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How are Indicator values calculated?

Just wondering in Strategy Tester how the indicator values (iMA, iADX... etc) are calculated, does it use the hst or fxt files? I'd never test a strategy (in tester) using the high timeframes, Month, Week, Day etc but I use indicators values based on the high timeframes If I only run strategy tester

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iBarShift Issue

I've create a loop that calculates a previous date and then the iBarShift from this, but it doesn't seem to work) what am I missing? for ( int r = 0 ; r <= 150 ; r++) { datetime AfterMidnight = StrToTime( "00:00" ) - ( 3600 * 24 * r); int MidnightShift = iBarShift ( NULL , 60

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On Arrays

If you populate an array via a for loop from another indicators offset values (starting with 0), something like: double TestArray[]; for(i = 0 to 9) { TestArray[i] = Indicator(Symbol(), PERIOD_1HR...., i) } Is it already in the correct order to use any of the IndicatorOnArray functions ? or do you

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GBPUSD Price gone haywire

Just playing around with strategy tester and all of a sudden the prices for GBPUSD seem to be coming through wrong, they seem to be multiple by a factor of 100 Has anyone seen this before? and know what's causing this? It seems like it's using points from the JPY set, I did load GBPJPY data recently

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Demo EA opening multiple trades when it should have only opened one

Hi I've got an EA set up on a Demo Account and then set to run using the VPS services (here) and in Parallel I also have the same EA set up on a live account via a VPS This morning something potentially dangerous happened, my Demo EA just kept opening the same trade until the balance was empty and

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iHigh, iLow returning wrong values

I've got an EA set up against a demo account (and then uploaded to the MQL VPS service) It should be using iHigh and iLow based on the first Candle to determine a range and then uses these as SLs (plus a few pts) to set up 2 orders But as you can see from the picture it seems to be using wrong

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VPS

Hi Just a quick question regarding the inbuild VPS function Do you need multiple VPS registrations between different accounts? i.e. If I set up some EAs against a Demo account can I also have some running against a Live account with the same VPS registration

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Bypassing Backtesting (Strategy Tester) limitations

Hi I'm new-ish to the MT4/EA coding world, although I'm capable enough already to code entry/exit expressions based on multiple indicators/timeframes, change SL/TP, pending orders etc I'm wanting to outline my EA/Trading logic out here and have some more experienced coders/traders pick it apart