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"Trade is disabled" error in MT4

Hello All! I've been watching a lot of tutorials on how to make scripts and EA's and I'm having an issue trying to get my EA to place a buy order on the market as a test. I get the following error. I do have it in the EA folder and I have allowed live trading when the inputs screen comes up

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Why bother backtesting more than 2 years?

Hello everyone, So I recently took a course about a month ago on how to optimize MT4 / MT5 bots and the author of the series always said to use 3 months backtest, 1 month forward test. Now to me, that didn't seem like enough. But then I see others that claim that more than 2 or 3 years is needed for

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Any good EA's that don't use hedging?

Hey guys, So since we have this stupid rule about hedging in the USA, I can't use a lot of the EA's that they have in the store. Can any of you recommend a reliable EA that does not use hedging

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EA stops after 7 trades? Also not closing orders properly

Hi All, While I'm not entirely new to coding I'm no pro either. I'm trying to code an EA that trades based on a basic Donchian Channel strategy, where I place a buy order when the price closes above the upper band, and closes that order when it touches the middle band. The short will open when the

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How to convert 1M data in to 1H data?

Hi all, I have about 10 years of 1M data in an HST file. I was thinking maybe when I run a backtest with an EA on the 1H timeframe, it would auto convert. Unfortunately it did not. Is there a script that will convert my 1M historical data in to 1H? How would I go about doing that? Thanks

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Where to place .hst files so MT4 will load the data?

Hello! Where should I put an .hst file. I have a GBPUSD 1M file thats about 500mb. I put it in the history folder but nothing happens when I load up MT4. What am I doing wrong