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Using onchartevent in an advisor

Hi I've done a lot of digging around and can't find anything similar to this - which may mean that either my understanding/coding ability isn't good enough (I'm a 'cut and paste' coder) or this isn't possible. What I'm doing is building an EA which uses a series of boolean to determine whether

MQL4 - code to check for break in brokers signal

Hi Does anybody have a good way of checking for a break in signal from your broker? I'm sure I saw something like this in Jim Dandy's tutorial videos, but can't find it in my notes. D

Being a dumbarse.... can't get MT4 to download

Hi all I'm probably being an absolute dumb arse, but after MT4 stopped working on a demo account (I've not gone live yet), I uninstalled it and have tried to do a reinstallation. But wehn I download and install 'mt4setup.exe. from https://www.metatrader4.com/en - it installs MT5. This is driving me

Showing higher timeframe indicators

Hi - as per my other posts I'm sure this has already been talked about, but I can't find it :) Is it possible to set up an indicator so that it shows you a higher time frame but to the scale of a short time frame? That might not make much sense - so here's are some pics to show what I mean. The

Setting multiple booleans from one function

I'm experimenting with using what I think of as 'triggers'. They are booleans that start at false and then are set to true when certain parameters happen (X line cross Y line etc). I can then get the EA to place an order when a number of the booleans are all true. The advantage is that it allows for