Suggestion — I have also seen many instances where the entry conditions are met and within a few ticks, the price heads in the opposite direction. Its very difficult to say whether the gains would make up for the losses, which is why it would ...

MT4/5 - trading on every tick

Yes, It Can — Modifying it to take a cross immediately can be done as you describe. Whether it would be more profitable is unknown and very difficult to confirm without doing extensive side by side comparisons. I haven't heard of anybody doing ...

MT4/5 - trading on every tick

Wrong — You are wrong, wrong, wrong. Perhaps the EAs you have looked worked that way, but that is because the programmer chose to code them that way. Usually it is done for a very good reason - the open bar repaints. Once it closes it doesn't. ...

MT4/5 - trading on every tick

Other than the psychological advantage, the win rate is irrelevant in trading. Its all about the profitability. Some traders consider 40 to 50% to be very good because their winners are much bigger than their losers. Some successful traders don't ...

The search for the holy grail

Feedback — I'm not sure why you are reluctant to name the robot you are trading with. That is permitted, see these threads. url url I think what people get upset with is making false or exaggerated claims about the robots. If you can back ...

How about this excellent ea?

No Protection — If you are worried about eBay (valid concern), they usually only sell the .ex4 version. If they want the source code to bypass an expiry date, they will decompile it. So the only way to protect from that is to keep it off the ...

StepsOfGlory

Try This — =DDE("MT4";"BID";"GBPUSD") Works fine for me.

How do you Export MT4 price to Excel?

Try This — FXDD opens at 5PM and they have fixed spreads.

Sunday gap trading: brokers opening at 5pm EST Sunday?

Not Surprising — Not surprising. Their organization strikes me as a bunch of arrogant incompetents.

MQL5/MT5

MetaQuotes — Somebody at MetaQuotes might be interested in these flaws. I can't imagine anybody on this board treating it as anything more than a curiosity and another reason to shun MT5.

MQL5/MT5

Try This — The coding change is fairly simple. When the order is sent to the server, be sure that the SL is set to 0. After that, the SL can be managed within the EA on the client or if that isn't acceptable, update the SL on the server on the ...

Need help with coding EA to work with ECN/STP broker...

Reminder — If you are still getting the same kind of results for the next few months, give us a reminder and maybe someone will work on this for you.

Blackdiamond System - Awesome scalping system (Coding Reqd)

Questionable — The basis for your strategy is questionable. There is nothing that I'm aware of that supports your theory that trading is any different in the first 10 minutes of the hour than in the last 10 minutes or any other 10 minute ...

Help! GBP/JPY 1H Candlestick Strategy

Try This — Not sure what you mean by last hour, so I will cover both possibilities. If you mean the bars within the last hour and assuming a lower time frame chart, its just a matter of finding the number of bars (5M = 12 bars) and finding the ...

2 simple lines of code needed, please help

Trade Copier — There are plenty of trade copying programs available and most of them are free. Personally, I don't know how well they work, but the comments are generally positive. Just search for "copier" on this thread.

EA to link two Meta Traders

Explanation — I think your original idea was correct - the value of the pips is different for the different deposit currencies. You said that the same trades were taken and thus the same number of pips were won each trade. As near as I can ...

MT4 Strategy Tester initial deposit discrepancies

Explanation — I doubt if the problem is related to Strategy Tester and is something specific to the EA itself. The mostly likely explanation is that the EA has some kind of risk management calculation that is based on the account size. How ...

MT4 Strategy Tester initial deposit discrepancies

Avoid MQL5 — MT5 and MQL5 are not ready for the real world and it will be a long time before they are. Like a lot of other advances in technology, the latest is not always the greatest and there is great resistance to change when the current ...

Book to Learn MQL?

Pull Back — I am going to so bold as to suggest your system is a fancy pull back from the trend system. Based on the one screen shot you have provided, that is being very daring on my part, so correct me if I am wrong Trading pullbacks without ...

Chin-Star trending system

Try This — url This was the first one I found. I recall there are others.

How to modify Stop Loss and Take Profit from chart ?