Hi, after sending a market order without stops I call this function to place SL and TP... both at once but failing that (in part or in full) the stops are to be placed in later passes until both SL and TP are in place. Problem is that I'm getting E 145, not many but enough to indicate there is a...
Hello MQL4 Community! This is my first post. First, please not that I am not an MQL developer. I am a Trader, who uses a tool for helping me build EAs. That tool allows the use of some MQL structure, but it does not execute on explicit MQL functions. It simply takes MQL code, evaluates whether...
Hello all, I'm trying like crazy to really understand the optimization process and have run into a stumbling block that is throwing me off. When i run a basic optimization i get pretty nice results, I'm only running a 3-4 month time period just so i can see if I've worked out a few bugs. Now i...
My custom ExtMapBuffer[] is fluctuating between -ve and +ve regions, For each region, I need to get its MAX/MIN strokes - for the visible bars - in order to be used as EXIT for SELL/BUY positions. Any suggestions?
Dear all, I am looking for a guidance how to print MT4 historical charts "by one click". I need to print out 5M EURUSD chart since 1 January 2011 for manual backtesting. Could you please help me the easier way than single screenshots? Thank you a lot.
i want to know 1/ if start function trigered by ticks, if we can get every ask/bid value from server, 2/ if get ask/bid value by markitinfo(symbol,mode_ask/bid) function,is it same by use ask/bid directly, is there some value missing ?,and may it use more time to get the value,may it get...
Hello everyone, hope someone might help me to understand the meaning of "Lookback" and == I was looking at an example in the code base and this newbie is not familiar with these basics yet In this example: if(Close[i]>iMA(Symbol(),0,Lookback,0,MODE_SMA,PRICE_HIGH,i+1)) If the Lookback value was...
Hi everyone, I have some (easy) ambiguity with function iMAOnArray My basic code is below. When I run MT platform, function Alert() write value function iMAOnArray, but this value is error. Return value very big number= 2147483647. When I do then compile again indicator code - Alert() write value...
Hello, so i am not gona be asking your knowladge for free. I have bunch of EA's coded by my self, and all of them ar missing one MM thing. In case of lack of time at the moment for learing, i need some coders help by adding orders counter. Ok so i'll try to use my english as best as i can to...
Here's a function that checks to see if there is an openorder. I'm a rank beginner at coding in MT4 so I welcome your comments. But itdoes seem to work. bool NoOpenOrdersExist() //True when no open order, False when is open order{ int total = OrdersTotal(); for(int i = 0; i < total;...
Hey all, My demo account in the strategy tester uses lots of two decimals, 0.21, 0.55 etc etc. When I call OrderLots() I get a one decimal value, 0.5, 0.6 etc. What is even more problematic is the OrderProfit() and OrderSwap() is calculated from the OrderLot() with one decimal thus if I manually...
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Hello, is anyone esle having an issue where you are placing an alert to produce a sounds when the rate is reach and when processing the alert the system closes. I am able to set teh alert parameters but when I click submit, the platfrom is closing. If anyone has any informaiton about this I would be...
Hello to everybody, I was wondering if someone has aby idea howto make metatrader reading live tick data from my server and not from broker server. My client has access to specific CFD's trading feed and would like me to program some custom indicators based on that feed. But I need to get the...
I want to know some details about Trailing stop (set up manually) - Can we set it for an existing order in market close time (Sat, Sun) ? - Basing on Ask or Bid is it executed ? - Which kind of price (O/H/L/C) is the base that Trailing stop will be moved forward ? + High/Low of current bar...
Could someone please help? I want to ordersend only once per bar (no matter 5mins bar or 1hour bar) with max lots. It means only one order should be sent per bar and then another only one order should be sent per bar at least 10 bars later & the lower price than previous order opened with if...
Hello! I want to insert a very simple custom indicator that I use to an EA but I have some problems with the syntax! iCustom(NULL, 0,"BBStop v3", 5500, 0, 14, 0, 1 ) is which line? the yellow one? and if yes how can I express the green line? Here is the custom indicator I use Thank you for your...
I am finished paying people to build my EAs. It's finally time that I do this myself. I would like to create a template that I can further build upon called ASAR (ATR Stop And Reverse) but am unsure of how to begin as this will be my first EA. Because the unmodified template would just be an ATR...
Hello guys i have a good grid trading as well as scalping trading system which i want to make it as a EA i need some one who can help me to make it as a mql4 EA. let me know if anyone can help me out in this.
Is it a fact, that applying mt4 updates wipes out all the chart history ? If it is shouldnt there be some kind of warning about this before the update installs ? I did not update my terminal since late 2009 so I had 3 years continuous 1 minute chart history most of which was created directly from...
i recently downloaed the software (mt4) to my laptop. when logging on to the platform there are error messaged displayed on the chart screen. the message indicates that usd/jpy currency is incorrect and also do not see the smiley face in the top right corner which would indicate a connnection. i...
Hi--I'm a new member and am trying to load a bug fix from Miss Pips that was referenced last March 13th (ref #23508)--the one where an extra row of indicator boxes was showing up in new builds of MT4. I've downloaded the indicators shown, but when I drag the "bug fix"-- SwissArmyMixedhistoV4...