MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1551

Hi Does anyone here ever get a very different backtest result with 2 different data source . I m testing a EA by using the 06-08 data from Alpari and Metaquotes respectivitely, the total profit could be 50% different over 2 years testing period.. And both of the modelling quality is about 90%. Just...

Are these rules 2.5 & 2.6. How did my EA Nzimaland infringe these rules? Can the moderator explain to me? The Participant can be registered only once within the Championship. Registration of your friends or relatives instead of you will result in your disqualification. If any registered persons...

Is every broker's server time GMT? Or it is only their local time?

Trying to understand the Momentum Pinball oscillator more - it's a 3 period RSI on a one period rate of change. What would this look like expressed as plain math? Wilder's RSI is this: RSI = 100 – [100/1 +RS] RS = Average of n periods closes up/Average of n periods closes down. Would Momentum...

what is error 134? is it context busy?

Hi Renat, I have registered only once. I have send my EA only once. I have not registered my EA with a friend or family member. On the other hand, I have worked on my EA, registered and updated my registration from 2 different computers, my home and my job. Is that why I am disqualified? And if so,...

Renat: Unfortunately, your expert is not admitted because of infringement of a rules 2.5 & 2.6 You are Joking!!!!! Who am I ? You can chek and search all my activities in your site .... and in internet !!!!! A lot of peoples using my EA template ('编制自动交易系统的基本知识') as ABC to start them EA, now...

EA, coded for me, detects reversal when 3DOscilator absolute values 1 and 2 go from > to < (short), and from < to > (long). (I hope I said that correctly) Indicator Window 1, in this case, shows "obvious" reversal signal but EA does not act on it. Data Window values also agree with the Indicator...

Hi all, I have an expert that runs on a daily graph. The expert contains this condition: Hour()>= 8 && Hour()<=20. I need to write the following condition. The Low after 8.00 is < High[1], where High[1] is the previous day highest level. Could you help me? Thank you!

Hi guys, I need to change the description of fibo level with some words. What I did is go to fibo properties and change the description. And it is work but when I draw another fibo line, the description is going to default (the description that I have made doen't appear). Please help to make it...

I made an EA to act as SAR follower which will start trades in direction of SAR and Start another trade in other direction when SAR change dircetion i test with strategy tester and is ok but during actual excution i face some problems it is not picking all dirctional changes abd4ever

Hi @ all, I am coding my own EA and have now a Problem with the OrderSend() function in LiveModus When I test my Script all OrderSend() functions work and it buys orders. But in the live modus it didn't buy any order and I get no Error in the Jornal??? This tag I use: OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,lots...

Hello guys, I am new at Automated trading with Expert Advisors and I don't know which one to buy. I was scammed while ago for something else and I am afraid that it could happen again. Please suggest which one is good. Thank you

When my EA is running, it turns on and off several times and the is disabled. After I click the EA button to enable it it stops flicking. 

I need an EA program to receive buy/sell orders from another EA on another computer by Email and then carry out the orders. Is it posible?

I entered championship and just got this message: Renat: Unfortunately, your expert is not admitted because of infringement of a rules 2.5 & 2.6 I really dont see where I fall under this?? My username is bonechair and I used this name from the start of joining here.

Using MetaTrader, I get the following mini account information from my broker: accountLeverage = AccountLeverage(); // value = 200 modeLotSize = MarketInfo("EURUSDm", MODE_LOTSIZE); // value = 10000 modeLotSize2 = MarketInfo("GBPJPYm", MODE_LOTSIZE); // value = 10000 modeLotStep =...

My mini account displays symbol designations such as EURUSDm, GBPUSDm, etc. That makes sense to me. Let's say my account has equity of $10,000, and I want to risk 2% on the next trade (that is, simply use $200 to buy <some amount> of contracts). [I realize this is a simple view of "risk".] Using...

Hello, I'm trying to build an EA based on a specific trading time. string TimeEntry = "10:30:00"; But it's not working. And this simple code : int start=StrToTime(TimeEntry); returning 23 when I put it in : Alert(TimeDay(start)); while the code below returning 22 Alert(TimeDay(TimeCurrent())); Does...

Hi: Any help with this is appreciated, thank you! I noticed tonight your new MT4 API.. at https://forum.mql4.com/14219 just what I need! I have a C++ DLL that I coded that crashes when I try to call OrderSelect when running on Alpari's MT4 Platform. So, I assumed I need to use your API and then...

Hello! I'm a newbie on trading. I'm trying to develop an EA, using the online free EA Builder. I can't seem to make lots size work dynamically. There is a variable in my EA that's the difference between D+ an D- of ADX indicator. I would like to set my EA in such a way that the bigger this variable...

Lets immagine that our EA earn a lot. We want that when it will gain a 300% it will use only two thirds of the total amount. Doing so the EA put away a considerable amount of money that nothing can spend. But ... there is a but, I have to calculate a lot size for future position without the...

I probe my plan manually and made me too much money than I can Image, I need to put this tactic in a EA to made money for me or for anyone, please contact me and I send you the instructions to do the estrategy, my mail its nacho212@hotmail.es, Im from spain, madrid, thanks for all

I have submitted an EA which need to queries all 12 pairs before making calculation and opening trades. However, the backtesting module of MQL4 does not allow querying prices other than the one it is attached, so it will not execute any trade in backtesting. The question is how can the EA ever be...

Hello all maybe someone can help me This code in my EA is not working. Print(" ma55m5 ",ma55m5," ma55 ",ma55," close1 ",Close[1]); strcomment="MAIN"; if(ma55m5>ma55&&Close[1]>ma55) {Print(" mains ",strcomment); sellone(profit);} //12 if(ma55m5<ma55&&Close[1]<ma55) {...

I wish to retrieve the close price of the previous bar for 12 pairs, at the appearance of each new bar on a 30min chart. I have used RefreshRates() before retrieve the close price of previous bar, and even adding a 40 sec delay, but it seems like sometimes still getting non-updated because the...

Hello. Is there any random seeds for the MathSrand() function when I run back testing? TimeLocal() always returns the same value according to the back testing time serises. So far, I could not find any function or logic for random seeds that can be used for back testing. (for real trading,...

Given the following code: double a;double b;a=fn1();b=fn2();if (a>b) Print(a,", ",b);Result: 1.2345, 1.2345 What am I missing?

Hello! Not sure when this problem arose, but of late I cannot optimize any EA on any of my 3 computers and using 3 different Metatrading platforms (ODL, IBFX and the MQL4). I've cleared the history file and re-downloaded as well as going to Alpari and downling their history files and importing