MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1565

I installed MT4 on my eeePC 4G (Linux OS) using Wine and most features work fine. However, whenever I try to start MetaEditor, it crashes. What am I doing wrongly? This is very important for me, cos I intend to use my eeePC to code my EAs. I'm really hoping to be able to use MetaEditor on my Linux

Hi everyone, I found a neuronetwork indicator on the web and want to test it for education purposes, however I can't get it to work properly. It's on the website from a nn called cortex and I have been trouble shouting the arrays but still the indicator gives me a flatliner. It could potentially be...

hi, i've made a custom indicator, using rsi, stochastic, etc. and now i need to make a simple operation in other custom indicator, I need to take: "my custom indicator" -" moving average of that custom indicator" I show you... my first custom indicator, let's call Custom_A: for(i=0; i<limit; i++) {...

Just to be sure, the total of the open and pending is 3, not 3 of each? thx Keith

How to caculate how many orders are closed by StopLoss or TakeProfit? I can use OrderClose to know how many orders or closed normally, but the order closed by StopLoss or TakeProfit can't be known through OrderClose. Thanks.

I have written a multitude of indicators and scripts which were created on the MQ4 IBFX platform. Everything runs on other brokers EXCEPT any script that has an Ordersend/OrderModify function. Why?

I have EA but when i optimization the EA, optimizatio results and optimization graph did not apear ... but when i tested whit EA tester work good ... no error ... can some body tell me why ? and did optimizatio effected on live trading ? Thankyou .

New article Method of Determining Errors in Code by Commenting is published: The article describes a method of searching the errors in the MQL4 codethat is based on commenting. This method is found to be a useful one incase of problems occuring during the compilation caused by the errorsin a...

I noticed that if you declare similar to the following line in your program datetime Compile = D''; You get the following warning message at the time of compilation '' - date literal string is incomplete However, the value is correctly assigned to the variable (which is today's date). I suggest...

What does "error sell opening 4109" mean? Thanks.

Hello, here is a simple EA I wrote working along a custom indicator I also wrote. EA double Lots;//double UBand, MBand, LBand; double SMASlope; int init()  {    return(0);  }  int deinit()  {//----   //----   return(0);  }  int start()  {  //----   Lots = (MathCeil((AccountBalance()/500))/10);//...

I am using FxPro MetaTrader, and facing the following issues: 1- MT is consuming over 350 MB of the memory. Strange ?????. 2- If I open up MetaEditor and modify the EA, it gives me "Access Denied" error as I try to compile the EA. 3- While backtesting the EAs, it stops after a few trades...

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2008,an article Testing and Optimizing Expert Advisors has been published. Testing and optimizing Expert Advisors before using them in real trades is of great importance. This is not a secret for anybody. However, by no means all can test and...

For example, there is a double array as below: double PriceHighList[100],which contains 100 elements. Now,I want to transfer the data in this array to a file named PriceHighList.csv,and the date should be saved as one element per line in CSV file. Which function should be used ? Is there anyone give...

Attached a Trend Follower Indicator. I would like to use it as an Advisor. Also attached an EA written from that indicator but it won't work. How can it be fixed? thanks Tamir58

Could anybody tell me how to calculate a 15 day high. Do I use an array and then if-then-else-statements ? Like, If high[1]>high[0] then high[1] else ect....... Thanks in advance for the answer.,

I need to have 2 indicators for tests: 1) an MACD of 2 HMA's 2) an MA Angle or Force Index of 2 HMA's If anyone knows how I may have these created, it would be appreciated.

Hello guys, I recorded a macro file to send me a message via Skype when a signal occurs. But I have a problem with launching the macro file from my EA. How about this: if(LongSignal) FileOpen("MyMacroFile.msd",FILE_READ); Is this the right way to launch the file? Please help. Thanks.

Hi all, I am intending to trade with FXDD. any positive/negative recommendation to know if MT perform stable with FXDD. ckm

I have iTime in an infinite loop and monitor new bar using iTime() but for 1 minute bars, it does not update every minute. I tried to use RefreshRates(); inside the loop but it did not help. Here is the code while(true){ datetime TF_Time = iTime(NULL,1,0); Sleep(60*1000); } TF_Time...

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duoble yon=icustom(...." TL_by_Demark_v6.mq4"....); if yon>0 Alert("SELL"); if yon<0 Alert("buy");

I need to be able to check if an array is set, or if it is empty. Doesn't really matter if it returns a boolean or errorcode or whatever. Anyone who knows a command to do this? Or have another solution to go around this problem? All answers are apprecicated. Best Regards, Johan

hello everyone, if I have been draw a pitchfork and I want to get the value for the extend mid trend with a specified point to start draw another trend or 2nd pitchfork, how could I code that? for example: this point will be at 00:00 time as shown in the pic. i tried ObjectGet( "Pitchfork",...

Hi @ all, i spent a lot of time in programming an EA, which is lukily working very well most of time. But during trying to make it better i found the following problem for e.g.: The EA has 3 Open Buy Orders with MagicNumber 1 then it is opening an position in opposite direction with MN 2 Next it...

New article What about Hedging Daily? is published: A trading strategy using hedging system created for trading the intra-day style of GBPJPY / EURJPY and for daily trading. Author: chayutra sriboonruang

Hi If I want to draw a horizontal line from say bar[1] to bar[-100] previous bar forward 101 bars what is the best way to specifiy the forward time in the call to createobject? Thanks Paul

Can sombody help with this EA please. this has done according to demark trend line theory.it don't place any trades.and i can't even back test it. looking for a helping hand fix the error. thank you in advance

HI I have an indicator that I want to convert it to an EA pls email me your email address, my email at kwng111@myway.com so I can email you the indicator source code. Thank you in advance. K.W.Ng

Hi all senior member.... I'm realy new in MQ4 programming but I have php background. I like to learn more about MQ4 coding. There are some question in my head about MQ4 coding for creating an EA: 1. if I use D1 TF, How can I detect the closing/opening price ? 2. How can I order the BUY/SELL STOP...