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Are retail traders doomed?

After having been at Forex for awhile now, both coding and trading, I'm beginning to suspect that retail traders have almost no chance of being profitable consistently. Even when you find an EA that has perfect backtest results you find something like it utilizes no stoploss. Even a pure martingale

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Interrupting/Restarting a loop in an EA

I have developed an EA that shows indicator results across multiple timeframes as it surveys all currency pairs. It essentially loops through all currency pairs displaying the ADX, Stochastic, MA crosses for each pair on the W, D, 4H, 1H, 30M, 15M, 5M timeframes to report developing trends (see

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Excessive CPU Utilization

I have been experiencing heavy CPU processing whenever EAs are loaded as indicated by the Windows Task Manager showing MetaTrader as the offender with processing sometimes going to 100% for 'terminal.exe *32'. I have tried downloading the trading platform again imagining that I had a virus but it

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MQL 4 Reference Manual

I have been trying to find what I hoped would be a good reference manual for doing program development in MQL4. My learning time and productivity would be much faster for example if I had a reference manual that explained all the system variables, functions available, etc. I know from studying

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EA not showing in MetaTrader Navigator Window

I have an EA I am trying to load to the terminal but it does not show in the Navigator window under EAs even though it is listed in MetaEditor. I suspect I have the terminal software looking at the wrong file. Can anybody tell me how to check this out? For example, if you were running more than one