MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 296

I have used mt4 for so many years and this is a constant problem. On dragging the crosshair, it keeps disappering before I can drag it to point B from point A to measure the number of pips. I've tried pressing shift, control , and alt with it, but it still disappears before I can reach point B. Is

How do I change the drive MT4 is saved on while maintaining all my information that is connected to that terminal? (EAs, indicators, accounts, set files ect) I tried moving both the MT4 terminal to D: drive from C: and moved the whole data folder to the same place while maintaining the sub

Hiya, I'm very new to MT4 and I wanted to know if I can create a robot that allows me to execute multiple trades at the start of the USA open (i'm in the UK). I usually have circa 20 trades to place at once and I tried doing market orders before the open only to experience slippage and major loss

Hi My query is , " how to calculate price of the signal candle?" Can any one help me please? Below is my code for indicator. //--- indicator settings #property indicator_chart_window #property indicator_buffers 2 #property indicator_type1 DRAW_ARROW #property indicator_width1 5 #property

if i want to know last trading day 16:45 (M1) that bar. how to do this? i made a code which can know the previous 16:45 bar (M1), but if Current time pass 16:45, let said 16:50, this code only can know the previous bar 16:45 (M1), but i want to know last trading day 16:45, even if today current time

Hello, According the new FIFO rules of NFA the first open position must be closed first. At first glance I wrote this code: int ClosePositions ( string symbol ) { int orderstotal = OrdersTotal ( ) ; int orders = 0 ; int ordticket [ 100 ] ; for ( int i = 0 ; i < orderstotal ;

Hi All, I'm trying to convert amounts from base currency to my deposit currency but i got stuck with MarketInfo that gives me zero when i use it like this: MarketInfo("EURUSD", MODE_ASK); I checked that the currency pair "EURUSD" is available in MarketWatch. Thanks in advance for your help

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Good Day Friend, I'm having a challenge Try to Create Serial key for my new ea, a serial key that work one only one account per serial key. I got this example from mql4 code base but it doesnt show how on serial key is restricted to one account here is the code

hi, just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of how to go about making the trailing stoploss of my EA equal to a moving average value. cheers geoff

Hi Please assist Trying to code an indicator, i would like to use the below indicator as directional bias , how can i get the bias from this indicator on the given TF

Hi, I am getting Zero Divide in Backtest of an Expert for this Indicator. I added it as iCustom and there are indications in the script about how to add it as iCustom but it still gives Zero Divide. It skips it it the Backtest but it looks like in Live Demo it might be blocking it. Do you know what

I am using BitmapLabelObject from mql4, to put a bmp on my panel. Though, the image has transparent background, it looks like a boxed image on the panel having white background. Also tried having an background color of the bmp as my panel color, Still it has white background. How can I fix it? (I

After updating to 1280 build, my MetaEditor stopped working. I am on Linux and Wine. Before the upgrade everything was good. When I click the MetaEditor icon in the MT4 toolbar, nothing happens and I got the message in the Journal: "MetaEditor not found". The metaeditor.exe is in the proper folder

Hi I am new in mql programming, I want to get specified candle trend by time : for example I want to get the candle in 8:15am (m15 time frame) trend , and if its red (down) do something or green (up) do somthing please help me to write this

Hi, thanks in advance for the help! I've spent hours trying to get this to work but after searching everywhere I still don't understand why it's not working. Any help would be appreciated. The following is defined at the top of the program for users to enter their offset from the exit moving

Hello, I contracted to have an MT4 expert built to my exact specifications. I paid for said expert to be built and now the coder will not give me the original source code and has written a copyright on the EX4.  I mean it's my idea and I paid for him to do it isn't it my expert?  Can someone with...

Please i want to create a trading bot (EA) i want to use it so that others can copy the trade of the EA from a broker trade copier. Python is my programming language, I know that mt5 has a python intergration module, but my broker doesn't have option of a copy trade for mt5 So i need help on how

I'm sure I'm making a newb mistake. if (whatever){ if (whatever && whoCares){ CloseBuyPositions(); /////// Gets error: 'CloseBuyPositions' - function not defined } } void CloseBuyPositions(){ /////// Gets error: 'CloseBuyPositions' - function declarations are allowed on global

Hello I just started MQL4 recently and being the complete newbie that I am, I would like to ask some help on the code below. Basically I am trying to have my EA randomly choose buy/sell on every tick and enter an order until it reaches the max number of orders . However after running the code on

I would like to capture the alert information for my indicator In real time ! I was thinking of capturing by / MQL4 / Logs but I saw that they are not inserted in real time, does anyone have any idea if there is a possibility to do it via webrequest? Thank you very much

I am using some Global Variables in my MT4 EA to store values which should be retained if, for example, the server re-boots. In the OnInit() method, the existence of these is checked using GlobalVariableCheck() for each variable. If not present, the variable is re-initialized, and a message is

Hi, I am trying to install Metatrader4 not the MT5 but it is keep installing Meta Trader 5 version. Can anyone please tell me what could be the reason ? I downloaded Meta Trader 4 from below location, file name mt4setup.exe https://www.metatrader4.com/en/download

Hi all hero traders and tradettes. I want my EA to run once per bar. I have heard of complicated ways to do this, but I may have figured out a simple way. Setting a global datetime variable and an if statement making the program execute only if the datetime of the current bar is different to the...

Hi. I was thinking of making a indicator that plats the comment of pending orders on those buy/sell Limit/stop lines. Is there any way of finding pending orders? im using this for something eleas but this only gives me trades that have been open for ( int i=OrdersHistoryTotal() - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i--)

Hi everyone. I need help. I am trying to create a ea that will look through the open orders pool and if there is an open order it will modify the order to add both a take profit and stoploss. If there isn't an order it will just keep looking the time of the day is over. This is what I did so far

Hi All, I have been trying to find an indicator in the mt4 codebase that will give me a histogram of candle lengths expressed as a percentage over 'x' amount of candles. There is some similar stuff in the market area (Power Candles and DI Volume Bar) but I could do with the code. I just can't locate

Hi I'm trying to recognize the ctrl+mouse left click. When I press ctrl the ID is CHARTEVENT_KEYDOWN and the sparam is 29 if I hold the ctrl down the ID remains the same but the sparam is 16413, which I think this is what I need to use. I also know that the mouse left click id is CHARTEVEN_CLICK

I studied personally in the forum, no coding skills at all, I did it for 2 years. thank you for everything. and this time, I had difficulty closing the current order with the indicator. I want to close it with the indicator I chose, I think it might be done. but I was at my wits end and finally

Hello, I am trying to get the 15 min time frame MA on a 1 min time frame. I am able to get it in tradingview(See the attached Images .) These 2 images show how I am getting 15 min MA on 1 min chart . I like the first way, Is there anyway that I could get it on MT4 the same way? It helps