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resurrected member question: mt4 will not be retired?

Hi, Last time I was active coding robots (using MT4) (probably around 3 years ago or more), MT5 was starting to be used, and there were rumors that MT4 will soon or someday be pulled out or no longer be supported (requiring upgrade of robots to MT5). I wish to look into coding robots again. I am

Brokers against very profitable robots?

I read a couple of points on an advertised EA, regarding brokers and robots. It says something like this: 1. brokers lose if you win. that is why they frown on very profitable robots. >>>my thought. dont they make money on spreads instead? the loser is the buyer/seller at the other end, not the

Robots' bad performance these past years

I tested 2 robots and their performance starting around 1 to 3 years ago, started to become choppy. And they are still choppy now. They are still profitable, but the account change has more ups and downs and the net profit is less. Are the robots you saw also having the same behaviour? I am thinking

Sending email to different addresses

Hi, I set the email destination to one account, e.g. to my hotmail account. When a certain case happens, I want to send to another email account (which is pointed to an email-to-sms service, which will end up as an sms to me). How do I do this as there is only one email address input in the MT4? Is

Magic Number: minimum and maximum

Hi, Anyone got the link or know where is the 'official' definition of the minimum and maximum values for the magic number? I am looking for the 'official' definition

Strategy Testing, with reoptimization at intervals

Hi, Is this possible with either MT4 or MT5? Example. I want to run an EA for 12 months, before each month is ran, specified variables are used to get optimum (highest in optimization) setting, and is used on the upcoming month's trade. And after that month, optimization is again done, and applied

Strategy Testing, with reoptimization at intervals

Hi, Is this possible with either MT4 or MT5? Example. I want to run an EA for 12 months, before each month is ran, specified variables are used to get optimum (highest in optimization) setting, and is used on the upcoming month's trade. And after that month, optimization is again done, and applied

is it possible to log in to the same account at mt4 in 2 different machines, and if so, what are the implications?

is it possible to log in to the same account at mt4 in 2 different machines, and if so, what are the implications

Thread-safety in 'imported ex4'

Hi, First of all, are all mql4 rules respected when calling 'imported ex4' methods? What I mean is, imported ex4 methods can also have ' static method variables' and that these 'static method variables' will behave as per mql4 rules? Second, when two EAs import the same ex4 (assume that runtime

[ibfx] June 2010 data eurusd m1, missing

Hi, Do you have eurusd m1 data for june 2010? If yes, what broker are you using? Those with ibfx, do you have the mentioned data? I am thinking of moving out of ibfx. They have data from present (2010 october - now) down to year 1999, but they dont have 2010 june. I almost ran my EA and would have