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Thrid party tool for MT4

Hello gentlemen. I was looking for a tool that could help to find robust parameters in order to optimize strategies. I found only the following IDE: <links removed by moderator> Since I do not want to bind me to a particular software company I would prefer to buy only thrid party software that can

99% Model Quality

Hello everybody. I have been using Tickstory with MT4 to help me to backtest strategies to achieve a better degree of accuracy. Unfortunately I still have problems with the size of the FXT files in MT4 that has a limitation. I wanted to ask if there is any alternative to this product sold from an

Algorithm to detect support and resistance

Hello all guys. I was wondering if there is any change to develop an algorithm to detect support and resistance. I wanted to try to make one to use for a future development of an expert advisor. May I ask you to contribute to this post and add your code or articles or concepts as basic line ? The

Script to read data from more than one pair at time

Hello everybody. I tried to search for an answer regarding this topic that I am sure has been treated already. I am trying to save high,low and close of the previous trading day on a csv file to compute some calculations since is not possible to perform portfolio backtesting with mt4. I wrote a

Problem importing data for backtesting

Hello guys. I am trying to import data to rebuild from M1 timeframe all the other timeframes in order to backtest with a 90% model quality. Can somebody help or post a resource where all the details of the process are explained

Converting Xmeter into an indicator

Hello guys. I wanted to know from you if is possible to rewrite the Xmeter EA into an indicator that shows the pairs within a scale from 0 to 9 to visualize the strength and the weakness of the pairs. I am not an expert with indicators. So I wanted to ask if this conversion is already existing or if

How to backtest a currency strength meter ?

Hello everybody. I wanted to ask what I can do if I need to backtest an indicator based on the recent strength of other currencies. Here at this link there are few indicators I wanted to use in backtest but seems that is not possible. https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1464 Can somebody tell me what

get last index for last fractal formed

Hello guys. I wanted to ask you if there is any function or somebody has any idea to determine the index of last formed fractal in a bar chart. If I refer to ifractal() I can determine the price but not the index. Thanks in advance

Trailing stop based on fractals

Hello guys. I wanted to develop a trailing stop based on fractals. Basically I wrote two routines to get the fractals when they unfold and another function that is main double last_high() { int j = 3 ; double fractal = 0 ; fractal = iFractals ( Symbol (), Period (), MODE_UPPER, j); if

A consistent EA that I can start to study ?

Hello guys. Since it's plenty of code and I am still a newbie with mql4 I thought to ask you an advice based on your experience. I am spending hours to study market and MT4 and I would like to have a little satisfaction to build a robot that works a make a decent ROI at the end of the year (I am not