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Accessing account with investor permissions ( Without using MT4 )

I need to access my account using investor password, connecting directly to my broker's servers via a non- MQL4 programming language ( it will be done externally, Metatrader 4 is not involved ). Is there any kind of documentation on how to connect and read data from my account? Thank you

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Accessing different buffers for same custom indicator

I'm working with an external indicator and access to different buffers is needed. For example, a Bollinger-Bands-like indicator has three buffers ( one for the central line, two for the external ones ). How to access those data? It seems it is not possible just using iCustom and CopyBuffer. Thank

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Accessing account data from outside

Is there a way to read the account history from outside ( for evample via investor password ) like MyFxBook does

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Binary Brokers Accessible from MT4 EAs

I'm looking for a broker which gives easy trading access on EAs ( binary dot com was offering a MQH library to connect on their APIs time ago ). Is still there a binary broker which offers this easy access to trading/account history

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update prices for a specific symbol

I have an Expert Advisor which is operating on multiple pairs. The problem is that when i close positions, from time to time i get repeated 136 errors ( off quotes ). I'm getting Bid Ask through MarketInfo; since RefreshRates() is totally uneffective, how to update the prices for a specific symbol

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Bad Bars reading

I'm using an Expert Advisor which is attached to a chart. Every new bar it has to real the last 5 bars of ALL timeframes of the same symbol. It comes that sometimes, on the other timeframes, the last bar ( index=1 ) results equal to its preceding bar ( index=2 ), which is a bad reading of chart

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Open file outside MT4 while EA Writing on it

Is it possible to have access to a txt file while an EA is writing on it ( for example opening it with Notepad )? Actually i'm using the FILE_WRITE flag in FileOpen function . Tried with "FILE_WHARE_WRITE" but returns 5008 error constantly

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Year() returning bad value inside OnInit() - Indicator

Here is the code i'm using int OnInit () { Print ( "init Year: " + Year ()); //--- return ( INIT_SUCCEEDED ); } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Custom indicator iteration function |

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Set focus on OBJ_EDIT element

Is it possible to programmatically give the focus to a OBJ_EDIT element placed on chart? If yes, how to do it? Thanks

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OBJ_EDIT always on top?

Is it possible to set OBJ_EDIT graphical component always on top? I'm currently able to show it on top for existing component ( for example it overlays a trendline ) but it doesn't work for new components ( the user is able to draw a new trendline which is drawn over the OBJ_EDIT component ). I'm