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Live trading on DEMO account - USELESS !!!

Here is the thing. I have 2 systems running at the same time. One of them is LIVE DEMO Account (right picture) with fake money and the other LIVE REAL Account (left picture) with real money. Take a look at today morning. It is a chart of Polish stock exchange index WIG20. Both had order open with a

Custom Indicator - Different Ranges of values in the same Window

Hi. I have a custom indicator with two arrays with values I would like to display. One will be a line, the other a histogram. Array #1: 10, 15, 12, 18 Array #2: 1.0012, 1.0025, 1.0022 If I place them in two separate indicator windows they are displayed fine, however I would like them to be placed in

Many calls to the same iCustom causes Memory Error, please HELP !!!

Hi, I wrote a script that would help me determine which bar after opening an order gives the best profit. I am using custom indicator that gives me the signal. It worked fine with providing variables for the indicator manually (there are 4 of them: Short EMA, Long EMA and 2 more). I went one step

Virtual Stop Loss / Take Profit - best approach ?

Hi, I would like to have more control over SL/TP for two reasons: 1. I don't want my broker to know my real SL levels for obvious reasons 2. I would like to be more flexible than standard margin of 5pip between current price and SL/TP With single order open it is quite easy thing to do. Just two

Hour()==X doesn't work in tester

Hi, I wrote an EA that I want to be trading at a specific hours. The condition I was using was: if(Hour() > 8 && Hour() < 18) { // buy, sell etc } It seems never to go inside the brackets. Any ideas why? When I leave the condition out, trades are performed few times every hour so there is no issue

Capturing the end of the candle

Hi, Is it possible to perform some action exactly at the "end of the candle" tick? The problem is that my market is open from 8.30 till 16.09 exactly. I would like to decide at the latest time possible, should the order remain open or should I close it. Now I'm checking it with TimeToStr () >

MT4 oriented desktop

Hi All, I am going to switch with MT4 testing/optimization from my 2.5 Centrino 2 duo laptop (4gb ram, 7200rpm hdd) to a desktop. What kind of configuration should I choose to boost my performance with testing? Is i7 platform worth going for. I read that i7 quad core processor is actually installing

Tick-level timeframe, testing

Hi, I started learning about several different scalping systems. Some people are using M1, some M5. Why is there so little information about using intra-M1 changes on the tick level? I started gathering each tick and saving them into CSV files. They give some useful information and may be great for

hello everyone, serious newbie ;-)

I'm writing first to say hello ;) it's my first post on this forum I've been following this forum for quite a while searching for topics that would help me with my EA's. As an IT professional who deals with "automation", "scheduling", "data processing" and "optimization" on a daily basis discovery