Paul / Profile

Hi Everybody I have made a custom indicator that displays in a separate window that shows as a straight line. The reason is that I am using one buffer to feed back integer values about the state of the indicator and this buffer, although set to

Hi In the back tester there is the ability to set a maximum profit for optimisation but I don't understand how to use it. I always set it to 100000000 because I have found that if left at 10000 the runs that exceed that profit are not visible in the

Hi Some one told me there is an EA that uses the Kolachi method written in MT4. I have searched this site but no luck. Does anybody know where I could find it? Otherwise I will have to write it myself. Thanks

Hi My code makes a decision at the close of a candle and trades immediately using every tick but it never gets the open price it always gets a price half way down or more of the new candle. Surely if the decision is made at the candle close the trade

Hi You all seem to get MT4 working on Linux but I can't. Has Anybody done it under SUSE 11.0. I installed a PCB layout prog and that works fine but MT4 gives a grey error screen of a critical windows error. I don't know where to start to fix it

Hi If I run one expert in 3 different MT4 platforms with the same broker, on the same computer, wouldn't it prevent trade context errors and any other clashes that might occur between EAs tryng to trade at the same time

Hi I can't get the limit orders below to work with the values given. I get error 3 invalid trade parameters. The orders work if set to instant buy or sell. I can't see which paramters is wrong for the limit orders. It must be something simple but I

Why isn't the volumes indicator available to call in MetaEditor technical indicators ? I realise I can use ivolume to get the values but I wish to have it displayed on a backtest chart as a histogram and extract buys v's sells info. Am I supposed to

I tried posting this to the code base but received page not found error 404. So it's here instead. This indicator shows either Tema, Dema or Ema based on a tick count per candle rather than a fixed candle time. It shows up and down arrows for trading

Hi everybody Can anyone help with this problem. I have seen it on many occassions with different experts. The EA will trade many times on several days then it just stops trading. There are no errors in any of the logs and the EA still has a smiley

I have a problem with the back tester hogging giga bytes of virtual memory. I have narrowed the cause down to custom indicators being called from experts. If an iCustom call is made the my EA just starts absorbing virtual memory and MT4 will not

Hi all I am using the standard bar open code if (timeold!=Time[0]){ timeold=Time[0]; to kick off my EA decisions for trading when a new bar opens. In the back testing however I get completely different results using every tick for a run compared to