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Autohotkey script for backtesting

This is a first pass at a script to run an optimization for every week between two dates. This particular script has the window name for IBFX - change to use it for other banks. Of course, I'm giving no claims, warranties, promises, or debugging help, but this seems to be working - it's run

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iMA vs MA in Indicators list

I've got this in my code for a Custom Indicator: iMA(NULL,0,45,0,2,5,0); When I drop the Moving Average indicator from the regular Indicators folder, and set the parameters to what I think should be to duplicate it (45 periods, smoothed, and typical: see attached picture ) the lines are not equal

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5-digit and Point

At least on IBFX, when they went to 5-digits they disabled (or broke) the Point. First of all, I don't know how this could be - it's just basically just a #define equal to 0.0001, used to adjust decimal representations of pips to the ratio of the pair. IBFXs solution was to multiply all of the

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4- vs 5-digits

The general fix for EAs migrating from 4 to 5 is to multiply any quantity that's expressed in pips by 10. While this works, isn't that the objective of the Point function , to remove the exact decimal translation from the programmer's responsibility? If so, why doesn't it operate correctly? In

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Price hitting EMA 10 MT4 indicator required please

Hi, I just wondered if anyone has an MT4 sound alert indicator that triggers immediately on price hitting the 10EMA, ie does not wait until the candle closes over the EMA

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MT4 price hits EMA sound alert required please?

Hi, I just wondered if anyone has an MT4 sound indicator that alerts immediately price hits the 10 ema, ie. does not wait for a candle close