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Confused NuB: Series of ‘if’ statements & ‘return’

Confused NuB: Series of ‘if’ statements & ‘return’ I’m having troubles knowing what a couple of basic things do FOR SURE!. Without having these straight, I have no hope of being able to program MQL4. I'm not sure if one of a series of ‘if’ statements is ‘false’ will the ‘action’ after them in the

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'Volume' of what?

What 'Volume' (/bar) that is shown at the bottom of the MT4 charts does this actually refer to? 1 - Ticks/bar 2 - Trade volume ? If so what type of 'volume'? a - # Lots? b - # Trades? c - Monetary value? If so, what is used for the 'valuation' of this? OR

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Data Deterioration constant pain 'TRYING' to use Strategy Tester: No evidence that 'period converters' work!

The Constant Data Deterioration in the History Center is a constant pain TRYING to use the Strategy Tester . Also : - There is NO evidence that the 'period converters' work! - How to add more currency pairs and time intervals to the ‘OffLine Charts' selections? This is a never ending pain! I have

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Suppress Trade Details in Strategy Tester and Optimization Reports

Trying to figure out how to suppress the Trades (TESTDETAILS) in both the Strategy Tester and Optimization reports. The htm files in the Templates folder provides the format for these report, but it is not what generates them. So far I have been unable to find & figure out what is generating them

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Generate Strategy Tester Back Test & Optimization) Report without all of the individual trade details?

Is it possible to generate a 'Back Test' report in the ' Strategy Tester ' that doesn't not include all of the individual trade details? Possibly the same for the 'Optimization Report' as well

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Larger fonts in MT4

My vision is getting even worse and I'm only just barely able to use MT4 with considerable difficulty now. I have the windows systems fonts etc enlarged, but it doesn't affect the MT4 client fonts. Is there anyway that I can (easily) make the fonts in MT4 larger as there is in the Editor? Thanks

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Add widely used and standardized 'Tags' to save EA Name, Version and Set file (info) ?

Still working towards a comprehensive. long term traditional Trading Journal. I'm wondering if there is any way in MQL4 to utilize the widely used and standardized 'Tags' to save the EA Name, Version Number and Set File (info) that many such apps including Windows itself can directly access

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Auto Generated 'Permanent Trading Journal' of ALL conditions including EA & Indicator Settings and Trade outcomes?

I'd like to auto generate a COMPLETE and permanent trading journal that records ALL aspects of every trade, including indicator values and EA settings etc. This is distinct from MT4's journal and more akin to a traditional trading journal that one keeps a permanent records of all the information

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Trade Queue for Multiple Simultaneous Trade Signals Generated by commercial Indicator?

I have a retail manual trading system that has numerous (custom) indicator modules to it. It has one 'master indicator' that uses other indicators and generates trading signals and paints these as Objects on the chart and generates alerts if I have them turned on. The problem is that it often

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Excess Printing

I only want this to print the Spread to the Experts Journal when it places an order when the spread is low enough. Now it prints one every time (their is a Tick?) and more annoyingly, makes a sound. I want to fix it, not just eliminate the sound (< 8) Thanks for any and all assistance. if