MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 141

I need to back test my EA since 2015 year to year. This is what I am doing now: I hired a VPS and run an optimization backtesting on MT4 strategy tester tool for one year. I import results to an Excel and order/filter the best of them. Then, I run a backtest on MT4 strategy tester tool for each year

does higher time frame has more control points than lower time frame in optimization

Is there an indicator for MT4 for automatic candlestick recognition that is visual friendly? Like this one here : (picture was taken from xtick professional software) Thanks! Question #2 How can I put moving averages behind the chart patterns (candlesticks), so it doesn't cover them but they go

How do I get the difference in pips between the 5EMA and 10EMA in every chart. That is: 5EMA - 10EMA in pips (that works in every chart)? This is for an MT4 expert advisor. Thanks in advance

Hi all, I've created an grid base EA and I'm trying to optimize it but PC never gives results (trying the start hour, end hour, pips and grid distance - Nothing). Any advice would be gold for me, thanks

Is there anyone in this group who can help me. I want my EA to open trades only at certain hours (not all the time). For example: I want the EA to be able to open trades only at 10.00 to 15.00

Hi I want to remove " symbol. I remove : using this Print ( "Raw results are : " ,result[ 21 ]); string sep_for_limit = ":" ; ushort l_sep; l_sep = StringGetCharacter (sep_for_limit, 0 ); string ltp[]; int p= StringSplit (result[ 21 ],l_sep,ltp);

My EA can run on real and backtest,it base on zigzag indicator. When optimization , it show array out of range and cannot optimization. Can zigzag EA optimize

Hello, I would like to have this signal sends me an alert everytime there is a buy or sell signal because at the moment, it sends a signal once, if more than 1 buy signal has been triggered it only sends the notification on the 1st time only, a sell signal needs to be triggered 1st before the app

Hello! So I have made this EA which is very simple, once a condition is met it will open a trade. And it will keep adding another 4 trades if conditions are met. All ticket numbers are stored in global area int Ticket1= 0 ,Tikcet2= 0 ,Ticket3= 0 ...Ticketx= 0 ; if (condition1) { Ticket1 =

Hello everyone! I'm starting to learn mt4 coding and working on an EA that is using iHighest and iLowest to plot these lines on the chart and I'm using these lines to calculate if the variable "Ranging" is either ZERO or ONE. This part of the code, to my knowledge, is working fine. The problem is

Hi all, if you have the following program extern int var = 0 ; OnInit() { } OnTick() { if ( var == 1 ) { < do something>; var = 0 ; } } If during operation of the EA the value of 'var' is changed to '1' on the chart, the <do something> routine is executed and the 'var' value is set

Hello everyone. I am programming an indicator for Metatrader 4 and I would need the current signal to appear every 5 minutes, that is, at o'clock, at 5 minutes, at 10 minutes, etc. Following the criteria of the Brazilian MHI strategy, how to program the other values I have no problems since I do it

I am displaying the price from the current position of a Moving Average on my chart, But the Value is 10858.5 on the EURUSD, I am wanting to move the decimal place to the correct price of 1.08585 I tried using double MA1 = NormalizeDouble(MA[i],1); yet that did not work, All help appreciated 😊

I would like to draw automatically on 30 MIN chart two lines (support and resistance) indicated by the last 300 bars. From the last 300 bars indicator should find two MAXIMUM BARS (ONLY 2 HIGHEST BARS AMONG THE LAST 300 BARS) and draw the RED LINE and from the other hand the same indicator should...

hello, how can i do what i need to do as specified in subject line? reason why i need to do this is sometimes the $125,000 inital deposit setting which i manually set in the "expert properties " box strangely changes back to $10,000 sometimes when i shut down and re-open the MT4 terminal (maybe...

You can delete hst files in folder history? 

hi everyone I use two moving average 20 and 50 and I enter to the trade in the pullbacks. In fact, I enter trading after pullbacks when the price is above 20 (bullish trend) or below 20(bearish trend). But it is important for me to know How many pullbacks are we in right now?(After the last

im trying to build my first EA. and the first step was to try to make the EA take a buy och sell position on a specific indicator. what i was expecting was to see a trade placement on the bar after the signal (which i have marked with red in the screenshot). but it seems that its placing orders a

Hello, I think I found a bug with MT4 on build 1353. I was back testing a trading robot on the symbol XAUUSD and it opens a long/buy position on 2016 July the 6th at 2:00 AM. This is using Dukascopy data. It opens at a price of 1368.81 and set a SL at 1273.81 I see this message in the logs

Hi guys, i like to receive an Alert message with Alert(); with the Text of the current timeframe in the chart Alert(Show me the actual chart timeframe); I can't find a call for that. I think one of you know an easy solution.

Hi, i tried to Marks candlesticks with Horizontal Line with body < 50% of overall length (high-low range), I use #property indicator_type1 DRAW_LINE but it not draw horizontal line can you help me please? ths is the script i tried to make

Dear all, I need to Ping an IP to check if my VPS is alive or not. I want to code with EA mql, of course ! I try to use ShellExecuteA, it can call cmd.exe then ping. Unfortunately, ShellExecuteA does not return value of ping's result. Is there any other way that we can check if my VPS SERVER IS...

Unlucky trying to find samples of Canvas usage in code base and articles and no search in codebase source like Find in File is available yet. Any hint would br appreciated. The goal is to write reports on canvas to not interfere with charts

my broker is IG and i can not find a signal tab in my platform any ideas? tk u

Hello, I'm new in mql programming. I wanted to create a mql4 script that return the opened orders of an EA and communicate that information to an external server. I've no idea on how to start, can anyone help me ? Thanks

When using the Standard Libary to create ChartObjects, the objects are deleted upon calling the CChartObject deconstructor. Normally, this isn't a bad thing with indicators/experts/panels, or can be worked around if you call the Save/Load functions, but scripts are a run-once ordeal, so this won't

Hi I use MT4 and I have been using VPS on my IG account. Since my subscription for VPS expired recently, I tried to register for another one as usual and yet I cannot proceed to payment. Normally I am supposed to see payment options such as credit card or paypal on the screen shown on the second

I'm trying to finish up an EA and I just can't for the life of me figure out why it wont place trades. Below is my function for placing orders. I am aware it's probably a little lackluster. This is my first EA and I'm learning. void PlaceOrder(){ if (CurBias == 0 && OrdersTotal () == 0 ){

Hello, I have an EA in backtesting it works trading indices, but to run it in demo account it don't open any trade, but recently I have found a broker with its mt4 it works in demo and trade it normal. in your opinion why an EA don't open trades knowing that it did in backtesting? and why with a