2 Years — Its been going on 2 years now that I have been predicting that MT5 was still 6 months to 1 year away from wide adoption. I think I will have to change that now and say its at least 1 year and more likely never going to be widely ...

MT5 - ready for prime time?

Math — Claudio, Time to hit the math books and find out how a moving average is actually calculated. A 20 period EMA uses exactly the same data as a 20 period SMA or a 20 period weighted MA. The difference of course is in how the calculation ...

EMA in alerts

Don't — Don't do it. Lots of problems, little to gain.

Expert Advisor Builder

Not A Chance — I like to keep my code simple and not have a lot of options.

Pips To MA Alert - Dashboard

Try This — Its been a long time since I worked on this one. I don't remember having a problem like that, but I am wondering if you are loading it onto a chart while the market is closed. I seem to recall that it didn't work until ...

Pips To MA Alert - Dashboard

Cool It — There was no call for that tone and attitude. FXSTR asked a very simple, straight forward question. The person who wrote LineTrader could be long gone. If you know that person, you should be posting on his thread, not starting one of ...

Linetrader EA is on but not working. Who can help?

No Expert — I am a programmer, so I write my own. I looked at EA builders out of curiousity to find out what they did, so I'm not very expert at them. I do know that everything I looked at was limited functionally. Everything I have read ...

Expert Advisor Builders

Answer — First of all, you can't convert a discretionary system to an automated one. You may be able to automate parts of it like trade and risk management, but you will never automate it fully even if you had the best programming skills. Only ...

Expert Advisor Builders

Answer — Based on my experience with non programmers, it might take forever. I have had them ask me to help them and really it was not going anywhere fast. Someboby with solid programming experience will not find its much of a challenge to ...

How long does it take to master mql4?

Try This — Can't you use a Simple Moving Average with a period of 1 and a price type of Weighted? That's what I would try.

(O+ H + L + C)/4 line indicator

Answer — I seldom use comment() and don't remember using in Strategy Tester. Print() works great. The results are shown in the Journal tab. Highly recommend this. I can't imagine using Comment() for debugging, but perhaps there is a situation ...

Print()/Comment() iCustom to Tester Journal

Try This — In addition to what Tubby suggested, here are a couple of other options. In the EA, check if the iCustom() call is made for every tick. That will bring some systems down. If it doesn't need to be called for every tick, call it once ...

SOS here! Super strange "Stepma" indicator

Try This — MT4 does not know whether the message sent goes to a regular email or someone's phone. That depends on the address and the person's carrier. Most carriers have the ability to send a message to a phone by using the phone number as ...

Setting Up Moving Average Crossover Alert?

Don't Know — Its hard to say exactly what is going here without doing a lot of testing. But you seem to have run into some kind of limit related to the number of bars that Strategy Tester can handle. As I mentioned earlier, this kind of thing ...

MT4 Strategy Tester doesn't go all the way

Try This — You are in a place where few of us have gone. Most of us have a hard job getting even 1 year of suitable data for back testing. If you have eliminated the data possibility, that leaves the EA and Strategy Tester and most likely it ...

MT4 Strategy Tester doesn't go all the way

Try This — You need to check the Experts and Journal tabs for errors messages. That might give you an idea of the problem. I'm thinking the EA has a flaw in it.

MT4 Strategy Tester doesn't go all the way

Sure — Unless he is very inexperienced, he will see the word Demo in the upper left corner of the window preceding the pair name. There are other ways for an experienced trader to figure it out from the trade history.

Investor password access for MT4

ArraySort()

How to sort an array?

Please Explain — I have been puzzling about this one for a while and rather than spending more time, I thought I would ask. The word that strikes me the most is BIG. Seems to me something BIG would be well known and taken care of. How can ...

Indicator: Mask your order number for the screenshot

Explanation — Error 146 is trade context busy which means that the MT4 trading thread on your machine is performing another trade operation. This problem would only come up in scripts or EAs which try to do too much to soon. The MT4 terminal ...

MT4: closing orders manually vs script