IndicatorRemove

[Carl Schreiber]

Is there a way that an indicator can remove itself?

I tried ExpertRemove() which worked as far as I remember for mql4 - but mql5 it does not - do I have to force a division by zero or an invalid array access?

[kypa]

The pirate way - induce some fatal error. Works with experts, might crash the terminal though.

[Francesco Rubeo]

Carl Schreiber:

Is there a way that an indicator can remove itself?

I tried ExpertRemove() which worked as far as I remember for mql4 - but mql5 it does not - do I have to force a division by zero or an invalid array access?

Maybe you can apply a template with ChartApplyTemplate function and you will not have any indicator on the chart...

[kypa]

There is also a proper way:

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/standardlibrary/technicalindicators/cindicators/cindicator/cindicatordeletefromchart

Or just ChartIndicatorDelete();

[Carl Schreiber]

My indicator doesn't use this library.

So far I use: Print(1.0/(sqrt(1)-1));

[kypa]

This is the built-in function that the function from the library calls:

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/chart_operations/chartindicatordelete

[Carl Schreiber]

Yep, I just found it.

hmm - similar things should have similar names that would make live easier!