MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1078

How is a chart removed from the chart tabs? I've recently decided to work with some charts I hadn't worked with before and cease working with the GBPUSD,M1 chart for the time being. I've closed the chart and gone into File - Open Deleted - Remove to remove it but whenever I turn my computer off and

Is there a way I can get my trade buy and sell signals to automatically show arrows above and below price when I get a signal? Simple example: Stochastics is over 80, ADX is over 60 I will then automatically get an arrow above price on the date in which the sell signal occured. Thanks

Hello, i'd like to start MT4 from an application using CreateProcess. If doing so, my MT4 always pops up with login dialog missing password. When starting from desktop, all is ok. When starting from command line, all is ok. Setting working directory to MT4 folder or not makes no difference: login...

Hi, I've always programmed my mtf-indicator with this loop:    limit=Bars-counted_bars;   for(i=0,y=0;i<limit;i++)   {   if (Time[i]<TimeArray[y]) y++;   ....   } but know I have an indicator which shows a widget for the valid time f.e. the whole day. Therefore I only want the signal on the start of...

I wrote an indicator and decided to output the information via Comment(); I have made a simple test code and as a result the most recent message at the top of the Alerte is displayed correctly. I wrote a simple test code and as a result in Alerte the most recent message at the top is displayed

Hi, i am new to MT4 and i have a question on expert advisors. when implementing an expert advisor, my program does not seem to be executing trades live despite showing that it would have done so during the backtest. Is there something wrong with the code? Any help will be appreciated! Cheer, JY

Please help me how it works . I have an EA that depends on that system

Hi Besides Hanover's (free) Handy Utility - NumberToStr() - is there any other way to format numbers so that thousands and millions etc are automatically separated by commas, ie. 1,000,000. Handy Utility - NumberToStr() accomplishes said objective but poses problems to lengthy to go into. Thank in...

Hi there! Sorry, I was looking at the forum but have not found an answer... but I think it's a very silly question. I have the next code: switch(Symbol()) { case " EURUSD " : A = 35; Z = 50; break; } Well, this code dont work and i dont know why.... pls i need some help :) note: single quotes does

Hi, has anybody experiences, what is the fastest way of exchanging informations between two different metatrader accounts?? I think through a file it is too slow. The account are on the same pc.

Hello, I have been playing around with an EA I am built and am getting confusing results. I am using Tick by Tick Model Data. My EA trades on 15 min bars. When I backtest over 6 months data, I get excellent results, however it only shows modeling quality of 50.38%. When I backtest over 2 years, the...

I need to subtract, 1 day and 1 hour, from this server time below: 2012.02.10 00:06:53 so that I could obtain the server time below: 2012.02.09 23:06:53 How can I do this? any help please appreciated greatly

If an MT4 broker has a real STP / ECN - is there any way a trader can use an EA to take advantage of price feed, either by logging into 2 VPS or by any other means, which would cause the broker to actually lose money from his winning trades? I remember we had a client running a manipulative EA on...

When I start the build script, it does not write the CSV files to the folder (SEE 3rd Screenshot).The files are empty. I'm sure this is a simple fix for some around here. This is an issue in this article that did not get resolved 2 years ago, please can somebody show me what to do? Thank you!! https...

My EA reads the server time and the currency from a File and then it tries to use the data in my iBraShift() function to get the opening price of a Bar which Shift point at. Here is the code below: string pair=StringSubstr(TYPE,3+u,6);string SEVTIME=StringSubstr(TYPE,144+zp,20); int...

In the process of building an EA, I got a little confused with this question. As I understood it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), 'Volume' is basically the amount of price changes (i.e. incoming ticks) for every bar. One thing I've noticed is that often times, one tick would come in, but volume

Hello all, Newbie here (bear with me) - I thought there should be some marketinfo constant to return the direction of last price change, I looked into this but could not sort it out: so what would you suggest as code for returning the sign of the last price change (both ask and bid)? I am trying to...

Time ago, I used zigzag values, to reset another indicator value every high/low; Unfortunately the work was lost; every zigzag, the zigzag indicator returned than an zigzag occurred, so the sum on second indicator gone resetted; I don't remember the procedure, the trick or which zigzag indicator I

Is it possible to find the price of ask and bid say at server time: 2012.02.09 11:17:16 from history? If yes, I would appreciate your help

Hello, I just registred here to see if anyone could help out with some errors I get when I try to backtest, it is really enoying and stalls things a lot, the error messages I have been getting is Test generator unmatched data error volume limit exeeded . how can I do to be able to backtest again?

I am to profitable…… And have 7 platforms running with this settings. My broker changes the settings of the Expert on all of the platforms ubnight. Each platform have at least 3 of this ' to good' expert running, so it takes a while to restore it to my settings…. Is it possible to Lock settings...

Hi, I had left an open trade last night on WTI crude oil and was filled out for a loss, without placing a stop loss order. I placed a take profit order at 99.45 and the price spiked to 99.49 at 11pm. 02:18:04 '91091933': order #78099179 buy 10.00 US_OIL at 99.17 was modified -> sl: 0.00 tp: 99.45 02...

Is it possible, that an EA can save the Statistics.htm? I code already a PHP to analyse the statistics.htm and make nice graphics. But It's always annoying first manually to safe the Statistic in MT4.

My EA reads and executes 2 file names: 1-Trade is opened, 2=close. After the EA is enabled, I have instructed the EA to look for existence of File "close" and if it also finds the File "Trade is opened" delete both files together, provided there is no open trade, avoiding possible execution and...

Hello, seems i can't think right today. I need to figure out a function which returns the current streak. (5 losses in a row or 3 wins in a row for example) Since the ordering of the OrderHistors() is not reliable (as said in the doc) the function i have is kind of expensive as it requires a loop...

1. Why is it necessary for an EA to deinitialize and reinitialize if I change the timescale of a chart? I see no reason for this, and it doesn't help me. 2. If it is necessary, can I supress the messages that are shown in the Experts tab regarding initialization and deinitialization? They make it...

Hello, I am having a little trouble reading ChandelierExit.mq4 values. ChandelierExit is a custom indicator that calculates and draws stoploss based on the volatilty of the market. It's code it's the following. I want to read the short and long stops to update the SL of my positions. I know that...

Good afternoon, I have a simple problem and maybe you can help me to sort it out. I want to use full stochastics into my Ea, which displays values from 0 to 100. Like this: However, the EA receives floating numbers that are not in the 0 - 100 range. How can I make iStochastic() to behave as in...

I've installed MteTrader 4 & 5 but do not know how to use them. e.g. set limit loss/profit. I'm in demo environment but can't set to trade i.e. placed a new order but keeps getting a sound and no trades executed. Can someone please help me or point me to somewhere where I can get help. Thanks in...

Hi, I've written an indicator to test out the trigger for my EA . But something is wrong with it as it seems that my indicator buffer are only stuck at 1 level. Hope some kind souls could help to point out the problem in this Indicator....