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...the bugtracking page - metaquotes.net/bugtrack/

Hey, a question for somebody from MetaQUotes Soft about the bug tracking web page you have: I have reported several bugs there but never gotten a reply, not even an auto reply. There is no bug number that is assigned to your bug report, you can't see your report later, so you can't really "track"

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bld509: why would 2 optimization results differ???

Hello I run a optmization test on Friday (2014-02-14) and recorded results. I then ran the same optimization test today and recorded results and they were different??? Why?? The settings are exactly the same, and by the way - I save/load them from a .set file. The from and to dates are the same and

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is the LotsOptimized func in the Moving Average MT4 sample EA even sane?

I am looking at the LotsOptimized function in the sample EA "Moving Average.mq4", this is a EA which comes with every installation of MT4 and is obviously intended as a sample/template for people to learn how to write EAs... And I can not get it through my head how can this code be part of the

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Please help me figure out how Maximal Drawdown is calculated in the Tester

Hello I would like to start by saying that I did read the MT4 Help page on how the Tester Report values are calculated AND that I did search the forum for "Maximal Drawdown Tester" and I did not find an answer to my problem so here goes... Firstly I would like confirm that my understanding of

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Need help testing Account and Broker settings in tester (e.g. AccountStopoutMode, AccountFreeMarginMode...)

I am sure everyone will agree that it is always a good idea to verify EA sanity in the tester... Is there a way to configure the tester to simulate various broker settings so I can test my EA's in these different environments? In particular the docs for AccountStopoutMode and AccountFreeMarginMode

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Margin and Free Margin incorrect when 2 orders are open?

I was trying to verify (in Excel) my understanding of how MT4 computes the values shown in the Terminal window, such as Margin, Free Margin, Margin Level, etc. and I noticed something weird. Here's the summary, details are below with screenshot and my calculations in Excel attached: Step 1. Opened a

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MT4 downloads unpredictable

Why is it that downloading the MT4 installer from the MetaQuotes official download location results in software that connects to different servers? I have seen installers that connect to: MetaQuotes Demo Alpari FXCM What is the reason behind this (from MetaQuotes' perspective)? Because from user

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OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_HISTORY)

Hey dudes, I am trying to figure our whether MODE_HISTORY trades, when accessed by position, are sorted ascending (i.e. very first order is at position 0) or descending (last closed trade is at position 0). From several posts on this forum it seems that first trade is at zero but if someone could

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Why not make servers always send the quotes in GMT time?

Is there a way to find server's timezone in MQL? So far I couldn't ifnd a way to do this. I know that if I "tell" my program what my own timezone is (i.e. by means of an input parameter, e.g. extern int MyTimeZone=8 for GMT +8) then I can compare local time to server time and calculate server's time

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Still think there is a bug in MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_MARGINREQUIRED)

Hi Rosh, this is related to the bug I described here: 'A couple questions from BugReport' I read the "Azbuka..." article and your explanations on the russian forum ( 'AccountStopout.. : опубликуйте пожалуста более подробную документацию' ), thank you - these were actually quite useful and now I