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This may be a question that has been answered before. However, I could not find it in the forum. When writing expert advisor code, can I write code to make desicsions on the current bar or do I have to use the previous bar for the decision and trade a bar latter? Thanks, Dan

Hi, Could someone please convert the attach indicator, these is Metatrader 3 indicator i need to be converted to Metatrader4. I don't know how to convert the indicator.Thanks..

Hello all, I have been trying to find source code for various indicators, thanks for all the help! Can anyone point me to source for the Williams %R (percent range) indicator? It's not in my sample folder. Thanks! -charliev

Hi, I am having a problem with above named indicator. When i added it to custom indicator file and compiled it i receive the following error message........'speech text' - function is not defined Can anyone help me out with this or if you have one that works could you please post it for me. tks in...

How can I send a comment to the chart on the line below, my comments are overwriting and only appearing on the same line at the top of the chart?

Hi I have an ea that I backtest on all 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 what...

i went to the exper advisor builder for MetaTrader 4, (http://sufx.core.t3-ism.net/ExpertAdvisorBuilder/index.html#Buy1, plugged in the rules, downloaded them, copied them into MetaTrader 4, and the icon next to the system is grey when the others are blue and yellow, (in the navigatoin bar), the...

I have been messing around with strategy tester the last few days, and have found that it has lots of errors. Mainly trades showing gains of 30 pips over the course of 1 minute. So is it really that unreliable?

Hi, I know that a broker can not see my EA-code, but a broker can see if a trade is made manually or by an EA. My question: can the broker see the NAME of my EA? Thanks.

What are the limits of the expert? How many lines of code, number of variables, nested conditions etc, can I use. thanks, Dan

hello Fellow Traders, this is my EA i developed last night. I call it the RSI expert, based on 4 RSI's and two EMA's have fun make sure u use Tick modeling with 90% quality!

Trading online, waiting the signals. What could you do other than that?

Hi there I am use to seeing two moving averages in my macd indicator, w mt4 it only shows one, the signal line, do any of u know how to activate the 2nd one, so i can see thtem crossing etc, i use the crossover for a salping technique. thnks smith

for example: i set profit (using price and not pips) at 1.2000 so the trailing stop starts. don`t matter if are orders in win or loss. the ea only stop when price back "X" pips. id like to use that with a window for sell and other for buy. there are any ea like that? could anynone code that please?...

Attached is the documentation and code (Tradestation) for Demark indicators . Hope it helps someone to develop code for MT4

it based on Hurst Channels and looks so great: http://www.sr-analyst.com/cyclePackHelp/hs460.htm PS， I've got the Hurst Channels code but it's for Metastock platform, but I'm not a programmer, is there any 高人 interested in translating to MT4?

hello traders, i am santosh from india. i am design one calculator that is u enter yersterday open, high, low and close values then u find all values i mean camarilla, classic, woodies pivots and resistance and support projections and demark pivots. please download this calculator and enjoy with

Hello, I'm new here so please forgive me if I'm doing something that I'm not supose to do. I'm very very new at this world, but I'm begining to be completly addict So one of the thing that amaze me is the backtesting of strategies, and I was very low on historical data (alpari is not enought I...

Is there some way in mt4 to run a history simulation so you get a simulated tick and trend movement happening for testing an indicator?

I would like to know if someone has already developed a code that can be attached to any EA which allows for the user to define trading times of day for the EA to go into standby mode and not execute. It's obvious that certain times of day are better for different strategies. It seems self evident...

Actually, what I'm try to do is find an indicator that looks for the latest 40+ wave then draws fibo lines on the top and bottom of that wave. The indicator I have works, but it activates (draws the lines) on 40+ waves that haven't finished. I'm trying to find a way to change it, so it will only...

I want to reveal the value of a variable on the charter where my EA is placed but that does not function. I the order Comment("Value=", variable); after the last} at the end of the program but nothing, that does it miss appears adds? Thanks !

Hello all, Thank you sub for answering so many of my requests! Does anyone have source for a STARC Bands indicator? Thanks! -charliev

Hi I could not find the way to set default Stop-loss and Take profit? Maybe someone could help me. For example when I enter a trade the programm should automaticaly enter pre-set Stop-loss and Take profit. Lets say 30 pips from filled price. Thanks

Anyone have this book Timothy Morge www.medianline.com ??? Thanks

My wife is into option trading, she has several strategies I could possibly automate to some degree, and I'm wondering if metatrader4 would be usable for her too or if it just does currencies?

Hello all, Can anyone point me to the source code for the Zig Zag indicator? Thank you, -charliev

I've tried to look this up and can't find it. My Alpari Terminal/Account History has a Comment field in the grid, but my FXDD doesn't. How can I get my FXDD to display this? Thanks.

...i want to do do 500-1000 pips a month which system do you use and how much you do per month?

I would like to request you programmers do us all a favor and take on the quest to make a custom bar period chart an viable upgrade to the metatrader 4. Presently there is a custom bar chart available on some java charts. But those charts aren't auto executing orders they are just for display....