MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1112

If I make an indicator. Do I have to apply that indicator to a special chart to use the indicator or could I just use it with function iCustom to get the values. To specify my question: Lets pretend that I´ve made an indicator namned WG (Wholy Grail) and I want to use it on EUR/USD. Do I have to...

Hi, I'm currently doing an EA which use Bollinger Bands, it sends Buy/Sell Order when I want but I also wanted it to close all Buy/Sell Position when it opened a new Sell/Buy Position, and it doesn't work like it should.. Sometimes, my function sends buy order like it has to, while there is previous...

Would it be possible to write a MQL4 program that can compare prices, at say one second intervals, between different brokers for the same instrument and time period? I know about the FileWrite() operator that can record prices in a CSV file - and that is about it! Do I have to write a script that...

I'm in the process of completing my first complex EA and I'm not 100% sure that I have inserted my Trade Logic Operations in the proper area. All this EA does is look for the cross of the TDI(RSI Signal Line & RSI Price Line). I imported the actual code that retrieves the 2 TDI values(Signal...

Is it possible to display image (gif, jpg or bmp format) after start Expert Advisor on the current chart as the locked picture (under the Comment) ? If YES, can I pls any example with MQL4 syntax ?

Hi, can anyone think of a way to disallow the user to run more than 1 instance of the same EA in one MT4 terminal at once (not only 2 forward testing instances, but also forward testing + backtesting)? I don't want to get into detailed explanation about why I need to do that, but it's necessary,...

i am new to mql and i'm dealing with a small problem. lets take a condition: we have to candles: one is closed already, the second one is current still going on. (timeframe m5) if (close_price_of_last_candle < current_price_of_current_candle) then buy_on_begining_of_next_candle how to implement that...

Hi every body, i am a new in EA, i wirted an EA with tragery Signal : double Buy1_1 = iMA(NULL, 0, 55, 0, MODE_EMA, PRICE_CLOSE, Current + 1); double Buy1_2 = iMA(NULL, 0, 200, 0, MODE_EMA, PRICE_CLOSE, Current + 1); double Buy2_1 = iMA(NULL, 0, 55, 0, MODE_EMA, PRICE_CLOSE, Current +...

Sometimes I need delete pending order,but if the pending order already executed,then MT4 will occur a 4108 error if I try to delete it.So I wonder is there a way to know a pending order already execute?

This EA is designed to put a limit back on a drawn line after the relevant timeframe closes below it. I am just using a sell at bid for now so i can test it on the 1minute chart. I have added a chime so you know once the program has run past the order send function.Whenever I try to add a stop loss...

Hello, Is it possible to change the external variables of a custom indicator from an expert advisor that uses the indicator to process trades? If so, could you either explain how this is done or direct me to the documentation that explains the process of doing this? I am writing a simple ea using...

My EA gives insignificant results. I'm using an 'icustom' function of an indicator. does this affect the EA optimisation or is there another eason?

Bollinger Bands don't seem to allow 1.5 standard deviations in the external variable setting. If I use 1.5 in the iBands it doesn't work. Is this just a setting in the Bollinger Band code because it is set to an integer maybe? Do I need to create a Bolly band indicator and use iCustom to reference...

Hello, my strategy tester shows the loss trades in two different end results. I don't really understand why and how can I disable this function? Please have a look at the following example: In this example the trade should definitely be stopped. But as you can see in the picture the strategy tester...

Hello Sir i need Buy/Sell Stop Breakout ea LIKE Ea entered to morket in buy possition morkert price lot size ex. 1 lot auto matically immediatly put the sell stop order with 20pips down from the buy order withlotsize 3 (first order 1:3) after the lot size fixed double and all the buy possion are...

Dear all, I want to create my own Laguerre Moving Average indicator (not the RSI), but I can't find the mathematical formula to do it. Could someone help me, please? Thank you very much in advance

I want to get the values of the lower and upper line (red ones) of the STARC indicator. I tried to read out indicator buffer 1 and 2 (see the included ea) but they give different values than the STARC prints on the charts. Can someone help me with this problem? *for some reason i cant attach the...

Guys: Lately, i work with an EA which uses iMA value. The common way of using iMA value is as below:    ma_0 = iMA(NULL, 0, MA_Period, 0, MODE_SMA, PRICE_CLOSE, 0);   ma_1 = iMA(NULL, 0, MA_Period, 0, MODE_SMA, PRICE_CLOSE, 1);   ma_2 = iMA(NULL, 0, MA_Period, 0, MODE_SMA, PRICE_CLOSE, 2); and then,...

Hi, is there any way to move pending stuff with mouse without using keyboard in MT4? I'm so used to that in MT5.

who can give me the quickest, fastest and cheapest EA

Is there any way I can store a trailing stop value that can be matched with certain trades. One way I was thinking was to store the ticket number into an array when the trade is opened and then store the stop loss value into that part of the array eg... ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELLSTOP,selllots...

I´m a newbie to MT4, so there are a lot of features that I may miss... Background: I export all the quotes to a MySQL-database, when a new minute/bar occurs. But there is a problem... If the new minute/bar tick will occur at 12:10:00 (HH:MM:SS) that would be perfect, but the new minute/tick could...

Hello there! Quick question, I know you guys get a ton of these, but I hope someone cares enough to help me out. My current EA logic looks like this; double signaldown=iCustom(Symbol(),0,"OS",2,1)double signalup=iCustom(Symbol(),0,"OS",1,1) (both value's 1 & 2 are a number). Now; - I only want...

I completely understand it now...maybe it was too late for me to realize that coding for requests in mq4 community was long time ago.today,nothing in this world comes for free.Thats a pretty good lesson that you have taught me.Afterall,where would all the brilliant programmers go when they dont have...

Hi, Every time I open MT4, it tells me I have an update to Ver 4.00 Build 409 (from build 406). I click on the update and it does it's thing, asks to close MT4 and restart. That's OK, but it then wants me to update to Build 409 again when it has restarted. Anyone got any solutions?

When testing my EA in MetaTrader4 I not only get the arrow to indicate where my pending order was placed on the graph, as well as another arrow where the order was fulfilled and a dotted line plus another arrow where the trade was closed. But in running the EA on a live demo account I only get the...

Hi, I have JJN Fibonaci indicator, and I'm using it for daily basis ploting daily Fibo levels. The problem is this indicator uses server time as indicator start time, so I would appreciate if someone could help me and recode indicator so it would ask what time shift i need to use, something like...

Does anyone have a DMI indicator for MT4 which would do a net number between DI+ and DI- Example DI - = 40.897 DI + = 7.7854 DI (net) = -33.1116 I've only been able to find DI+ and DI- in an indicator and not been able to find a DI net (DI+ minus DI-) Can anyone help?

Dear friends: If the orders have been set taking profit or stopping loss, they take profit or stop loss, how can i get it? thanks!