MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1302

Hi, I have some application development background and would like to get started in learning MQL4 and use it to program automated MT4 system. Appreciate your advice if you can point me to a good path to start. Thanks! fchia

We are using an EA we like very much but when the platform crashes which is alot lately (will not name UK based broker) the EA doesn't pick up the old orders, so if there is a floating loss, we may as well realize the loss and reset it. Thus, a crashing platform can cause the EA to actually lose...

On a different forum, I tried to discuss the topic of best countertrend system in 5MIN and perhaps even 1MIN timeframes (I haven't checked the 1MIN timeframe yet, but I plan to do so when I get better data, possibly tick data). I didn't get any responses at all. So I try here. Here it goes: I am...

Hello. I have a problem with my MetaEditor, I imagine that solution is simple... I think this follow code is very very simple: #property copyright "Copyright © 2010, MetaQuotes Software Corp." #property link "http://www.metaquotes.net" int start() { //---- MessageBox("Hello World","Test");...

This is a challenge for me as I am a newbee but I am sure most anyone with a little experience could re rewrite this indicator into the EA.... please help!!! This is an RSI divergence... I'd like to make entries where the arrows appear.. #property indicator_separate_window #property...

Is it possible to reliably make an average profit of 5% of your bankroll each and every month? If so, what strategy would be best? For example… Take a position with 5% of your capital and hope to double your investment in one trade? What if it loses? Have many trades each month and hope to make a

Hi, I am trying to get my EA to read the x / y values from a manually drawn Fibo-retracement. I have searched and read the ObjProperties and the closest I seem to get is the OBJPROP_FIRSTLEVEL+n, however that only seems to return the price-level of the fibo. I would like to read the Time/Price of X...

The forum is already in a prolonged state of "starvation" for trade and other ideas. And here the moderators and money-grubbers of all stripes, in every relevant topic, send the questioners to .... JOB. Stop, let me read, discuss, accept the idea. On the spot, they'll figure out whether they're

Is there a way to draw a linear weighted moving average of the highs and lows of a Heiken Ashi candle? It often seems that the HA candles reach a higher/lower price than the actual candle - is this normal? Also, is there a way to get the readings of the high and low of a Heiken candle? For example,...

Hi everybody I need your help with something I lost my demo account password so i looked in the mailbox for my account details. Nothing was there but i found the mail in the mailbox folder. The only pb now i that i do not know how to read it or how to "upload" it in the MT4 platform to have it in...

Guys, Is there any way to add in a Line chart overlayed over a candlstick chart in MT4? Or is there a way to "program" this? Forgive my ignorance. Say EU line chart and CHF candle on the same chart or two EU charts(one line/one candle) on the same actual chart?? Thank you for any help or advice,...

Anybody has answer to this ? Indicator keeps reeloading int tester on every tick on Weekly TF, same indicator on M15 gets loaded only once This slows down tester tremendously!!! Here is a journal: 2010.07.12 10:05:21 2010.03.01 00:59 JK Slow EURUSD,Weekly: loaded successfully 2010.07.12 10:05:21...

New article Writing an Expert Advisor using the MQL5 Object-Oriented Programming approach is published at mql5.com: This article focuses on the object oriented approach to doing what we did in the article "Step-By-Step Guide to writing an Expert Advisor in MQL5 for Beginners" - creating a simple...

While running my EA I got these messages. See attached. Can anyone help explain what is this and how to fix it. Thanks.

I have a band on my chart, which is the 2 LWMA high and 2 LWMA low. I can work out the distance between the 2 easily enough but what I want to work out is the average amount of pips that price exceeds the bands over say the last 20 periods. Any ideas on how to do that?

Hi... :) I have newbie question : 1. How to place / show variable in upper right with comment syntax? 2. How to show like this in chart with comment syntax : 102 104 106 108 . . . 150 The vertical position Thx

I'm an ex-option trader who has started playing around with forex and am trialing one of the latest EA Robots. After operating very effectively for the first day, every order the robot tries to place is rejected with the Error 131 - invalid trade volume lots 1.02. I have researched this on the...

When we use MT4 to backtest AUDJPY pair, I have some difficulty to interpret the P/L of the colosed position: From 2001.1.1 to 2009.12.1, I use 1% position size, the sl/tp is in AUDJPY pips, which means I can win or lose 1,000,000JPY In this period, USDJPY is in 130 to 90 range, the same size of...

Is it possible to add an FTP account in Publisher via an external application? in /config there is a file called publisher but it is encrypted or garbage.. Is there any way to do this automatically that the user doesn't have to manually enter his publisher account details?

Hi, 2 days ago my ibfx mt4 showed my pip count in the normal 4 decimals, .ie 1.4567, but when I opened it today its now showing 5 decimals....1.45678. Its annoying me to the point that I can't concentrate. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I searched it, but a lot on these forums is about...

What's going on in the Forex market! Doesn't anybody notice? The number of ticks has sharply reduced (especially in most brokerage companies)..., a new MT5 platform has appeared, with new trading conditions that restrict the trader's tactical choice, and gradually, quietly and constantly implanted

There is set of closed orders. I need to select the last one only. Can anyone please help? Thanks.

Hey dudes, I am trying to figure our whether MODE_HISTORY trades, when accessed by position,are sorted ascending (i.e. very first order is at position 0) or descending (lastclosed trade is at position 0). From several posts on this forum it seems that first trade is at zero but if someonecould...

Hi dears, Is there any any meta4 platform accepting the minimum trading amount as less than 0.1 lot? like 0.01 lot.......

I downloaded MT4 about an hour ago, and the streaming data has not updated since I first logged in. I logged in several times, restarted the program three times, and "refreshed" many times. Do I need to do something special to start streaming the data? ThanX!

hi friends, can anybody tells me,how can I close half of my open position and save the other part of it ?thanks

Forex Manual Traders and EA Traders. In my years at this market game it has always drawn question to why some of my fellow Trading Friends do not use "Friends" to locate trends, entries and exits while reducing exposure to risk. There are just some questions I will never have answers, this is just...

i run the ea I was building 2 days ago on tester.. the results were great. then I'm running them now and it looks very bad, its so frustrating.. spent a good amount of time trying to figure out if I had the settings wrong or if I had inadvertently changed something... Has someone come across this...

hi all, I have faced some problems in MT4 after upgrading from windows XP to Windows 7 I'm not sure if this is related to windows 7 settings, or with MT4 structure. Note: I have installed the latest Build from Alpari web page. The problem is: MT4 starts on the same configuration as it did at the

#property indicator_separate_window #property indicator_buffers 1 #property indicator_color1 DarkGoldenrod //---- indicator parameters extern int MA_Period=20; extern int ATR_Period=10; //---- buffers double FFRI[]; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Custom...