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Question about assigning variables in MQL4

Hi, I'm totally new to coding on MT4/MQL4 and had a question, maybe a dumb one. I have a Portfolio EA which contains 100 individual EA strategies. It works quite well but each time I want to tweak the SL or TP, I need to change 100 lines of code. Boring. Is it possible in MT4 to set a variable to a

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Magic Numbers and Strategy Tester

Hello, I have an EA with 100 different strategies, each set with a different magic number. I backtest this in MT4 and there are hundreds of trades created. However, I do not see the magic numbers anywhere on the strategy tester - people in the forum have suggested using the print function, but

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Help Needed - Magic Numbers

Hello, How do I see the magic numbers in strategy tester on MT4 please? These appear in live accounts but not when I backtest. I do not have the option to add in the comment column. Thanks, Matthew

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Automatic Renewal

Hello. My VPS is due to renew in a few days and I cannot see where the card information is stored - I dont know which card is going to be debited. Can someone please advise me where I can find this information in my profile? Thanks

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Cannot Load Data into Strategy Backtester - help!

Hi, I have a new issue in backtesting and cannot figure it out on MT4, please can someone advise. I am trying to backtest an EA and successfully did this in the past. Now its not working. Basically, I click START and nothing happens. If I check the Journal, it says that the currency pair is not

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Adding new strategies on VPS

Hello, I am subscribed to a VPS and have 5 strategies running currently. I want to add another 3 strategies so that I have 8 in total. Do I just need to upload the 3 strategies or will this overwrite the 5 which are there already? Is the solution to upload 8 strategies, but if so - will there be any

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MT4 VPS Advice - which account am I connected to?

Hi, this is probably a stupid question but I am trying out the MT4 VPS for a month and cant figure something out. I started the registration with an account 937xxx which was in GBP and opened up a second demo account in EUR which is 557xxx. I want to get rid of account 937xxx (GBP) completely from

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Trading with insufficient funds - error message

Hi, I have created a bunch of EAs using Strategy Quant and am backtesting these in MT4 on a demo account. Originally, i wasnt getting any trades created at all and i checked the journal, it said there was not enough money on the account. I chucked in a million demo pounds and the trades were

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How to delete Symbol folders

Hi, When I open up MT4 and look at the symbols, there are a bunch of folders (assume downloaded from the broker) named as follows : I want to get rid of these folders and create my own symbol collections under new folders with meaningful names. I know how to to hide symbols but I would like to be

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None of my EAs are creating trades - help needed

Hi, I am relatively new to MT4 and have used a third party software to create some EAs, which I am trying to run on my Oanda Demo account . My issue is that none of the EAs are producing trades on any timeframe or under any conditions. I backtested all the EAs on the software and I had positive