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Added topic Trouble with creating/placing objects in indicator
Hi all, I'm trying to allow the indicator I'm building to signal entries for me by printing an object (an arrow) over/beneath the bar that the signal happened at. Here's what I've got so far – it's not working, and I'm unsure where I'm off. My
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Added topic Question about Magic Numbers (and managing manually-placed trades automatically)
Hi all, I'm considering a strategy where I'm opening trades manually, but a trailing stoploss is managed by an EA. That seems easy enough, there appear to be plenty of EAs that can do that. My question comes in when, say, I'm trading 2 different
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Added topic MT5 iPhone measuring tool?
Hi all, I see in a YouTube video that int MT5 for mobile I should be able to activate the crosshairs tool, drag it to a certain point on the chart, and then use another finger to make a measurement. This is not working at all for me on iPhone. What
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Added topic Strategy Tester with custom time frame?
Hey gang. I've spent a bunch of time google searching and can't come up with a solid answer. How can I load custom time frames into the strategy tester ? I'd like to test my EA on the 2m timeframe. Thanks in advance
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Added topic Difference (string) and StringConcatenate?
Hi all! I have an EA that I sourced some additional code after the developer delivered it to me, and I've have ended up with two different ways to create strings: string comment= StringConcatenate ( "Today's Profit Target: $" , DoubleToStr(
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Added topic Difference between using if statement vs. ? :
It looks to me like these two statements are functionally equivalent to each other. Is this correct? Are there any nuances I'm missing? if (tempZigVal < (op - tempATRMax)) sl
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Added topic Subtracting time zones from server time in crosshairs indicator?
I've been staring at this code for a couple hours total, and it's still beyond me. This is a crosshairs indicator that also shows price and server time as I move the cursor across the chart. I want to simply create a server offset so that I can
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Added topic Multiple commands within if statement operator?
I want to do something along the lines of if (conditionA==TRUE) { buffer1= 1 buffer2= 2 buffer3= 3 } Where, if conditionA is true, all three of my commands are executed as a result. Documentation seems to indicate that the above syntax should work
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Added topic How can I retain a variable in a buffer until a new condition is met?
Hi all, I'm working with the Stochastic RSI and I want to register specific buy & sell conditions for an EA. I want it to tell me whether the K line is crossing upward or downward between the 80 & 20 levels. This is determined by whether it
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Added topic Trouble with conditional line color
Hi all. I've been cobbling together an indicator that overlays two RSIs and a moving average . So good so far. Next I'm trying to get basic conditional coloring working. When RSIFast > RSISlow I want to color the line green, and vice versa. This
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Added topic Trouble getting histogram to work right
Hi gang, I'm trying to build an indicator for the first time in MT4 and myself and my programmer friend are stumped why the histogram is not working the way we want in this indicator. We've been examining other indicators that use the histogram to
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Added topic Move indicator from chart window to its own window?
This is really easy to do in TradingView – under the indicator options I can right click and say "Move to New window Below", and it pops into its own window beneath my chart. How do I do this same thing in MT4
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