MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 906

Can someone please explain the importance of this file type ,like what it does and how important it is. Thanks

Hi All, I wanted to learn more about order selection and processing so I wrote this indicator. It displays the profit or loss of the past 24 hours (or whatever time period you like). Two areas for improvement are: it should run each time an order closes rather than when each bar closes. It should

Hello, I am new to MT software. Is it possible to entry multiple orders (bucket order) simultaneously? Ex: Buy X Lots of symbol A with profit target & Stoploss AND sell short X lots of symbol A with profit target and stoploss. So that the "bucket order" hits the market at the same time? Thank...

Is there a way to restrict the dates loaded into a chart? For example, if I only want to use price data from 02 Jan 2010 to 30 Apr 2010, how would I do that?

So i designed a simple indicator which is more less a MACD applied on KAMA averages. Everything looks to work fine except for one thing: when it comes to draw the indicator its value is always a constant 1. I don't know if it is a problem with the drawing code or a problem with the value of the...

I want to have a sound signal when the last closed bar exceeds the average of the last x bars with y percent. With  'bar' I mean the absolute value of close - open (the body of a japanese candlestick)  Can someone make this to  work with the 2 variables x and y in MT4?   

I wonder if someone could be so kind to clearly explain me about iMA shift: the doc about shift says:   shift  -  Index of the value taken from the indicator buffer (shift relative to the current bar the given amount of periods ago).  It is clear to me about ma_shift, but I still can't understand...

There is a file named EURUSD60_0.fxt of size 3.68Gb. Anyone knows what is it?

Hi, I am new to MetaTrader and to its programming language, I have some experience with VB and WealthLab, anyway is not the same. I was wondering if someone could help me with the following idea: I want an indicator that plots the previous day high and low, in any time frame. For example, I use 1h...

How can I start up the automaticscript when the Metatrader 4 software start working ?

Which one is better for remote trading https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.metaquotes.metatrader4 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mt4remote and what are the differences, not to technical please. thanks Michelle

Hey, I believe that you either master the market or the market will master you. The only way to become a master is to have a sifu, a master, a grandmaster, etc.... This means the blind should NOT follow and take advice from the blind. When you are always asking for help or waiting for confirmation...

I have used remote desktop connection (RDC) before, to access my trading platform on a remote server. The "round trip" time delay, however, makes this practice quite frustrating. As an example, I will click on my mouse, wait for it to register on RDC. nothing happens. I click again, and in a...

Hi all, When  one Refresh the chart the indicator "Cycle Identifier" update is status. What could one do to maintain this indicator up to date without the need to refresh the chart ? Thank you in advance for any help provided. Luis 

Hi guys, is it possible to search in the chart, if there is a horizontal line? How can i search for it, if i don't know if it exists and don't know the name? Best regards Mirko

Hi,I used to see martingail Ea based on zigzag apart from stochastic on codebase,but no more ,dont know,was it removed.Please if any has it,kindly forward it.Also I have a strategy which I wish automated based on henki ashi,Ma and zigzag,any help please. Thanks in advance

Hello, i try to get LotScalp EA https://www.mql5.com/en/code/10604 to trade at 2 different times a day, but one trade at once at same hour. As default do LotScalp EA trade one time a day as defined( 7 o'clock) int TradeTime=7;        // Time to enter the market so i modifyed original code .... ......

Hi all,   I have seen there are a lot of indicators starting with i, such as iMA: can someone tell me what does it means i ? I am looking for the source code for iMA , any help really appreciated.   Regards,   acepsut 

Hello MQL4 community, To my knowledge, hex decimal base value representation is 0-15 (16 values) and its hex value representation is 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F (totaling 16 values). If my previous statement is valid, would hex decimal representation of seventeen be eleven in hex (I'm preppin'...

G'day, Can anyone please tell me if they have come across an indicator that highlights a certain candle a set number of periods before current candle? For example if I set the indicator to parameter 20, it would highlight the candle 20 periods before today's candle. It doesn't really matter how it

Just wondering if there is a way that have a specific button on the toolbar that when clicked will bring up say three charts, tiled vertically?   Thanks 

Hi all, i know how to export trade data from the tester to a csv file (using deinit function), i am wondering wich is the best way to export the indicator values to a csv file as well during a backtest with strategy tester. For example to see the efficiency of my ATR based stop loss, writing the ATR...

dear forum i am interested in using renko indicator. but all the indicators which are available here when used open a subchart and not the main chart. so, various other indis like a simple MA cant be attached to it. the moment you attach it, it gets attached to the main chart! what is the solution...

is it possibile  change the swap?     I can change the spread with a spreadchanger but the swap? I would like to metatrader offline to obtain the same results in backtesting (same data, spread,mswaps) in different pc.  Thank's!!!!     

Hi, does anyone know how to check if the trend is still trending after the trailing stop was hit due to a small correction? Please advice

Having trouble coding logic for checking Price Range and if any order(s) is missing on any price between range new order is sent.   Here I tried to make code to check range between buy order open price and buy order stoploss price and send buylimit orders to missing prices in that range....

Hello to All:  How can I create an alert system whereby MT4 sends me an alert to my phone each time the RSI hits 30 for a currency pair? 

Does RefreshRates() update OrdersTotal()? I used below code to restrict no.of trades. But I got 11 trades. So I doubt whether I have to update OrdersTotal() before checking the condition. Thanks in advance. if (Bid>=next_trade && OrdersTotal ()<= 10 )

Dear guys I want to make a EA base on indicator buy or sell signals. Bui I don't have source code of that indicator. Now how can I make the EA. I mean how can sent msg or get buy or sell signals from that indecator

Hi, I was trading with "marketaccess" software, but my company stopped providing these services so I have to go to another one where the trading software is "metatrader 4", but I discovered a problem there. I used to trade via a special graph, where on the right scale were data e.g. EUR/USD like 1...