MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1150

All comments appreciated. Been working on a dependable scalping strategy. Will be testing live today.. Looks like it works fairly well.. (pictures attached) I hate waiting for bars =\. I need to figure out how to automate this.. :@ The "Bands" above/below price are stress-price levels. good entry

Hey all - I've been working on a new EA, but am having trouble with the method of trailing my stop. After a few hours of frustrating work, I still can't determine why the stops aren't being adjusted. The basic principle is to buy once prices close above the 1sd bollinger band and trail the stop up...

Working with several MT4 Platforms (Forex.com, FXDD, PFG: all 4 decimal quotes) with a newly downloaded platform, i'm getting OrderSend Error 4107 starting March 23rd 2009 when I back test SEVERAL Expert Advisors (including MACD Sample and Moving Average). The price it references in the journal is...

Can someone help me. All the EA I downloaded doesn't trade. For excample: I downloaded Godbot but it doesn't work. Mine broker says that al the options from the account are good. I enable the allow live trading and allow Expert Advisors. maybe I'm impatient but waiting for a weak and no...

My EA trades at a set time. For some reason if the minute is set to 0, the trade gives an "OrderSend() error - invalid price " error on Alpari UK. There is no number reference for the error such as 129. It trades fine on other brokers when the minute is set to 0. I do have a slippage filter, but

Hello, I am looking for an optimization routine. Can anybody help me??????

I'm trying to set up an 18 element array of double values where the double values are previously set as variables. However, initializing an array as follows doesn't seem to work: double Levels[18]={H1, HC1, M1, LC1, L1, O1, C1, P1, H2, HC2, M2, LC2, L2, H3, HC3, M3, LC3, L3}; How do I insert double...

Hi everyone, Sorry for my English, I am French, I hope you understand me. I could not find a similar topic on the forums French, so I hope you can help me. My EA is taking a new position on the same bar at each end of trade, and I would put a delay (in hours ou minutes) between trades. Can you...

i compile an ea to detect orders opened and closed, so i set two arrays to record the order's feature, and compare the difference between them,and can know if an order is open or closed .but i cannot get right result . int torders=0; int data0[50][3]; int data1[50][3]; int tticket=0; int...

I have a little problem with iCustom which involves a few indicators. When I'm testing strategy TestLukas.mql4 it gives me result (look on image below) but I wanna to send order when arrow down or arrow up appears. What I do wrong ? Thanks for answer anyway.

My MetaTrader chart seems to be operating in the future. The charts are suppose to be in GMT, correct? Well, since I started a demo account with a new company, my charts show the last candlebar time being 2 hours after GMT. I just looked up what the present GMT time is and it was a little after 10...

Hi The MQL4 documentation states under OrderSend(): comment - Order comment text. Last part of the comment may be changed by server. What does "last part" mean? If I pass a 4 character string, does the server then "maybe" change e.g. the last 2? Or does it ALWAYS just append after the 4 characters?...

hay guys.. i am newbie... i am curious and i want to ask.. is there any big different result between backtest and real account?? i mean... what usually problem that we have in real account if we already backtest any EA??? need an answer from the expert :) ehhee... thank you :)

Is there something wrong with my keyboard or is only Mouse Navigation available when using the Backtester Settings Tab?

Dear Sir, I need indicator which shows "BUY/SELL" arrows. Logic behind entry as (EXAMPLE EUR USD PAIR) 1) WHEN I OPEN CHART IF MARKET PRICE AT 1.4100 THEN INDICATOR START SHOW ARROWS FROM THAT TIME TO TILL I OPEN THE CHART WITH THE FOLLOWING LOGIC:- A) MARKET PRICE = 1.4100 THEN BUY ARROW SHOULD...

I am a beginner. Please tell me if I have this code to create a buy stop order BuyTicket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUYSTOP,LotSize,BuyPrice,UseSlippage,BuyStopLoss,BuyTakeProfit,"Buy Stop Order",MagicNumber,0,Green); Will "BuyTicket" be assigned a number immediately or only when the Buy transaction is...

The previous title of the thread was Default on America. How much of this is possible? This morning, a colleague "cheered up" with the news

Hi, 1. First of all, I was wondering if there was an indicator that would highlight Low or High test bars. So if in an up trend and the bar has above average volume for that hour or day and opens and closes high (Or if in a downtrend, opens and closes low with above average volume), I am alerted by...

Hi Guys, Currently I am evaluating two forex companies. One is Alpari and the other is FXCM I wrote my script while using Alpari demo, the script used all it's functions but when I installed FXCM demo, some parts of the script did not perform the same (or at all) as it was with Alpari demo. The FXCM...

Does anyone know how to adjust MT4 to reflect your local time ...I trade with an overseas broker

These 2 don't work OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,NormalizeDouble(lotstobuy,2),Ask,3,NormalizeDouble(slpoint,4),0); OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,lotstobuy,Ask,3,slpoint,0); this works OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,1,Ask,3,0,0); Could any one tell me whats going on? I would like to put my lotstobuy and slpoint...

hello. Can any one help me to get the values of yesterday's open, close, high and low prices using mql4 ?

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Hi. In my EA I'm trying to find the closest fibonacci line that is below my last close price However I can't figure out how to get the y-axis (or price) value of the fibonacci lines. The ObjectGet call below is returning something else. // check FiboUp lines for (int ix = 0; ix <= 14;...

//--------------------------------------------------------------------// userindicator.mq4 // The code should be used for educational purpose only.//--------------------------------------------------------------------#property indicator_separate_window // Indicator is drawn in the main...

if (SellMarketCount(Symbol(),MagicNumber)== 0 && BuyMarketCount(Symbol(),MagicNumber)== 0)   {        int TP=MonitorTakeProfit(Symbol(), MagicNumber);                if(TP==1)        {           Calcel_All();           Reentry=false;           EAActivated=false;        }      }-----int...

This is my first program in MQL4. I am just trying to learn the basics but continue to get hung up on little things. I was hoping that someone might be willing to help. The strategy for this ea is as follows OpenLong: 10EMA>20EMA, K Stoch >D Stoch, ADX >= 20, and there is not already an open long...

Hello, I use function AccountBalance() to get the lot value: LotValue = (AccountBalance() * (RiskPercentage / 100.0))/(10.0 * SL); Should I consider the account currency for this calculation? Is the amount returned by this function in the account currency? I will use this EA in EURUSD. Thanks

I'm calling for help from programmers because I'm not good at it myself. I need to implement an Expert Advisor. The essence of it as you can explain in the example: Script with magic number opens a deal in buy (it you decide for yourself). The Expert Advisor with the same magic number takes this

can anyone can help why when i put a new order in with 0 t/p and 0s/l can't open....i like to adjust it after i buy...also why can't close it right awau if i want to...