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Memory Leak???

Hello Experts, I have a strange one. I call several custom indicators at the beginning of a new candle inside of an EA. While running this in backtest I see that one of the indicators keeps getting loaded at each new candle (each time it is encountered in the code). I stop the EA (in Backtest), I

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Can't get web referenced data to up date after initial reading?

I have wanted to read files from a www address. I found and worked with some code that does it. - It works - but if I change the data on the website and run the script again, it doesn't update the read on MT4. If I turn off and then turn on the MT4, and re-run the script I get a fresh read and it

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Going Crazy: OrdersTotal in backtest indicator Not work?

Hello all, I am trying to write a very short indicator that I can run in back test that will show me how deep a draw down goes during a set of tests. I am looking at Martingales type of trading systems in some EA's. If the draw downs are not too deep they will close out as profitable in the MQL4

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How to get the window number of a indicator in the indicator?

I am placing the same indicator on the same chart and drawing objects on each of the two indicators. I next want to identify which object(s) belows to each indicator. I can get the window number from each object by using the ObjectFind (name) function. This returns the window index. Great. But I

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Can't control back test visual mode test from command line.

I hope someone can help. I am automating functional operation test of EAs after version updates from a command line and using set files. (see Help>Help topics>Tools> configurations at start up) I am running a windows 7 power shell command (not as administrator) where I set the start and end dates

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Starting MT4 from command line with out user?

I am wanting to do some backtesting using data that is not from my broker and I want to start MT4 from a command line to do unattended runs. However, each time MT4 starts it asks for a log in. Normally I can cancel the login and run the backtesting as I like, but if I run MT4/backtesting from a