MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1681

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2006, the interview with Alexander Ovchinnikov (Sashken) has been published. Alexander tells about main characteristics of his Expert Advisor: I agree that stops must be placed. I just could place a StopLoss for my expert at400 to 500 points. I...

It is interesting to see the statistics of participants' expectations of the balance of the 1st place winner Let's just write it down, e.g: Balance - 32 000.00 no flooding, just a number

The expert I entered for the contest is set to close all orders as soon as the profitis over 100 usd. However, it seems like there is a certain lag, so my orders areclosed with much smaller profits, the last one was a loss :(. What could be thereason... slippage, server? My account: https://www.mql5...

I have been unable to get the Strategy Tester to work properly with entry orders.I have replicated the problem with a bare-bones Expert (see code below). When thisis run on the Strategy tester for EURUSD 5 min chart, the program creates an entryBuy Stop order on the open of the 6:55 candle on June...

For the MQL4.community, we created a new search engine that can search in differentsections: It is a beta version yet, and we are improving it now. The search form can be foundat the top right of each page. Use instructions are very simple and resemble those of standard search engines: In the...

Hi, I am about to upgrade my MT4 Client Terminal from build 188 to 196. Last time Iupgraded I lost some of my experts! Lucky I always back them up. Is there any officialupgrade documentation and release notes for each build that Metaquotes supplies?Have Metaquotes fixed this problem? In my opinion...

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2006, the new article named "Report: The Championship Started" has been published. It summarizes the first results of the Championship: some traderswere rejected to be registered for different reasons, disqualification of someother Participants...

I suggest an option in Statements to choose to edit Statements and History withor without Cancelled Orders. thanks

Does anyone know where I can find the code for relative volatility index in MQL4?

Hi, i tried to register for the contest 2 weeks ago but never heard back. Can istill register? if so please contact me ASAP at my listed email - scott @ compoundfx.com. thanks.

Hello, I don't want people to download my expert. I made it myself and I must have accidentallychecked the box that other people can download it. At least 2 times I did not checkit but I'm affraid that I have done it the last time I uploaded the newest expert. Can I or someone else please uncheck...

I found several participants of championship trade multiple currency. Is that okor not? For example: Account 400239, Account 400135, etc

Is it possible to change the default parameters for the Fib Retrace tool? I make changes using the dialogue box but they too often disappear.  I wantto make them permanent so that they appear when I apply the custom indicator FiboRetracement3.mq4.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I see a lot of "lots" on the trades made so far that far exceed 5 butthe profit does not match.. is there a glitch in the machine somewhere where fivelots is now 50 lots? how did one buy 300 lots? (according to the trade log) I see more lots more than 5 also.. what's up? looks like the deciman...

I have found that there is no way I can interact with the chart itself, so I thoughtI might use objectset(an arrow possibly) to set an object on the chart, and read the priceat the object using objectget(OBJPROP_PRICE1) etc.. (some coding is missing forclarity) but I get "0"... is there anyway...

Hi, I am in the process of building a dedicated server to run MT Client Terminal. Specifically,I was wondering if each expert when added to a chart runs as seperate thread withinone MT4 Client executable? I would assume that the MT 4 Client terminal is writtenusing C++. The reason I ask is that I...

i'M ATTEMPING TO DEVELOP A HEDGING STRATEGY TO MINIMIZE RISK. HOW DO I DETERMINECORRELATION BETWEEN EURUSD AND GBPUSD USING THE CORRELATION PROGRAM PROVIDED INTHE INDICATOR CODE BASE ? 'Correlation USDCHF/EURUSD' WHAT IS THE CONCEPT BEHIND CORRELATION, I HAVE ATTEMPED TO UNDERSTAND THE CODE BUT...

Hello, Is it possible to use a trendline to set a alert ? With something like that : If close > trendline then Alert("Resistance breaked"); Regards, Tintin92

hey, what? the chart on eurusd is showing ask of 1.2784 and the sell trade i have on is showing price of 1.2794. are my eyes deceiving me

How does the backtester get/use the spread in backtesting? The reason I ask this question is that I get different backtest results dependingon when I run the backtest (same data, same computer, same server etc). I can only assume the 'live' spread is been used, hence the variation in results.

Hello, I have the following error : 2006.09.29 09:34:43 trade EURUSD,M1: Error = trade is not allowed in the expertproperties when I try to use the following script Trade.mq4 downloaded from here : 'Trade' Where is my mistake ? Thanks, Tintin92

I downloaded the code and ran it on what I thought were the same parameters andI ger: Strategy Tester Report MySystem SymbolEURUSDm (Euro vs US Dollar)Period15 Minutes (M15) 2006.01.12 10:00 - 2006.09.22 00:00 (2005.10.18 - 2006.09.22)ModelEvery tick (based on all available least timeframes with...

I have an EA that frequently has 7-10 winning trades followed by a 10-16 losingtrades.  Is it possible to have two platforms running that send signals eachother?  So that most of the time the EA in a live account is dormant but oncea demo account has three winning trades in a row it activates the EA...

hi What is the initial money in each account of paticipant is usd and jpy (because i trade eurjpy , then i have to know how to convert to yen )

can anyone guide me how to total up ? why the function of "TotalProfit"in MQL II no longer be used in MQL4?

could you give me example to check free_margin for trading eurjpy

Is the side of lot for competition is 10k or 100k per 1 lot ?

I have been using CCI as an entry indicator combined with RSI. Does anyone havean indicator that will alarm me when CCI crosses 100, 0, and -100, and RSI crosses50 in the same direction?, similar to the RVI, MACD that I believe Eliyan (spelling)made? His EA alarms when Macd crosses 0, RVI crosses 0...

can someone please help; how do i change the code below so that it only look atorder in the market that it placed. so if i do other trades or another expert thatit doesn't influence the expert below SEma = iMA(NULL, 0, ShortEma, 0, MODE_EMA, PRICE_CLOSE, 0); LEma = iMA(NULL, 0, LongEma, 0,...

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2006, the article "Equipment Test Report" has been published. It summarizes the tests of blade server, uninterruptible powersupply, and net equipment. Stanislav Starikov, the Member of the Automated TradingChampionship 2006 Jury, has commented the...