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I'm getting the compiler unable to open error about once a day now and have to reinstall MT4 to 'fix' it. It shows up again at some point. My McAfee virus software found the MetaLang.exe trojan horse virus but can only move it to the quarantine folder, not clean or delete it. Every time I try to...

It's really nice to have the Strategy Tester basing drawdowns on equity but could we have the option of choosing the drawdowns to be calculated on balance or equity when we backtest or optimize? I ask this because a simple spike can throw the optimizer way off when optimizing on based on equity....

The Userguide contains full description of mobile terminal features and functions and includes the following sections: - Getting Started: terminal installation and startup, opening of accounts, authorization system, LiveUpdate system; - Terminal Settings: connection to the server, sound...

Is there a script that can take a screenshot every few seconds and save the .gif with an incremented filename so I can string the .gif files together to see how a given set of indicators looks over a period of time?

Hi, does anyone have an indicator which allows one to another forex instrument to an existing window. ie. my aim is to display two graphs in the same window. For example USDCHF and EURUSD. Thanks for your help

Received error message "could not launch compiler" in metaeditor. Anyone got any ideas? thanks, mark

Tick volume Tick volume is defined as the number of price changes. Each time trading moves to a new price, the number of ticks by which the price has changed is added to the tick volume. In an attempt to normalize tick volume values and make them more useful, we have defined the Trade Facilitation...

Hi Guys, Sorry if this post is in the wrong place. I need help in locating an indicator. I came across one that either prints The P/L of individual currency pairs, or prints a total P/L figure for all currency pairs, in the chart indow. Unfortunately I didn't need it at the time...and now I cannot...

Hello Guys, I've written an Expert Advisor and tested it on historical data with nice results. I would like to test it on my demo account using live data. I wonder if there is a way to make MT4 use my EA automatically (as it did while I was back testing my System)? P.S. Right now I've loaded the EA...

Hello everybody! Recently I've read a couple of articles about the Consortium of largest world banks and their EBS system. The main idea is that FOREX, unlike stock market, is not a market at all, and EBS is able and practically moves currencies anywhere it wants to, regardless of any fundamentals...

I need to find a way to tell when an open order has hit it's TP. Is there an event listener in metaquotes language? I am a programmer and looked at every function, but couldn't find a way for this. I'm sure it can be done, but need some help. I assume I get the order but then what function tells me...

Asynchronous Downloading v.2 Dll Needed to connect to Forex Tsd Calendar This function returns "" when url still is being downloaded.

Found this indicator on some forum, shows arrows on the cross of Stochastic. Has potential, maybe some of our great programmers can take a look and see if it can be improved. There is a system based on stochastic crosses on forexfactory by TEB. Stoch 5,3,3 is used. Timeframes are daily, 4h and 30M

Where can I find this system?

Hi All, Anybody here has infos about the last version of DLMv? I would like to test it. Thank you, Mauro

Hi, Does anybody know why the start method is not called for each bar? I set it to be called on daily bars for example but seems to rise each tick in that day not once per day as i think it should. For example for this code backtested form 2007.04.01 to 2007.04.05: int start(){ Print("show me a...

hi fellow traders, since I didn't find any forum rules which forbid this kind of offer I am gonna post it maybe some people fint useful. However, if Admins consider this to be inappropriate just remove the thread. I've been trading quite a while (a few years) and been programming EAs and indicators

Hello Everyone, I'm looking for a real time currency correlation indicator. If anyone has one or can point me in the right direction, I'd be thankful.

Is their a script, ea or something that will close all trades when you have a certain % of profit

Hi I wonder if somebody can help me, I am trying to determine the status of the open orders on my account in for me to know which orders are currently active and which orders need deleting. I cannot use OrderProfit as some of my orders are filled with 0 profit, I tried using Order type but it is...

Hi, I want to save my MT4 profile automatically every X minutes/hours. This is not difficult to code, right? Thanks. Regards, Hoh

Hi All! I just find this forum on another community. Spent a little time across, and made my decision to join here right away. There are a lot of information about indicators and EAs here, while most of them still mean most likely arabian nights to me. I will spend hours on reading through this...

old article at VTrader site. hmm, not bad to remember Bollinger Bands Summary Interpretation Description Results 1. Volatility Bands widen Increase in volatility Bands shrink Decrease in volatility 2. Consolidation – “Squeeze” When bands shrink tightly Breakout eminent 3. Exuberance of Current...

Hello: I'm happy to be speaking, (I had a hard time getting in here.) I'm also happy to be speaking with you all. The whole 'world' calls me 'Kenny'. Please do the same. I'm to try to find out the steps to download, I'm quoting now, "EA-Trailing-Stop.HTML", to my VT4 account. I truly hope I am...

Hi all. I am looking for someone that can help me create an EA based on Heiken Ashi MA indicator. Here is a list of the requirements: MaMetod: 1 MaPeriod: 15 Timeframe: 4H blue=>long, red=short LONG when ashi Bar is BLUE, exit when ashi Bar is RED SHORT when ashi Bar is RED, exit when ashi Bar is...

Hi MetaQuotes, Here is a very simple code (implemented as indicator) which heavily increases the computer's memory consumption. I only calls the iTime function in a loop. Can you tell me what the problem is? Thanks Ruby #property indicator_separate_window#property indicator_buffers 0 string...

Hi..I downloaded an expert and indicator to meta trader 4 ...the thing is..it only appears in meta editor ..how do i make it show up on my list of indicators in the program and the charts...same with iexpert....i also am wondering if alerts can be set up to a cell phone...somehow...thank you in...

Hi all: I have an good trading idea, I follow it manually and it is profitable/stable. I want to share the idea to everyone here, I hope the coding expert can write an EA for this idea and share the source code to everyone in this forum for future improvement. Not only the EX4 file but the mq4 file!...

I have some strategies which consiting of may custom indicators. How can I arrange them in different folder. Normally I put all of them in one directory : Metatraders\experts\indicators. so that I can see them in Metaraders but the problem is I have to take a long time to in order to use them. Nic