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Hello guys, I am very confused. Why does this code not work if I press 'Q' but it works when I draw any object manually? void OnChartEvent ( const int id

Hi guys, is there a possibility to modify the code of the ZigZag indicator that the lines are drawn in the background behind the candles? I didn't find a solution how to do it with the buffers. I don't want to set the chart on foreground because I

Hey guys, I permanently use the Zigzag indicator in my template. But when I switch to the line chart I want to hide the Zigzag indicator. I thought about checking the CHART_MODE within the Zigzag code and if the line chart is active I wanted to set

Hi guys, I am (still) confused about the things in the headline. I made a little test indicator which plots a dot in the middle of a candle if the candle's size is larger than its ATR(100). Of course the indicator should only work if a new bar is

Hi guys, can anyone tell me how the correct syntax looks like? int timeframes[ 3 ]; if ( _Period == PERIOD_W1 ) timeframes[ 3 ]={ PERIOD_D1 , PERIOD_H4 , PERIOD_H1 }; else if ( _Period == PERIOD_D1 ) timeframes[ 3 ]={ PERIOD_H4 , PERIOD_H1

Hi all! I made an indicator which scans 28 forex pairs in 5 timeframes for a pre-defined setup. In this example I just scan for a candle's close above the previous candle's high. My question is now if my code is an elegant and efficient way to do it

Hey guys, is it somehow possible to change the color of a moving average in a code? Example: I have a moving average in my chart. Now I want to press a key and the color of the moving average should change

Hey guys, I made this little test-script: void OnStart () {    Alert ( iTime ( "USDTHB" , 60 , 1 )); } The result was a date from 2018. When I started the script once again, the correct time and date was printed. I know this is because I

Hi, I wanted to code a script which changes the chart-mode (line, bars, candles) of all open charts . When dragging the script into a chart I want to choose the chart-mode with a pulldown-menu. But I don't know how to use the ENUM_CHART_MODE

Hi guys, I am migrating all my stuff from MQL4 to MQL5 and now I need to modify the stoploss of a position. I didn't find any corresponsing function to OrderModify() in MQL5. Can anyone tell me how to change the stoploss of a position when I received

Hi guys, I am trying to convert all my stuff from MQL4 to MQL5 and I have a big problem with iATR (and a lot of other stuff). Firstly, the MQL5-iATR-function returns a handle. Why? It was so easy with MQL4. Just returned the number and you're done

Hi guys, pretty difficult to explain in a headline. I have this function: double ClosePrice( string symbol, int timeframe, int position) {    return    iClose (symbol, timeframe, position); } And I call this function like this

I didn't find any ChartGetInteger() function showing if the crosshair is enabled. Are there other possibilites

Hi guys, I just used CHARTEVENT_KEYDOWN this way: if (lparam== "A" )... Is it somehow possible to check if SHIFT and A are pressed? I didn't find anything about it in the MQL4 docs

Hey guys, I sometimes want to see the Bill Williams Fractal indicator in my charts and I wondered if it is somehow possible to insert it by just pressing a key. Removing it can be simply done by ChartIndicatorDelete() but I have no idea how to insert

Hi guys, can you tell me what's wrong with my calculations? Works fine on 5-digit-pairs as well as on metals but to get the correct values for JPY pairs I need to divide them by 100. But why? I thought my calculation is correct for every pair. void

Hi guys, I open some charts, draw some lines and rectangles and then I drag the following script into one of the charts.  This script should print the names and types of the objects found in all charts. Interestingly, the names are all correct

Hey guys, I know, it's pretty embarrassing but I can't solve this on my own. Can someone please tell me how to modify this formula, so that the result is b = .......... This is the formula: f = (a*b*c+b*d)*e/a As mentioned above, I need b. Thank

Hi, when I open a chart with the OpenChart() function the checkbox "allow live trading" in my EA's properties is always disabled. But when I open a new chart manually, the EA's properties are correct and live trading is allowed. I don't understand

Hello forum, I have my entry and my stop-loss and I want to calculate the lot size according to my risk-management. It works fine and this is how I do it: double pipRisk = MathAbs (orderOpenPrice-orderStoploss); double lotSize  =