Hi, Can someone tell me what this means? I keep getting it coming up on various time frames - I've cleared down indicators etc but still keep getting it! I can't seem to find it in the documentation. Thanks for any help.
Can someone tell me why I get these broken line when I am display this indicator line. Broken likes shows up only when there is change in color. I can see that data window and for each Bar there is correct data displayed. However, the area in between the bars when there is change in color is not...
someone can get to DDE SERVER travez realtime data contract CL-OCT12 and import to excel, because I tried to do and always gives me error in the formula, but if I get the data from any other currency pair, if there is a way to achieve good result could explain it please.
Good morning I wanted to ask a question, I'm calculating the MACD of a symbol and a timeframe, the MACD signal values in MT4 with 6 decimal places, but when you run into an Expert Advisor shows me only 4 decimal places how can you get see 6 decimal?. MACD_main = iMACD("EURUSD", PERIOD_H1, EMA_fast...
Hi, I am brand new to the programming of Expert Advisers, and I need some help with my trailing stops. I can write a simple step up tailing stop, but my strategy requires me to be able to be stopped out x amount of points from the highest point of profit and not move my stop by x once the market has...
Is it possible to “selectively use” lines of a conditional,based upon whether certain external boolean variables are TRUE or FALSE? (I’m not even sure what to call this problem, so it hashindered my attempts to find an answer by searching so far. Perhaps someone alreadyknows whether it is even...
I have been trying to program an EA that uses some custom indicators. When I compile my EA I do NOT get any errors. However, when I back test it no trades are ever placed so I am guessing I called iCustom wrong. Here is my code: #include <IncludeExample.mqh>// External variablesextern bool...
Hello, I'm looking for an associative array with MQL4 (also called map or dictionary) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array This is a really useful collection (abstract data type) but I don't see it "out of the box" Is there someone here who ever implement this (with hash table) ? Kind...
Hi, I tried the attached EA in market execution broker. But an error130 comes when EA try to open trade. This problem will solve when we use post fix SL and TP. Please help to modify the EA to fix SL&TP after the order. Regards, Jasim
i'm sending this code ticket=OrderSend("EURUSD", OP_BUYLIMIT, 1, NormalizeDouble(MarketInfo(symbol_,MODE_ASK),digits_),0,0,0,"",magic_,0,ordercolor_); and i get error 130 invalid stops, why is that?
I went to the backtesting screen and tried to run a test on several EAs. I went to tools and history center then downloaded the data for the EUR/JPY and selected the time frame and optimization box. I'm about to give up on this.
Hello, Can I change the default location of the "experts" directory MetaTrader4 install ? The idea would be to install directory "experts" in a sub-folder of Dropbox so I can more easily share mq4 code. I am under Windows 7 Regards, Pierre8r
Hi, I want to calculate the average volume of the 5 bars (no. 2-6) and I did it this way: double vol2=iVolume(NULL, 0, shift+2); double vol3=iVolume(NULL, 0, shift+3); double vol4=iVolume(NULL, 0, shift+4); double vol5=iVolume(NULL, 0, shift+5); double...
Anyone know something that will email me when there is a new mail in the internal MetaTrader mailbox? The internal mailbox that says if you have a FIFO violation. I want MetaTrader to send me an email to my gmail account if I get that.
hello community I am new here, so please excuse any mistakes I run a "designed" volume EA - 14 single "incicators" and 1 template recently I experience a complete slow down and "blocks" of my MT4 - I have changed nothing so far so what could cause the "problem" ? thanks in advance for any answer...
Hello, I want to trade from the charts, is it possible with MT4? Sure one can right click and open the trade. But I would really like to be able to grab the stop loss and take profit with my mouse and move them. Also need a faster one click solution to close the trade. Any ideas? Thanks in...
I am trying to finish an EA that watches manually placed trades with enough protection built in to prevent stupid errors on use. Got to the deveopment area of protecting against use of Period Change the F7 key and schedualed computer restarts. So no magicnumber. Situation to cope with is same symbol...
Anyone got any idea why this happens ? In my EA I test if an order stoploss has been modified like this: if(sl > openprice+5*Point) if that is true it should mean order was not already modified because the original stop loss was much larger than that so then I modify the order to the same sl as the...
I have an EA which uses three moving averages. When I start increasing one of them to values above 5000 (periods) the modelling quality starts to decrease and the EA stops making transactions. Can any one shed a light on what I am doing wrong and what would be a way to fix it? Does this have to do...
hello i'm doing a test on my EA on history data, let's say from 01/01/2010 - 01/01/2012 on EURUSD pair and i get some results then without changing dates or anything in the code i run the same test again and i get totaly different results. any solution to this problem or is there other reliable tool...
Okay, so I have been able to merge indicators successfully while on the chart. One has 0 to 100 values and the other has standard price values. So far, so good. I then merge the indicator code to fit my purpose - of having either a zero-line(macd type) or 0 to 100(rsi type). Compilation is a success...