Couple things to note: 1) What are the specs of your computer? (Processor, RAM, etc). 2) Look in task manager (Ctrl + Alt + delete). How many processes are running? How much of the available CPU/RAM is being used?

MT4 & Windows optimization

I used to do this, but the overhead required on the metatrader terminal itself I found was hampering my trading. My solution to this was to use an external program which uses different thread from metatrader so the metatrader thread can spend more ...

MT4 mirroring & a Disaster Recovery Plan

I should probably note, this setup is nowhere near enterprise-quality. I took a google-style approach where I use relatively inexpensive hardware and made it as redundant as possible. I expect my servers to fail, and I build my infrastructure with ...

MT4 mirroring & a Disaster Recovery Plan

How about developing a .ex4 generator which is impossible to easily decompile. E.G. The .ex4 generator is compiled with a scrambler hash of some sort. So the decompiler would have to guess the code to successfully decompile the code. Just thinking ...

How to create an .EX4 file?

Recorded mouse gestures is a 3rd party program which runs independently of the batch scripts. url Just about any mouse recorder with image recognition will work. Set it to look for the "Common Error" "No Connection" etc pictures.

MT4 mirroring & a Disaster Recovery Plan

if(!TradeContextBusy()) OrderSend(); If you know the price beforehand, why not set two pending orders?

TradeDispatcher: trade context is busy error + sale and buy to late

Not true. Each hardware node monitors its own terminal. I wrote the EAs and the terminal management so there is no need for the terminals to communicate with each other. I suppose you could try to coordinate the terminals so orders are broken down ...

MT4 mirroring & a Disaster Recovery Plan

When comparing double values, you need to make sure there is a decimal somewhere. Try: if (MathAbs(stoploss-OrderStopLoss()) > 0.0)

Function not following rules

You're wondering why there's a - 0?

Function not following rules

It's a boolean value.

MT4 mirroring & a Disaster Recovery Plan

It's a simple command... ping [ipaddress] It then sends 10 ping requests, and checks how many are returned. If all 10 are returned, then all clear. If all 10 are not returned, then set status to 'dead'

MT4 mirroring & a Disaster Recovery Plan

I'm not sure how the 'entry' price is calculated, but extend it out to more decimals, do the same for the order entry price. I suspect there will be minute differences there which will require both values to be normalized.

OrderModify Error

Just the hardware. It's simple really. Each server is a node as part of an extended mesh network. All servers ping each other every 30 seconds. If one server doesn't respond for 10 minutes, it's declared 'dead' and resuscitation attempts begin. ...

MT4 mirroring & a Disaster Recovery Plan

I have 5 servers colocated throughout the US. All the servers have a heartbeat to each other. They can detect when one dies. If a server dies for any reason, the other 4 try to wake it up with Wake On LAN commands, and I get a text message. If only ...

MT4 mirroring & a Disaster Recovery Plan

Do you understand how zigzag works? There's a reason why it repaints.

I Have Zig Zag Non Repaint Indicator!! A Programmer Needed To Optimize It!

You probably need to add criteria to check the previous bar's value. "If the current bar's indi value is blue and the previous bar indi's value is red, then trade long" Basically you're looking for the first red/blue bar on the chart.

was it an earthquake? no just my EA going bonkers. please help.

I believe Kennyhubbard deserves the credit not me.

Dynamic (Magic Number) - Randomizing

My apologies petebird, I meant that link in jest. If what you're trying to do is get multiple broker feeds to one Metatrader terminal, you'll probably want Metatrader MultiTerminal ( url ). I haven't played around with this as extensively as the ...

Connecting to an MT4 Server and Objects and classes

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Connecting to an MT4 Server and Objects and classes

I wonder.... Magicnumber is of the int datatype, perhaps using a negative value might yield some unusual effect?

Dynamic (Magic Number) - Randomizing