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If you had a killer EA...

...would you enter it in the MetaQuotes Software Corp. Automated Trading Championship? I developed an EA and optimized it on 2006 data. When I maxed the lot size and backtested it on the last quarter of 2006, the period of the contest, it would have placed second in the contest. Now I am weighing

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Question about OrdersTotal() and OrderSelect()

Say I attach the same EA to two charts, EUR/USD and GBP/USD. The Start() function in each EA will be called only for the currency pair of the chart it is attached to, right? One EA will receive ticks only for EUR/USD, and the other EA will receive ticks only for GBP/USD, right? So, if that is the

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Is this a good EA?

Here is the result of a test of my first Expert Advisor, which runs on the EUR/USD hourly chart. This EA takes only one trade at a time, and for this test, the trade size was fixed at 3 mini lots per trade. This backtest spans less than two years, from January 3, 2005 to November 14, 2006. A total

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Why Alert() not work in Strategy Tester?

Is there any way for me to watch the value of a variable while my EA is executing one step at a time in Strategy Tester ? Not being able to find out the value of a variable is making it impossible to debug my EA

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Need help fixing this small EA

I need help getting my first Expert Advisor to work in Strategy Tester . The attached debugEA.mq4 is a short, simplified version which fails in the same manner. This version waits for a new hourly candle and the SMA8 crossing SMA24 to open and close trades. The problem is that when I run it in

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Detecting start of new candle?

Programming my first EA, I face the problem of how best to detect the start of a new hourly candle. There appears to be only one method, and that is to wait for the first tick to come along which falls into the next time period. That is because there appears to be only one way the start() function