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How to update the text of an Edit chart object with each tick?

Hi, This adaptation of the Edit example code populates the Edit text with the spread when the EA loads, but I need it to update the text with the current spread with each tick. I found solutions using the old object oriented approach but not the new object oriented approach. I tried updating using

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How to populate spin edit with decimal numbers?

The example code at https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/standardlibrary/controls/cspinedit works fine for me (v.5.00 build 2302) but when I change the minimum, maximum, and current value parameters from 10, 100, and 50 to numbers with a decimal (e.g., 0.00001, 0.00010, and 0.00010, respectively), I get

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How to turn off "Trades: use hosting service to speed up the execution" message?

I am using MT4 on a broker demo account and when I send an order then this type of message shows up in the Journal tab: 2019.06.11 17:00:11.696 Trades: use hosting service to speed up the execution - 1.85 ms via 'MQL5 London 6 (MQL5.community)' instead of 156.98 ms Is there a way to turn this

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How EA can take a position not more than once per day

I want to code an EA that runs continuously but takes a position not more than once per day, and am interested in how others have logically approached this. My current logic is: if P == 0 (and other conditions are met) then take a Position and set P = 1 if current time < previous time then set P = 0

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Declaring Calculated Variable in EA as Global or Local

I want to declare these to variables in an EA: int ema_lookback = 10; double ema_wgt = (2 / (ema_lookback + 1)); When I declared both globally then ema_wgt was initialized as 0, and I found that a global variable can be initialized only by a constant. So then I declared ema_wgt globally and