MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 419

I know that this question has been asked before, but I can't get it to work. I hope someone can help. From my custom EA, I want to programmatically add my custom indicator to a subwindow of the chart the EA was added to. I've managed to do this in MQL5 with ChartIndicatorAdd. So, I have my indicator...

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I would like to kindly ask you about the broker´s side of Meta Trader 4 - I mean the server.  As I wouldn´t like to have any troubles with the brokers in terms of overloading their server/servers, my question is: Can I send tens of orders (eg. twenty times 15 lots) to the broker´s server in the time...

My mt4 doesnt work in windows 10. My windows 10 has update, and i use the version mt4 Activtrades. I tried reisntall, but doent work. What i need do to open my mt4?

Is there a way to set the account number in my mq4 file so it will be locked to just a specific account number when compiling the ex4 file? So, if I want to share one EA with someone and lock it to their account number. I guess it should be a short line of code, but couldn't find anything about it.

I try to execute a script and after the message SUCCESSFULLY LOADED it gets REMOVED . Why

why these candles appear in meta quotes demo account ? is it normal ? but we test many EA on this account and we found much differences when we  use another brokers one

Hello everyone, I'm looking for a function in MQL4 that returns a color of a specific indicator's buffer. Something like PlotIndexGetInteger(plotNr,PLOT_LINE_COLOR) in MQL5. I know there is a constant indicator_colorN but if I change the color in the input window (tab colors) the indicator_colorN is...

I'm testing an EA in the strategy tester. To get a graphical representation of it, I also added an indicator, a simple indicator that warns me when the bid price breaks the lower or upper limits of a donchian channel. In real time, the indicator works perfectly, but in the strategy tester the...

Hi, Hi need to preserve a string variable from reset when I change TF. GlobalVariableSet is not a solution for me because I need to apply more times the same indicator on the chart with different properties, so to work correctly the GlobalVariable should have a different name for each indicator...

I want to backtesting my EA with the period of weekly or monthly, but I only can find the period selection only from M1 to Daily !

Not sure whats going on, adding one makes it an empty controlled statement. Help please. double lastClose; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //insuring its a new candle function //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ bool

Hi, Im backtesting my strategy under different TP/SL and indicator parameters (as period), so i run a backtesting, i take note of results, then i change my code (TP for example) and run it again to compara with previous results and get optimal profit parameters. I was wondering if i can configurate...

Hi friends, I usually need to change my indicator extern variable's value in order to change my indicator setting and redraw the indicator with the newly set variables. Now for the purpose of saving my time, I'd like to use the objects to change my extern variable's value by only a simple click on...

Hi Is there any way I can hide external inputs and set them to false as default? It will be much easier than modding code. I dont want the customer to see these in the inputs.. but i still want them set to false. extern bool PA8=false; extern bool PA50=false; extern bool PA200=false;

I've been reading mql4 documentation, but I still don't understand this well. If I set the period to one hour, does ontick event run every second as the name tick indicate or does ontick even run every hour as I set in the period? Sorry for the stupid question, I'm not really good at this

Hey, guys, what's the difference between ...\tester\history and ...\history\BROKER? I ask this because the archives located in ...\tester\history have more than 200GB!

Hi folks!  I was wondering if there's a way to create a custom Drawing Tool for Metatrader 4 (or 5); concretely something like R:R ratios, Harmonic Patterns, etc. I know that reading in depth the documentation something will come up but I also wanted to know if someone already tried and succeeded....

Hi, how can i change position of this? ObjectCreate("HEADER",OBJ_RECTANGLE_LABEL,0,0,0);ObjectSet("HEADER",OBJPROP_CORNER,1);ObjectSet("HEADER",OBJPROP_XDISTANCE,270);ObjectSet("HEADER",OBJPROP_YDISTANCE,30);ObjectSet("HEADER",OBJPROP_XSIZE,260);ObjectSet("HEADER",OBJPROP_YSIZE...

Hello, This is my 1st time purchasing an indicator from the mql5 market. I have a demo mt4.  I have the checks on authorization, selection, payment, and confirmation. The "end" does not have a check. I have my demo mt4 up and when I go to login to mql5 community, nothing happens. I enter the...

I have done a great EA which gives me excelent results when simulating on strategy tester of mt4. On real account it doesn't give me the same results...

I've got OrderSend 138 only if I run it in tester, not in live demo. I've try to adjust slippage point to no avail. Anyone get any idea why this happen? double price = iClose(Symbol(), PERIOD_H1, 1);   if (up > down && up > sideway){      double stoploss = NormalizeDouble(price-piploss*Point,...

Thanks in advance, once open Buy order, current stoploss is 100 point, take profit 200 points. if price moving up, how to modify the stoploss moving up accordingly. thanks

Hello, How to limit the output which has results between some range values (for example): 240 < outputvalue < 250. Anyone have an example please? I am trying with this code, but give no result: int NumberLimit = 1double outputvalue;for (int i=0; i<BarsLimit; i++){    int...

There are several reasons why an order was closed:         Unknown = -1,         Expiration = 0,         Market = 1,         TakeProfit = 2,         StopLoss = 3,         Risk = 4 In MQL 4, how does one determine why an order was closed? How does one determine if an order was closed by Market,...

I am trying to read the values of different Buffer from the CCFp indicator but it stay constant at 2147483647  (Empty_value)  Here is the code I use to test it :   Print(handle);  if (NewBar()){   double USD = CCFp(0, 1);...

If anyone has experience dealing with Neuro Shell Trader could you please give me your honest opinion. I purchased the program about a month ago and I am not to pleased with trying to generate new trading strategies . I feel as If they do not have enough instructional videos and also a lot of their

Hi Community, after I installed a new instance on my brand new laptop I realized that opening a chart directly from the Market window (via Ctrl+Click and drag onto the 'work area') does not load the chart into a new window but rather it replaces the one in the window which has the focus. As I seem

As a newcomer to the forum and also to MT4 and to MQL I would first like to thank you all for sharing your knowledge and experience, your trading tools and ideas. This first post of mine is a question about text labels. What I am trying to do is to have a table with indicator values regarding

I want to copy a signal (it's a free signal) and it's not showing up in MT4 when looking in the signals tab. I have tried to sort it by name, but it doesn't show up. So I open up the mql5.com website and look at the signal and there is a button on the left saying "Copy for Free". But then it should...