hi, i'm trying to learn mql using a book. but still have a couple of very basic questions; so I wrote a very simple ea that alerts the digit of a chart. how do I run the ea on a chart? #include <stdlib.mqh> #include <WinUser32.mqh>...
I'm trying to determine direction of zigzag indicator with the icustom command. This is what i have so far: ZigZagHigh=iCustom(NULL,0,"ZigZag",MODE_HIGH,0); ZigZagLow=iCustom(NULL,0,"ZigZag",MODE_LOW,0); The lines are drawn on the chart, but both ZigZagHigh and ZigZagLow are equal tozero when I...
hi all, the software multiterminal.net connect directly to mt4 servers and allows trading with multiple brokers (with no running instances of mt4) - is it a legal software? am i allowed to buy it? thanks.
Hello, I'm trying to write CSV files outside of the mt4/experts/files folder. This works. Now I'm trying to do add info to CSV files without overwriting previous info. This doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure if the FileLenght and BytesWritten part is needed (I don't know what they do?) . Basically...
I was running a visual test on no specific dates, and was putting processor priority on above normal and then high priority, and MT4 has crashed and is unrecoverable so far. I have tried compatibily settings and tried removing tick history. What happens now is MT4 opens on half of the screen and the...
Hello, I'd like to have an EA load a centralized time from the internet. For example GMT. How to do it? Like TimeCurrent() but then from one location at the internet. Cause if you use TimeCurrent() it differs from broker to broker. I want to have one and the same time over different brokers,...
Hi, is there a way to create a EA strategy based on historic trades recorded, there are some 10 000 trades done over a three year period and I would like to formulate the algorithm behind those trades. Is that possible? Best regards, Arnold
Stuck with code where I need to locate order that has smallest OrderOpenPrice(). Code selects latest open order (position)..why not order where OrderOpenPrice is closest to not dependent what time order was added or position? double bScanOpn;double bScanPenOpn;double TopPrice=0,...
Hello Please tell me how to add validation code Babe closing before opening. If you can give an example of code bude very grateful, but then I'm a newbie. thank you if (a>b) { It checks for the presence of open orders to buy, and if they have what you need to close them and continue opening...
Hi all, I want a script that copies the objects of all open charts and pastes them on all open charts. Searching tells me I will need to use winAPI to access other charts? Any tips one what commands I'll need to use? In the end would it be faster to run a copier script on every chart (writing...
Hi, all, I've encounter a big problem. I found that many EA which can be successfully compiled before, can't be compiled at the current version, my current MT4 Version is: 4.00 Build 500, for example, when compile XXX.mq4, it prompt: "0 error, 0 warning", but it only produce a XXX.log, which is a...
I cannot access www.mql4.com last week. I suspect it is a problem of my computer or my local computer . One of my friend told me that he cannot either. Aother friend told me that he can last Thursday...... But today I can reach, too... May I know what is the problem making www.mql4.com in...
Hi, I want to run my ea each second(for exemple), I don't want to wait each tick. How can I do, I tried to put an infinite loop just after the sart funtion, but it doesn't seem to work. Thanks
Slippage seems easy enough to understand but I'm obviously getting something wrong. I set Ask to a variable, send a buy order with slippage value 0 or 1, great. Then compare my stated price with the OrderOpenPrice and they are different by 2 points... and this keeps happening. i.e. something...
Hi All, i am starting understanding and coding indicators and i am a little confused... i've seen inside the code of and indicator that calculates a weekly pivot point this line last_week_high = Close[i+1]; i don't understand why this line is not this other one: last_week_high = iLow(Symbol()...
dear guys I made a EA using a indicator. I write a code below: double val=iCustom(NULL, 0, "RI - Pro",0,false,false,false,2,0); if(val<5000) gi_buy = TRUE; when run my EA with Strategy Tester, tester running too slow and in journal show lot of message like below: 2013.06.12 08:49:41 2013.04...
Hi everyone For long time I've been waiting for Metatrader development team to say any news about MT4,5 on Window Phone 8 .............. I'm not a big fans of iPhone and Android , I really want the development team to consider to make Metatrader available on WP8 To all concerns please just...
Hey there venerable MQ4 programmers. A quick question. Not going to include code or anything because its not really necessary. I was messing around with an EA yesterday and decided to try something. You can do it yourself pretty easy. S/L is X and T/P same X; So maybe 50 and 50 or 100 and 100, or...
hello, expert advisor EURUSD window isopen. When 1 minute. this case, the maximum value (a) matter. (Themaximum value the current chart (a) ) After 5 minutes, you get the value of a small bvalues. (b the value of the first = a+5 minute) makes the first minutes after the new b yi. made up of one...
Hi,if I take the source code of a certain indicator and start coding an EA right in it,will it work or do HAVE to make a new expert adviser file?? Because I see that their structure is the same,I am just not sure mql4 allows it. Thanks..
Hey folks, since I wasn't able to find any direct answer to my question via google nore this forums search function, I have to bother you with my question: Is it (generally) possible to create a new order-window via mql4? I know that it is possible to write an expert advisor and fill in the...
Hi I m trying to create a very simple EA (thats my first one) that will use a simple indicator to enter and exit a trade. This indicator has two lines (Buffers) a green and a red. So I want to enter the trade when green & red cross and exit when they cross again AND RE-ENTER the trade. I ve created...
Hi all, I often use the following to check times and efficiency int timing = GetTickCount();//lots of stuff heretiming = GetTickCount() - timing; I get values of 0 or high value but I never seen values 1-14 One part of code fluctuates between 15 and 16 milliseconds but is sometimes 0... I'm...