I think you may be missing the point here. The Renko bricks are designed to take time out of the equation, and so you trade based on price action only, irrespective of time. Why then would you want to bring time back in?

I need a timer for Renko bricks

Hi Alex, Do you see a future where MT4 is no longer? I too have toyed with the idea of moving platforms, but not sure of the broker uptake. On a seperate note, do you have any experience with programming DLLs? Now this is something I would like to ...

Coding robots and indicators in C# for no charge (cTrader API)

Hi Jim, Slightly off topic, hope its ok to ask, can I assume from the name of your EA, that you are trading this within your SMSF? Any issues with the ATO? I did think they had an issue with funds sitting at a broker? Any advice appreciated as I ...

Buff's SMSF EA

MT4 does this. Search for Basket Trading

Platform alternatives to Metatrader

When you declare a local variable it is only available during the one instance that start{} is called. Each time start{} runs it re-declares the variable. Looking at your code the buyorder variable is only called if there are no open BUY orders in ...

Problems with coding local vs global variables on mql4

David, Sorry to hear you are leaving us. Even though we may not have communicated directly, please know that I personally have learnt a lot by studying your code, so thanks for that. Good luck and good bye - til next time. regards, Fred

output price data to an external file

Try changing the first line of code to: if(use_sl_and_tp && OrdersTotal()==1)

Modifying an EA - Global SL/TP

Hi Peter, Would you mind linking (or pointing) to the books you refer to, and to the original thread. Could you also explain how you intend to use the various coloured candles in your trading. Fred

Candle strength indicator (YTC PAT)

Why not rewrite your code to run on the one minute chart. Using only the open price You can then do your analysis on any time frame by counting the bars. Then run tester on the open of M1 and you get a pretty good set of test results. In this way ...

How to run Strategy Tester faster in MT4?

See if you can make this work. Not sure who the author is but I have successfully employed it in my code. //+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| void ShellsortDoubleArray(double &a[], bool desc=false) ...

Need help with arrays and arraysort

Andy, I'm interested in how you intend to use this info. Are you looking for reoccuring patterns? As a probability indi? Fred

An EA or indicator to analyze probability

Rob, the answer to your problem lies in the syntax of the SendMail operator. void SendMail(string subject,string some_text) As you can see it has two components, both of them text strings; "subject" and "some_text". The two sections are seperated by ...

I will code your EAs and Indicators for no charge

Hi David, You will have more luck finding help here if you give us an outline of your strategy, and its past performance. Requests for help are coming through fast and loose, and you need to sell your idea to spark interest. Coding an EA can take ...

I will code your EAs and Indicators for no charge

Typically the spread widens when a news event occurs, so monitor the spread over time and save the average spread as a variable. Then compare the actual spread to the average and pause the EA while its out of range. The pause is simply a while loop ...

Suspend EA when major news about to release

This is what i use when i need to grab data from an EA. Then open the file in excel and convert the csv file. //+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ // Outputs up to 8 values to ...

An EA or indicator to analyze probability

Fxx Trader, Try this one, didn't have much time to test it so will leave that to you. To keep the comment to one line I had to abbreviate it, feel free to change the words to suit. Cheers Fred

I will code your EAs and Indicators for no charge

Hi Jason, Thanks for getting back to me. I don't think my issue relates to my internet connection - I have a strong, high bandwidth connection and its working well with other services. When I look at the journal entries (see attached) you can see ...

FXCM Discussion

Fxx Trader, Will this do? Cheers Fred

I will code your EAs and Indicators for no charge

Hi Jason, My question relates to the order execution time we can expect when running an EA. I am only running a demo account presently, and have noticed that the time between sending an order and it being executed can run to several minutes. Is this ...

FXCM Discussion

Backtesting using MT4 does not provide the flexibility to do what you want. a) Suggest you save the report to a file and then create your own graph in excel based on dates. b) Not sure what you are asking, but you can only backtest one currency at a ...

MetaTrader Backtesting questions