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Calculating currency indexes?

Hi, I was looking at this formulas: USD_INDEX= 50.14348112 × EURUSD^-0. 576 × USDJPY^0. 136 × GBPUSD^- 0.119 × USDCAD^0. 091 × USDSEK^0. 042 × USDCHF^0. 036 and EUR_INDEX = 34.38805726 x (EURUSD^( 0.3155 ) x EURGBP^( 0.3056 ) x EURJPY^( 0.1891 ) x EURCHF^( 0.1113 ) x EURSEK^( 0.0785 )) I was

Streaming data from MT4

Hi, I'm trying to stream tick data from the MT4 terminal to a postgres database, but I have a couple of questions that I would like to try to clarify first. 1. I'm considering on using ZMQ for this purpose. Have anyone tried this before? Is there a better alternative? I saw a post talking to how to

Currency strength or index? Which is better and why?

Hello everyone, I recently came with an idea of doing trading based on currency strength or currency index. The thing is that I'm having a little bit of confusion when deciding which one to use, so I came here seeking for your enlightment and wisdom :). My idea is that (atm)...an idea and I'm also

webrequest

Hello everyone! Is it possible to use webrequest function of mt4 to enter a X website with a login and pw and get a signal (buy/sell/hold,etc) from that request? Is there any example, besides the image upload example? And do I need to have all the url listed in the option section? Like, if I'm going

Virtual Trailing Stop

Hello guys, I'm trying to do a virtual trailing stop to replace the normal one. The main idea is to use it in a scalper, but the results I'm getting are not even close when using the normal TS. Why is that? I'll leave my code here to see if anyone can help me out a little bit with this. void

Many trades in one month

Hello everyone! I'm trying to create /find an EA that's capable of doing many trades in one month (the more it makes, the better). It doesn't need to be profitable, as long as it doesn't destroy the account. For example, in 1 year, it should not lose more than 20% of the initial deposit. I have

Foward testing

Hello everyone! Is there anyway to do forward testing in mt4 as in mt5? Or someway to make a forward testing "faster" and not going result per result? Thank you in advance

Abnormal termination

Hello guys! I have an issue regarding an EA I recently coded. I detected that sometimes it freezes the mt4 platform and I have to restart it or wait until it responses. I manage to identify that the function that was causing the issue is this one: void checkForMods() { uint

Indicator error

Hello everyone. I found an interesting indicator on this forum (vq indicator) and I was willing to try it. When I tried to compile it, it throws me 6 errors that are all related to this line for (i= 0 , int y= 0 ;i<limit;i++) { if (Time[i]<TimeArray1[y]) y++; SumVQ[i]=SumVQ_MTF[y];} The errors are

Neural Networks for trading

Hello eveyone! I was wondering on how a NN works in forex and how to "train" it depending on the peformance. The idea is this: based on 3 indicators, I create a NN that consist on 4 neurons(N). N1 recieves data from indicator 1 and 2. N2 recieves data from indicator 1 and 3. N3 recieves data from