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To keep things simple and rather than having to change some of my EA settings each time i change time frame, I was thinking of setting up some presets that automatically applied based on the _Period value. I don't know if i have taken the correct approach but i went down the path of multi

Hi All, I have put together the script below to open a new pending order with the same comment and magic number of an existing one. The script seems to be working fine most of the times but occasionally it will not open any order and there are no error messages are indicated in the Journal. Any

i developed this EA and it is working fine but when i wanted to optimize it for best parameters it was telling me 84 passes done during optimization results discarded 84 insignificant. please i need help with optimizing my EA thanks guy

hey guys, i have following simple code i want to write with buy sell as iam newbie to this language learning to code from very basic..... i have this amibroker code written by me...just want to write in mt4 language. i want signal on every candle so iam not using exrem function of amibroker Plot( C

Hello, I have a crossover ea of 2 EMAs, but what I need is that when the 4 period ema crosses the 100 ema the command 50pips will open after having crossed, currently the robot that I have opens it immediately, I made some modifications using a double variable called Preciobuy and another

I created this CCI and EMA EA and i compiled it and there was no error only for me to backtest it and it seems its not backtesting at the same time its not giving me any error in the journal. The EA buys when CCI is above level 0 and price is above EMA. please help guys

I can set Moving Average Levels on my charts in the dialog box settings, so how do I program the MA Levels into an EA lines of code? To Buy when Price is between the MA Level values of up +20 and +40. To Sell when Price is between the MA Level values of down -20 and -40. Standard Moving Average...

Sorry to bother you, but are these the same or is there a time when the're not? int counted_bars = IndicatorCounted(); if(counted_bars < 0){return(1);} counted_bars--; versus int counted_bars = IndicatorCounted(); if(counted_bars < 0){return(-1);}

Hello, I have a small but really frustrating problem with dividing. The Indi has many-many arrays and works well, but now I wanted to change the base of the arrays. The old one was the RSI, now i want to change into Daily % change ( or candle, because I want to see it on every TF). So, I wanted to

hi every one I write an expert that put 3 buttons : SELL BUY CLOSE I want to put these 3 buttons into a panel or window that I can drag them together can any one help me Best regards Neda

Hello everyone, hope everyone is doing fine, I am not sure if I posted on the right place, if not I am sorry I can delete it or remove ! Title says it all, I have .mq4 file thats a EA, when I add this file to Expert Advisor it just works fine but I want to make it to .ex4 file I opened it with Meta

Hi, I have a Huawei Matebook E, ARM version of windows 10. Until some weeks ago MT4 and MT5 had been working perfectly. I was forced to accept an update (maybe about 2 months ago), then suddenly all my MT4 stopped working. I have 3 brokers and all of them stopped working. Metatrader connects , and

I'm experiencing a very strange phenomenon. I developed an EA which runs once per bar, since it uses data of the last finished bar. During backtesting it behaved strange, so I stripped it's code to the following: datetime LastCoreTime; int OnInit() { return INIT_SUCCEEDED; } void OnTick() { if(

I have finally got an EA working and taking all winning trades. it dont trade often but when it does it wins. However I am using a high stoploss and I dont know if its taking into account margin. This would change things in the real world if I couldn't cover my margin waiting for the take profit to

Playsound in MT4 MQL4 has a bad error: Playsound does not work inside of loops. .. Playsound ("catsway"); // works well for (i=0; i...; i++) { if (i==...) // about once per hour { Playsound (dog.wav") // never works } Who can help me with an idea or better a workaround. Please send me an

Hey all, i've written a small code and all is working but this condition is not, i don't know if i have coded it wrong or i'm missing something if you can help me RSI = iRSI(NULL,0,RSI_period,RSI_applied_price,1); if((iBarShift(NULL,0,SignalCandle) > 0) && (isTradingAllowed())){

Hi, I have been checking some youtube videos about Backtesting. Not just to learn how this can be done (I still don't know it) but particularly to find out whether what I want can be done with Backtesting or not - if my desire is even possible in MT4. Although I have zero development knowledge and

hi i used CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_CREATE to change color and the name of every trend line user draw on chart and i used a Counter to add number to a origin name and put it on trend line but it's cause a endless loop and Counter don't stop Counting

I have been getting this error and I cant seem to figure out the cause. I have been trying for the last 3 days to figure it out. I assume its because of my send order operation so I have adjusted everything I can think of. Nothing seems to stop it from appearing in my journal during backtesting. one

Hi all, I am really new to mql4, coming from NT world. I downloaded a custom indicator which plots 2 lines (white and blue). All I want my EA to do is to go long when white crosses blue and go short when blue crosses white. However, I want it to be done only if cross happens after the one-day candle

hello guys please i need your help, i developed this EA that uses CCI and moving average filter it was all good but my problem now is that it opens trade on every bar for example if you place it on a 1H chart it will open trade on every 1 hour. please how do i prevent this from happening. Let me

Hi, first time this has happened to me but the charts for USDJPY , NZDUSD , AUDNZD do not show on screen. The charts for the other pairs I trade are fine. The MT4 platform is via IG broker. The usual MT4 page is there but all I see in the chart area, at the bottom, is the tops of my count numbers

brand new to forex. opened a demo account via mt4 app on iphone. was able to make trades yesterday no problem. Today I was not able to place trades. kept saying common error? I did not try to put a stop loss or take profit price so i know its not a math error. internet working fine. Anybody able to

When I first run MT4 or first attach the EA to a chart, the EA is loaded and initialized, but after removing the EA by "Close(x)" button of the standard library CAppDialog, the next time I attach it, it is loaded successfully but not initialized and does nothing until I change the time frame or

Hi everybody... How we can made a function in mt4 editor to count time as a common clock second by second independent of tick value from the broker

Greetings everyone, I need a little help from you .//---- ma_angle_mtf.mql4//---- indicator settings#property indicator_separate_window#property indicator_buffers 3#property indicator_color1 LimeGreen#property indicator_color2 FireBrick #property indicator_color3 Yellow#property indicator_width1

Hi I had downloaded MTsetup64.exe but my choise is for 4 version. why even if I choose version 4 does it install version 5? I'm interested in using language version 4: is it possible with mt5? Thanks Best regards Massimo

Hello I got many charts opened(USDJPY,GBPUSD,...) at the same time in my mt4 plateforme In one of this chart ,runs an EA Visually we can see in which chart it runs But is it possible programly to know the chart ID number in which the EA runs between all others Regards

When I opened MT4 today I was asked to login again and all the indicators and templates I added were lost. I have no idea what happened here. Everything was still working fine yesterday and I didn't need to login when I open MT4. I have to start adding the indicators and templates I use all over

Hi there Can someone help me so i have this Txt file that i want to import into mt4. The problem is that when im trying to import it into mt4 then it changes the date format. So for april 1st it somehow goes and changes it to december 12th Two days ago it makes it into 2020.11.03 Theis