MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1196

i have an hedging and grid EA, i have a problem when closing order. let say if i have 7 sell order and 3 buy order position, when close all function running sometimes it won't close all order. so it will leave 4 orders open, 2 sell and 2 buy order position. the question is why it happened and why...

Hello Everyone, I have been trying out the new MT5, and as I read through some of the posts, I see there are still a lot of items to go! At the risk of being redundant, here is some of my wishlist for MT5: 1) Allow TIMEZONE setting for LOCAL Time... PLEASE, if you have any compassion for traders......

As background to this question, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4993114/c-compiler-on-oracle-virtual-box-running-xp-guest-on-linux-host. The program, which is not specifically mentioned by name in the given link, is MetaTrader 4, so I would like to know what compiler was used to compile...

New article Charts and diagrams in HTML is published at mql5.com: Today it is difficult to find a computer that does not have an installed web-browser. For a long time browsers have been evolving and improving. This article discusses the simple and safe way to create of charts and diagrams, based on...

Hello i have made a simple indicator with 2 SMA but i have a problem, the indicator draw the 2 SMA above the candle. It' s possible to set that the indicators draw behind the candle ? thanks

My partner has the same login and password details as I do on a trial / demo account. We are still developing our software.. I cnat see the trades he runs - live or otherwise... How do I achive live sharing of the same screen between my partner and i ?

Wondering if anyone has a code or link to a code to help me calculate my position size through MT4, as well a pip value converter THanks

Hi, i have the following code and was wondering if this is the right way to check the colors, since i couldn't find something similar: color result1=ObjectGet( "rule1" , OBJPROP_COLOR ); color result2=ObjectGet( "rule2" , OBJPROP_COLOR ); color result3=ObjectGet( "rule3" , OBJPROP_COLOR ); if

Hello, i created an indicator to show some values as a "trafic light". first light has to become orange (same for buy and sell), and the other two green(for buy setup) or red (for sell setup) . It is al working OK, but now i wanted to see 3 other currency pairs too in the same way, so i copied/paste...

Hi Everyone, I need to check an indicator on the next 3 time frame according to the time frame my curt is, lets say I'm on 5 minutes time frame curt so I need to check let say "parabolic sar" on 15 / 30 / 1H time frames, to get "this" curt time frame I will use Period() but how can I get the next 3...

hi Can MetaTrader 4 run on 64 Bit Windows 7 profesional? Buying new computer Thanks

I occassionally run into this situation where I cannot exit a trade early manually. I get a message "Too close to market". Of course it's close to market, I want to exit at market. The most recent, trading oil. I bought 1 unit, then set a SL at -30 pips (closest allowed by broker). Indicators...

Hey everyone, I haven't posted here much, but I try not to come here asking people to 'do work for me'... having said that, I would appreciate some advice as I'm a beginner with coding. Here's my problem... I'm trying to create a fractal breakout zone around the price for as long as the ATR is under...

If I add expert advisor to chart with 15 min timeframe, and I use timeframe 1min in all indicators, will it use those timeframes written in the script, or will it use chart timeframe? Because I've seen that simulation overrides the timeframe written in the script. So how does this work?

Hi all, this time i come here with a question .. i dont see some mistakes .. but maybe late hour :-) i was playing with iBarShift in an Indicator for OBV. in General is working not bad . int i,nLimit,nCountedBars;   nCountedBars=IndicatorCounted();   if(nCountedBars>0) nCountedBars--;...

Hi I have been setting up my first EA with the help of a more experienced coder. One condition of mt trades is that if the price is X amount from the nearest pivot line then it will invalidate the possible trade. This is working for long trades, so if the price was too close to a pivot line above...

The bulk of the work and discussion on the thread subject was commissioned in an unrelated thread: Get Computer Name in mql4 I am making this thread solely for the purpose of aiding those who would seek similar information via the forum search function. The code, and solution, is posted in the...

Hello I have an EA that is not calulating the bands correctly. You can see on the attachment the difference in using the bands indicator in metatrader and the one in the EA, but the settings are the same. Here is the code for the bands in the EA, the only thing I can think of is that the EA using...

It appears that the embedded OrdersTotal() function is not working in Indicator codes when using the Strategy Tester. OrdersTotal() calls in Expert Advisor codes return correct values, but in Indicator codes only returns 0 when there are open orders. MT-4 build 226 To demonstrate this possible bug,...

New article Trade Events in MetaTrader 5 is published at mql5.com: A monitoring of the current state of a trade account implies controlling open positions and orders. Before a trade signal becomes a deal, it should be sent from the client terminal as a request to the trade server, where it will be...

Hi everyone, can somebody please help me building a srcipt for the Crosshairs, which shows 2 horizontal Lines +/- X pips away from price? For example, X=20, if you move the cursor to 1.3617, there would be also a line at 1.3637 and 1.3597. That would be a really useful tool. Thanks a lot!

got the following code. for the ordersend command i want to set the open price on the value of hh5 (highest price from last 5 bars), but i keep getting error 4107 or 130. Could someone show me what im doing wrong?    atrvalue=iATR(NULL,0,20,0)*10000;   atrcalc=atrvalue*1.5;   hh5=High[iHighest(NULL...

Hi,I wonder if anyone can help, Meta 4, my options are regarding the amounts to trade are 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 1.00 2.00 etc I don't trade with 1.00 it hurts, but I do trade in multi lot's of 0.05 I think it's about 31pence (GBP Money) however as part of my strategy, and to keep me focused, I

Hello,I have one very difficult situation for me. I want to create EA with MTF channels but I couldn't to run it in tester properly. It use iBars, iHighest, iLowest, iTime. I checked all this parameters with Alert and it calculate some information but indicator don't want to draw the channels.I had...

Dear Support Team, or anyone else who may be able to help, my problem is as described in the subject line: - When I close my MT4 software, most of the newly edited/added/changed alerts will not be saved, instead upon reopening MT4 the alerts are put back to a state a couple of days ago. Which means...

I'm running optimizations and the Tester crashes after about an hour. After investigation I've noticed the log file full of memory allocation errors.... I tried running optimization again, this time I left the task manager (windows xp sp3) open on the performance tab. The PF graph is a nice linear...

I've been trading on the forex market for a little over a year now. I've been trying to build my forex trading system like everybody else. But that's not the point, lately I keep coming across different forums and stuff on the Internet where people write about their success in trading, how they

Windows 7 MetaTrader 4 Problem - New script files deleted on startup. When I run MetaTrader 4 in Win7 64 Home Edition it deletes all the newly created/copied script files from expert/scripts folder. So after startup only standard scripts remain in the folder. What is this? Any Ideas?? I tried

Hello, With no success, I have been going through various forums to find out if anyone has posted how to backtest a Fibonacci sequence. I know that it's either difficult (or impossible) because it solely depends on the person drawing the sequence and also the variations in price action, but I...

How to calculate the maximum value of a bar within a period of 10 bars? I'll use this to calculate the resistance in this period.