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Hi Everyone, Can someone explain to me how a trailing stop works and buy stop/limit and sell stop/limit? I Use Metatrader4 and I entered a buy order at say 104.30 I set my trailing stop in Metatrader when I right click on the order to 15 pips Is this what happens? The market moves 15 pips up...

I want to learn how to analisys the chart with Statistic Method. Anybody knows ?

This is Inzider EA. I got a few emails from TSD member inzider who was curious about making an EA based upon his manual trade rules. Pairs: ANY Timeframe: 1 HOUR or 4 HOUR This EA uses MACD, stochastics and directional index to help try to filter out some bad trades. This EA checks its indicators...

Hi all, Here is one simple and powerful "indicator" (I'm not sure if this can be called indicator) I want to share that I coded a while ago, it's really useful for quickly identifying breakouts when looking at chart without too much clutter. It's an "MTF" indicator so it can look for breakouts of X...

Hello Guys, I'm a beginner trader from Europe and I've been trying to learn forex for some time now. I've been building up my strategy mostly using trendlines, moving averages and the stochastic oscillator. I managed to get to a point where I never miss a decent movement. However... I have a...

in every thing i read there were always chart examples on whats being explained but i cant analyze the chart on MT4 like that. i cant draw trend lines and stuff like that on metatrader there must be a software used for chart analysis can anyone give me a link where i can analyze the charts...

Hello, I found some script on this site, it shows MA and buy/stop signals, based on the past data. But MA doesn't move in the real-time - look at the right side of the attached picture. I'm don't have enough experience with MetaTrader. - Could anybody, please, explain what is wrong? The script...

I had a neat idea come to me and I thought I should share it because it becomes *more effective* as more people do it. In MT4 Dealer Desk, the software tells the Dealers how much money they will make and how it affects the overall goal of being market neutral by injecting prices into the price...

I'm trying to program an efficiency indicator, but got into a problem. I want to divide to variables, which both are plotted correctly in past individualla, but once divided it only plots for the two last bars. I've tried a few different combinations, but everytime i get to the same problem (must be

WTF is going on, this is just getting out of control, I could just imagine what is next....looks like sushi prices are going to go through the roof just like pizza and bread did after wheat jumped..... Wednesday, Apr. 23 2008 Wal-Mart Rations Rice, Warns of "Supply and Demand" Concerns Wal-Mart, the...

I am conducting a test that gives positive results. However, there is always one trade that is never closed until the end of the test which results in a very positive spike. How can I prevent this?

Does the mobile cilent work with the new Samsung i780 which has a square 320x320 resolution?

Hello Traders, and those who want become a trader. For today i will show you a method to gain more money with trading the news. News Trading? not for me. BUT WAIT. you don't need any fundamentals knowledge or an indicator to trade this successful. Well, my english is not so perfect, but i try my...

I am on demo login and testing out some EA. I see a "Non Trading Hour" message on my charts when I load my EA during Asia time here in Singapore. The market watch clock is showing 3.30am MT time while we are at 8.30am. Does this means there cannot be any trades enter during your non trading...

im looking at the generic macd indicator settings, as follows fast ema=12 slow ema=26 macd sma=9 -But- the generic macd ea that comes with mt4 in the ea properties dialog box has the following, macd open level=3 macd close...

Are there any general problems and solutions for email delivery with Yahoo e-mail address with the Meta trader, I have already tried so many things but always get error messages?

hi all ok so i have just downloaded the 1000 mtf indicators still in winace havent extracted any but when i click on it from winace it opens in metaeditor???? how do i load them into mtf platform...and how many can be saved in mtf and how do i delete original indicators???? any help will be...

Dont Mind Share with me thanks Brothers!!!!

Hi, all. I'm new to the forex world and trying to get a feel for the Metatrader system. I have this RSI alert that I would like to modify but the programming is beyond me. If anyone has a script that would enable me to know which pairing AND which time frame the alert is calling to, I'd appricate...

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a soft that can optimize the parameters of your EA. I'm tired of backtesting my EA 20 times in a row with MA periods=20, then with 21, then with 22... Does this kind of software exist? Is it possible to optimize several parameters at the same time? Thanks and have a...

Metatrader is no doubt a good program but it has some very basic things lacking. One of them is the absence of time frames other than the 1,5,15,etc defined variables. Is there ANY way of viewing a 2 minute chart? I saw some other posts, but perhaps things had changed from a few months ago...

How do I program an email alert into a MT4 EA? What code do I put and where? Thank you

Does anybody have any idea how I can get this to change my time frame to something other than the standard time frames in the program? I would appreciate any help Al

I am using an indicator called StepChoppy that I want to call from an expert advisor. I just need to know how I can programmatically get the color of the current bar. I thought of something like this:- color oldColor=ObjectGet(iBars(Symbol(), 0), OBJPROP_COLOR); But im new and im not sure

Whats the best way of exposing values from my custom indicators with return values other than double. I need a string returned.

what else is new, do you actually think he would say the US is in a recession.. "drilling for oil in an Alaskan wildlife refuge" This will probably NEVER HAPPEN, if they were worried about $50 oil just 2 years ago and didnt do anything about and worried about $100 oil what about $120 oil, oil could...

these stocks are all touching 52 week lows as oil continues to push higher.... anyone looking to buy or is there way to much risk in this sector.... im looking at JBLU or AMR. AMEX AIRLINE INDEX (AMEX: ^XAL) Index Value: 20.84 Trade Time: 11:59AM ET Change: Down 2.56 (10.94%) Prev Close: 23.40 Open:...

I'm running an EA with dll protection. It connects to a central server for authentication. My problem is the instance of MT4 I'm running it on keeps completely shutting down. Is it possible the dll is causing this or the authentication server is not working properly, disconnecting me and shutting...

I'm running an EA with dll protection -- the name of the EA doesn't matter. It connects to a central server for authentication. My problem is the instance of MT4 I'm running it on keeps completely shutting down. I've never experienced this before. Is it possible the dll is causing this or the...

This ExoticWavespro tunnel indicator is accurate. Unfortunately this is not a metatrader indicator. Its a software from ExoticWavesPro which was post here from fred and newdigital. The reason for this post is seeking help from all code guru expert to make this indicator for metatrader, some sort of...