hi, i'm a new user of mt4. can someone help me to write a indicator of keltner channel applying on rsi? i'll like to create a indicator over another indicator. thanks all.
Hello I have an expert, in some special trades(I don't know the reason), Ordersend can not open the trade. It returns -1, but getlasterror() is 0. I can't understand what is the reason. Could you please help? this is a part of log file of this expert: Account balance=100004.00000000...
Hi all, Please i need help on how to get the value of Bollinger band indicator's middle band for my EA code. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks.
it appears that the reason parameter is not always correct in metatrader 5 for indicators. When changing the timeframe or symbol the value passed to OnDeinit = REASON_REMOVE. Shouldn't this be REASON_CHARTCHANGE? If I am incorrect how do you determine if the indicator is just being reloaded due to...
I found differences in the outcome of MA,s written in an EA and the standard MA,s used as an indicator. I wrote a symple EA that shows it. The actual Open, Close, High and Low values are OK, the SMA10 on the High is OK, but the values of the SMA10 on the Open and the Close are not the same as the...
Hopefully some one here may help me. Please keep in mind I am not a programmer. This is my attempt to create an expertlooking for trading opportunities (section Peak Hours ORDER ENTRY)during a set time (section Day and Time Open for Trading). Theexpert does work, but its working to well. The stop...
Friends, I'm new in the forum and I found very good information about various indicators posted here. I am using the CCI indicator with an exponential moving average which generates a signal to buy or sell when the CCI crosses this average up or down. I looked for it all over the internet...
Hi everyone, I have been looking on the site but I can't find this. Do you know what software / script (or any information/ guidelines would be helpful) I would use in order to run statistical test. I want to see the range a currency has with relation to time, day of week, and other stuff. I want to...
Help! - How do I hedge with the total of the opposite direction? Scenario: I have a couple of opened short positions, then price break the resistance. I would like to take a long position which is the maybe twice the TotalShortPosition() - (which is a function that calculate the total short...
I am testing my EA. I am in good position with sell order (with TP at 21174) but when market price down bellow TP (21168) Tester System does not close order to take profit. Someone please help me on this. Thank you very much
HI, I am new to meta trader. The problem i am facing is, when i use the mouse scroll button up/down, the whole chart moves leaving me not knowing about the recent price change. if i use the '+' or '-' change chart widens horizontally again leaving blank about the recent price. What i am looking at...
Hello I am new to forex and very new to forex programming. Testing (backtesting for now) my new Robot, which focus in very long trends hunting, I found that in its trading sometimes the Balance gets Negative but at the same time the Equity is very Positive however it continues going on testing....
Hi The IndicatorCounted function tells you if there are bars that are not calculated, but it does not tell you if it is a new bar or and old bar (ie. when you scroll back in time and new bars are loaded). How can I determine this? If the IndicatorCounted returns all the bars-1 you do not know if it...
A lot of programmer are wasting time and effort setting up strategies with back testing, often these tests give different results time by time. The must important thing is that the history chart have to be error free and the quality model must not to be "n/a" but almost "90%". I suggest to test the...
What I want to add is a Trailing Stop, and a input to lock in pips if the market reverses and doesn't hit the TS. And then an input for amount of pips to activate the lock in pips once I have the code for the buy then I can modify the sell and quick reverse. I just don't know alot about programming...
I've been downloading my Detailed Report into Excel now for some time for further analysis but one small problem exists that I cannot seem to find a way around. I want to calculate the time between when the trade opened and when it closed. I cannot seem to find an Excel date/time format that is...
I have an oscilator that outputs data that is + and - I would like the out put buffer (array that is drawn) to be normalised between -100 and 100. So that when I place it on a EURUSD and USDJPY chart the reading can be compared. Any Ideas how to do this ?
So I was playing aroun d with one of my tests an d set my stop loss to 7. I then fire d off my run last night. It faile d to take tra des, after several hours to day attempting to figure out where I went wrong in my co de, I rebuilt all my co de from several versions back, trying to fin d the bug....
I just start learning mql4, got stuck on one of hte sample code. what does MODE_LOTSTEP mean ? Step for changing lots. I am still confused. here's the code int start() // Special function start { int Dist_SL =10; // Preset SL...
Hello, Recently I put a EA MACD Sample in my graphic, I setup correctly, its working good, have the happy face on my graphic :), but it didnt any trade until now. I am looking for a MACD EA that get same trade for me, open and close the trade. If sameone have, could send me please? Thanks a lot....
Hi, I am programming my EA. I just want to put some restrictions on the use of the expert.I want to make it as a trial version for 14 days. Is there any specific functionfor doing that? Any suggestion would be appreciated. Best
Hello, this is my first Robot and would like to have some feedback on its Results (since I do not have Experience). It trades Euro vs USD and uses RSI for signals. I can see it goes to 81,000 (from a US 1000 deposit in 1999) but it goes back to 18000 at the end of October 2009. Some data: Pair:...
I have typed the Check ForClose(); but this is the error i got"'CheckForClose' - no dll defined for the imported function C:\Program Files\MetaTrader - Alpari (US)\experts\EA.mq4 (190, 7) " pls am not a good programmer am only putting legs and heads of differrent people together. Pls tell me...
I am trying to create code that will close one position and open the opposite position (ie close long and open short or vice versa) on the same technical signal. I can get a position to open if no other position is open and i can get it to close if a position is already open. I cannot get the ea to...
In my thesis i need real gold data . So i downloaded it from MT4 's history. But i dont know reliability of them. Can i know where history center store? i mean why 2 brokers at the same time can be different from each other? they also load from Metaquotes's databases ? what different and similar...