When you load the expert do you have a smiley face in the top righthand corner or an x?
if not make sure you can view the standard toolbar and click on the expert advisors button.
. . . . . and click on the expert advisors button.
Guys I'm not a n00b... of course Expert Advisors were enabled, and the smiley face was indeed present!
Like I said, this is apparently some kind of a bug.
We can't tell the level of your experience from your origional post.
The tester does not do alerts
But I know on my compter
int init() { Alert("Hello World") ; return(0); }Works! (on a demo account and real accout)
I noticed this happens after I run a lot of simulations in Strategy Tester. When I attach my EA to the LIVE window, nothing happens.
Do you make use of any GlobalVariables ?
Yes I do, why?
We can't tell the level of your experience from your origional post.
The tester does not do alerts
But I know on my compter
Works! (on a demo account and real accout)I know the tester doesn't do alerts. As I clearly stated I was referring to the LIVE trading window, not the tester.
And I have plenty of memory available (4GB) and was not running any memory consuming programs at the time, so I seriously doubt that was the problem.
Yes I do, why?
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I noticed this happens after I run a lot of simulations in Strategy Tester. When I attach my EA to the LIVE window, nothing happens.
I added an 'Alert()' function in both 'init()' and 'start()' functions to see if they are even called, and nothing is happening.
I look at the experts tab and the expert appears to be loaded successfully. No errors of any kind. The 'start()' function does not run even once, since I put the 'Alert()' at the very top of it, so if there were some "unseen" errors in the code like infinite loops, the 'Alert()' functions should have popped up a message AT LEAST once.
Note that I have been leaving my EA overnight for testing purposes, and it never has any problems running continuously. It just seems that after a while of using Strategy Tester, this bug manifests itself.
In order to get the EA to run again, I have to restart MetaTrader and then it works again!
Anyone have any idea what this is all about?
Thanks!