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Is there a fix or add on to change time on cross hair to local time?

Is there a fix or add on to change time on cross hair to local time ? I don't want to have to calculate 10 hours difference for every part of the chart I look at

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What does the Boyoyoyoying sounding alert mean?

When I have Meta Trader open during market hours Mon-Fri, I sometimes here "Boyoyoyoying". What does this mean? I don't have an expert advisor . Thanks

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Not a programing question. Is there a setting that leaves marks on the chart that show both the open and close positions?

When the position closes, the chart shows no history. Without creating an Expert Advisor , this is want I would like to see on the chart. Thanks

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Where is the Debug tab in the MetaEditor Toolbox window?

I'm reading a book and it say's "You can monitor the value of a variable during debugging by using the Watch window inside the Debug tab in the MetaEditor Toolbox window." Where is the — Debug tab in the MetaEditor Toolbox window? I'm using MetaEditor version 5. Thanks

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I don't understand why the -1 in for loop OrdersTotal() - 1

The book says: The example below closes all sell orders currently opened by an expert advisor: I think I understand most of this code, but the: OrdersTotal () - 1 I don't get. Why - 1? Thanks. for ( int order = 0 ; order <= OrdersTotal () - 1 ; order++) { bool selected = OrderSelect (order

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What does i mean at the beginning of so many words I see?

Does i stand for indicator or index? Or what? iBars, iBarShift, iClose , iHigh, iHighest, iLow, iLowest, iOpen and so many others? Thanks

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While loop confusion

If this code is correct, then I think Output should be: 1, 2. Not: 1, 2, 4, 5. And the while loop would go on forever with count always == 3, because continue; would skip both lines 6 and 7. If the book is right and I am wrong, then what do I not understand here? Thanks. 1 . int count = 1 ; 2 . 3

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Is there a name for these?

Are these (&) characters in the documentation? If not what are they called and what do they mean? For example, const datetime& time[], — has an (&) symbol or character. int OnCalculate ( const int rates_total, const int prev_calculated, const datetime & time[]

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NormalizeDouble() not always rounding

The NormalizeDouble function almost always rounds to 4 places, but every once in a while I get (ROC is: 0.0005999999999999999) some non-rounded number. Can someone enlighten me why this is and how to fix? Thanks. void OnTick () { double Price1 = iClose ( "USDCHF" , 1 , 1 ); double

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Strategy tester Close price numbers don't equal 4 hours

double ClosePrice = Close[ 0 ]; Comment (ClosePrice); When I test this in the strategy tester the result is hundreds of numbers zipping by per second. I am trying to get one number every 4 hours. I think a period() or PERIOD_CONSTANT is needed but I don't know where to start. The definitions from