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Order History in pips

I've coded this little indicator to show me the last 10 trades profit or loss in pips. At the moment it shows me the first 10 trades in the order history pool. I want to display the last 10 trades. I can't work out why it won't work, can anyone help? Thanks. double orderpipsprofit; color profcol;

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Recreating heiken ashi candles with moving averages

Is there an easy way to recreate heiken ashi candles using moving averages? The code for heiken ashi candles themselves is a bit involved. As the calculation is basicly working out a moving average cross I wonder if anyone knows the best two ma's and settings to use? I have an alert dashboard

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Help with seeminlgy simple code

Hi, I coded this quick dashboard to tell me which pairs are above or below the 3 sma on 3 different timeframes, daily, weekly and monthly. After a few problems I managed to get the pairs displaying as I want them but they are all colored lime which can't be right. I wonder if anyone can see what I

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What is an acceptable profit factor (or indeed £/$ profit) over a period of time?

I seem to be able to code a number of different ea's that have a profit factor between 1.5 and 2.1 on eurusd daily charts but not any higher and not on very many other pairs. If I test these over the last 20 or so years of data they double the starting account but don't make much more. Doubling an

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Hello and help! EA does not trades on strategy tester

Hello, I am new to this forum and it looks like a good place. I wonder if anyone can help and apologies if this has been asked before but I can't find it anywhere. I have coded a fairly basic ea and it runs fine on the strategy tester with eurusd but it just won't take trades on any other pairs and

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Best Strategy Testing Platform?

Hi, I am completely bewildered with the array of strategy testing software on offer. Can anyone offer me an unbiased view of which is the best platform to perform backtests on forex and cfd's/futures? I have heard Tradestation is good for testing but rubbish as brokers. I've heard Amibroker is good