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3rd party software to test EAs?
Does anyone know of a 3rd party that offers software/tick data for testing EAs? I'd love to have a second opinion. I have two brokers already that I run against but I'd like more data! I thought I remember running across something like this before I knew how to code MQL at all, but I cannot find it
Ideas for Money Management?
Hello all, My best Expert is able to achieve only 10% a year over the last 10 years w/6000 trades. It does really good during some sections and gives drawdown in others, but the fact that it survives all this tick data and stays above water is great. It works on a few different pairs and a few
Developing a MultiCurrency trading plan
I'd like to share my knowledge here and ask for pointers on developing a trading plan for my EAs. I'm getting a VPS soon and planning on running a demo of my system. GOALS: To have up to 10 systems running simultaneously To have as little correllation as possible between these To use different
Difficulty with pairs other than EURUSD GBPUSD
Why am I finding it so difficult to get a good equity curve on any pair other than EUR/USD and GBP/USD? Has anyone else experienced this? GBP/USD is 4 pip spread and some others are lower than that so it's not the spread that is the problem. Perhaps I just only know strategies for these two and need
Will brokers force the conversion to MT5?
I am curious if the brokers will be forced to make us switch to MT5 at some point? Do you think they will offer both 4 and 5 to keep business? Obviously they would want to but they are a regulated broker that may not be an option . I don't want to get behind in either language but the thing is
Compiling EA while running
I have development versions of My EA's and only compile those normally but I am curious, does compiling an EA while it's running mean that all those changes take effect immediately? Or not until you reload? Would this cause all of your variables to reset
Is it really worth a rewrite?
I have been studying MQL5 and have come to the conclusion that rather than recode my existing EA's in that language I'll continue to run them in MT4. I've made my goal to only code new EAs in MT5 however, so I may be reusing methodology in some places but it will be a chance for a fresh start. I
Broken CLOSE ALL function
This is what I am using to close all of my orders at once. There is a chance I will have pending BUYSTOP, SELLSTOP, or open OP_BUY, OP_SELL. I want this function to close them at one time. I do get orderclose errors. Is there something wrong
help me debug my orders!
I get a bunch of OrderSend130's and don't know why! Can anyone shed light? I didn't include the CloseAll() method because it would just distract. I'm getting errors from the opening of the orders and it's only opening half the time it should be. Thanks all! int Symbol.magic=90022; extern double
Alternative to MA Crosses
Hello all, I'm fairly new around here but I'd like to know if anyone has found the same results as I have: Trading Moving Average Crosses is not working, in any regard. Not with EMA, SMA, 1 average or 5 different averages. But I have found success with this - using a chart shift of 1 and using the