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Hey guys I was wondering did anyone code their EA to simulate live trading on the live feed ? I am going to code mine to do that and would appreciate any ideas/input. I figured I would code some functions to simulate the server responses to

Anyone got any idea why this happens ? In my EA I test if an order stoploss has been modified like this: if (sl > openprice+ 5 * Point ) if that is true it should mean order was not already modified because the original stop loss was much larger

I noticed in ArrayResize() the formal parameters are defined as such: int ArrayResize ( object &array[], int new_size) Is object&array[] a way to allow the passing an array of any type as a refered parameter and why cant I do that in my own

Is it a fact, that applying mt4 updates wipes out all the chart history ? If it is shouldnt there be some kind of warning about this before the update installs ? I did not update my terminal since late 2009 so I had 3 years continuous 1 minute chart

When you close out half of a postion does the rest of it retain the same ticket number and does the closed half of the position make an entry in the history pool showing a closed order with the same ticket number as the other half which is still open

Strategy Tester doesnt seem to be giving correct results in the report, the numbers dont add up for instance this report states there was 100 consecutive wins totaling 107,000 but in the graph you can see it never went anywhere near that level

I know this topic has been taked about before but I didnt find a difinitive answer, I have been running some 1yr and 18month backtests the first few months are executed speedily but the test slows down considerably after that until at the end of an

Everyone says Martingale will blow your account, and I agree under most circumstances it will but, what if the system over a whole year backtest has a maximium 6 consecutive losses and an average of 2, would this not seem to be a good system to apply

I created an indicator based on a macd to show the status of the hourly MACD on lower timeframes. So the indicator should show 2 identical bars for each hour when attatched to the 30 minute chart, 4 when attached on the 15 minute chart, 12 when

total = OrdersHistoryTotal ()- 1 ; if (( OrderSelect (total,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY)==true) && ( OrderSymbol () == Symbol ()))   { Print ( " Last Order Ticket = " , OrderTicket ());   } In previous topics about this, it

I have a problem in my EA, strategy tester reports invalid index buffer number error repeatedly throughout the test so I created a simple test EA/Indicator combination to try and find the cause but I still get the same results in tester, I cant see

I'm writing an EA based on a strategy that uses several predetermined levels to open orders, so the EA needs to manage several orders at once and make sure only one order is opened per price bar, per level so if there are 4 levels a maximum of 4

I was wondering what might be the best way to identify the open time of the bar the last order from the order history pool closed on. I need to do this so to identify which of the other orders in the history pool were closed on the same bar as the

Has anyone else noticed an issue when replying to posts in this forum where the cursor dissapears/freezes up ? Or is the problem on my own computer only

When an EA uses a custom indicator does it load the indicator into the terminal one time then access it from there to get the latest values, or does it have to reload the indicator to get the latest value at every iteration of start() ? Reason I ask

I have an issue with my indicator which I dont understand. I have a makelabel function which is supposed to create a text by each bar with a number. the alerts are just for my testing while trying to figure out this error void makelabel( int index) {

trying to convert some easy language code to mql4, anyone know if AbsValue(Error) in easy language would be the same as mathabs(Error); in mql4

A few quick questions for experienced programmers about include files, when using .mqh include files, what do you do about variables declared in the main program on global scope ? By that I mean when attempting to compile an include file that

Anyone know if is it possible to get the actual price where two lines intersect as this usually happens in between bars

Anyone know why when I use iMAOnArray the lines created change position when I change the length of the chart history to be used ? for instance if I draw lines for chart history of 500 bars the lines reposition if I change the chart history to be