Simon Gniadkowski
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Simon Gniadkowski
Added topic How to handle trading errors - mql4
I noticed that this is no longer present in the current mql4 documentation so I though I would add the "old" documentation here for future reference . . . Constant Value Description ERR_NO_ERROR 0 Trade operation succeeded. ERR_NO_RESULT 1
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Added topic .hst file format . . . Old and New (Jan 2014)
For clarity for myself, at least, and anyone else that has an interest . . . .hst file format valid as of MT4 Build 509 The database header first . . . total 148 bytes int version; // database version - 400 4 bytes string copyright[64]; // copyright
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Added topic Help with Indicator . . .
Comments that do not relate to the " Using Technical indicator in an EA ", have been moved into this topic
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Added poll Do you think Smilies would be a helpful addition to this Forum ?
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Added poll IYO, what risk per trade, as a percentage of Account Balance, indicates that a signal provider has confidence in his/her signal ?
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Added poll Should MetaQuotes limit the number of Polls that a user can post per day/per week ?
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Added topic Is it possible to disable the Parameters tab ?
I'm currently working on a few non- technical indicators and don't need some of the tabs that pop up when I select the properties of my Indicators,  for example,  I don't need the Parameters, Colors or Visualization tabs,  is
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Added topic How to test if Color == CLR_NONE ?
I have been coding a function to display previous trades on a chart,  in the same way that dragging a previous trade to a chart does. I want to keep my function versatile so I am making it configurable while at the same time making the defaults
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Added topic Alternative to iHigh(), iLow(), etc
In the EAs I Have been working on recently I have been working witht several timeframes, using iHigh(), iLow(), etc, extensively throughout my code. I noticed that my EAs were running slowly in the Strategy Tester compared to the first EAs I wrote
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Added topic Loops and Closing or Deleting Orders
This is one of the most common errors I see, probably due in part to the likes of garbage such as Expert Advisor Builder. So I thought it was time for a thread dedicated to the subject so that it can be linked to for future reference. The Problem
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Added topic What are Function return values ? How do I use them ?
I see many, many people posting code and asking questions which can usually be answered by simply checking the return values from a few Functions and printing out any relevant errors. So I thought I would make a post specifically about this subject
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Added topic WindowPriceMax() & WindowPriceMin() don't change if MT4 is minimized
I had a problem with WindowPriceMax() & WindowPriceMin() not giving correct values but thought it was something I was doing wrong . . . . I never took the issue any further. Then yesterday I noticed an interesting phenomenon, I was grabbing
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Added topic I think I found a bug in the ST
I ran an Optimization a couple of days ago, it had 385 runs, when it had finished I ran the best result on visual mode to see what the trades looked like. The end result was very much different to that given in the Optimization . . so I ran the
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Added topic Can price != price ?
I'm trying to understand something strange that I am seeing so I can better code round it in the future . . . I noticed something strange happening with one of my Indicators, it wasn't doing what it should have been so I checked the code and it
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Added topic Is my VPS/Sever alive ?
Re: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/136275/page3#532562 I got my php working as a Cron job. I created a simple EA to send the file via FTP and set the Cron job (I use cPanel based hosting) to run every 2 mins. The php . . . <?php $to =
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Added topic Indicator buffer behaving strangely
I have an Indicator that I created, it's main purpose is to show the output from a function that I have created to form part of my EA. In effect the Indicator bit is just a tool for testing the function . . . It all works as expected when I open a
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Added topic iBarShift returns -1 . . but it shouldn't !
OK, before you all jump in . . . I know iBarShift CAN return -1 if I set exact to true and there is not an exact match . . but I didn't . . . here is my code. OpenBar = iBarShift ( NULL , PERIOD_M1 , OrderOpenTime ()); if (D3) Print ( "OpenBar = "
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