MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1207

How do you tie a new order to an older one so that when the collective profits equeal zero, you can close them both at the same time? For example: an order is placed to go long, but the price starts falling. At half way to my stop loss, I would like to place a hedge short order. I double the...

Hi Guys i'm a newbie in MQ4 scripting so please bear with me. I would like to implement an EA which takes inputs from a the Heiken Ashi custom indicator. I understand that the function iCustom does just that. However, It gives me the data for the last bar only (bar with index 0). How can i get the...

Hi All, Ive been playing with the EA below (Butchered MACD Sample) I want it to place lots based on the size of the available balance, however I want it to be round up to the nearest Lot. ie. if I have £500 in the bank I want it to order 0.10 Lots so I added Lots=AccountBalance()/10000; the...

Hi, I was thinking about price lines, in standard chart we can draw line by hand to see visually the price lines the market have draw, but in an automatic system we can use this lines in a concern of opening or closing orders. this is what I came with, I'm happy to share it and hope it will help...

The world's financial markets are wobbling, and the future of these markets is in question (at least as they exist now)... And we are sitting here developing and testing TS, trying to trade (although it is better to stay away from such markets with their gep and unpredictable rules of the game), and

Hi, I need help to my EA does the following: When the different parameters are OK, I want that the EA places a pendent buy order, and then it must wait for 30 seconds to place other pendent sell order. I already tryed to use the following command, but it doesn´t work if (bla bla bla) // I know,...

Hello, I am writing a EA where I am using the iRSI. When I run it in the Strategy Tester window, it only appears after the test is finished, not in real time like the price. Is there a way to see it in real time? Also, and more important. I am trying to draw trend lines in this iRSI, but I dont...

Hi guys, I know this is maybe slightly out of context, but I think you guys are probably the most likely to provide an answer. On my live broker account, when I am manually trading, sometimes I will receive Off Quotes. More and more these days - at first I had absolutely none for a few months. Now...

Hi Programmers, I downloaded this from fxstreet.com. it seem a very good EA but is lacking a static stoploss, can anyone help me add in? Thanks! //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| 100 pips a day.mq4 | //|...

Hi, Newbe needs help. I am trying to move my sl to break even once i am 1/3 of the way to tp and again to 1/3 once I am 2/3 of the way to tp. I have two problems with my code. 1.) the modified sl is cycling between break even and 1/3 profit??? 2.) I am getting OrderModify error 1??? Please help. I...

I've been working away learning mql4 for a while now. prob should be mql5 but anyhow...... whilst getting on ok i've become tangled up with trying to pass an array to a function. I've been looking at Rosh's work in his article 'templates a spot to stand on' ...an excellent article!! ... but i'm...

I am having problems using Comment(). It works fine in testing but when I attach to chart comments do not display. Below is very simple EA that just shows "this is a test" Am i missing a setting in MT4 to allow for comments??...

There is a claim that ema - fast and slow - is the best tool. And all sorts of modifications are a no-brainer. Or which ones are better than Cross*ma

hi, I need to open a file using its absolute path: C:\file.txt fileopen does not allow that. is there a way to use absolute paths? regards, Chris

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anyone tried installing the mt4 terminal for pda on windows mobile 7 yet? thinking about buying HTC HD 7, but not sure whether the terminal will work on it or not.....

I need someone to help me by adding sound to this file. I would like to add my own .WAV sound to this file. This is the actual file. Would someone help me? //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| //| Ramdass - Conversion only...

How does MT4 stop out level closes all orders at once? Is there a way to close all orders at once just like how MT4 does when you hit the stop out level??? OrderClose function could only close one order at a time Thanks!

Couls someone kindly help me to be able to say on an M15 chart to have 2 say stochastics or MACD windows, one obviously M15 and the other for timeframe H1 or H4 etc. Thanks

Hello, is it possible so set the visible vertical chart-scale independent of the chart itself from a expert automatically, so that objects outside the charts are visible? Maybe with the PostMessageA-function? Thanks for help. Matse.

Hi! I'm using MetaTrader 4 (229). I've noticed a difference of the values between the indicator Momentum which I would like to know the reason for (if anyone could explain). For instance, using Alpari UK, downloaded historical data for EURUSD for Strategy Tester, opening a new chart for EURUSD M1...

I don't know why this is not compiling. Can you help me? int start () { int ABUY, ASELL, pos; if ( ABUY== 2 ) { if ( ASELL>0 ) { for(pos = OrdersTotal()-1; pos >= 0 ; pos--) if ( OrderSelect(pos, SELECT_BY_POS) // Only my orders &&...

The trading system in MetaTrader 5 differs from that of MetaTrader 4in its basics. First of all, four types of trade operation executionare supported in MetaTrader 5: Market, Instant, Request and Exchange.Secondly, the new terminal accepts the strict delimitation between thenotions of Order, Trade...

Hi, I'm curious, when (or rather how) do you choose to open a Pending STOP order vs a Pending LIMIT order?

Is my EA fully protected from other developers and dealing brokerage firms?? And if not how do I/can I ensure that only I have the code to my EA. Are there any known cases of EA copyright infringement or hacking???

Hello, I am coding my first EA to get moving average calculated every minutes. When I initialised my EA it would return the correct value, but then it would return the same original value constantly. So it seems that the iMA function reads the value on the chart only at initialisation and does not...

Hello, Is it possible to send High Priority Mails with the MT4 smtp service? regards, Chris

Please show me how to attach to my EA some sound. Thank you

I'm trying to attach a chart overlay indicator to my chart so I can view two currency pairs on one chart and nothing is happening. I've downloaded a few custom technical indicators that work fine but for some reason any indicators that I try attaching to the chart do not work. There are no errors,...

Have found a fibo indicator with very accurate buy/sell alerts 80%-90% need experienced traders to help out with more testing PM me with email. many thanks