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If you open up 3 windows all from a pair, eg EURUSd ...1 on 1 hr, 1 on 15min, 1 on daily, do you get 3 times the amount of data transmission from the broker or is it all 1 set

I am trying to draw 4 lines based on an input value, which will eventually be the order open price . This should place lines at +20pips, +30, +40 and +80. Each line should be about 4 to 5 candles wide. The code below doesn't draw anything. Any ideas

Is there a way to list the current times for London, NY, Japan, Europe in an indicator on the right hand side of the screen

I would like to draw 4 short trendlines of about 4 candles width backwards from the current candle at 4 levels. Any ideas? I also want it to leave other lines on the chart untouched. Can I do this with a script because I only want it to draw the

Is there a way to draw a simple line in metatrader without having it continue all the way across the screen or have it trend on? Quite annoying as I sometimes just want to draw simple target points or minor S&R lines

I am getting the "Expert is not custom indicator " error when attaching the EA to a chart? ANy ideas why? #property indicator_buffers 2 //---- indicator buffers double ExtMA10Buffer [ ] ; double ExtMA80Buffer [ ] ; datetime

I have an indicator that looks for certain candles engulfing the following 4 or 5 candles. Is there a way to change the current candle colour to pink when it detects the selected candle in code

I want to design an indicator that tells me over, the current chart: - how many bear candles vs how many bull candles & - pips gained vs pips lost Any ideas how I would go about this? So, far I have: bool isBear ( int shift )    {

The only volume indicator that MetaTrader has is an up and down volume indicator. Is there anything that just indicates volume alone? Or is the indicator just saying volume is down from the bar on its left

I am testing an EA in demo but the comment and print functions do not work. The EA compiles successfully but nothing is ever printed in the journal, and no comments in the top left of the chart. The EA is loaded successfully an initialised and that's

I have an EA that closes off half the lot of a trade once a target profit is reached. I would like the EA to remember which order it has already closed so it doesn't close it again. I think the only way I can do this is to save the data in a database

What is the difference between OrderMagicNumber and OrderTicket? Seem the same to me

I want to pick up the colour change from green to red and vice versa on the Accelerator Oscillator and send an alert. I don't see any change of colour in the code. What variables would I use to confirm the colour change

Are there any brokers that allow spread betting with MT4 or is it just spot forex? Is MetaTrader going to be expanded for use with spread bet accounts as in the UK

Is it possible to create an HTML table in the MessageBox or some other way? I want to have a shortcut where I can add a table with specific stuff I use to look at every now and then

I'm trying to run a script on my demo account to open an order. The script runs but on sending the order the Journal just says script unloaded. None of my error logging prints out and the order doesn't appear. ANy ideas

When using OrderModify , should you check if the value has changed before sending the stop loss adjustment? Otherwise, won't you get a lot of server traffic being sent every single tick? Is there a way to check it on pip changes instead? I have 5

I have the following if statement to be entered when the target profit is 50 pips (500 for 5 decimal systems). I can't get the value to exceed 500, am I doing something wrong with the *Point part? if (OrderType() == OP_BUY &&

I am debugging an EA script. WHat is ordertype 0 ? The MQL4 book only ciontains the names eg BUY for(int i=0;i<OrdersTotal();i++) { OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES); if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol()) { Print ("OT: " + OrderType());

MQL4 gives an error with this code: ERR_NO_ERROR variable not defined. This is the code I got from the MQL4 book. void logError(string functionName, string msg, int errorCode = -1) { Print("ERROR: in " + functionName + "()");