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I have an EA that I regularly backtest and optimize. I want to determine a relationship between the probability of a given trade being profitable and a certain statistical measure called kurtosis at the time the trade was initiated. I programmed my

Many of you are probably familiar with the Gartley pattern; an extension of the Elliot Wave principal that conforms to the Fibonacci sequence. It looks like this: . If you are not familiar with it, look it up on google. There is plenty of information

Hi all, This is my first contributory post, but hopefully it will not be the last. This thread is about grid trading and about my grid EAs. I know that many of you abhor grid trading and see it as a red herring; I understand your perspective but I

I have several EAs, and I will post them all, but for now here is my most recent one. This EA is basically an adaptation of the Pattern_Recognition_Master_v3 indicator, which detects and displays a bunch of the more common candlestick reversal

I have a script that modifies the spread of a currency in the tester by editing symbols.sel I need the same thing but for Swap Long and Swap Short. Can anyone help me out with that? Or if not, then perhaps someone knows what file this info is stored

I have seen this issue mentioned here and there, especially by 7bit, but I was never able to get around this problem: The strategy tester does not properly decrement the reference count of the loaded library during deinit(). Because of this, the DLL

The i-Regr indicator (as well as numerous others) calculates the linear regression of X bars and displays it on the screen (green line): At each new bar the index buffers are cleared and re-written with new values; the indicator repaints (as it

I use a linear regression indicator (i-Regr) in my EA. Specifically, I use the slope of the linear regression. I define the "slope" like this: slope = MathAbs ( 1000000 *(CurrentReg - LastReg)/ Period ()); (where CurrentReg is the

I made the following code as a test and ran it on open bar mode in the strategy tester . int start()   {      int q= 0 ;      for ( int i = 0 ; i< 10 ; i++)     {

7bit solved my initial problem. Please scroll down to my second post for my current issue. I am attempting to query my MySQL database with a DLL that I made in Lazarus, and return the result to MQL4. I made a standalone 'program' in lazarus that

How would my FileOpen statement have to look if I wanted to read a tester .set file? FILE_READ|FILE_CSV , FILE_READ, or FILE_BIN|FILE_READ

I need to trigger a specific function at the end of the final round of optimization, from the EA's deinit() function. What is the best way to do this? Do I have to calculate it out by making start, step, and stop globally available variables? Or is

I have the following code, it produces a COG/polynomial regression. I need to get the value of the center regression line (which the code already calculates) as well as the same value for the previous bar in order to calculate the slope. I can call

Hi, I have programmatically drawn a Gann Grid object using fractals. Now I want to detect if the price has crossed any of the grid lines. Can I do this in mql? If not, does anyone have a formula for Gann Grid I can use to derive this

I would like to backtest and optimize on non-standard time frames. (Specifically, on renko charts, but that shouldn't matter.) What is the best way to do this? Is there any code out there that would help me with this

I have been curious about this subject, and I'm interested in hearing some educated opinions on the matter: Curve fitting is the major pitfall of optimization - anyone who has tried to move on to forward-testing knows this. The way I try to avoid

I am interested in developing an EA that would receive buy/sell/close/tp/sl signals from a remote server and execute them locally. I can probably program this myself with some effort, but I thought I'd ask if such a thing was already available. If

I am trying to load a text file I saved with FileWrite() that contains order open times and directions (buy or sell). My intention is to use these variables to replicate all the orders opened by one of my EAs (EA#1) within another EA (EA#2). That way

Hi, I am attempting to write to a file and for some reason the file is never created. I even tried making the file manually, but no information is added. I used the exact code that I found on this forum