My Idea — I don't know the exact details of workplace monitoring software, just the broad picture. The stuff changes so fast its hard to keep up anyway. System admin usually have privileges to your computer to update the software and do remote ...

Is MT4 traceable on work computer?

Explain — Are you looking to learn programming or to learn MQL4? It is easy to teach a programmer MQL4; in fact I doubt a programmer would ask for assistance unless he was a novice. It is terribly difficult to teach a non programmer MQL4. I ...

Need Mentor to Teach MT4 Coding

Try This — This a dashboard for a maximum of 16 pairs to see how close the price is to the chosen MA for the specified TF. It has alert and email capabilities. The latest version and detailed explanation is in post #1. Please note that it for ...

Moving Average Dashboard?

Clarify — EAs are the only means of assigning a Magic Number. Manual trades don't have one, so perhaps you stuck looking at the comments. Doing that kind of analysis on the fly is a challenge, but I found the tools at MyFXBook to be very ...

Looking for a Comment Indicator that shows P&L totals

Strange Request — This is a fairly strange request. Have you tried downloading the trade history into Excel? That is the easy way and probably what most people do. For EAs, the solution is simple - use the Magic Number, not the comment. This ...

Looking for a Comment Indicator that shows P&L totals

Nothing — You have proved nothing. 3 weeks profitability means nothing. Its like an athlete on a 3 week goal scoring or home run hitting streak. It happens all the time and ultimately means nothing because it was within the normal statistical ...

Heiken Ashi and Heiken Ashi Smoothed EA needed for Renko

Not Intended — Covering your ass has become such a commonly used term, it has lost most of its negative connotation. In its pejorative sense, it used to mean someone who is overly cautious. Most of the time its used now to refer to someone who ...

A question to coders - Is this normal?

Answer — That seems a little extreme, but he may have more insight than I do. Full restart/reset capability is not trivial, but not impossible either.

A question to coders - Is this normal?

Answer — I have seen cases where an EA stops opening orders and the only unusual thing that happened was changing a parameter on the fly. But of course it doesn't happen consistently. Along the lines of CC's thinking, you should ask how much ...

A question to coders - Is this normal?

Not Normal — The requirement is not normal practice, but I suspect the coder has been "burned" in the past and is covering his ass. Restarting an EA after a reset is not simple unless the EA itself is simple minded. It's not much coding, but ...

A question to coders - Is this normal?

It happens. Get used to it.

MT4 data feed - Gap in archived data?

Try This — I think this is the indicator you might want. Use the version in post #254. The explanation of the parameters are in the next few posts. url

Looking for a swing high/swing low indicator

Try This — There are scripts that will download your historical trade data including Magic Numbers into a CSV file which can be input into Excel. MyFXBook offers a method to analyze trades on line by Magic Number.

Magic number trade record indi?

Dukascopy — The general consensus is that Dukascopy has the best free historical forex data. I doubt if they have all of the obscure pairs you are looking for and it is awkward to download their data. Otherwise you are looking at paying for ...

Historical forex data for MT4

Try This — This should do what you want. Use the latest version in post #26, but of course you need to test it thoroughly before using in a live account. url

Help with MA stop loss EA

Agree — Cyber is correct. IDouble is approaching this with the wrong attitude. Programming is much, much more than typing. It involves analysis, coding and testing. Some people don't use this approach when using Excel, but I can't image how to ...

Using MQL Print and Comment Functions?

No — The screenshot EA has to be running on the desired chart(s).

Take pics from different TF at same time...

Try This — This would of course need to be coded, but the restrictions in MT4 may be too difficult to be practical. No attachments can be sent from MT4 email, but I think a link to web file could be (haven't tried it myself). The problem then ...

Email alert app to send screenshot?

Try This — What you are suggesting can be done in theory, but once you understand the obstacles, you probably won't do it. It can only be done in code with the WindowScreenShot() function. It has to be done in an EA and the EA must be attached ...

Take pics from different TF at same time...

No — According to the FF User Guide, the trades are captured from the trader's broker account. Tester trades are of course not recorded with the broker.

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