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Here is an indicator for anyone who is interested in using it.  I created it both to practice some coding techniques and also to be able to have a look at some market dynamics that interest me.  Maybe some of you will find it interesting as

Hi all.  I am seeing an intermittent problem on MT4 and MT5 (although it happens more on MT4 so far) where Initializing the Timer works fine, no errors, and the OnTimer function begins to work ok.  But then at some later point, OnTimer

I am working on an EA in MT4, trying to take advantage of some multi-timeframe features.  In summary, my current EA runs on a PERIOD_D1 tf and I want to check the current time on PERIOD_D1 tf to manage housekeeping functionality. To isolate the

I wanted to try Larry Williams' Trading Day of Month strategies, but I had a hard time figuring out how to calculate the current trading day of the month accurately (basically similar in concept to business day calculations in Excel).  I could

Hi all, While tightening up automating my testing process I would like to grab the balance and equity graph at the end of a test. There is a right-click method for this on the balance/equity curve chart, so I am hoping there is a matching set of

Hi all, I ran into a problem that seems to have surfaced for me recently. Some of my .mq5 and .mqh files are incorrectly seen by Github as binary.  I have not changed anything in my ea-creation workflow (ie: using a third party text

I've noticed a surprising thing: An EA that I am coding has an OnTimer function call in it that I *thought* that the Strategy Tester would ignore.  I inserted it there because during normal, non-testing runtime, I wanted it to run a utility

Maybe I am not using the right search terms in google or on this forum (if so, please enlighten me so I can find the golden key).  I cannot find easy solutions to aligning my timezone with my broker's timezone in the strategy tester ... and take

Hi - question for the crowd here: It seems like about 10 years ago, batch or auto optimization (ie: something similar to this - https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1467 ) seemed to be the big up-and-coming thing.  Difficult to pull off, but some of

Hi all, done some research on the following, and have hit a wall.  In MT4 this seems to be more difficult to do, compared to MT5.  Maybe I'm not searching in the right corner of the forum or internet?  Wouldn't be surprised if I missed

Hi all, I am new to the forum and this is my first post. I am having quite a lot of fun learning mql and I am a 3 month newbie at it.  I am at a point where I am wondering if using the database functionality in MT4 would be of benefit to me