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Signal Copying "from #1234567"

Sometimes MT4 decides to close a copied pending order and re-copy it with a comment that looks like "from #1234567". I think this has something to do with the account balance changing, but it's causing me problems when the signal is attempting to hedge positions. I‌s there a way to turn this off? ‌

Reading EA settings from the MT4 folder

I'm trying to programatically go through multiple MT4 installation folders and print a summary of the EA settings for each. Which file in the the MT4 folder contains information about the attached EAs and their settings

Account History & MT4

I'm trying to ensure that all my trading history is kept for tax purposes even though some brokers might delete transactions history from their end. Here's my setup: I have a few accounts from different brokers running on MT4 VPS , and I'm using ftp publishing to export the history to an external

Notification when signal provider makes a withdrawal / deposit

Is it possible to receive a notification of some sort when a signal provider deposits money into or withdraws money from their account

trade.mql5.com parameters

is there a way to create a direct link to a specific account? something like: trade.mql.com/trade?account=12345&investor_pwd=abcdef

Increasing Signal Lot Size Safely

I'm sharing my thoughts for feedback and potential correction. Please let me know if any of my calculations or understanding of terminology are incorrect. My understanding is that the biggest risk of increasing a subscribed signal lot size is getting a stop out at draw down spikes, so here's how I'm

Managing multiple accounts at different brokers

Any tips on keeping track of and managing multiple accounts at different brokers? So far I've been using myfxbook with ftp notifications which provide a good overall view of all my accounts as well as some analytics. It does not, however, provide realtime updates and does not allow me to execute

Tracking Signal Volume Conversion Percentage on VPS

How can I track the signal volume conversion percentage on an account as the balance changes? Normally I look in the journal for this message: "Signal - percentage for volume conversion selected according to the ratio of balances and leverages, new value 15%" But it doesn't printed get every time

Custom Signal Search Criteria (average holding time)

Is there a way to apply filters to signals search other than the defaults? As an example, I'd like to be able to search for signals with average holding time < 12 hours or sort them by "growth per week". Is there an API somewhere or perhaps a way to download search results as a csv or so for further

Signal Subscriber Lot Size Question

I have 20% of the account size of my subscribed signal, same leverage, yet the percentage is set at 15% not 20%. I made sure that I'm setting the signal subscription options to "use 95% of deposit" (using less than 100% should make it slightly less than 20%... perhaps 19% or so, not 15%). What am I