You can force the chart to display more data by continually hitting the Page up key until you have the amount you want. But your broker may still limit the amount of history to less than a year. Then you must use RAPTOR's suggestion of an ...

Help! MT4 Strategy Tester Use Date limitation!

Don't need to be so rude and arrogant. You deserve an ignore.

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I can spot a number of problems with the code. These need to be fixed first, then perhaps it will be possible to identify the problem(s). Every trade operation, like OrderSend() and OrderClose must be followed by a call to GetLastError() and ...

EA won't trade live on MT4 Renko

MyFXbook has all the features you want and is easy to set up.

Trading log that links to my MT4 account?

Essentially that this what an EA builder produces. They are supposed to be fully working EAs, but I have read feedback about minor glitches preventing them from running. These glitches are easy for a coder to fix. Also they produce the generic ...

Template for EA creation

Micheal, you do need to read the article to appreciate the obstacles you are facing. As far as back testing, there has been a number of good discussions in other threads about it. It is its own topic, but my feeling is that back testing has little ...

New Approaches to Creating EAs

"niveau" is not an english word. In french it means inflection, but "inflection" is not a traders' term. Perhaps you meant "swing high, swing low". If so, I might have something like that here. url

Email alert indicator

url You may want to read this thread to get an idea of what is possible, but more important what effort is involved. This wasn't done in MQL4, but that is not to say that it couldn't be or that his approach couldn't be adapted to the retail forex ...

New Approaches to Creating EAs

Amzing, simply amazing how some people justify their acts. Right out of Bernie Madoff guide to cheating and feeling righteous.a

Decompiled code... stop posting it

It would appear that the installation was done correctly if everything else is working. Usually if an EA works on one platform and not on another, it is an installation or configuration problem. I can't explain why it works on one and not the other ...

Installing two - similar MT4 platforms on one PC

Yes, I agree the TF override is a good feature and I will add it. You posted on the wrong thread - this is for the Dashboard version.

Pips To MA Alert - Dashboard

Perhaps — I can think of a few reasons he might have not wanted to continue. One is boredom - doing something for the first time is exciting and interesting. Doing it again and again can be exhausting and a whole lot less exciting. Another ...

Reality of Automated Systems Coding

Clarify — I'm still not sure that I understand all the details. It sounds like one MT4 installation works fine and the other one doesn't. You definitely need two installations with two different accounts and as long as the setup is done right, ...

Installing two - similar MT4 platforms on one PC

Not Sure — I'm not sure if I understand the situation you are describing. Are you talking about the same account with the same broker? When you say more than once, do you mean concurrently or consecutively? That makes quite a difference. ...

Installing two - similar MT4 platforms on one PC

Try This — 1. Its been a while since I copied my profile, so I'm not sure if I remember. You should look at the MT4 help on templates and profiles. Edit: This thread seems to have the answer. url 2. I took a quick look at the spread sheet ...

How to copy profiles in MT4? How to use Excel with MT4?

Not Easy? — I have only done WFT once on MT4, it didn't seem that difficult to do, but I didn't see the advantage. I did it as a bit of an experiment and probably didn't do it right, but I couldn't see any point in spending more effort. With ...

Ideas on Backtesting

Answers — 1. I think most people use Windows to copy MT4 files from one system to another. With networked computers, its simple. Even with unconnected computers, its easy. How do you copy other files like a spreadsheet? 2. Excel can't be ...

How to copy profiles in MT4? How to use Excel with MT4?

Better Plan — That is a much better plan than the first one. There were too many things that could go wrong with that one. The latest one should be viable. There is still is the access and security problem. I am thinking perhaps a VPS might be ...

MT4 with Accurate Historical Data

A Few Comments — - I don't think you are doing anything wrong. Your results seem to be typical, or better than most including mine. - Even if you achieve 99% quality, I doubt if the results are meaningful. The MT4 historical data is 1M and ...

MT4 with Accurate Historical Data