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I am trying to find an indicator that sounds an alarm and sends an e-mail for bollinger band tags for MT4. As common as I think this strategy is, I am surprised that I have not been able to find it anywhere. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Investing in Oil as a spot comodity Crude Oil has been a dominant factor in the increasingly volatile global markets lately, as the commodity makes historic climbs toward $100 a barrel. It is important for traders and investors to understand the causes involved in the changing oil prices and how...

Hi, Gaps EA need improvements. If the gap is greater or equal than 3 pips, it will open an order. The TP is determined from the gap too. If it is higher than 6 pips, TP will be set 3 pips as the last three trades said. Otherwise TP remains 1 pip. I bet that this EA will not place TP that is higher...

Hi Traders where i can find the indicator: Waddah Attar Explosion Thanks

Hi, What are the precise rules for the server/tester opening an OP_BUY position from an OP_BUYLIMIT ticket. Does the price in the OP_BUYLIMIT ticket have to be equalled exactly? What happens if the Ask jumps below the price in the OP_BUYLIMIT ticket by a considerable margin? How is slippage...

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If anyone has used SQL profiler, this might be familiar...Basically when the code runs, the SQL profiler spits out very detailed output of each and every line of the code operation. Is it possible to run EA like that may be using an external var external bool Enable_Debug_Mode = true|false if true...

Hi all I want to make an expert advisor that uses ZigZag to decide when it should buy or sell and I want to use iCustom to access the Zigzag values. Can anyone shows a simple example about it and a little explanes about it. Thanks

Hi all I'm a beginner of mql4 programming I need som information about draw_section. How does it work exactly? What is the difference betwin draw_line and draw_section? Can anyone explain about it or show me some refrences about it in the internet? Thanks

New MetaTrader 4 Mobile Smartphone Edition User Guide has been published at http://www.metaquotes.net/files/metatrader4mobile_se_en.chm New user guide is the complete description of the mobile terminal for Smartphones. User guide includes following descriptions: installation, program interface,...

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, the article Statistical Report #2 has been published (http://championship.mql4.com/2007/news/295/). We go on collecting and analyzing statistical data obtained in the course of the Automated Trading Championship 2007. The results of the...

I do not know anything about coding and was hoping someone could help me with a simple system I am testing. If there is an EA already doing this it would be great if you could let me know. I need an expert that can reverse an open position when a trailing S/L is hit. let me include an example....

Can anyone code this scalping EA when price starts walking the Bollinger Bands, which normally very large move, as opposed to when it moves back into bands, which normally is very short (pips) move. The above will happen when both ADX and DI- or DI+ are rising. I have traded successfully under those...

Hi, Let's share our expience in Forex.... email: keenprofx@yahoo.com

...I want to create a comment only "expert" to display on my charts when I manually trade, just to remind me to "not over trade". Can I just set up a string, then define it, or what is the normal parameters to use? + =

Well I know all of you are sad...Let's bow are heads while playing the song... "anutha one bites the dust...and anutha one.... http://www.greatforexsignal.com/Default.aspx

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, the article Jury Session Record of the 12th of November 2007 has been published (http://championship.mql4.com/2007/news/291/). At the session, the Jury discussed disqualification of several Participants. Eight more Participants dropped out...

Hi Rosh, Thank you for your answer, but it was spot Forex I was trading, not CFD's. I was trying to close my position in GBP/JPY. Any ideas please? sparoweagle5

Hi, Could anyone kindly help me to translate the following programs into English? 1. Link: Automated Choice of Brokerage Company for an Efficient Operation of Expert Advisors - MQL4 Articles 2. Link: MT4TerminalSync - System for the Synchronization of MetaTrader 4 Terminals - MQL4 Articles The...

Hi.. Can any body help me with the following idea as an EA? I guess it is basic and it is based on moving average crosses with some money management tricks. The specification are: Open a trade with a cross and exit it with cross in the opposite direction. 1. If your first trade is in profit, then

On the 'Order' page, 'Instant Execution', the yellow bar is blank (no wording). How do I close my position, please? sparoweagle5

Hi. Can anyone tell me why the below code does not place trade arrows correctly. The 'price' placement is fine, but it fails to always place it at the right bar, often placing arrows many bars in the past, not Bar 0, the current bar. btw ArrowNum is of Global Integer type. ArrowNum++;...

Backtesting an EA on historical data produces inconsistent behaviour. For example, EA calls for exit from trade on 15-minute bar when a 2 period moving average changes direction, and is confirmed visually on chart. However, in backtester, exit is produced many bars before EA changes direction,...

when I place the attached 'MTF_AbsoluteStrength' indicator on a chart all that appears is a red horizontal line can you explain what I need to do to get it working and in general, if an indicator doesn't display, is there anything I can check or do to try and get it to display

hi there i need for an indicator for saving the CSV Files on metatrader4 instead of using"ctrl+s" thanks for your help arash

The development of the SmartFX Auto-trading System (SAS) is initiated at Nov. 11, 2007. The performance of SAS will be compared with that of other forex trading systems such as Phoenix (https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/trading_systems). When promising result is carried out, SAS will be released to...

this is from a book called evidence based technical analysis... is it really true that statistical models applied to financial market is far more accurate than charting ?

Hello, just wondering if there was a simple Breakeven EA that will monitor my trades and detect if my TP isn't hit and price goes back against me then to just close the trade if price gets back to my open price. So at least if my TP doesnt' get hit then I still wont loose anything. Thanks

Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible to add nested menus for my indicators. As I write stuff, the INSERT::INDICATORS::CUSTOM submenu gets really crowded. I know it's easy to move files around that you aren't using, but a better solution would be nested folders so you could keep different projects in...