Almost Done — I am testing an indicator alert that will do this. Should be finished late next week. It will be similar to the one in post #12 of this thread with the addition of email and multiple currencies. url

EMA crossover Email Alert

I know of a similar case in my country. He (can't even remember his initials) had hundreds of people in his trade room and millions under management. The strategy as I recall was one of the infamous 10 pippers that used to be so revered. ...

7 years at FF - some humble advice

No Trade Areas — Colostarr, I have been thinking about your rule regarding the angle of prices approaching the MA. I sort of knew what you meant, but I was always sure that everybody would have a different take on how to interpret that and ...

Simple Simon Balance Line Trading

Try This — You can specify the number of pips away from the MA and the number of bars to skip between alerts. It will alert once on the first bar. There is a small bug I discovered yesterday - 0 pips for the AlertPips won't work - use 1 as the ...

ma cross over audio alert which works correct

Correct — Not sure how much warning is needed with the alert. I assumed 1 pip was good because there is no chance of reversing. With 10 pips, it might never get closer to the MA. But everybody has a different idea, I suppose.

Simple Simon Balance Line Trading

Try This — You should avoid hardcoding anything in your program. Rather than comparing to .00002, compare to nps*Point, where nps is set to 2 or some number. This will make the code work on Yen pairs as well as others and make changes easier ...

EA Problem with hammer identification

You are correct in your assumption, but the tricky part is that situation doesn't happen 100% of the time. It happens often enough that you should always write code to handle it. First of all never do a equality comparison with doubles. If you must ...

EA Problem with hammer identification

Try This — The alert was written a year ago, so it is meant for any system with an MA cross, which is why the message is generic. The 10 MA is the default, change the inputs to look like this. I am testing a new one to monitor multiple ...

Simple Simon Balance Line Trading

MT4 — MT4 has to be running for you to get signals and emails. You don't have to be at the computer.

MT4 (or Oanda) mail alert

No Problem — I have a year old Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 64 bit OS. I have never had a problem with hanging or response. I have run MT4 demos from 4 different brokers in that time. Used to have response and disconnect problems with my old ...

MT4 Freezes my laptop

A Few Thoughts — Now I understand your charts and TS better. It involves a lot of discretion, so it would be difficult to automate. I have looked at a few trade management EAs but never used one. I write my own because I don't have confidence ...

Simple Simon Balance Line Trading

TS — Colostarr, do you move your stop at the close of every bar when the bar makes a higher low (for buys) or a lower high (for sells)? Your trailing stops look simple on the charts, but in real life they will be hard to place consistently if ...

Simple Simon Balance Line Trading

Try This — I needed to find this post for something else, so I will post here. I have not used any of the EAs myself yet, so I cannot endorse. Try at your risk. url See post #6

anybody know of an ea that places a stop at the previous swing high/low?

Wait — The alert will show when the price moves close to the MA. Its an alert, not an indicator.

Simple Simon Balance Line Trading

Misunderstanding? — The link contains the alert already written. Just download into the indicators folder and restart MT4 and it is available for any chart. No need to modify that I am aware of. Give it a try and let us know.

Simple Simon Balance Line Trading

Try This — I have been following this thread in the background to see if it was worth my time. I still haven't decided on that yet. But I do have an alert that should work for this. Be sure to use the code in post #12 - the others are ...

Simple Simon Balance Line Trading

EA Already Done — I think I remember seeing several EAs that do breakouts like this. I think most of work on the previous day's bar or a specific 1H bar, but they might allow for your choice of a 4H bar. I don't remember anyone claiming to be ...

4HR Mechanical Breakout - Looks Like an Edge

Cannot Do — I have several other things on my plate right now that require my attention. Good luck.

How to check magic numbers of open positions

Coding Problem — I think it might be a coding problem. Something is definitely wrong, but the program isn't handling the problem properly, but I'm just guessing.

Can an expert advisor run with a Screensaver on?

Hibernation — You have to be clear with the terminology. Do you mean screensaver or do you mean hibernation? Screensaver mode does not affect running programs such as MT4 or a virus scan. Hibernation puts the computer and all programs into a ...

Can an expert advisor run with a Screensaver on?