MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1070

I've always believed that if I'm on say TF 5M, and measure the High on bar0 of a higher TF like 1D... I would get today's high as seen at the end of the day... IOW I would be looking into the future. But this is not what is happening. What I get is the running high of the day, between the start of

any one has a script that performs buy on a click?

In order to make forex trade, we buy the PPC. Always thought you only supports windows. Now, we buy the windows phone 7. But you turn iphone, you let us down! Iphone battery is not demolition, it's screen is too small, do not have the conditions for sustainable trade. At the time of iphone at the...

Hello I have been approached lately by friends and other investors if I would manage their privat trading accounts. So far I only managed my own account, running my own MT4 software. I'm completely unaware of what kind of remuneration a professional trader or institution would receive for their...

To solve any forecasting and other TA problems, it is necessary to describe the market situation mathematically using a number of parameters. It is clear that there is a "complete" description - time series of prices of all correlated instruments. But using this description for practical purposes is

Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie here, but I've searched the fourm and still dont have an answer. I'd like to write an external program in Visual Studio (Win 32 console application) that can get Market Quote changes in real time. I can see two options: 1. Open up a WinSock socket from my console...

i like to ask your advices about an Alarm indicator or EA, please... actuallay it is not for me, but for a trader friend of mine.. he asked my help and i promised to help him indeed.. 1) i need a kind of alarm indicator/EA .. it will recognize manually drawn trendlines and it will alarm if...

Hello, I would to know if it's possible to have a spread history indicator (not current spread). In fact I wonder if MetaTrader save both bid and ask value in history. Regards

Hello, for my current manual project i would like to automate a few things. For this i would need a script which records two mouse clicks to marke a range. The plan is to add the script, klick at the top of the range, click at the bottom of the range and my script places the pending orders...

Hi all, I have some native c++ code compiled into an DLL which is called though my mql4-code. This all has been deployed all working to 8 different broker MT4 terminals, all with the .409 version. My recent addition of brokers seems to offer only a .402 version. The behavour of exactly the same mq4...

the strategy tester only tests back 3 weeks on m5 timeframe from 16feb to present day even though ive asked to go back 3months/6months or 1 year but then if i go the other way and ask to test for 2 week to present day its ok in front of 16 feb thats ok

Hi everyone, Have you any code which automatically reading text (FX_Alerts) from mail (yahoo, gmail, ...) to MT platform? Thank you for help!!! Great day! Endy

I got ordersend error 130. I checked online and find error 130 means my stoploss (10 pips) or takeprofit (70 pips) is too close. I then increase the stoploss and takeprofit to above 50 pips, but still got error 130. Print("minSTOP= ",MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_STOPLEVEL)) output a value of 0....

New article Simple Trading Systems Using Semaphore Indicators is published at mql5.com: If we thoroughly examine any complex trading system, we will see that it is based on a set of simple trading signals. Therefore, there is no need for novice developers to start writing complex algorithms...

Hi all, I have spend a lot of time but unsuccessful, I cant correct error "ArrayCopySeries function internal error" of this indicator I hope some one is more practice in mql4, many thanks in advance!

Actually the title of the topic speaks for itself. Started here https://www.mql5.com/ru/forum/137042, interested in who has researched and how deep this issue is, also interested in phase observations in this case

I have launched an online spread comparison tool on www.spreadshark.com While everybody can compare spreads there, it has a great tool for MT4 users. Just upload a .log-file from MT4 and the tool will analyse your trades and calculate whicht would be the cheapest broker for you. The tool is still in...

Hi This topic have most likely been covered before, and if it has my appologies for posting it again (I have been looking for a solution to this for the last couple of days without success though). I would like to find out: 1. Is it possible, 2. What is the general idea/concept that I will need...

Hello, I have made simple EA to test MQL4 and the strategy does not working in test but only in backtest. This is really strange because this is really a simple coding EA.... The signals are sends this is ok but the orders does not open. if(OrdersTotal() == 0) { if(iMA(NULL,0,5,0,MODE_SMA...

Hello, is ist possible to automaticly save a MT4 Test report just like when you right click on the "Result" page of the Tester an choose "Save as Report"? That would be Amazing! Regards, haemse

Hi. I have been coding and testing my first EA. This is a completely automated trading system. The good news is: it works! The bad news is... I started it last night, and eagerly jumped out of bed this morning, hoping to find millions of dollars in my account. Just kidding, it's just a demo...

As a beginner finally I have managed to put together a simple code for identifying certain candle stick formations. However, as it can be seen in the chart picture provided after changing time frames within the the same currency pair or just waiting in the same time frame of the currency pair...

can onyone help to exslpain about if im testing an EA say on the gbp/usd on the strategy tester what spread will it use or can i set the spread manually

I would welcome suggestions for some of the better Average Daily Range plug-in for MT4. Ideally, I am looking for a plug-in that can present the results all on one screen for a group of selected currencies. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Jeffrey

Hi! Every morning I'm making pending orders (Volume: 0.1) for the day with MT4. Until today I have been set "Stop Loss" and "Take Profit" columns to about +/- 20 pips. But now I see in the statistic that sometimes I can earn more than 20 pips and the order closing at this point wasn't the...

I tested 2 robots and their performance starting around 1 to 3 years ago, started to become choppy. And they are still choppy now. They are still profitable, but the account change has more ups and downs and the net profit is less. Are the robots you saw also having the same behaviour? I am...

Hi, I am new on forex market and Mt4, I just wanna try a strategy on gold and iwant to test it, but the only thing I can test on strategy tester is the currencies like Eur/Usd, but cant put XAU/USD (gold) please help me!!

Hi Coders I like to create an EA with my system but wondering if it is possible to make an EA recognize this type of S& R and plot horizontal lines at those points. Supports and Resistances are normally drawn by the Wick. Instead I like to draw S& R by the Open & Close Price. Please see picture...

New article Multiple Regression Analysis. Strategy Generator and Tester in One is published: The article gives a description of ways of use of the multiple regression analysis for development of trading systems. It demonstrates the use of the regression analysis for strategy search automation. A...

Hi I have an EA which I am able to backtest and it does trading on backtest However, when I turn on "Optimization" using the same settings on "value", "start" and "stop" with one variable (the lot size) to be step, the ea does not trade at all on any optimization passes. Does anyone know what is...