Franco
Franco
I finished my degree in Chemical Engineering in 2011, and I'm currently busy with my masters degree at North West University Potchefstroom campus, South Africa.
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Franco
Added topic Symbol Scanner - Indicator values
It's been a while, but I'm back trading again.  There is something that I need to get done before I can start.  I need to calculate indicator values for every symbol that is loaded.  My code currently looks as follows to calculate the
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Added topic OrderLot() Problem
Hey all, My demo account in the strategy tester uses lots of two decimals, 0.21, 0.55 etc etc. When I call OrderLots() I get a one decimal value, 0.5, 0.6 etc. What is even more problematic is the OrderProfit() and OrderSwap() is calculated from the
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Added topic Historical Data - Problems
Hey all, I know this topic has been brought up and discussed many times, but I'm opening a new thread again just to highlight the importance of this. As you all might know in MT5 you cannot use your own historical data, you can only use those
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Added topic Access Tester Statistics from Code
Hey, Is it possible to access tester statistics when the deint() function is called? I tried to calculate the statistics myself by accessing the historical orders, but my values differ from that of the strategy tester . If not possible is there code
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Added topic Create csv file, and write array to files
Hey, I have four one dimensional arrays, would like to write them to a csv file, one column per array. I'm not sure how to do this, I cannot find a function to create a new file with.   Any idea how to do this? 
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Added topic OnTester Capabilities
Hey everyone,  I was wondering if the following is possible:  I would like to retrieve all trade data at the end of the test in my EA code, do some statistical calculations with the trade data, and export to a text or excel file. For
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Added topic Time and Timezones problem
Hey, My strategy works that there is a certain hour every day when the propability is the highest for a trade to be succesful. The only problem that I'm having is pulling the hour from the time mql gives may not correct itself for daylight savings
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Added topic Pending Order Expire
Hey, I'm trying to figure out how to set an expire time for a pending order .  So far that part of my code looks like this:    CTrade trade;    trade.SetExpertMagicNumber(MagicNr);   
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Added topic Multi Currency Experts Back Testing Problem
Hello everyone,  I know this topic has been discussed but of late I could not find any updates on the issue.  The problem is back testing multi currency experts gives different results when tested on different currencies.  The
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Added topic Price Cross Trendline Problem
Hey, Please look at the following chart:   When the market breaks the trendline, the expert should enter.  How can this be done?  Using a linier equation model cannot work because there is no x axis!  How do I program in code if
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Added topic Calculating Lots Problem
Hello all,  I have been experiencing a problem since the release of metatrader 5.  I cannot do any calculations, and send that double as the lot size.  It never works.  For example: double lot = NormalizeDouble ( 2 / 0.1568 , 2 );
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Left feedback to developer for job Need QQE Function for Expert Advisor
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Added topic Calculating Lot Size Based On Risk Percentage
Hey, I'm trying to calculate the lot size of a trade based on the percentage willing to risk for the trade.  Here is my code, but it is not working, please help! The TRADE_LONG and TRADE_SHORT was obviously defined in the code  double
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Added topic Migrate QQE ADV from MT4 to MT5, need help!
Hey everyone, The QQE ADV is an awesome indicator to use when developing EA's.  I have the mt5 version, but only the ex4 file, and with every update the indi won't work because it needs to be recompiled. Anyways see attached for the mq4 file, I
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Added topic Building an Object Oriented Indicator Action Library
Hey everyone, I was thinking today if it is possible to build an indicator action library using the object oriented programming in mql5 ?  Let me give an example: Let's say I'm programming an EA that enters the market shortwhen the EMA trend of
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Added topic Calculate lot for expert advisor
Hello, I'm struggling with something stupid here, don't know what I'm doing wrong.   I want to trade one lot for every 10000 I have in my account.  So if I have 15000 in my account, the lot  traded should be 15000/10000, and that is
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Added topic Constraints in Strategy Tester
Hey everyone,  Is it possible to put constraints in the strategy tester ?  For instance if I use an EMA cross strategy and the two input variables are: Fast_EMA Slow_EMA It is obvious that the Fast_EMA value should always be smaller than
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Added topic Strategy Tester Problem
Hey everyone,  Sometimes the strategy tester won't work, I cannot even change the input paramters, and in the Journal it looks like this :     Some kind of funny language being used there. What on earth?? 
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Added topic Donchian Channel Please Convert
Hello,  I would really appreciate it if someone could convert the attached donchian channel indicator to mql5.  I tried for hours now and I really don't get it.  Here is what I have done so far but I'm way too stupid to make it work
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Added topic How To Get Pip Movement of last x seconds
Hey, I need to find a way to calculate the pip movement of the pair for the last x seconds, for instance the last 5 seconds. I know I should do something with Time[] as it is in seconds, but not sure how to structure this, please help! Thanks
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