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Hi, I just saw these two parameters for SymbolInfoDouble() in the MT4 help: SYMBOL_TRADE_TICK_VALUE_PROFIT: Calculated tick price for a profitable order SYMBOL_TRADE_TICK_VALUE_LOSS: Calculated tick price for a losing order. Sounds too good to be

Hi, it's an old problem but still not really solved. Recently I was in trouble with a new broker and its Gold-price: 1234.340! For a 5-digit-broker 1 Gold-pip should be 0.1 = 10 Points now here 1 Gold-pip is 100 Point - sigh!! So I thought to

Hi, I am working on an indicator which I just had run in the debugger. As this (due to a loop of loops of..) runs tooooo long I killed both the terminal and the editor. Now after some changes I want to start the debugger again but the button to start

Hi, first I tried this - which works fine: ... extern ENUM_MA_METHOD       Ma1_Method = 0 ; ... Now I wanted to add (for the tester easy to vary) another not standard moving average , so I wrote: enum ma {   

Hi, In the pre-500-mt4 I was able to change mt4 default-extpert (and the others) now I can't find them any more. Anybody with a hint - please? Thanks in advance, Gooly

Hi, anybody here with experience with OnTimer()? If I Set in Oninit(): EventSetTimer(30); the OnTimer() prints its Comment every 30 second on the chart while (e.g.) the Xetra-market is closed. My question: Will OnTimer be executed even when the Extra

Hi, I  yesterday faced a surprising feature of a new broker, here the array of the difference to another broker: Symbol Descr. Point Digits Diff Spread Stp-Level LotSize TickValue TickSize USDCNH US Dollar vs Chinese 0,0001 4 1 30 100000 1,619

Hi, to assign a variable a specific ASCII-Char e.g. 7 (BEL) one can do this:          string b = CharToStr( 7 ); but I cannot use this function if I want to define B as Bell

Is there a way to delete the the content of a file (using the MT4- functions !) without deleting the file:  like delete and re-create

Hi, I am trying to connect the mt4 as a Socket-Client to a waiting Socket-Serve: I can see the Socket-Server waiting for connection in Windows SysInternalsSuits\TCPView. I am using the example from here: https://www.mql5.com/en/code/9296 . I found

Hi, as fas I remember that functions that are not used by the e..g. EA are not included by the compiler and I could see the compiler-message, which functions has been eliminated. Now I don't see those messages any more. But is it still true that

Hi, I have to send and will receive ASCII - code from/to the other side of a named pipe. Here https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/constants/io_constants/codepageusage I found lots of encodings - but which one is the old fashioned ASCII ? Thanks in advance

Hi, has anybody found a solution to access the news-tab in the mt4-terminal? May be by using: GetAncestor(WindowHandle( Symbol (), Period ()), ...); PostMessageW(..) Thanks a lot in advance! Gooly

How is this calculated? I have got this error for 2 Buy-Stop and 3 Sell-Stop-Orders. The Stop-Orders needs: entry, SL, and TP. A valid SL must be 'bigger' than the StopLevel but what is the counter-value for SL - let's say Buy-Stop: I calculate the

Has anybody tried to delete the o.m. folder to start mt4 only /portable ? It seems to me that many files are doubled with the problem which to use, is actual ... Success? Gooly

It is weekend! NO Ticks, NO Backtesting - but the mt4 (b628) requires 25% on each kernel's cpu time?? It behaves like a virus - may be that's the reason why it was detected as malware? Or Metaquotes has a partnership with an energy company

Hi, is there a way to know what was the the last tick that starts to process OnTick - Ask or Bid - except if e.g. Bid != lastBid <= newBid (what if the Bid hasn't changed and was re-sent?)

Hi, I tried various version to get what is not problem with int-values - leadiing zeros if a value is to small: 11 => "011"? I have the double v = 5.123 I want to get the string "005.123" using StringFormat("",v);

Hi, I know the list of changes for migrants of the existing MQL4. What I would like to ask is there a list of wishes of features for the actual MQL4 - maybe with an easy way of voting? I'd like to have e.g. an additional refresh option of the

I have installed mt4 b638 4 times each one for one of my kernels and each in its own folder. At the moment all 4 are running. One with an EA waiting for the next day (no indicators used or applied), the other three are waiting for me for the next