that create an illusion of how the price is changing seeing as the window dimensions are the same?

My Broker doesn't support OrderCloseBy() and my current strategy adjusts its position size each bar. For example at 10am it may be +3 lots, at 11am it may be +4 lots and at 12noon it may be +2 lots. My problem is how to implement this as cleanly and cost effectively as possible. Based on the...

Hello, I'm trying to calculate the angle of a trend. I've tried using the price difference in points as the height of the triangle formed and the number of periods as the base then finding the tangent inverse but since the height and the base are fundamentally measured in different units i feel my...

Hello All, Plz! help me regarding to subject. Actually I want to compare current price with price before 100 seconds, to check price volatility. Thnx! in advance

Hey guys, This is my first stab at trying to program an indicator - could someone please verify for me that it is doing what I think it should be doing? It is supposed to calculate the slope of price over X amount of periods(rise: difference in last close and close X periods ago divided by run:...

Hi need a help on programming it. I am not so good in MQL.I have lack of basic knowledge in here. So need your help. Thanks Here is my program please correct me where is am wrong. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|...

Can someone please show me how to find the inverse tangent of a value. Thanks in advance

I think that is a error from backtester.

Hi all, this is probably a stupid question but my broker in their infite wisdom has added an "i" at the end of each pairs symbol, eg : AUDUSDi and GBPUSDi . Problem is that this is preventing my ea's from placing trades as the server does not recognise the symbol. The ordersend function in the ea...

When you close out half of a postion does the rest of it retain the same ticket number and does the closed half of the position make an entry in the history pool showing a closed order with the same ticket number as the other half which is still open ? Reason I ask, I need to keep track of positions...

Before my EA works well, but 20 days it does not work anymore, do not buy, not sell whether the market is still volatile. someone help me see the EA need to fix faulty nowhere. Now : 2012-05-18.

as i mentioned above, i wish to make ea with stochastic coding. the problem is how to add indicator code into ea

Hello, I've been testing out a new system that I made and I wanted to try it out among different brokers. However, it's a really big pain to set up the workspace over and over again. If I would like to put the same setup on another platform, I would have to open up 60 charts and 60 eas each time....

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I'm sorry for my bad english * lets skip :P I using Martiangle system this code delete all pending order at > 01.00AM How to make some code so just close pending order at 01.00AM - 17.00PM with condition : 1. Close all BuyLimit if there is no Open Position for buy [Delete all OP_BUYLIMIT when there...

Please can someone help with a guide on how to import the previous day Open, Close, High and Low into excel, i tried using DDE but while it opened i noticed it only show the High, low, Close and Ask but dosen't show the open . Better still Can i get an indicator that shows on the chat this 4 list

Hello I try to find a way to eliminate the Tick from a given price without rounding. For example: 1.29346, I'd like to work with the figure 1.2934 However, whatever command, NormalizeDouble, MathRound, DoubleToStr seams to work according to rounding rules. In this case I receive a value 1.2935. My...

i have an EA its very good. giving 100% in 2 weeks. i use it on 2 pairs gbpusd m5 and eurusd H1, some time it close all trades in profit after that it does not open new trades again for 1 pair...i need to attach it ahain then i open trades .. please modify it. this is real really good if some make

Trying to close a trade NZDJPY on Alpari MT4 and get the following message: Prohibited by FIFO rule Anybody know what that's about? Thanks

Kindly help me creating two buffers TimeH[] and TimeH[] for each Period() as following: Taking into consideration that, DeltaT=Time[i+1] - Time[i]= Time[i+1] + Period()*60 ; where x the main parameter (in seconds) within the period starting from x=0 to x=Period()*60 so that, How can we use such

Dear all, I would like to try Jobs service, but when I opened a new job, the website didn't allow me to input the fields of budget and time required (even after I had entered all other fields). Does anybody know what's the problem? or where can I raise this question? Many thanks! tobw2011

I only have a micro account, so I frequently buy or sell many lots of 8. Is there a script that will open multiple lots of 8? Ideally I would like to open 10 or 20 at a time.

Hi, I want to programm an indicator which works with the function IndicatorCounted(), so that not every tick all values would be recalculated. But in some special times it is necessary to recalucate all values. How can I reset the IndicatorCounted() function, like putting the indicator on the chart...

Hi There, I'm just learning MQL4 and I'm going to be learning and hopefully testing over the weekend when the markets are closed. Is there a way to generate tick data while I'm working, just so I can test as I go? Thanks

Hello, I use this script to open a order. I get an error -1. Why? Regards, Pierre8r //--------------------------------------------------------------------// simpleopen.mq4 // Ïðåäíàçíà÷åí äëÿ èñïîëüçîâàíèÿ â êà÷åñòâå ïðèìåðà â ó÷åáíèêå MQL4...

Hi Can I get the time of a tick in milliseconds ... even if I have to go to the time on my pc it will be ok because I am interested in the speed of 1 tick to the next? Any help appreciated ... Thanks Paul

Below is a simple test script that uses an allegedly correct routine to make sure the orderLotSize is evenly divisibly by 2. I think the routine does, indeed, always provide an even number that is divisible by 2. The problem, as shown in this example, is that an input value of .50 is returned as .48...

i wish to combine 2 indicator, but seem not working.