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MT4 in Portable mode only allow history from server back to 2012.....but in normal mode is goes back to 2009

Hi Guys. I often run MT4 in portable mode for ease of copying/moving installations . However, I recently discovered this difference. When I run MT4 in normal mode, and then request as much history from the broker server as possible, it goes all the way back to 2009, but when I do the same thing in

DLL file question

I have recently begun learning how to program my strategies into a DLL. I am using Visual Studio/C++. QUESTION 1. I know I can pass data from MT4 to the DLL file when I call the function such as mydllfunction(data1, data2, data3) but is there another way I can get data into the DLL for processing

What position size will give X% Maximum drawdown?....Ultimately calculating the MAR ratio

If I have an optimization result which gives a Maximum drawdown of 'x' during which the Risk Per trade was set at 'r' % of the account equity , then how do I calculate the size of 'r' that will produce a value for 'x' of 10%? I'm not sure it is even possible at this stage....not without more

Good MA crossover alert indicator - but it needs some modification...

I have an indicator which will alert when two moving averages cross. It plays an alert sound and sends an email. The indicator works very well, with just one exception; once the alert has been triggered, it keeps repeating the same alert over and over again. For example, if I use it on a 15 minute

Help! How to set a stop loss that does NOT trigger when the price is reached, but instead ONLY if the candle can CLOSE past that level.

I have been trading for a while now and one technique I use for my stops, is that I stop out the trade ONLY if price can CLOSE past my stop level . However, it doesn't seem that MT4 has a built in function for this. I have been looking all over the internet for quite some time and cannot find any

Need EA to close trade based on CLOSING price of the candle instead of current price

I've searched high and low but can't seem to find anything that can do this for me. Its basically for my STOP LOSS . In MT4 you can set a stop loss price, the only problem with this is that it will close the trade if price hits this number or goes past it. But I don't want it to do this. I only want