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Dear traders and MT4 support, currently, I am running many MT4 instances on one pc. However, there seems to be a limit of the instance count.: For me, I can only start 18 MT4s. What's the reason for this and can it me changed? Neither my RAM nor my

Hi, how to active / put focus a chart window if another is activated? Solutions with WindowHandle () and ShowWindow() or SetFocus() didn't work for me, may be you can help. Thanks for your help. best regards, Daniel

Dear traders and programmers, currently I am using MessageBox () to interact with the user. To distinguish different kinds of messages I want to use a particular background color for each message. The buttons are fairly simple though, I just plan on

Hi fellow traders and programmers, recently I have been evolving the idea of creating a Forex team. Finally, concrete plans have formed and I managed to fit this idea into my schedule. What I am imagining is the following: We form a group of 4-5

Hi, what I wanna do is make an EA really stop itself, i.e. detach itself from the chart. How does that work? Is it even possible? If not, how to close the chart window it has been attached to? I tried to use SendMessageA(), couldn't get it to work

Hi fellow traders and programmers, since I know this forum to be an awesome place to develope ideas I post this here. I want to combine the advantages of EAs (like sticking to a chart even after restart of MT4 or changing of TimeFrames etc.) with

When I came across a thread ( 'Selecting last order opened' ) I realized I do not know the order in which the orders are placed to be accessed by OrderSelect(index, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES, ...). Could anyone help me? I mean, as said I never

Hi, currently, I am searching for a convenient way of two-way communication between an MT4 script and a javaProgram which is started by the script using ShellExecute(). The design should be appropriate for small size messages, not only really short

Hi, till now, one of my scripts imported several ex4 modules written by myself but today I wondered why I am doing this... I mean, is it important for code protection? AFAIK, you could just publish the one big compiled ex4 module which includes all

Hi, I am not receiving any emails either from the forum, i.e. the threads I subscribed to, or the newsletter. Did you disable the feature? Sincerely, Daniel

Hi, I just saw MT4 behaving very strange. When parsing a CSV-file of integers without an empty line at the end of the file, it keeps looping with 99% CPU. The file: 38974 ; 293847 293874 ; 39847 942387 ; 94387 the file is read correctly till

Hi, today I learned about setting the preferences of MT4 in a config.ini, this is really awesome! And it really works! ;) The only thing which I cannot get to work is `DllConfirm`. When changing this key's value it's simply ignored! It just takes the

Hi, does anyone know if there is a MQL4 plugin for Eclipse SDK ? Probably not... But wouldn't this be awesome? Probably everyone who works with Eclipse will agree with me. I mean, sure...with a lot of tipps for the programmers, we can try to make

Hi, lately I experienced weird behavior with my MetaTrader and ODL. My logs show entries like these: 07 : 48 : 29 ' xxxxx ': request 1.00 EURUSD 07 : 48 : 29 ' xxxxx ': request was accepted by server 07 : 48 : 29 ' xxxxx ': answer 1.00 EURUSD 1.4916

Hi guys, today I experienced a strange behavior while writing a script: Initializing an array in a certain format screws up the compiler a little bit. That is, after compiling the following code snippet the compiler shows wrong lines when clicking on

Hi, when trying to detach a script from a chart I always have to click "Delete from Chart" (or whatever) twice so that it gets timed out and deleted. The same thing with EAs with loops. Can you guys tell me if and what I am doing wrong

hello, how high is the reward an author gets for such an article: 'How to Evaluate the Expert Testing Results' I just need a rough estimate. If you wrote an article, please provide the price info (just round about) and the link. Thank you

Hello, there are a lot of things which can be improved about MetaEditor. Are taking users' comments into consideration for the development or is it worthless

hello recently I experienced sth really strange while programming an EA. The thing is that I set the stop like this // stop = lowest Low of the last 3 bars if ( dir == OP_BUY ) { stopLoss = Low [ iLowest ( Symbol () , 0 , PRICE_LOW , 3 , 1 )] ; }