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EA loads and unloads indicators multiple times before commencing trades in Strategy Tester

Anyone have experience using Strategy Tester with an EA which goes through a long process of loading and unloading indicators before it begins to make trades? (like, 100 times on 5 min bars). I experience this using imported tick data, so I'm wondering if that has anything to do with the issue

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explanation of some MT4 code so I can understand it

This is part of a longer MT4 EA. It is supposed to be a trailing stop based on % of equity and % of floating profit. It probably works but I'd like an explanation in plain language what each step of the code does. I also need to know if the inputs for this are whole numbers (1,2,3) or %. I can send

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Find Trailing Stop Code in an existing EA

I have an EA coded which contains a Trailing Stop I like. I know that there are other standalone TS EAs or Scripts out there but their instructions aren't clear to me. This TS works on the floating P/L of the account and closes all positions when the stop is triggered. This is the code: Can

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Excel bridge

Is anyone aware of a MT4 script which would read from and write to Excel? I know that there's one product easily found with googling. But the reviews aren't that great. I can get python or other code written for this but I assume someone else already has the pieces. Thanks

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mysql connections

My EA connects to a mysql database. But when I run strategy tester , I see a huge number of error messages stating "errorn 1040 too many connections" Since I control the db I took a look at it to see if I could detect the prob. There were 65 connections which is way too high. I rebooted the db

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trailing stop

I'm not a coder but I hope I'm giving enough info here for one of you MT4 geniuses to answer! I have a custom EA which was designed according to a set of trading rules and formulas. When I run it through strategy tester , the trailing stop seems to work properly. But in my demo account it's not

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EA text cases

I have an EA created by a freelancer here. I don't understand the code, but perhaps someone here can provide some guidance. The (possible) challenge is this: The EA not only obtains price history data for its calculations, it also obtains data from an external mysql database. That db contains daily

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backtester freezing

I'm having multiple issues using my back tester. As I try to solve these problems, another one pops up. My EA runs on daily bars, EXCEPT stop losses and a trailing stop. One of the errors which occurred about 9,000 times on a back test was: TestGenerator: unmatched data error (volume limit 63362

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Display or Record Calculations in an EA

I designed a trading system using Excel, and then had the system coded into an EA. Is there a way to either display the individual calculations in the EA... or record the values in the trading history? Essentially I want to verify the math and logic to see if it conforms to the math and logic of

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how to query an external database

I'm a newbie with MT4/5 but I'm very good at Excel, which I've used to create a strategy. I want to convert my logic and formulas into a working EA. Part of the EA's job is to fetch (or read) data from an external database. This database contains sentiment data which we mine from the web. The