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This is a odd question. Im a newbie so forgive me if its the "wrong" question to ask, or I put it in the wrong forum. I plan on trading on the major news events. Warning: inproper terms will be used throughout this post! So before the major news event, I get a buy and sell ready. For example say...

There's an EA that I like but my balance on this account is only 238$ and the EA doesn't work if the balance is less than 250$. Is there a way to by-pass that ? The EA is SweatSpot 2. Thanx

Not all mini accounts are created equal... This same EA is running in two different accounts. Attached are the reports from each one. Also attached is the EA itself. I would like to make the account which is doing orders in the .75 range give orders in the 7.50 range. How can I make this happen....

i Want To Make That Expret, But I Don`t Know Can Any Person Help Me? .......lots=1 .......stop=25 .......limit=on Attach Chart .......FRAME=5M Thank You

I just started using MetaTrader last week. This forum has helped very much. I have not figured out how to change the time scale on the charts. Could someone please tell me how I adust the time to my time zone ? Thanks

Hi, I been trying MT4 for quite some days now, and I have a few questions regarding the software. Any help regarding these Questions would be deeply appreciated... 1.) How do I enable Global Crosshairs...meaning how do I enable crosshairs on all charts at the same time without clicking each...

When I am testing my expert, I often have my edit window open and make changes between expert testing runs. I have noticed that the back testing window does not always update with the code that I have just compiled. It will show the version of my older expert as the journal shows output. What is...

Could anyone please tell me any Russian forum on metatrader. I find most of the indicators are being translated from Russian and Russian forums and most of the programmers too are from Russia. Surprise, Surprise, after trading for months. I came to know that metatrader is a Russian company somewhere

Hi, I searched the forum for this MACD with BB in it, but i can't find it, anyone has it willing to share it??? Thanks

Hello evrybody , i missed you please can anyone help me adding this indicator(attached) in Expert advisor ? i want EA to buy after blue arrow completed bar & sell after red arrow completed bar with take profit ,stoploss,trialling stop,money management and time filter thanks alot

Hello everyone, Other than using Volume[0]=0, how would I programatically determine when a new BAR begins (under any time period) without getting into messy TIME calculations, etc. I appreciate all replies. Thanks! -charliev

hello traders, i want woodies pivots display indicator. i mean that indicator take yesterday high, yesterday low, yesterday close and todays open and display woodies pivots. please give me if anybody have then please give me. regards, santosh

I've looked high and low and can't figure out how to get the Expert Advisors. Please let me know where to get them. Thanks in advance. Carl Fritch

I have this comment in an EA. Comment=(" maxOrdersOpen = ",OrdersTotal()). The result is that it appears on all charts with total orders for all working pairs. What do I need to do to make it Currency Pair specific? Thanks in advance, Wackena

Is there any way to have multiple Demo Accounts from a broker (e.g. FXDD) where these charts go to that Demo Account and those charts go to that Demo Account? I have 2 Demo accounts, but when I flip over, all the charts go with it and I can't isolate the results. I'm wanting to test multiple EAs and...

Can you run multiple EAs on the same login/account. If so how does it keep track of the orders each EA is managing?

I want to find this charting sofware. Where can i find it ? Anybody know ? Please PM me.

I'm getting some decent results from this EA. I've modified it so that it doesn't just keep doing signals. I've found that it works best on EURUSD, GBPUSD , AUDUSD, EURCHF I got profit on all of these. It has made me some pips last week and just today as well. I'll likely continue testing it the

I'm rather new at this forex game and was wondering from the experts, which currency pairs trend the best?

i've had the most difficult time trying to get my Limit/Stop Orders to expire using this code rderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUYSTOP,Lots,Ask+(9*Point),3,Ask-(SL*Point),Ask+(TakeProfit*Point),"Cross Buy",16384,xxxxxxxx,Lime); xxxxxx= "Expirydate = Cur time+ expected Lenghth" i want to know how i can achieve...

Hi I have an ea that I backtest on several currencies and it buys and sells ok. Now I start forward testing it on these currencies, attatching the ea to each currencies chart. But I am finding the ea totally ignores signals on some charts. So far it has seen signals on 3 charts, but only done...

this compiles with no errors but it isn't executing any trades when it's conditions are met. I think i did the MACD's ok but I'm not certain. I just want them to be showing positive or negative and I 'think' that means the signal line is above the indicator line for positive? but i'm not sure that...

I want to have a EMA cross over Expert Advisor that works in Strategy Tester, such that i can try different values. I am very new to MT4. So i would like something that i just load and just change the timescales and the values, The key is i want it to work in the strategy tester. Somebody please...

This morning I have auto updated to build 192 / 01 May 2006. Since then all text in Dictionary ToolBox is extremely small. How can I fix this.

Iam still very new to this thread but and I have a problem with all my indicators folder in metatrader. I have a few systems/strategy that I copied from this forum. How can I arrange one system in one folder in metatrader ? Now all my indicators are mixed in "indicator" folder of metrader. And I...

Hi If my EA uses hourly indicators - is it best to do stratergy testing on an hourly basis or on a lower timeframe? As when I test using different timeframes I get very different results. Do you have some set procedure on how to properly set up backtesting?

My metatrader cannot show all the indicators (in the 'expert/indicators' folder) in the custom indicators navigator. It just showing 522 out of 588 indicators that i have. That's metatrader limitation or my setting problem? Anyone experienced this?

PLEASE! i need an trailing stop ea that calculates the medium price of a trade. for example: there is a buy of 60 lots at 1,8466, another of 120 lots at 1,8386 and another of 180 lots at 1,8306. So the medium price is 1,8359. If i set profit to 30 pips the ea start at 1,8389...and stop only if...

hello , please , how can i add an expire period to my EA that found in attachmet ? what is the function ? how can i add it ? and how can i sure from its working? thanks alot