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Hey everyone! I'm aware MT4 has the backspace shortcut to delete the last created object. Even though this might be useful in some cases, when creating input fields for graphical panels it presents the issue where deleting a character will also

Hey all! I'm starting a personal project, a custom copier that supports MT4 to MT5 (and viceversa) communication. I'm aware that on MT4's case the common folder can be used to store and read info between terminals , howeve I couldn't find anything

Hey all,  I'm experimenting with accessing the deal history, however, I can't seem to get the correct format specifier to properly display long values. Here's my code:    HistorySelect ( 0 , TimeCurrent ());      

Hey all! I have doubts about the best way to handle working with the trade history. I'm aware a single position can result in multiple deals when closing it. For example, if I'm looking for coding a martingale system based on closed trades, what

Hey all! I'm doing a refactoring of my code base to improve my developer experience. I just had a thought and struggled to find any relevant information to get some clarity. Suppose the following: A base file exists, containing various defines and

Hey all! I've been trying to find some information about this but haven't had any luck. The OrderSend() function in MQL4 allows us to pass an argument to set the color of an arrow when a trade is executed. I find that very useful to diagnose bugs on

Hey all! I've found that the most common method used for the average price calculation is: Sum of (Volume * entry price) / Sum of (Volume) This works just fine if all the trades are long or short. I read that if you do have long and short trades (

Hey all! I've been playing again with indicators, specially using the new events handler method with OnCalculate() instead of using IndicatorCounted(). I'm having some difficulties to fully understand why it works, here's the code: // Here, limit is

Hey all! I'm using some libraries from the standard library in MQL5. Yet, I have some questions about some things related to performance. I'm mainly playing with CPositionInfo at the moment, my questions are the following: 1- Is there any

Hello everybody, I'm sure this has been discussed before but I can't seem to find the thread where I saw this topic. Could someone point me to a Market product, article or forum thread where the Windows Scale and Layout is considered when creating a

Hey y'all I'm facing a rather frustrating challenge. Consider the following: CAdmin is a parent class. CNotify inherets CAdmin, therefore, is a child from CAdmin. Both classes have a function called Function(void). CAdmin declaration of

Hey all! I've been reading a ton of really good articles on GUI examples, and I'm trying to find one that shows a sample implementation of a risk reward like tool, pretty much just drawing 3 lines, and if you move, let's say the middle one (entry)

Hello! I've been reading some great articles to build GUIs on MT5, such as this one: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/7892 Can someone point me out to some similar articles building GUIs for MT4? I've been searching for several hours and haven't

Hello! I have an issue with my indicator and I'm almost sure it's due to the way I am performing the look back. My problem is basically that when the indicator is loaded, it plots on the chart without issues, but when new bars forms, it doesn't

Hello!  I have the following indicator: int OnCalculate ( const int rates_total,                  const int prev_calculated

Hello! I'm trying to download data for several pairs, but quite often I got the download interrupted and I have to click again several times on the download button for it to resume and eventually finish, I tried it on other MT4 instance and it didn't

Hello all!  I want to set an info panel on my EA, and I want it to have a rectangle as a background with text over it. Now, everything seems to be OK, but when a line of text gets larger, and my code tries to read the size, the ObjectGet()

Hey all! How to answer politely to the "I give you my strategy for free, you code it for free"? I just want to hear some opinions about coding EAs and well, I do understand why a straight no is the answer to a proposal like that from a "client". You

Hello, I'm developing an EA that needs partial order closing. In the past I've just split the initial order volume into 2 separate orders, but now I'm trying to actually close a part of the trade calculating the amount of lots to be closed. My main