Try This — All the indicators I have seen allow the user to change the colouring scheme. In the indicator properties, go to the Colour tab and select the one you want - no need to change the program.

Indicator colour change

Right Track — Defining the S/R levels for the EA is definitely the best thing to do. Sounds to me like you are on the right track. I have worked with Fractals and wondered if I should use ZigZag but never took the time to examine the benefits ...

How to recognize a swing direction

Try This — You are tackling a toughie. I have tried something like that myself and was only partly successful. I guess the first thing we need to know to help you is how are you defining S/R. Do you input these levels to the indicator or is ...

How to recognize a swing direction

Reboot — Whenever I see strange unexplained behaviour, I do a reboot of my computer. Drag and drop and double clicking are not controlled by the trading platform. The operating system catches them first and passes them to the platform and ...

i cant add applications to my platform

Notorious — FXCM is notorious for this problem in my opinion. As I noted above, my experience with FXDD was much better. I also use FXPro demo and have noticed almost daily occurrences but its not at the point where I am concerned. As I stated ...

Old Tick - MT4

Try This — As Shabs said there is very little information to go on and it is very difficult to get a handle on what the cause might be. The possibilities are many and varied. Anyway, I will take a shot at it. Some people have claimed that MT4 ...

i cant add applications to my platform

Not Easy — Well I think you have identified the crux of the matter - how to define the conditions of the first trade. Once that trade is made, the rest is easier because everything is done repeatedly. The best way to enter the first trade - ...

Could someone please write the following very small EA for me...

No — barStart doesn't have to be an external variable. It has to declared outside the start() function to make it static. You forgot this line of code barStart = Time[0]. It has to go near the end of the start() function. I think after the ...

heiken ashi alert

Try This — My head is a little clearer now than earlier this morning. I think I understand what you are trying to do now - don't know why it wasn't plain before. The problem goes back to this statement Price > Price + StopLoss . Again it makes ...

Could someone please write the following very small EA for me...

Still Don't Understand — I think you confirmed that it is a runtime error. That is strange that it fails some times and works at other times since you are using the same comment for all trades. Usually this type of error occurs when a ...

Could someone please write the following very small EA for me...

Don't Know — I have never seen this error. Your OrderSend() code compiled fine for me. Did you mean the error is a run time or compile error? Also would help if you included the error code (ie. 111 or whatever).

Could someone please write the following very small EA for me...

Try This — This is how I do it. Declare barStart as a datetime variable in the static section of the indicator. if (barStart < Time[0]) //start of new bar { // place logic for signal here barStart = Time[0]; } // end if barstart

heiken ashi alert

Inequality — (Price < Price + StopLoss) Substituting real numbers would result in 1.2000<1.2000+.0022. I don't know what you really trying to say, but this won't get it done.

Could someone please write the following very small EA for me...

None — The truly big guys are the market makers which is whom our brokers deal with. These are mostly some of the big banks and trading houses. They have been around for a long time. Retail forex brokerages are a fairly new thing.

Which brokers do the big guys use?

Found The Problem — I have been working with Oculaw on this and discovered the cause of the problem. The length of the text message must be short. I don't know the exact number of bytes allowed, but my first alert was longer than the MT4 test ...

MT4 Alerts to Cell phone?

Can Help — Without 10 postings it is difficult to send or receive PMs and I don't want my email on these forums. Anyway I am glad to help, but you have to understand my rule. I help others for free, but actually coding something costs.

Help with Buy & Sell EA

Try This — The colours tab of the indicator properties shows the colours and the line numbers. Find the colour and you know the line number although sometimes it is hard to distinguish one green line from another.

How do I use the forex rebellion indicators in my mq4?

Not for Free — I am very busy with several projects right now. So busy that I don't trade as much as I like to. I also have a 2 week backlog. I can do this, but I don't do it for free.

Need Help Coding an Indicator MT4

Enough — This Steinitz sounds like some academic who has nothing better to do than to sit around and think about things like this. There may be one important feature that overrides anything you have written here and that is the simplest of ...

EA Features

Try This — I have played around with Hull MA and Heiken Ashi and always found that they would lose too much in choppy markets especially for lower time frames than 1H. You didn't mention the time frame you tested with. I think I can safely ...

Optimizing An EA's Performance (Hull MA)