On occation if I try any EA in my MT terminals it will show in the Expert tab "loaded sucessfully" and then immediately "removed". I did not remove anything. Ea is enabled (has the smiley in the chart window), but just does nothing. Not even the {init} part. Am I missing something here? Just one EA...
Hello guys. I wanted to develop a trailing stop based on fractals. Basically I wrote two routines to get the fractals when they unfold and another function that is main double last_high() { int j = 3; double fractal = 0; fractal = iFractals(Symbol(), Period(), MODE_UPPER, j); if...
I HAVE A PROBLEM SOME TIME WINDOWS UPDATE OR ANY OTHER SOFTWARE INSTALLED IN MY PC THAN MY MT4 INDICATORS NOT SHOW CORRECT PICTURES OF INDICATORS IN MT4 CHARTS SEE PICTURES FOR UNDERSTAND ONE PICTURE IN GOOD AND ONE IS BAD WHAT IS THIS PROBLEM AND WHAT IS THE WAY TO CORRECT THIS PROBLEM I AM NEW...
what is stoplevel &freezelevel and how does it affect trading? Some say it affect your trading but in what way? Please i need an explanatory answer. Thanks
Please help me.I am not a programmer. I really need help inbuilding a strategic AE in my three consecutive candles. signal began to appear two (H1) candles in oppositedirections. at least the second candle opening price equal to the closingprice. Case 1: If the first candle down, second candle up,...
Hi today my broker got v434 and after updating from v432 to v434 my EA did silly things - long used save settings causes now crash in Tester - and some Mt4i scripts do also not more work. I wonder why a update to v434 dated 3 Set 2012 is not mentioned at this forum at all by Metaquotes member here!...
i just start learnig how to coding, and somehow i managed to finish 1 EA. So i BT and the result is pretty fair, but when i try the EA in demo acc, i get some problem... here what i get invalid lots amount for OrderSend function, i try to solve the problem by myself by reading some forum posts, but...
New article Automata-Based Programming as a New Approach to Creating Automated Trading Systems is published at MQL5.community: This article takes us to a whole new direction in developing EAs, indicators and scripts in MQL4 and MQL5. In the future, this programming paradigm will gradually become the...
New article Fundamentals of Statistics is published at mql5.com: Every trader works using certain statistical calculations, even if being a supporter of fundamental analysis. This article walks you through the fundamentals of statistics, its basic elements and shows the importance of statistics in...
Hello, I want to add in my code multiple tp function. total = OrdersTotal(); for( i=total-1;i>=0;i--) { OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES);int type = OrderType();if(OrderSymbol() == Symbol() && type==OP_BUY && Bid>=tp1){ OrderClose(OrderTicket(),0.01,MarketInfo(OrderSymbol()...
I have been using the search features here for a while to look up the documentation quickly, but every search I input returns some default page about how to enter search criteria. I can still access all the documentation, it just seems to be the search feature thats broken. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Hi, I am trading several pairs and on each pair I have two orders. How can I close the opposite one if one of these two is triggered? Do I have to crawl thrue the Order-Pool and get the Order-ID and close it? Is there a simple way to do that? Thank you in advance! Kind regards, John
Hi, 1) I'm finding that it typically takes about 0.5 to 1.0 seconds to execute a market order on MT4. I don't want to turn this into a review of brokers but am asking if anyone else has been able to achieve anything approaching HFT (eg perhaps sub 0.1s) using MQL4 and MT4? 2) I have a trading...
I created my ADX EA that makes orders when current ADX crossesline 25 but the problem that I have is multi-orders when TP is set to 5 pips. I am looking for a solution to stop EA in Tester for next 3 bars whenTP was reached. Thanks in advance for help.
for(int sd=0;sd<500;sd++) { if(OrderSelect(sd,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)==true) { Alert(sd); } }I run the script,THE ea OUTPUT 1,2,3,4,5,6,,why ,why it not output 0-500; i have seven tickets
Hello At the buttom of this post is a script for lotsize-calculation based on free margin. I would very much like to combine it with the attached ParabolicSAR-EA. Anyone can do that? It would be a GREAT help. void BuyOrderRiskFixed2(){ double profit = 0; datetime lastCloseTime = 0; int cnt...
Hi, I have some problem, I have function that in a specific way compares two arrays (same size). I have big 2-diemntion array data[1000][8]. How to call my function? fnCompare(data[0], data[1]); It doesn't work. How to get this eight-element array?
New article Exploring Trading Strategy Classes of the Standard Library - Customizing Strategies is published at mql5.com: In this article we are going to show how to explore the Standard Library of Trading Strategy Classes and how to add Custom Strategies and Filters/Signals using the...
Hi, I'm using a indicator who gives me 3 colors. How can I read that color and set an "if" to buy or sell? exist a function ColorGet()? Please, Regards, Bruno
Hi everyone, i need help to add time filter on this EA. I only need: MON = TRUE/FALSE;TUE = TRUE/FALSE;WED = TRUE/FALSE;THU = TRUE/FALSE;FRI = TRUE/FALSE;SAT = TRUE/FALSE;SUN = TRUE/FALSE;TRADE FROM = 8;TRADE TO = 16; Thanks if you can help me... Gianluca Ferri
Does anybody know if the "Skip Useless Results" setting is stored in an .ini configuration file, so that one can set its value while Optimizing via the command line? Thanks in advance! :-)
Hello, I am new to this forum. I have followed the instructions of several videos about email/sms setup in MT4. I keep getting invalid address. I use these same settings in Ninja Trader without incident. Can anyone help with this. I like the platform but I need the email/sms alerts to function....
No problem with statement like this: Comment(Bid); But there is a disturb in case like this: string subject="Bid = "+Bid;SendMail(subject,"");// Result in: Bid=1770.12000000 instead of 1770.12 // the result would still be the same in case of replacing Bid by NormalizeDouble(Bid,2) or by...
This is my code. I want to partial exit on Fibonacci 38.2, 61.8 and 127.2%. After TP1 partial close, my tp2 ant tp3 values becomes 0 and below if conditions becomes true because Bid> tp2 and tp3. But really Bid is < tp2 and tp3 and he have to wait while second condition would be true. So, how to...
Hi guys, I am newbie and try to run an EA in a rangebars chart but this hangs after a while. it opens 1 position and that's all. Nothing more. It does not even close it. Some people claim that EA's don't work at all with range bars. If this is the case then rangebars and renko are useless....
Hi, how can i create the 2 Bollinger Band indicators, ( Bandwidth and b%) on metatrader platform. 1. the formula for b% is: (Last price - lower BB /upper BB - lower BB), BB = bollinger band. 2. the formula for Bandwidth is: (upper BB - lower BB/ middle BB) is anyone else...