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hi everyone,  I'm trying to create an indicator for MT4 that displays a chart inside another chart. Goal is to directly compare two different instruments within the same (full size)window. For example main chart is EURUSD and the one to compare

I'm experiencing a strange behaviour in the strategy tester on MT5 and MT4. I'm reading the ATR value with following code which works fine but all though there is no ATR indicator on the testing template and I'm reading the ATR value from inside an

I'm experiencing a very strange behaviour on MT5 with  trade.PositionModify() calls. I have an EA that automatically sets SL and TP for every new order, no matter whether stoplimit(= order) or market order(= position). The strange thing is, it

On MT5 I have an EA running on a BTCUSD chart. When a new market or stoplimit order is opened by the user, the EA is supposed to automatically add SL and TP. All good in general but on BTCUSD it may happen that when opening a sellstop or limitsell

This is probably a bit off but maybe someone can point me towarda the right address for this question. I tried to contact Meta Quotes Ltd. directly but they do not respond.  I'd like to use  "MetaTrader™" as part of the name for a youtube

totally stuck on this one. scenario: EA for MT5 the EA is supposed to add SL and TP as soon as a new order is entered. orders can be all possible types from market to stop/limit order. IT#d working fine with the market orders but not at all with the

Hi and thank you for reading this. I'm creating an EA for MT4 that needs to read a standard moving average indicator which is placed inside a subwindow  and processes the values of another indicator in the same subwindow. How can I read the MA's

I need to scale the chart to maximum(or something below a bit below) in mql4.  like when you put your mouse over the bar on the right and drag upwards.  I've already tried: ChartSetInteger ( 0 , CHART_SCALE , 0 , 5 ); but this only zooms

hey :) totsday I observed a massive ddivergence displaying candle patterns in mt4 and mt5.  while mt4 shows a normal bearish trend, mt5 displays a massive gap where candle theory says to be closed again. anyway, if charts do differ so heavily

hey :) I have an EA that creates signals for possible buy/sell entries by placing an arrow above/under the signal candle. my issue is, that depending on the chart wjere the EA is loaded thr arrows are placed too far away or too closely. please review

hello, as the subject hopefully suggests, I have a label in a custom EA serving as a button, that allows users to click on and place pending orders .  I'd like to further indicate this to the user by changing the mouse-cursor. I've really made a

is is possible to set the start time for the strategy tester ? it's always starting at 00:00 when there is rather little movement. I tried searching google and mt4/mt5 forum but no clue. I adjusted my system time/time-zone but without any effect

I have a strange/incorrect value or the Moving Average 21 which I do not understand: my MA settings(both in side the EA and the indicator on the chart) are: method: MODE_EMA price: PRICE_CLOSE shift: 0 period: 21 please see attached screen shot. on

hello I'm rather new to MT4 and programming EAs so maybe this approach is all wrong :) I have writeen an EA that displays up/down arrows at possible entry points for buys and sells, without triggering actual buys/sells. It is using some of the