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Hi ,does anyone know how to have order tickets display stop loss & take profit in pips in MT4 platform ? Your reply appreciated.

Can someone please tell me if there is a function available in MQL4 called LastTradeTime() ?? It appears to be available in MQLII... I am writing an Expert Advisor and trying to devise a way to ensure that it does not execute multiple trades per bar. Any and all advise is MOST welcome!! Thanks!...

Hello All, I had a custom indicator that I added some code to in order to take trades, in an attempt to convert it into an EA. However, now when I try to attach it to a chart, it won't attach, and MT4 tells me it's not an EA, it's an indicator. What am I doing wrong? How does MT4 identify a Custom...

Hi How could I return the lowest low or the highest high, starting from the beginning of the opened order ? Thank you.

Hello everyone, This is sound a little st..id. I downloaded some EA. Copy it to my expert directory, when I opened the strategybuilder platform, tried to attached EA onto the chart, I don't have a smiley face, but I got this big L or big J letter. Could anyone tell me why. Many THX. Josephine

HI I found nice article in "Currency Trader" about trend strength indicator http://www.currencytradermag.com/u20sh.htm If anybody could program this indicator for MT4 regards

Hello: Where can I find sourcecode for the MT4 Volumes Indicator ? I don't find it my samples folder, or in any of my MT4 folders. Can someone provide a link to download it? Thanks, -charliev

Hi guys! I need one indicator that gives me a signal when one candle (bull or bear) cross the horizontal trendline. I don't know if this is difficult, but if not, could you please help me? Thanks in advance! Cheers

MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal build 191 has been released Changes: 1. Fixed error of outgoing traffic increasing when computer has been working for more than a month. 2. Added possibility to work via proxy servers with NTLM authorization. 3. When a transaction is transferred from history, SHIFT...

Hi, there is a bug with this build. If you have a few orders , say over 20, and you scroll down to see your equity etc, the terminal will automatically scroll back up to the top even though no new trades have been placed. Please can you fix this problem? thanks

MetaTrader 4 Mobile build 191 has been released What's new: 1. Fixed fonts displaying error in VGA mode for some models of PDAs. 2. Fixed history data pumping. 3. Fixed updating of available internal mailing system mailboxes list at switching between accounts. Mobile terminal can be downloaded...

hi guys whats the code to have a password protection to EA and is it possible to have our EA working in interbank fx server any help reg this is appreciated bye shwetha

Helo, I need a piece of code to define a variable as a moving average of CCI. I use the MA applied to the CCI (using previous indicator's data) and I want to use that into an EA. How should I do it? iMA(....); ? Thank you."

Help me please...help me. How to solve error of the number code 133 : Trade is disabled. By server? or client? Thank's

Hi all, First post here after moving into Forex after trading stocks for a while. In my software for the stock market I use an indicator that combines an MA and the ATR to draw a line to show my trailing stop loss. It is quite simple but I have never attempted to code anything like the necessary...

Hi, I'm having trouble attaching more than 1 EA to a chart. Is this simply not possible or is there an option to enable this somewhere? Reason I ask is because MetaTrader leads you to believe this is possible... right click on the chart and it says "Expert Advisors" for the sub-menu. But I suspect...

Can anyone help me to setup The FxOverEasy System indicator, such as SHI channel, LaGuerre, i_Trend, Juice, and Perkyasctrend1 into a PDA? Can such indicator be downloaded into PDA? FYI, my PDA type is HP iPAQ 3565. PLease....

Is there a way to receive this symbol in mt4 by chance? Many thanks.

Hi I would like to import historic data and then convert it to 5min, 15min etc. so i can do good quality backtesting. As it was recommended in an article i read. I donwloaded the 1min data from alpari and then tried to run the period_converter script in MT4. But unfortunately the only thing that...

Hi Bit of a stupid question here, but it is late... I downloaded several .mq4 files from the thread CatFX50. I put them in experts/script folder of metatrader and when I drag them on to the chart I want to see them, I click EXECUTE ON CHART and nothing happens on the chart. Am I missing something?...

Hi all, Can someone help me. I need someone to make me a Custom Indicator. ADX indicator with smoothed -DI and +DI and adjustable parameters for all 3 lines. If this works for me I'll be glad to share my system. Thank you.

In the documentation, in the last parameter in the function OrderSend it sais: "Color of the opening arrow on the chart. If parameter is absent or has CLR_NONE value opening arrow is not drawn on the chart.". But if the parameter is absent the arrow IS drawn. Even if I use the value CLR_NONE...

When we apply MT indicator, eg: Moving Average to the Chart, we will have a dropdown list to choose MA method, Apply to Price, etc. How can we realise this funciton in Customer Indicator?

HOW DO YOU GET YOUR EXPERT ADVISOR TO KEEP RUNNING CONTINOUSLY. PLEASE EXPLAIN.

Slawa, I´m using a demo on ( build 190 feb 6) and a position just disaperad from friday to today see: and

Demo server unavaulable ! Is it testing related?

How could I have this custum indicator: 2 EMA (7 and 23 periods) not on the chart but below in a separate window? traderix

I know how to programically put Objects on the chart to the background. What I would like to know is if there is a way to have a custom indicators whose regular output (lines, histograms, dots, etc) are placed in the background, behind the price bars? Thanks, Keris

Is it possible to shade in areas of the chart background? I tried iterating through minutes and drawing vertical lines, but that creates a million objects and isn't the most efficient way to do it. I just want to shade NY hours. thanks, Jack

Can anyone tell me what does EA stand for? I'm sorry just new to the Forex world and want to invest. You help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!