MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 780

I am building an app to pass trades and get info from MT4 server. How can I get a hold of the mt4 server API docs? Are the apis the same as the terminal api http://www.mt4api.net/ ?

Backtesting my EA under 509 gives me 2000 orders and no error messages. Backtesting the very same EA under 610 gives me 2 orders and a bench of "tester : 0 symbol not found". The backest procedures were the same: I used the strategy tester window. I did not see the use of the market watch. The pair...

This is what i saw EA on chart Closed its trades and had to restart new trades but error from EA '2014.03.11 11:12:28.713 zero divide in 'robodo4.8.mq4' (713,56)' (Build 600) the moment EA was attached to chart double Lot = 0.2;double MinLot,LotStep...

I am noticing more instances of poster's using "texting" style language creeping into the forum. Can I respectfully ask that posters use the English language? Not everyone's native language is English and your posts may just seem like nonsense to them.

Hello, currently testing an EA with open price only, is it possible to give an order like "closebuy after a 500 pip movement reverse movement at the current bar." (like I buy at with open price 1,1550 and want to closebuy order at 1,1050.) it may need a everytick and open prices only combo so...

Hi I can not attach grail EA on chart in my VPS .in windows desktop nothing problem but in vps i have problem ( for other EA's not problem ) . please help meeeeeeeeeeee .

Following the upgrade to the latest MT4 client 610, I have having issues running my EA which has run very stable for over 12 months on previous versions of Meta Trader. I run the EA on a Windows Server 2008. The error is as follows:...

Hi Can someone pls advise. I have made the short script for the candlestick count cycle where values are given to each candlestick. However some candlesticks do not fall into the criteria in order to be assigned a value. The indicator graph draws ok for the candlesticks within the criteria, however...

Hi all, anybody know if there is any way to get the string stored in: #property version "1.00" and to display it on the chart in comments, ie: Comment("\n",title," EA (",version,")\n\nWaiting for a tick to start..."); Thanks

Hi and thanks for the help I am relatively new to Forex, but am a software developer, so most EA concepts I grasp. I wrote a simple stochastic EA which I am now back testing. A few points: I coded a check into the start() function to ensure the EA only opens/closes trades once per bar. I did this...

Hi I am really new to this and trying to get pivot points on metatrader 4 demo using my mac computer. Could someone please help? I have found info on windows based downloads but nothing for mac. Cheers

What is the best formula to find the last 5 peaks of the market. Would you use high[iHighest(NULL,0,MODE_HIGH,InpDepth,i)]; Can I use a channel to find it. What is the best accurate method to find the best peaks? With a standard deviation channel it might be more accurate I think

Hi All, I am NOT able to sign in to my account on MT4 Android (build 588). When I choose my real account, it needs the password, but it does NOT accept if I type, asks again, again and again, but there is no error message or anything else. However, I get the notifications I set in my expert advisor...

<edited as irrelevant - seemed to be a glitch with Build 600. Moving to Build 610 resolved>

Hello, I found the iTime() seems with bugs in tester, when PERIOD M5 H1...... . iTime return 0 value. At the time, PERIOD M1 H4... work well. My version is 610. void OnTick()  {//---  Print(iTime(Symbol(),PERIOD_M5,0));  }

Hello, I am calling a C/C++ Dll in an EA in updated MQL4. But i am getting critical error in calling that DLL. But if call the same Dll in earlier version of MQL4, it is calling perfect. Please Help me regarding this.

Hello to all, i need yours help i need to do a "int" with the name of a string i know to do a "string" change the name automatically; example:int ix;   for(ix=0;ix<100;ix++) { string ff="text"+ix; Print (ff); } The result is: text0 text1 text2 text3 text4 text5 ....................etc. But now,...

How can I modify an order when my set TP is hit on a trend? I have tried various methods where Bid=OrderTakeProfit, Bid<OrderTakeProfit && Bid>=OrderTakeProfit-(difference value). I am stymied as what I may be missing here. Any help would be huge. Thanks.

Hello, I am trying to make the OBJ_ARROW_SELL point down, but not sure what is the problem. Can any one help?

My EA was giving me an intermittent divide by zero error while doing backtests of AUD/NZD. The journal pointed the source of the error to my lot size calculation below, specifically the (1/NUrate) part. double NUrate = iClose("NZDUSD",0,0); //also tried MarketInfo("NZDUSD",MODE_BID)Lots =...

Hi, Is it possible to use Hash tables in MQL4 ? (also called associative arrays, where the index is a String). Thanks, John.

HI, I can't place an order for some reasons. I press the button to place it, nothing. I right click>Trading> New order. nothing. Please can enyone tell me what i can do??? Thanks Michael

Hello, For my own needs, as an exercise, I tried to develop an indicator showing support and resistance determined by zones, where you can enter areas and values. I publish my code hoping constructive criticism. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|

Hi all, I'm submitting a BUY marker order with an EA, and need to measure the time it takes to Close this order. Basically, I'm sending a Buy market order with a Fixed take profit: BuyTicket = OrderSend(Symbol(), OP_BUY, LotSize, MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_ASK), Slippage, StopLoss,...

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Is there any way to scale up or down a Signal that I've subscribed to? For example, the signal has $200K in his account, but I only have $5K in my account. Is it possible to change the scaling of the trades, so it scales the trades as if I have $10K in my account?

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Hi i would like to add a widget on my fb profile page The bbcode produced by the market-widget is [url=http://mql5.com/2i1a][img]https://www.mql5.com/en/market/widget/41/mid?f=1[/img][/url] so if i post http://mql5.com/2i1a as a comment on my fb will it work? Thanking you in advance

If I select an order by if( OrderSelect(12470, SELECT_BY_TICKET) ) do I get a true even if this order of the Ticket is already closed and the order is already in the HistoryPool? Gooly

Hello! When I have time here at work, I try to run some backtest, but I'm having problems. I use the MetaTrader 4 with just the installation files that I have at home (can not install anything and proxies do not work at work). problem: When I run a backtest can not open negotiations with lots of...