Try This — I find the ideas in Trading Systems and Trading Discussion threads sometimes innovative and the feedback is usually knowledgeable and intelligent. I would also join the many webinars sponsored by brokers and traders and ask my ...

Seeking Volatility Indicator

Why Ask Here — People on this board are more attuned to technology and how things work, not coming up with new trading ideas. As far as I am concerned, Bollinger Bands can't be beat and if somebody has something created better, he won't ...

Seeking Volatility Indicator

CSV File — MQL4 is compatible with CSV files. It can support others but I don't know why you would want to mess around with something non-standard. There is plenty of explanation and examples in the online help.

Reading a text file from within EA?

Programming — I have looked at the programming language and its features and its a huge improvement over MT4. The debugger itself should make program development about 4 to 10 times faster than before.

MetaTrader 5

Try This — I'm not sure that the angle is meaningful other than to confirm visual analysis. But the slope can be calculated by the classical slope formula of rise over run. In MQL4, that would be price/nbars. The difference in bars is easily ...

programming degrees of a line is it possible?

Depends — Most object properties including the description can be changed easily. There may be an exception that I can't think of at the moment. Lots of examples and explanation in the online help.

changing values within a indicator

Easy — It is easy to do if you have the source; otherwise no way.

How to remove title of Better Volume Indi

Explanation — ObjectDescription() will return the contents of the object description field. Just provide the name of the object. If you want to change the description field, use ObjectSetText(). There are lots of examples and explanation in ...

Object description function

Try This — Did you check your spam folder. My Yahoo mail randomly starts putting these alerts in my spam folder when I least expect it.

Yet another MetaTrader Alert Problem!

Decompiled Code — I doubt if anybody on this forum wants to help someone with decompiled code.

mql email alert coding

Does It Matter — This sounds like one time behaviour. What I mean is the combination of events that caused it are unlikely to happen again. Log off MT4 and start it up again. If that doesn't work, reboot. If that doesn't work, re-install MT4.

MT4 misbehaving

Not Easy — There are "for fee" providers but I believe its by subscription not one time and very pricey. Not meant for small guys like us. I suspect acquiring and properly maintaining this data would be a challenge.

Missing MT4 Data

Same Problem — We all have similar problems - just the details are different with different brokers. This is the first time I have heard of a significant gap with Metatrader history data, but that just seems to be the nature of this business. ...

Missing MT4 Data

Right Spot — This is the right spot for this request. I tried to send you a PM, but it looks like you have restricted them. You can PM me.

3 basic indicator EA - Need programmer

Try This — You didn't explain very clearly what you want to do. I am guessing that you want to check once per bar, not per tick. With iMA it is only necessary to check the most recent closed bar, not every bar on the chart. Therefore you don't ...

How do I use a for loop to check whether a condition has occured?

Don't Understand — Are you saying that you want to check every bar for this condition for every new tick. That is what the code as written will do. I am sure that you don't really want to do that. Exactly what is needed is another question ...

How do I use a for loop to check whether a condition has occured?

Limitations — Every system has limitations. Sometimes the people who design the thing don't even know what it is; there are just some many variables and dependencies. What I am trying to say, is there is no switch to solve the problem. There ...

Not include "order modify" at MT4 backtest report

Try This — Shut down MT4 and start it up again. If that doesn't work, reboot.

MT4 Hangs

Unreadable Code — Nobody can read your code; you need to put in wrap tags. If you haven't already, you also need to properly indent everything. In future, get into the habit of writing a few lines and compiling. That way you can isolate errors ...

end of program... unbalanced left parenthesis

Check It Out — There is already a thread on this subject in this forum and a few interested competitors have posted. Just so that you are aware, there is another organization starting a similar competition now. It is called Forex Robot World ...

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