Hi, I have created my first basic indicator which was working fine until i tried adding arrows to it. The indicator is a basic envelope indicator which sounds an audio alert and prints a message when the price hits the top or bottom 15% envelope of the 5EMA (minus a 20 point buffer - to give me a...
I noticed of recent that something is wrong with my MT4 platforms(about 4 of them) because i could not open the properties window, the Option tab under Tools, cannot apply indicators or scripts and the already applied indicators could not have their parameters changed because the window would not...
Hello, hoping someone might be able to advise me on this. I am wondering if there is a way of showing your local time zone (in addition to broker time) when you hover the cursor over a bar on MT4. I have found clocks that will display local and broker time and GMT etc for the current bar, but am yet...
I often find that I want to go back to review a specific set of trades. Is there a technique that will allow you to go directly to a specific date/time on a chart? The manual scrolling is very tedious, and when you change something the chart flips back to the current time. Is it possible to...
Hi there, I just installed the new version of MT4 build 409 on my VPS (my broker is FXPro), and all the EA's, and i don't now why but the MT4 is always closing. I already uninstalled and installed again and it seams that the problem maintains. This is only happening since i've updated. I also have...
Hi, I have a problem with my program idea. I am able to draw my trading idea like a state machine with different states and different steps at each state. But I can't program it in the right way :-( In a few points in my program I have to ensure that a certain step would be done and nothing else but...
Hi, is it possible to program mq4 to do some action at the moment of execution of a waiting order? For example, delete all pending orders or write info into an external file.OrdersTotal doesn't distinguish pending orders.
Lets start by showing you the code for placing the order, I've added some notes to avoid confusion: int iSuccess; double iStopLossShort = (dCurrentPriceBid)+(35*Point*10); // I set the current Ask and Bid price to a variable in the Start function so I work with the same value for all...
Hi, does anybody know, how I can change the dafeult setting of chart that are started by the tester (isVisualMode()). I would likt to start the new chart without the grid (uncheck "show grid") and with some other colors more darken one like DarkSlateGray. That way the comments of the EA being...
I am trying to write data to excel and no errors arise when I compile but If I have a loop I my function is supposed to open the file to write initialized as such string filename=StringConcatenate("Quantitative_Info",Symbol(),"_",timeperiod,".csv"); int handle=FileOpen(filename...
Hi ! I cant speak english very well and i need your help. I have code like this; ..... void ExportDeals() { int dg; string st=""; dg=MarketInfo(OrderSymbol(), MODE_DIGITS); if (dg==0) if (StringFind(OrderSymbol(), "JPY")<0) dg=4; else dg=2; st=st+DoubleToStr(OrderTicket(), 0)+";";...
Hi all, I'm quitte new in MQL4. But i'm looking for a simple ZigZag breakout EA. Entry long when the previous zigzag peak is broken out and the previous low must be higher than the low before the previous low, and simultaneouly a CCI value of over 100 is reveived. Entry short when the previous...
Good day, double highestP = High[iHighest(NULL,0,MODE_HIGH,48,1)];int x = iHighest(NULL,0,MODE_HIGH,48,1);double xrespMAh = iMA(NULL,0,20,0,0,2,x);bool highcheck;if (highestP > xrespMAh) highcheck = True;else highcheck = False; I have thinking mistake: I wanted to make code to check if within...
Hi I plotted the Stochastic Oscillator from the Indicators folder shipped with MetaTrader version 4 build 210 and wantedto use its values in a my code. so I found double iStochastic(string symbol, int timeframe, int %Kperiod, int %Dperiod, intslowing, int method, int price_field, int mode, int...
Hello every body I need an indicator that show me the charts of M30,H1,H4 under the chart when I use Strategy tester in MT4. For example,I am on M5 time in strategy tester,I can see only the M5 chart,but I like to see the M15,M30 and ... chart too in live time of strategy tester,I also want to see...
Hi, I am runng windows Vista x64, 80% of times when I copy some text ( pressing ctrl+c ) in MetaEditor it crashes, I believe this should be a problem with MetaEditor as my windows is very fresh with no problems, I tried to copy the text of Problem signature, but it was not working, so I post screen...
Hello, I am a novice MQ4 programmer. I am looking for someone to hire to help me with completing my EA (the hard parts) and to educate me on the associated code. I would expect the programmer to place enough comments in the EA to explain the code intent and then time for us to discuss. I don't...
Hi, I am a newbie in MQL4 programming, I am having a problem applying my crossing MA Expert Advisor in my live trade? I made the program, successfully compile it, backtest it, quite happy with the result, ready to test it in the real live trading..... only to find this illogical problem... which is...
Hi, I'm trying to write a program using the CCI index. I've noticed the chart value of CCI, and the value which the program obtain are different! When you write Comment("CCI: "+CCI); The value shown at the top-left of the chart is different from the value of the visual index. How is that possible?
I trie to create a time lock with this code but it doesn´t work all the time. Less trades are created, but when looking at the result I can se that there are two losses occuring within a smaller timeframe than the coded time lock should accept. Code explanation: If orderprofit is less than 0 I...
i am new to expert advisor. may i know how to set an exit if the current CCI value lower/higher than the previous value? if(iCCI(NULL,0,7,PRICE_TYPICAL,0)>iCCI(NULL,0,7,PRICE_TYPICAL,2)) ?? I really need help here!~
I have a problem with assignments. In my code I have higher = (high - close)*0.33; the right side of the = operator has a value of 7.2 and the left has 0.99 after it is supposed to be initialized by the right side. higher,high, and close are declared as doubles and the high and close are assigned as...
can anyone find a problem with the following code? four = (four*2) + 30; Is this bad coding? Because it is not doing what i want it to do. // ------------------------------------------ MORE DETAIL: - See the code below. // so every time "q" goes up in value by one, then the value of...
Hi Guys, I'm working on the current bar(j=0)..I know that Time[0] and Open[0] remain the same while the current bar is developing. I'm unable to get the next bid price which comes on the next tick on this current bar.. I like to be able to get the next current price(bid) which comes with the next...
Hello. My name is Luke and i'm a beginer in forex and in programming. I wrote a very simple EA: int start(){if( Close[1]>iBands(NULL,0,10,2,0,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_LOWER,1)&& Open[1]>iBands(NULL,0,10,2,0,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_LOWER,1)&& Low[1]<iBands(NULL,0,10,2,0,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_LOWER,1)&&...
I want to draw a line to see what value my trailingstop has... Thats my code but there is only one dot when the EA is running, how can I program it that it creates many dots to make some kind of a line out of it... ObjectCreate("TR",OBJ_ARROW,0,TimeCurrent(),TRStop); ObjectSet("TR"...
My platform flashes the "Not Responding" at the top left of the platform. This goes on and off all the time. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, used different brokers, installed in different files. The charts sometimes flash on and off, when I am trying to configure an Ea that I have open it...