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The explaination I got from the directory is " Indicator line offset relate to chart by timeframe" Can some one expand on that ? Below I have a moving average where I have set the MA_shift to 0 and I am not sure what it gives me with regard to the calculation of the moving average. Further on in...

Hi guys, I'm running an expert and found that several trades were opened when they were not supposed to. Altough it may be a bug in my expert code, what cofuses me is that those trades contains the words "activate/auto" in the "Comment" field... what does it means, and how those trades appeared...

I was on my 2 weeks of demo account with Interbank fx, I use the Metatrader 4 v178, built some codes, but the problem is when I try to open order or modify order, i get the Error 139, order is locked. What is happening here? Is it because I have too many orders in a day, or is it because I try too...

I must have made over 50,000 trades (guessing), maybe 100,000 trades. I took my $3,000 demo account to over $2 billion probably. I'll never know for sure because I got an "Out of memory." error. I've got 1 GB of RAM. Would have been nice to see the end result. The first billion was made in the...

Period separators in H4 format do not separate 24hour period. Each candle should represent 4 hours between the separator lines. Instead they separate 5 day period. Any settings I have to change or it is a bug. Thanks in advance.

Do volume in metatrader4/mt3 representing real transaction volume (lots)in global forex market in arround the world ?? ..or 'tick volume' ?? Thanks a lot!

Can you organize FORUM into categories,please? It's difficult to find anything... Regards Rafael

It would be nice if the New Order menu would have initial values filled in and in compliance with the required pip limits instead of all 0.0000. The values should be continuously updated until the order is submitted.

Since MT4 has changed the way they use OrderComment() from MT4-Beta to MT4-Final, I would like to request that a MagicNumber() column gets added on the following reports: 1) "Trade" tab on the Terminal 2). "Account History" tab on the Terminal 3). "Results" tab on the Tester I'm thinking about...

are u working to get a news provider to work with metatrader like reuters for example or do it already exist?

Hi, Need help with EA testing. When I try to test sample Expert Advisor MACD it does not do any buy or sell. In journal it has error reports: error opening sell order : 131 error opening buy order : 131 Is it anything wrong with the settings I have? P.S. I have Expert Advisor enabled and...

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Hello, I am usising H1 chart but want to be updated on every 15 min.For example: Normal are:0:00,1:00,2:00,3:00,4:00 .... I want to write history to test it as folows: from 0:00-1:00 then 0:15-1:15 then 0:30-1:30 .... I can make it manualy using M15 and then doing all stuff in excel but is...

Would it be possible to define parameters to an external function as const and allow High/Low/Open/Close to be passed to the function? As it stands right now I have to copy it to another array when I should just be able to pass the reference directly instead. Like this: #import "math.dll" void...

I know it's been discussed time and time again, but I'd like to suggest to implement an option to adjust the timezone in MT4. Just implement it as an offset to server time at first, nothing complicated :)

I build an expert advisor. But when I do the back-tesing and open the chart, I found the related indicators and parameters are there as well.. How can I disable this feature? It is very important for some users to protect their system

Is there any way to display an indicator on chart OR seperate panel into the future im trying to write an indicator to predict the future i found the setIndexShift command but thats not quite what I want would be grateful of any help thanks

Is there anyway to stop the browser from opening when a statement is saved?

Can anyone tell me how to configure the Show Period Separator? I am trying to use a daily separator on 4H chart. Instead it shows me weekly separator (5 day, 30 4H candles.). I need 6 4H candles in one block of the separator.

Hello there, This is a tutorial to create "10-Minute" strategy expert advisor for MetaTrader 3.x. I write this for ZeroCode educational purpose only. Since MT terminal doesn't have 10 minutes timeframe, I'm going to double the indicators parameter to make the expert works in 5 minutes...

I've read through Expert Advisor User's Guide , but not very detailly, since I do not use any indicator, I use trendlines merely......I'm only interested in MQL's alert system. Now with MT's Terminal -- Alerts, I've built up 12 price alerts, 2 for each of 6 currencys. I have to change them all very...

I am wanting to convert my mt-3 file, to mt-4 is it possable for somebody to do this for me??? Here is the file,,, Thank You Much /*[[ Name := TurboTrader5.2 Author := Mike McKeough Link := Coded_by_FXFisherman_ZeroCode_@www.fxfisherman.com Lots := 1 Stop Loss := 0 Take Profit := 499 Trailing...

I'm using Interbank FX's trade platform to run backtests with Expert Advisors I'm writing in MQL II. I've created an advisor that generates huge gains when I test under the "OHLC points" model and huge losses when I test under the "Every 1 point" model. I'm testing on a 1-hour chart and I see that...

When I use Comment("High = ",H); With assumption that H was alreday predefined, I notice that the comment will appear at the chart once I add the expert then it will disappear once a new price is got. Why isn't my comment permenant even with price update?

MQ Guys, I've continually asked about better Trendlines in MT4 as well as issues with Trendlines by Angle (refer "Trendlines still a pain in the ...." ) 1. How do I go about maintaining Trendlines by Angle when I alter the Vertical Scale ? You said in the above thread that these would be fixed...

I try to calculate Moving Average on different inidicators (built-in as well as custom). Whenever i try to use Metatrader's suggested method (listed at "double moving average of RSI" for example), I alwys get different results then those on my chart. Let's suppose my chart windows contains ATR(13)...

Guys, I looked up in the Forum on availability of free Client API for MT4 and was dissapointed to find out that it won't be available. Will you please deliver this to your managers it is a great mistake for the Metaquotes not to provide it? While yes MQL4 is pretty cool, it's way not that versatile...

Hi all, I hope someone here could clarify on this: I have an expert that uses hard coded timeframe (PERIOD_H1). Still I get different results when using different values in the Period field in the Strategy Tester. What is the significance of this field besides determining the value returned by the...

IM GIVING UP, I NEED LIKE 20 LINES OF CODE TO HAVE A SIMPLE SITUATION LIKE SELL AT MARKET AND BUY AT MARKET SIMULTANEOUSLY, LIKE A "REVERSE POSITION" COULD THERE BE A ......Reverse_Position() ......... instruction? another one a simple PLOT() statment a BUY and/or sell statment? I really think...

Is it possible to program Hotkeys for my scripts, cause I`m scalping sometimes? thank you