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 I don't know if this is a MQL4 question or a Windows question. This has happened a couple of times now with a demo account . I don't want to lose a live account this way:  • I make a mistake in a Custom indicator, infinite loop for

I'm sure it's out there, but I have not found a discussion of this:   Brief: The Custom Indicator runs twice each bar, once on it's own and again when referenced in the EA. Is this a necessary behavior or am I doing something fundamentally

I continue to find that charts lose data over time. And I use the Charts/Refresh menu option to restore the missing bars, and it works. Q: Does RefreshRates() restore the missing bars like Charts/Refresh, or is there another MQL4 method that does

I can read and write files OK in one terminal, but they appear to be filed relative to the terminal. I want to be able to read a common file from any terminal/account. Can anyone show me in the 600 build how to file an absolute path or otherwise

 It seems there will always be another hurdle. I thought I was ready to go live: paste my custom indicator into a live account, but CRASH! it produced nothing even approaching the results that it does in the demo account . (Same broker for both

Each time I think I think I’m ready to go live, a new piece of confusion arises. This time I was checking out forex.com (dealing desk) against FXCM (NDD) to check out spreads and anything else I might find. But I did not expect to find such a

  I have really looked around the web quite a bit before posting this, and have not been able to find a clear answer. I've read innuendo and assumption, but I'd like to find something more concrete if it exists:   Q: Has anyone been able to

This is really shaking my confidence in automated trading. I've attached a screen shot and part of my chat attempt to resolve this. These are two demo accounts. I open the same AUDUSD 5min chart in account 756 and it appears normal. I open it in

I want to be sure I understand how MT4 handles the forex servers. I’ve been working with the assumption that there are market data servers which tick the EA and a broker server which I need to query separately for account information . I started

I'm posting this because I could not find a useful reply to others who have asked about this error. I just encountered it for the first time today. I presume there are other reasons for this error, I'm just offering the one that affected me today: My

When you use Symbol() in your trading functions rather than an absolute name, those functions will apply to the current chart pair. When you use Period() in your trading functions rather than an absolute number, those functions will apply to the

About the AutoTrading button at the top of the Terminal, which I recall used to be named "Experts" or whatever: I was fairly certain that pre upgrade, the "Experts" switch would pause my EA, Alerts, everything the EA did. Now when

Can someone explain the MT4 filing system? Or Windows (7)? Before the upgrade, it seemed pretty straightforward: EAs were filed in the Experts folder. No more, at least for me. After writing a couple of EAs and indicators, I went to look for them in

My EA places only market orders. The text "SELLSTOP" and "BUYSTOP" don't appear anywhere in it. The trade window shows only "buy" and "sell" orders since I never sent anything else. Yet OrderType() in MQL4

I've read several threads re: OrderCloseBy and I'm sorry to be thick about this but I still don't get it. And I have found the documentation to be no help beyond syntax. - forex.com at least, does not allow "hedging", opposite positions for

Is there a way to get the Data Window to display Custom Indicator values to 5 decimals like the rest of the window

Can anyone tell me how to correct datetime for this update? This is a snippet that had been working for over a year. It's purpose is to detect when a new bar has drawn. Was bullet proof. Not now. Doesn't work following the upgrade. int checkTime(){

I did not want or ask for the mql4 update because I did not want to destabilize what I've had running. But when I restarted, there was the update and now some things that have been working for months/years, are now broken. Q1: Does anyone know how to

I looked around the forum before posting this. What apparently works for others has not yet worked for me. • The file is not open. • The file is in the Scripts folder with the script file shown below. • I have tried to open text files and csv files