MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 599

I have downloaded the MT4 software from FXCM USA   However when I start metaeditor  and i open the sample it says words like onInit and onTick These are mt5  language code words when I enter the following code from the book  as follows...

GumRai: Are you serious??? Your opening post in your very recent topic at https://forum.mql4.com/71996 So you already know how to do it. Lol... . Funny. Actually, it did not occur to me. Now I know I should figure it out by writing an empty string to all the records in the file. Thanks.

Hi all,  I come across  with an issue; When I put the ea for the first time an order is opened, then when that order closes the next one opens normally, meaning that the ea waits for price goes up or down the OpenLevel What I expect the ea to do is from the very beginning it should wait until the...

The code appears to executes OK ( i.e. reads details from file and My_Handle_line seems OK - 2) -but still generates the ERROR code 5008 My_Handle_Line  = FileOpen("Dashboard\\"+fname, FILE_CSV|FILE_READ, "|");                                  Write_my_Error("80010A My_Handle_Line =...

New article Graphical Interfaces II: The Main Menu Element (Chapter 4) has been published: This is the final chapter of the second part of the series about graphical interfaces. Here, we are going to consider the creation of the main menu. The development of this control and setting up handlers of...

HI  Can anyone tell me what happened to my buttons? They all switched from english to these weird characters(see photo).  I have several MT4 platforms and they all have the same problem. I am not sure if it is a an MT4 issue or a Windows one. I am running Windows 7.    Thanks   

Can the int init() function be called from the rest of the functions in the program? Thank you in advance.

Hi all and Happy new year, I hope you can help with this, I'm trying to install metatrader (demo account) for backtesting data from tickstory. I have to run MT4 from an external hard drive, I've deleted metatrader, installed to the hard drive and unchecked the launch on completion check box so I can...

1) Make an intuitive, drag-and-drop strategy builder a la Gordago (or better yet, more complex strategy builders). This will certainly attract new users who want to trade more or less systematically, but don't want to spend a lot of time studying and poking around in MQL. The trader's business is to

Hi, Suddenly I'm not able to connect with us dollar index chart... "always Wating for update~~" Every other charts, like eurusd , gpbusd.. etc. work properly. What can i do? Thanks

Now why would this give OrderModify Error#1? Ea Attached. //#################################################################//#################################################################double...

I would like to substitute individual variables in a controlled fashion such that changes to a struct can be managed. // -F- -?v- -s- ----xcn---- ----gmt---- -m- -g- --tz-- -?d-?l- -dlst- -r- string mpformat = ",,%s ,%i ,%s ,%s,%s,%s,%s ,%s,%s,%s,%s, ,%i ,%d ,%s,%s ,%i,%i% ,%i,%i ,%s";

Each time I read from a file and close the file, the file becomes empty the next time I want to read or write to the file. What mechanism or function can I use to retain the content of the file in order to add to the existing content of the file or read the file again on the next opening of the file...

New article Area method has been published at mql5.com: The "area method" trading system works based on unusual interpretation of the RSI oscillator readings. The indicator that visualizes the area method, and the Expert Advisor that trades using this system are detailed here. The article is also...

New article Graphical Interfaces II: the Separation Line and Context Menu Elements (Chapter 2) has been published at mql5.com: In this article we will create the separation line element. It will be possible to use it not only as an independent interface element but also as a part of many other...

New article Universal Expert Advisor: Custom Strategies and Auxiliary Trade Classes (Part 3) has been published at mql5.com: In this article, we will continue analyzing the algorithms of the CStrategy trading engine. The third part of the series contains the detailed analysis of examples of how to...

I encountered with this error in pretty complex scripts. In some scripts it worked okay, but in the some scripts even the simple one like this one, it just repeats itself. Same volume is shown constantly.  //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|...

Hi, I'm an Etoro user trying to switch to mql (i'm a senior programmer). On Etoto, say i wanted to invest 500$ on EURUSD at x10 risk, i would open the buy window, input 500, select x10 risk and that's it. How would i do the same thing with the OrderSend method? i don't see a parameter for

Hello comrades, just as the integer values for OP_BUY, OP_SELL, OP_BUYLIMIT, OP_SELLLIMIT, OP_BUYSTOP and OP_SELLSTOP are 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively, are there integer values for the traded instruments. That is, integer values for GBPUSD, EURUSD, USDJPY, etc. The idea is to run through the...

Hello,  I am new to MT4, and am wanting to write an Expert Adviser that will be able to take full tick data from multiple markets.  Is this possible?   Thanks in advance! 

Hello, I'm looking for a VPS service to host my EAs. What/who do you recommend for VPS service? Thanks in advance, - Lil

I need to get the value of a particular candle, for example H1 10:00 today or the previous day. How do I get the size anytime during the day, Low, High, some specific candle?

Hi all,   I wonder if someone could help me out. It's driving me crazy.    I have the following code:   // Check previous candle and previous of previous candle   double bar1=Close[1]-Open[1];   double bar2=Close[2]-Open[2];   Print("CheckEntry");   Print("bar1 "," Close[1]: ",Close[1]," - ","...

Dear All, This is my first post on this forum. So far I have managed to find solutions to my problems in other threads but not for this one. And it seems so simple. I need the class public members to be visible in an entire Expert Advisor, not only in function, within which a given class was...

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I created a file. I want the file to be created when necessary and deleted when necessary, without writing anything to the file. The idea is to use the file as a key to perform an action. If the file exists action A should be take. On the other hand, if the file does not exist action B should be...

Hi, I made this EA which will take only one trade at time if the buy/sell condition satisfies. It will not take any new trade if current trade is online. Once current trade got closed it will check for buy/sell conditions again. But currently its not taking any trades. I tested the code, part by

I have an EA i made, and i want to know if it is possible to just copy and paste the code for opening a pending limit order, with magic number into a script format. This would also include parameters for money management inputs in my EA and i would like it to also incorporate the trailing stop i

hello guys,   well fairly i'm new to mql programming so i'm not sure its a bug or what! while i was testing my ea noticed there are few orders not actually created by my codes! first i thought my code logic is wrong or something to check that idea i hashed out most my code and now i got only 1...

I'm currently using something like this in my code:  for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { // someday is date + 10 am datetime linePos = someValidDate - 60*60*24*i; // minus i-days ObjectCreate("SOMEPREFIX_" + i, OBJ_VLINE, 0, linePos, 0); } This works fine when the date is a valid date, but...