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Can you control an EA from an Indicator???

Ok, I'm not a total noob to programming and I've been working with MQL4 on and off for a little while now....although not consistently enough I might add. Here's the question. I have a couple EA's built and a few Custom Indicators and I would like changes made to the external variables of the EA to

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Need more than 8 buffers in my Custom Indicator!!! How can I get this done?

Here's the problem... I'm trying to build a custom indicator . I am using the Heiken Ashi indicator but it already uses up 8 buffers. I would like to put arrows on the chart where a potential trade signal will be how do I achieve this? I've tried creating a separate CI altogether and using iCustom

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if ErrorDescription(GetLastError()) returns "no error"....how on EARTH can you test to solve for the error?

First off, the MT4 strategy tester is buggy...that thing doesn't display all the dates in the time frame you set...so I found a way around that by opening the log file in the /tester/ folder. ok...fine....here's the real problem now.... I know my EA is returning an error because when it's supposed

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Empty Results in Strategy Tester

Ok. Here's my scenario. I have built my first EA successfully...it opens and closes trades. However, it does this based on instructions it obtains from my first Custom Indicator. (using "iCustom()" function) ok...everything seems to be working, but when I back test using the Strategy tester , I get

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Please excuse my newbieness

I am attempting to build my first EA and I have a question. I would like to display up and down arrows when my simple condition is met in each case. I have successfully put together a Custom Indicator to display this on the chart. However...I'm not sure how to go about using this in conjunction with