MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 2

Hi, I will release another private EA, this is called Electra, we continue using Greek names. This EA is a Multi-pair medium/long term Swing Trader. This is a positive Equity System, it mean the the equity remain in the positive side most of the time.Don't be tempted of halt and close the trades in...

Mt4 on my Samsung stopped displaying charts. No error message just a static image of three candles in monochrome appear. Screenshot attached. No indication that a chart is even trying to display. Everything else in the app works fine. App was updated, same result. Same if symbol is changed. Any

Hello Support and all, I've found problem of no any alert sounds from MT4 after update as build 1408. I've confirmed all setting for sounds are Enable (Option-->Events-->Enable for all). I've confirmed MT4 teminal for 2 brokers with 1408 update have the same problem, while MT4 teminal for other 2

Sorry I'm bad english language .I'm a beginner trader, currently experiencing losses, I'm busy with work and getting older, so I don't have time to constantly monitor charts. I found a free indicator file on ForexFactory, but it doesn't send notifications to MT4 on my mobile phone. I'd appreciate it

I looked all over the MQL4 manual and still can't find the right way to just grab these 2 chart values, as shown in the attached image. The values are highlighted in a red circle in the image. As you can see, we need the value of the bottom and top "little-squares-predrawn-by-mt4" chart values...

Dear Metaquotes Team, I am writing to express the concerns of the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) community regarding the recent update from build 1415 to build 1420. While we understand that updates are necessary to improve the platform and ensure compatibility with new protocols, we are deeply concerned about

How activate the Depth of Market option in MT4

MetaEditor MT4 has a built-in clipboard tracking feature that monitors the clipboard in real-time to provide quick access to recently copied data (via Alt+V). This is a useful feature for coding, but it causes a significant problem when using third-party tools that rely on the Windows clipboard to

How can i increase the border Width of a button

this script converts the chart's ticks into any Second(s)timeframes !!! the Script works only for XAUUSD, you can modify it to work with other pairs or other names of Gold pair. Example custom periods: S5 S10 S15 S20 S30 S45 S50 Once the Second(s) chart is generated, you can apply almost everything

I started this thread to post all news/signals indicators and EAs we have now and will have in the future.

hi, i 'd like to start new thread about pyramiding strategies. i am searching solution from few months, and this is my result : i ' ve developed an EA based on keltner channel and macd. if you are interested to develop my project tell me. this is my back test (2008) and screen giapel

Hi I use this indicator Spread_Recorder.mq4 http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=195290 It has worked perfect with different brokers, but i just opened a new account with another broker and id stops to work.? I says: invalid filename for FileOpen function And i allso have created a folder...

Hello, I would like to be able to set up a system either via a web interface or a Telegram bot to enable or disable autotrading on one of my mt4 accounts, without having to go to mt4. How can I do this? Has anyone already set up something like this? For the moment I'd just like to be able to enable

Greetings im trying to automate backtests with t4Metatrader but when i run my command : "C:\MT4_Instance_1\terminal.exe" /portable "C:\MT4_Instance_1\config\backtest.ini" But when it opens and tries to run the test it says cannot open file'C:\MT4_Instance_1\MQL4\Experts\ea.ex4' [123]3 17:33:57.145

What volatility indicators out there are coded for MT4 that I can use other than the Bollinger bands ? Please post links if you can. I'm looking for a way to better place my stops based on market volatility

I am runnning MT4 under Wine 6.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 focal. Have already run $ wincfg to set programms' window dimensions and scale police size. Now I am facing the issue that the toolbar submenus are not aligned and spread on two lines, and within submenus icons are also split on two or even three

I have tried to add Buy and Sell Signal, pop up alert, and push notification from Histogram Indicator. Following line have errors : string fullMsg = Symbol() + " + IntegerToString(Period()) + " - " + msg; The errors after compiling : '' - double quotes are needed '-' - illegal operation use Much

I’ve been having a problem for the past few days with installing MT4/MT5. During the installation, a proxy window pops up, which has never happened before. When I click Cancel, the installation stops. I also can’t download a newer version from the broker — I get some kind of proxy page error. It

Anyone fancy taking a look at this EA , when back tested in strategy on the 1m chart XAUUSD with TP 100 , the results are amazing, however in live I cant get it to be profitable? here's the script : //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Expert Advisor

Dear Community, is it possible to feed data from MT4 indicators into Access tables real time? As far as I could find out, it can be done with server-generated data like Time, Open, Close etc. But what I (additionally need is locally generated data), what should be easier theoretically, but who

Hey guys,  I am in need of assistance please. What I would like to do is every time price creates a new high or low for the day I want to be able to save the price and the time somehow (perhaps in the global scope) to use it as a reference point? Would anyone know how to do this? 

I have an EA that I want to sell, but verification always fails

Hey everyone, I got tired of MT4’s default trailing stop. Trailing by a fixed amount of pips makes no sense when volatility changes every session, so I had a custom EA built to trail strictly by R-multiples. It is completely plug-and-play with zero inputs. How the logic works: It looks at the

The MetaTrader 4 update will be released on Friday , February 21, 2025. This version provides important security improvements, error fixes, and platform stability enhancements. The update will be available through the Live Update system

The MetaTrader 4 update will be released on Friday , May 24, 2024. This version provides important security improvements, error fixes, and platform stability enhancements. The update will be available through the Live Update system

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 Linux with the latest version of Wine on my VPS I can run MT5 normally. However, i am successfuly installed it, when I run the installed MT4, I always get the message "Debugger has been found running in your system. Please unload it from memory and restart your program"

hi,I would like to convert  point from currency pair to currency account. For example assuming my account is in USD what will be  the value in USD of 200 points on the currency pair EURJPY.  I heard about MarketInfo(EURJPY, MODE_TICKVALUE)) which return value in USD for one tick...

September 1st is Knowledge Day

There is a serious problem in the latest versions of MetaTrader 4: The OK button is missing from the configuration window of several robots. I am currently using MetaTrader 4 build 1470, and the OK buttons for several Expert Advisors (EAs) are not appearing in the configuration panel. This is a