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Backtesting slowing to a crawl

I'm backtesting some EAs and while things used to be nice and fast, as of lately things have slowed down to a crawl. When I'm backtesting in visual mode, I initially see bars being placed very rapidly but then after about 30 seconds or so, it slows down to a crawl. This happens on my EAs and also

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Backtesting progress indicator has disappeared

I used to have a progress indicator (right above the animated green progress bar) which said something like: 1) "3065 / 10277 (11237623)" on the left side 2) 4:35:33 / 8:43:22 on the right side About a day or two ago, this has disappeared. Does anybody know what I may have done to cause this and

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Tracing EA execution during backtesting with optimization

I have an issue with an EA which seems to hang after a few passes during backtesting with optimization. Trying to figure out what's going on, I am using the following code: void subFileWriteFlush ( string sFilename, string str) { int iHandle = FileOpen (sFilename, FILE_READ | FILE_WRITE | FILE_CSV

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Mysterious Stop-Loss calculation issue

I'm backtesting an EA I have written and I have the following code for handling stop-loss calculation & setting: bool subTrailingStop ( double dTrailingStop) export { bool rc = false ; bool op = false ; int iTypeBuySell = OrderType(); double price =

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Problems calling function from self-developed library

I'm trying to group some common functions into a library of my own and for some silly reason can't get things to work. In my rlib.h file (located under "...\MQL4\Include" I do the following): #property copyright "xxx" #property link "xxx" #import "rlib.ex4" int subGetMagicNumber(int

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How to add Moving Average Indicator on EA price chart

I'm trying to add a standard moving average indicator ( iMA() ) to the price chart of an EA. I've googled quite a bit but all I've found explained is how to add a custom MA to a price chart. Does a simple 1-line command exist which allows me to add a standard MA to a price chart or do I have to go

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Limit drawing of open positions SL & TP to timeframe of chart

I'm having an EA which I'm running on a chart/symbol on 2 different timeframes (say EURUSD H4 and H1). So I'm having 2 chart windows (same symbol, different timeframes) open, each of which is assigned a running instance of the EA. When the EA opens a position in 1 chart (say EURUSD H4) the position

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Mysterious Unbalanced Left Parenthesis error

Either I'm going blind or something mysterious is going on. Can someone see what I'm doing wrong here? int subMACrossDirection (double fastMaValue, double slowMaValue, int &prevDirection, int &currDirection) { fastMaValue = ND(fastMaValue); slowMaValue = ND(slowMaValue); if (fastMaValue <

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What does OrderPrint really return

Hi, I'm having trouble with an EA I'm writing in the sense that my orders are being closed very quickly (ie: before SL or TP is reached). I've examined the orders using OrderPrint() and I've noticed something odd. The manual says that OrderPrint() returns the following: #ticket number; open time;