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Hi, I'm using Oanda with MT4 and I noticed there are little to NO bullish / bearish engulfing candles on the charts of any time frame. My engulfing code would not find any so I wanted to know why (well it did find a lone and rare engulfing on daily

Hi I'm noob alert ! Backround subject: I'm learning about the changes since build 600+ after a long lapse in learning mql4 At best I was only intermediate beginner back then. Anyhow, specifically functions and function calls. First Question: ref

I have not done any code for a while, but I restarted my EA's and was going to work on some ideas. The EA's did not have errors in the past but now they do. All of the Meta Editor error seem to be from the 3 || 5 digit adjustment code and are as

Hi error 130 invalid stops The order goes through. Is that normal or should the order just fail ? I have trades showing in account history that still seem to be running as indicated on the chart However, the trades tab shows no trades so I can't

When I load my EA to practice account the journal has this line item 2014.08.25 17:26:01.212    Code Base: failed parse codes I can not figure out what this means. Please advise Thanks

Hi Question: Where can I find these subjects below defined in more detail ? I understand MODE_LOWER and MODE UPPER the best at least mostly. Backround of the question: I'm trying to learn more about: mode - Indicator line index. It can be any of the

Hi all I'm just playing around trying to learn custom indicator basics Subject regarding the fractals indicator: I noticed while the fractal indicator is on the chart the most recent arrow appears for a fractal, but the last most recent candle of the

The for loop below v3[i] Is there any reason to create a conditional comparison instead of directly assigning v3[i] = val3; ? IE one vs the other below: for(int i=Bars-1; i>=0; i--) { val3=iMA(NULL,0,40,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,i); v3[i] = val3; //

Hi What function is used to move the custom indicator further away from the candle on the charts. For example: SetIndexArrow(0, 241); SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_ARROW,STYLE_DOT,1,Blue); SetIndexBuffer(0, v1); SetIndexLabel(0,"Resistance"); This

Hi Weekend coder here resuming my learning on MQL4 I started the metatrader 4 and was going to review some of my old EA's and start working on them again and noticed there is no historic data to work on any EA's Says i'm connected and the chart is

Hi I know this was discussed before but I wanted to ask about the macd indicator included in mt4 I clearly see the indicator does not display the crosses at the same locations as the typical macd indicators in all other charts. I understand there

Hi all I've read the new here: https://forum.mql4.com/59622 Question is: Quit a while ago I started learning MQL4 to about an intermediate noob level. Now that time as gone by I wondered should I continue to write code in MQL4 or just start learning

Hi gurus I'm trying to design code that would limit the number of trades per (time frame) I am confident with my knowledge of making time codes thanks to the gurus in the forums etc. I'm considering making some code and OrdersHistoryTotal to

Hi coders, Regarding OrderSend and this documenatation https://docs.mql4.com/trading/OrderSend I see in many EA's and tutorials including the documentation what appears to be a declaration and initialization of the variable ticket=OrderSend I have

Hi all Just checking back say hi. I've laps in my learning of mql and finally made the time study some more Anyhow,just stopping in to say Hi and hope I can contribute more to the forums Happy hacking

I understand Time[] and iTime uses, however to refer to a particular time or time range does one simply use datetime ? https://docs.mql4.com/dateandtime/Hour Is that all there is to it ? Please advise Thanks

How does the report calculate the maximum drawdown if there were NO losses ? Lets say an EA shows 100% profitable trades, why is there a maximum drawdown showing a % and report when there was no losses ? Does it memorize if there was some drawdown on

Hi all I need to create some sort of tolerance code to be + or - 2 or something similar ? Here is what I did so far bool tweezerbottoms = false ;          if (Bid < B && Low[ 2 ]*pips2points==Low[ 1

Hi gurus, Regarding the sl and tp, and taking into accoun this is altered for 3 or 5 digit brokers ticket= OrderSend ( Symbol (),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask, 3 *pips2points,Ask-StopLoss*pips2dbl,Ask+TakeProfit*pips2dbl, "Unfinished_POS_agent_1min" ,MagicNumber