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Hello forum, hope you might help me with this. I put together and indicator that basically showed me in histogram form on separate chart window where a moving average (properties variable) was in relation to a fixed Bollinger Band of 1 standard

Hello forum, would someone mind telling me if there is a limit to the number of "if" functions you can use in a section of code, and if yes, what the limit is. I am getting the following as an error when compiling my code: "if"

Hi all, just a quick question. I want to combine PSAR with other conditions as a filter for my entry and exit signals but am not sure when the PSAR value is calculated and plotted on my chart. My reading of the maths behind PSAR is that is based on

Hello Forum I am a virtual newbie but have managed to adapt some indicators to work the way I want while I start to learn how to code They all work nicely when applied to the chart individually but I wanted to simplify and just have my indicator draw

Hello forum, I like trading a market where the main day session is far more meaningful when it comes to determining pivot levels, than using the entire 24 hour market period. That is, I always manually calculate pivot levels based on previous day

Hello everyone, I am putting together a strategy and I want to use previous candle highs or lows as a final filter for entry For example if conditions A, B and C are satisfied at bar close, enter only if the price is above (for long trades) or moves

Hello everyone, hope someone might help me to understand the meaning of "Lookback" and == I was looking at an example in the code base and this newbie is not familiar with these basics yet In this example

Hello everyone. I have a personal preference to use light color background templates(just find it a little easier on my eyes), but unfortunately a draw back is I find it difficult to see the Ask and Bid lines, particularly the Bid line, as it appears

Hi, embarrassed to ask such a basic question, but can't work out what I have changed to cause the problem. I have a template that I have been using for many months. Have varied indicators, added and removed objects (lines, trendlines etc) All has

Just wondering what the best solution might be to varying the grid size on charts in MT4 (other than decimal type intervals). I notice to 2 grid indicators in the codebase that allow horizontal grid lines to be drawn on the charts But despite viewing

Hello, hoping someone might be able to advise me on this. I am wondering if there is a way of showing your local time zone (in addition to broker time) when you hover the cursor over a bar on MT4. I have found clocks that will display local and

Hoping someone might explain in basic terminology, what it is you are actually giving metatrader permission to do, when you click on "allow DLL imports ". I checked the help topics and see plenty of references to DLL, but not the basic

Hi hope someone might point this newbie in the right direction. I was looking at a strategy recently where the main chart price bars changed color dependent on the plot of the MACD: -Green price bars when the MACD line above signal line and the zero

Hope one of the computer savvy forum members might help me with this. I want to upgrade an old laptop to something (a desk top PC) that I can run multiple EA's and versions of MetaTrader 4 on. I have 2 questions: 1. Is it more effective to run

I am thinking about a scenario where you may have opened a position manually and price spikes to a point where statistically speaking, it would be a good exit Say at the upper Bollinger Band for example (something other than a simple points or pips

just wondering if someone might advise me on the correct or most efficient way of adding 2 data sets together I downloaded some historical data which finishes at end of 2010 for various currencies I want to copy it in to the history folder of an

Just wondering if someone might tell me if there is a maximum number of indicators that can be used in MetaTrader 4 at one time Like a lot of newbies I downloaded many to simply see what they do and explore, but notice that some are greyed out in my

I am hoping that someone might tell me how to reference or set up a horizontal line , that when added to the chart will only appear in the area to the right of last price bar or candle and adjacent the price axis. I am happy to add the lines

Hello, I have been using an indicator that works great and involves the plot of a histogram (green bar when indicator value of bar i exceedes that of bar i+1, red bar when indicator value of bar i is less than that of bar i+1, yellow histogram for

Hi hoping someone might advise me what I am doing wrong here i have a indicator that works well with a standard condition like: if x(i) > x(i+1) UpBuffer[i] =1; else if x(i)<x(i+1) DownBuffer[i]=-1, else ZeroBuffer[i]=0.5 however I want to add