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Compiled EX4 will not execute live trades until after MQL file has been placed alongside it in the experts folder

I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction as regards the likely problem with the following behaviour: We wanted to demonstrate a bot to a potential customer without releasing the source code to them, so in the usual way we gave them an EX4 file but not the MQL source file. However

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Build 600 - set file bug? Save set file, load set file in tester - gates set to true become false

As the title suggests. Has anyone else seen this? I can create a set-up (on a live trading bot), save the set-up as set file, go into the tester, load that same set file and I find random things have occurred (i.e. parameters have been altered). The one thing that seems regular is that true/false

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Back testing - when done at the weekend, is the spread wider?

First post - apologies for any newb mistakes! If I run an MT4 back test during the week (i.e when the market is open), I know the current spread is used for the whole run, so there will often be minor differences in the results. If I run the exact same back test during the weekend however (i.e. when

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Overnight gaps erroneously bridged in historical data by the open of the 8:00 1min candle...

Example - FTSE 9pm close, 8am open (on a certain broker). When downloading the (paid for) historical dataset, for some reason in the 1minute data, the gap between the 9pm close and the following 8am open is bridged, by the 08:00 1min candle. More specifically, the close of the last candle on the

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Adding the order comments field data onto the chart entry, sl and tp lines

Gents, is there a way to display the data in the comments field (of the individual trade orders ) on the corresponding entry, sl and tp lines on the chart? With a number of different strategies on the same instrument, it can be difficult distinguishing which chart lines relate to which EAs when only

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Altering volume in datasets and the resultant affects on back-testing results

Guys, please forgive the following monologue: As part of trying to prove the robustness of a bot and ensure it is not too 'fitted' to the original 1min dataset it was optimised against, I have been testing it on different data sources. In doing so I have come across a volume related problem. The