Hey gang, I'm running into a puzzling issue with this EA. Any help would be very appreciated! I'm not sure exactly what information will be most helpful, so I'll try to give enough info without giving too much. Let me know if you want to see any
Hi all. I have an indicator where I'd like to be able to turn one set of lines on and off. I don't seem to be able to use variables to do this. Is there something I'm missing, or some other way to do this? input string dispRF1 = "DRAW_LINE" ; //
Quick question... The MQL4 reference says that Bars outputs the " Number of bars in the current chart." Does this mean all the bars that are currently visible on my chart window right now? Or all the bars in the history of the chart, visible or not
Hi all, I'm trying to allow the indicator I'm building to signal entries for me by printing an object (an arrow) over/beneath the bar that the signal happened at. Here's what I've got so far – it's not working, and I'm unsure where I'm off. My
Hi all, I'm considering a strategy where I'm opening trades manually, but a trailing stoploss is managed by an EA. That seems easy enough, there appear to be plenty of EAs that can do that. My question comes in when, say, I'm trading 2 different
Hi all, I see in a YouTube video that int MT5 for mobile I should be able to activate the crosshairs tool, drag it to a certain point on the chart, and then use another finger to make a measurement. This is not working at all for me on iPhone. What
Hey gang. I've spent a bunch of time google searching and can't come up with a solid answer. How can I load custom time frames into the strategy tester ? I'd like to test my EA on the 2m timeframe. Thanks in advance
Hi all! I have an EA that I sourced some additional code after the developer delivered it to me, and I've have ended up with two different ways to create strings: string comment= StringConcatenate ( "Today's Profit Target: $" , DoubleToStr(
It looks to me like these two statements are functionally equivalent to each other. Is this correct? Are there any nuances I'm missing? if (tempZigVal < (op - tempATRMax)) sl
I've been staring at this code for a couple hours total, and it's still beyond me. This is a crosshairs indicator that also shows price and server time as I move the cursor across the chart. I want to simply create a server offset so that I can
I want to do something along the lines of if (conditionA==TRUE) { buffer1= 1 buffer2= 2 buffer3= 3 } Where, if conditionA is true, all three of my commands are executed as a result. Documentation seems to indicate that the above syntax should work
Hi all, I'm working with the Stochastic RSI and I want to register specific buy & sell conditions for an EA. I want it to tell me whether the K line is crossing upward or downward between the 80 & 20 levels. This is determined by whether it
Hi all. I've been cobbling together an indicator that overlays two RSIs and a moving average . So good so far. Next I'm trying to get basic conditional coloring working. When RSIFast > RSISlow I want to color the line green, and vice versa. This
Hi gang, I'm trying to build an indicator for the first time in MT4 and myself and my programmer friend are stumped why the histogram is not working the way we want in this indicator. We've been examining other indicators that use the histogram to
This is really easy to do in TradingView – under the indicator options I can right click and say "Move to New window Below", and it pops into its own window beneath my chart. How do I do this same thing in MT4
