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Is it true that an alarm will only trigger when the particular profile is selected for viewing in Metatrader? I have individual profiles setup for each currency , but it appears that an alarm only triggers when I have the particular profile selected for viewing.

This is the old pivot calculator, re-written in the new syntax. Nice thing about this one is that it auto-updates at the end of each trading-day, no need to temporarily switch to D1 time-frame. This is my first program in the new syntax, so there is probably room for improvement in the coding...

Hi MT, Is it possible to add the ability to arrange the chart tabs at the bottom of mt4 like you can do in excel. Thanks and keep up the great work :)

Is it possible to incorporate price value into fib tool so we can see resistance and support much clear! Thank forex_trader P.S. Love your Charts

There was a very noisy topic of graphical order management ...... Yesterday I remembered and thought - why not implement it? 19.03.2005 Read the instructions before using it =) //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Send_Pending_Order.mq4 | //| komposter | //|

this is an excellent indicator and wonder if someone can make it to MT4. here what exactly is in MT3 /*[[ Name := Trend Trigger Factor (TTF) Reference := Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Dec. 2004, p.28. Author := Paul Y. Shimada Link := PaulYShimada@Y... Separate Window :=...

Please help me if there is a possible to include price level into fibo tool. If not for everybody please let me know how i can do that for my self! And if it is possible to do it.

Does anyone can make an expert/alert when CHINKOU cross the price? tks vm in advance.

I have imported data of eurdge index, which contains 4748 bars of data. After importing that data metatrader's history center shows that there is only 2413 bars. It means somewhere half of them i missing. I made a chart with an excel , and with this chart seams to be everything ok. I have uploaded...

hi guys, how do you put levels into your custom indicator window so that they will be there everytime you start the indicator? thanks ernst

hi, i would like to ask you a qusetion in the chart when i do right click and chose show volumes a volume indicator appear now the qusetion is how to include the values of the volume indicator in metatrader programming language (mql4) i will be thankful if you include example thank you and sorry for

In MetaTrader, with Expert Advisor, we can specify slippage in SetOrder() or CloseOrder(). Is there any way to send similar orders with slippage using API SendOrder(&SendOrderInfo)? Which parameter in SendOrderInfo structure is related to slippage? What are the use of crc and req_code ? Sorry for so

It seems that the code below triggers an alert whenever one Moving average is below the other (which means all the time) I only want an alert the moment they cross. How can I fix this? Thanks Code: //---- input parameters extern int FastEMA=5; extern int SlowEMA=13; double EMA1,EMA2;...

if TotalTrades=1 and the lots=0.7, how to write close 0.4 in mql?

MetaTrader 4. Build 159. 1. Added predefined levels for custom indicators. 2. Added "#property show_confirm" script property, which calls a confirmation window. 3. Added "#property show_inputs" scpirt property, which calls property sheet. 4. In MQL4 added FileOpenHistory() function, which opens...

I can't get any data by using this function. Please help me! Thank you Very Much!

I am extensively using MT4's ability to import and use DLL's. The following is a potential problem. I am not expecting feedback from MetaQuotes. Unless MetaQuotes has a reason for doing this MT4 should detach the DLL when the indicator has lost scope. The DLL is currently being detached when MT4 is...

I'm attempting to re-write my Pivot Point calculator to work with the new version. Needless to say, there have been significant changes to the programming syntax. Here is my code, so far, but it does contain the problem that I am experiencing

Is there a way to change or re-program the fibonacci tool so that the lines do not extend all the way to the right? Whenever I draw two or more fibonacci retracements on the same chart the lines mesh which is really difficult to see. It would be great if there was an option to shorten the lines.

Is it appropriate to ask questions about MT 3.x on this forum? I have MT 2 systems that I work on: one at home, one at work. The one at work is behind a firewall. The one at home is not. Since the 'data center' only works with MT4, is there another way to work disconnected with MT 3.X? I tried...

The EMail function works fine when sending to my 'regular' EMail address. However, if I attempt to program the EMail address for text-messaging to my cellular phone, the EMail function fails - and it appears to fail for any EMail address where the first character of the address is non-alpha. Of...

Hello, How close are we to getting the backtesting part of Metatrader 4? Can you give us an estimate to when this platform will be ready for brokers to use? 6 months? a year? Thanks, Infodine

Dear colleques, is it somehow possible, to display the time on the bottom of the chart window, without the date? It would be awesome, if somebody could help me. I know, it is just a little thing, but I really could not find the answer. It looks like that right now: http://img177.exs.cx/my.php...

Hi, I've got a number of experts running on test at the moment which quite regularly throw an Error 139: (order is locked) error when an attempt is made to place a new order. Does anyone have any idea as to why this could be occurring? Thanks in advance for your help....

Hi guys, In Build 158 Alerts don't seem to be working properly. Whenever I try to set up a new one, or modify, it doesn't matter what trigger price I try to input, it will allways take 1,0000.

Hi All, I'm having trouble using File Read/Write functions in MT4. In order to test these functions, i wrote the following code which tries to read an array from file A.csv and then write back the values into file B.csv. #property copyright "Copyright © 2005, MetaQuotes Software Corp." #property...

I am trying to learn how to code for Metatrader. Is there a reference manual (eg pdf, chm) available in English? I cant even find anywhere in english the list of the inbuild functions eg: iMACD() When I am in the MetaEditor (version 4 build 137) The help is in Russian, and sadly my Russian is...

Currently at the moment I am running an indicator that basically plots pivots lines. now the issue I have is that sometimes after awhile the indicator appears to stop workng and all the object lines that I have drawn disappear from the screen. The only solution to get the lines to redraw is to...

MetaTrader 4. Build 158. 1. Added english help-file of MetaEditor. 2. Added hotkeys "Shift+F12" for backward shift of the active chart on 1 bar. 3. At the first calling historical data (ArrayCopySeries, indicators on other periods) from MQL4 programs in field "LastError" the mistake with number...

My expert advisor has been working fully for over a week now. I edited a single number today (which should not cause an error) in a calculation in the expert and noticed that now it runs as though it were a blank expert. Metatrader says it has compiled it, but in the journal, this message comes up...