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Ernie Gunning
Ernie Gunning
C# Developer at Johannesburg
Skype: T00lmaker <- 2 zero's...

I have been developer for over 8 years,

Languages known to me:

MQL4 - 2 years
MQL5 - 3-4 years
C# an ASP - 7 years
Java/Servlets - 2 years
SQL (flavours MySQL/Prost gress) - 2 years
MS SQL - 6 years

I love coding and MQL5! I occasionally play games (shooters/RPG). If my wife drag me by my ears I'm forced to do sports with her. My friends just have to ask me to join them with any sport and I'm in! because then the challenge is on baby!!
Ernie Gunning
Added topic Showing color iMA using iCustom, is this the solution?
Hi All, I would like to change the color of my iMA line via code and seem to strugle to get this simple task done. So I thought if I can do this in iCustom I can spesify the color as one atribute BUT then the color should be a attribute in iMA
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Added topic Stress testing need help on Indicator creation for bolingar PLZ
Hi ALL,  I busy writing a semi adaptive EA with the bolingar band. The idea is I need to at certain stage increase the deviation. So my first attempt was to just create another indicator with increased deviation and add it to the chart.... The
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Added topic Getting indicator levels from EA?
Hi, I have a indicator where I have spesified the indicator levels as input. So i can have N amount of levels each one a certain spacing apart. All nice and done but now my EA needs to read this Levels...i dont see how to do this?  I feel lost
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Added topic Optimization dropdown item in Tester is gone
Hi All,   I for some reason lost the ability to select the optimization item. I'm sure i have unchecked the visualization check box. This is on all bots of mine. I also went as far as unstalling metatrade and installing again but with no
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Added topic Volume VS Lot
hi All,   I was studying the CExpertMoney classes and came to the conclusion that one of the methods use was OrderProfitCheck from the CAccountInfo class is using Volume apose to lot. this method description is below:   The function
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Added topic History data needs to be refreshed.
In the strategy tester results tab we have the very first item as  "History Quality". SO my question is if you get bad quality history where can you initiate a redownload or try to fix the gaps. I do understand that you can't do anything if the
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Added topic To MT5 team - a Bloody good job
I introduced a trader to MT5 the other day. He is also a developer but never tried coding EAs. He just used MT4 for its nice charting. He made a comment and expressed it very vigorously that "they have done a bloody good job on MT5" and I thought I
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Added topic OBJ_TRENDBYANGLE quick question
Hi,   I haven't look into this yet because I dont have time at this moment. I got the lates 3 price rates and use the 2 oldest ones to draw the trend line. I need to get the price value of the trendline crossing the
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Added topic levrerage value
Hi All,   When in the strategy tester  I change the levrerage to 1:500 and 1:100 or any option in the drop down and it has no effect on my profits, why??   MQL Support  told me it is because I dont use the
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Added topic Strategy tester Problems
Hi All,  I'm trying to do some strat testing and I get weird results. Firts I used the OO version of the crossMa bot that comes with MA5. I ran it with optimization in mind for everytick. I got the results below: Pass Result Profit
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Added topic Cant open new demo account because there are no account type to select
Hi Meta Trader,  I downlaoded and installed the new metatrader 5. I can't open a demo account because there are no account types (real, demo) to select in the drop down where I complete my details. 
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Added topic After update my signal and Expert is gone
Hi Guys,   This is not the first time this happens. I created my own singal file in the C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 5\MQL5\Include\Expert\Signal directory. After this morings update it is gone...and the Expert in the C:\Program
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Added topic What is Matlab and where can I get it?
Hi all,   What is matlab and where can I get it? why is it usefull?   I'm googling now... 
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Added topic ATC 2011 Question - Xupypr bot
Hi All, I ran Xupypr's bot agaist a the same period of the ATC compitition and it didn't open a trade... Maybe I just seriously a noob here :(     I did this on Metatraders demo account. Is it maybe because of the feeds? 
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Added topic Simple question on OBJPROP_WIDTH
Hi  I need to draw a horizontal line that spreads over a certain amount of pips. I noted the documentation on OBJPROP_WIDTH doesn't specifies what the width actualy represents? Does it represent pixels or pips? I did a test and it is
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Added topic Strategy tester - calculating steps
Hi All, I wrote my first EA WOOPEEE!! I thought I was very bright and found it easy peazy and I am sparky. Nice to see profits however my EA seemed to stop working during the day. Soo I decided to look at the Strategy tester to improve performance
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Added topic Object type needed, Does Generics work in MQL5???
I had the need to store different objects types (including value types) in one list or array. I struggled to do this in this c++ like language MQL5. How can I do this? I needed something like this : Object myObjects[10]; int point = 2; string symbol
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Added topic Tanking the Meta Trader 5 team
Thanks Rosh and all of the MetaTrader 5 team for the hard work you guys put into this trading platform. I believe there is a lot of people that see your hard work although it sometimes doesn't feel like it :). It is not left unappreciated. I really
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Added topic Using the debuggin in MetaEditor
Can anyone confirm if the debugging option in the meta editor is working? I followed the steps in the help topics. I set my Symbol in the Options to EURUSD , my period to 1M. Added a couple of break points, started debugging and nothing happens. I'm
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