MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 617

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I have been working on this great custom indicator that detects ranging boxes. In its barest form, it detects double, triple and so on inside bars and then draws a box  around them.  Since the same price action forms all time frames, the code can detect a double inside bar on the hourly chart on a...

Like in the iHighest and iLowest where it can scan the last 100 or however much bars you designate, how do i make my EA or Indicator i've made to analyze previous bars as well. I've seen it done in a pattern recognition indicator where it plots hammers, shooting stars, etc... on previous candles as

Hello,  is it possibile change character charts tabs from "weekly" to W1, "daily" to D1, "monthly" to MN?    

How to code to change the background of input parameters

This is a simple Expert Advisor for trading on EURUSD H1 market. Backtestet result:    Trading rules: Long Entry - wait for a bullish bar with body > 30 pips and Volume > 2.0 * Average volume from last 80 bars. Open long at next bar Open and close at the bar Close.       Short Entry - wait for a...

hello. anyone here using Tradeplatform with visual studio ? this is great plugini which allow use mt4 with visual studio debugging. before i try to much of times but i couldn't make it work together with visual studio. anyone can share how to setup and review? thanks

Hi, anyone have idea about DAX future curruncy pair calculation method in forex. like example if i opened a buy order on one standard lot.... the value for 1pip=10$ on my broker. there should be the 90$ profit on the 9 pip TP but its 100$. & my broker also charge commision 6$ on one standard lot......

Hi Guys I've finally finished my EA/Bot but (even though I have been anal about keeping it clean) I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right  direction as to how I can clean the code. ie. get rid of variables that are not used etc. It's just over 8000 lines so I would hate to go over it line...

If i get a trade signal via email, is there a way to automatically trade the signal as I get it

Hey guys, I used to place buy limit and sell limit orders and alerts simply right clicking on the chart and clicking buy/sell limit. Or right clicking and using trading submenu. Today these submenus are suddenly gone and I couldn't find a way to fix it. I posted a screenshot of my right click menu...

I have a weird one below: The if statement should only be able to return 'true' on Fridays, yet i have this trigger every day for some odd reason and positions close as a result. void OnTick() {<snip>  if(TimeHour(TimeLocal())==23 && TimeDayOfWeek(TimeLocal()==5))     {      Alert("Reason to close:...

Note: If this post is duplicated, sorry.  I'm pc crashed while I was doing it. Isn't an object of this type supposed to support text in it?  My code draws the box just fine.  But no text shows up inside.  I'm pretty sure I'm missing something.  Anyone know? #property strict#include...

Hi all, I'm very new to MQL4 programming. Still learning and looking how to make some indicator for my own use. I face difficulty when creating multi Heikin Ashi Smoothed indicator.  Below is my code for the indicator. After I compile, it can only see MAPeriod1 only. If I can MAPeriod1 style to LINE...

I am hoping that someone can help me, I am very new to mlq programming. I got someone to do a EA to copy my trades, however, this guy one important function so I am hoping someone with programming skill would come to my rescue. The EA copies from master account, but when source closes its trade my...

Hi, i have some bug in my indicator so i'm debugging but i have some question. following is parts of code . when debugging step through i want to see result on the chart immediately. but when this code executed OBJ_TEXT not updated on the chart immediately. i inputed Sleep function for check whether...

Hi, I am starting to develop an EA based on price action strategy and I have some doubts that I would like to ask for your help. At the moment, on the EA I want to search for pinbars with 3 EMAs (5,45,200) on the correct order on TF=Daily. When: - Appears a long pinbar and EMA5>EMA45>EMA200 => BUY...

Hi all, i am just new on this forum so let me introduce my self first: my name is Dave, 34 years old and i am trading now for the last 4 years. i am using MT4 as a platform which is working fine and profiteble every day. i am not using a lot of strategies or indicators which make's doing my trade's

How can I return tobuild 502 version. My EA will not run in the 950 version builds.   Thanks 

Hi, I would like to ask the following. I have created an Indicator that creates a Regression Channel and passes the values of the Current Upper,Middle and Lower Regresion Lines for each tick to a MYSQL database. I would like to test the aforementioned indicator in Strategy Tester Mode and fill by...

is this possible? if yes please give me a suggetion to code?

this is the indicator code   double val[];int count=0;int init(){SetIndexBuffer(0,val);return (0);}int start(){ TheValue=count; ArrayResize(val,count+1); val[count]=TheValue; count++;return (0);}int deinit(){return (0);} Now this is the ea #property strictint init(){return(0);}int start(){ double...

I'm making an Indicator that recognize candle, trying to paint the candle and i see that there's a DRAW_COLORCANDLE  option, but nothing on Documentation to help me understand how it works.   Right now i'm using histogram like the file in here (https://www.mql5.com/en/code/10623) . But the main...

Is it possible to this? If so, how?

Hi guys,   My shellexecute is calling a python class which would return some value. How can I get this value? Here is what I am doing but its only returning 42.Any amount of help would be great.   #import "shell32.dll"string ShellExecuteW(    int hwnd,    string Operation,    string File,    string...

i dont know why but it always return zero, help double test_array[];int i;i=1;int init(){return (0);}int start(){test_array[i]=3.2;alert("value = "+ test_array[i]);return (0);}int deinit{return (0);}

I have tried IndicatorCounted and Bars, but its always return the same value. I need to count ticks for arrays. 

Hi there, I'm trying to calculate MA of Z-score. Z-Score calculation works fine but I can't get any value out of iMa. Any suggestions? Cheers! double GetZ(int bar)   {     double z_score[];     //Calculate Z-score  z_score[bar] = ((iClose(NULL, PERIOD_CURRENT, bar) -              iMA(NULL...

I just want to understand why Close[0] is always less than BID price by 0.5 pips?? Am on FXCM demo account. Does this difference exists even in real time trading accounts     -Thanks 

Hello guys im coding my first EA and im with some problems with the stop loss.  So, in the 1 minute time frame it wroked perfectly, but i tryed to test the EA in higher time frames than i got an error about unmatched data, i downloaded from de history center data from the pairs and it runs the EA ok...