I'm Embarassed — I have been following and practising. I should be asking more questions especially about targets and exit points but I need to get my thoughts more organized. For a while I was getting lost with all the references to Fibo ...

intraday trend trading with price action

Try This — Others have been using port 587 and I think you have to log off MT4 before the settings become activated. But I need to see your error message in the journal to be sure.

Email Alert Problem

Curious — I am quite curious as to why there hasn't been any interest in this thread. It seemed to be just picking up steam and then nothing. Did someone get banned?

Bollinger barbeque

GMail Doesn't Work — GMail uses SSL and that is not compatible with MT4 or the other way around. As far as I know the choices are GMX, your own ISP, some paid service or a SMTP server of your own.

Email Alert Problem

Licensing — I like the LMD one, but I can't imagine how 2 people could share a licence and EA Lab access. You don't have to post an answer here, PM is OK

Forex Robot World Cup?

Try This — Have you checked your Journal for errors. An invalid Stop or TP will cause that problem.

EA not opening trades.... ??

Skeptical — With any software product, the results obtained by some will be much better than what most people can achieve. For instance the difference between a power user and most Excel users is dramatic in the quality of results and the ease ...

Forex Robot World Cup?

Yes — That can be done with coding - there isn't a setting to control it. The tricky part is getting the interval between the sounds right, because the ticks have to be processed as well. I don't remember seeing anything like that done lately.

New to MT4 - can I sound an alarm on the bar close?

Vista — I have Vista and I don't have any problem with Copy / Paste. I suppose you could try using the Edit menu or the icons rather than the keyboard.

MT4 editor (Ctr-C & Ctr-V) problem

Try This — It takes time for experienced coders to do this kind of work as well - despite ourselves we all make mistakes and code needs to be verified and tested to exhaustion. So I am not going to do the work for you. I did a quick review of ...

Export Datas to MT4

Reply — I don't know if your indicator works or not. I was telling you about my experiences with my alert indicators. I use Strategy Tester to verify that my indicators work as expected. It is a very useful tool. Here for reference is one of ...

New to MT4 - can I sound an alarm on the bar close?

Time Of Day — The time of day that you trade needs to be a consideration. If trading the Asian session, maybe you should stick to JPY and AUD pairs. At other times, any of the pairs mentioned by Razor are OK.

How Many Pairs for Newbies

Try This — Strategy Tester will trigger the alerts if you enable them in the EA properties dialog. It won't actually emit an audible sound but the text of the alert will appear in the Journal tab so that you can verify that the alert is ...

New to MT4 - can I sound an alarm on the bar close?

Low Priority — This kind of thing isn't part of my trading and it seems that the existing software can do the job despite its flaws so this is really low priority in my opinion. I am prepared to offer advice to you or anyone who takes on the ...

Help needed to mod gap indicator

Boxes — I am assuming that you have the source code and have moderate coding skills. The answer is yes, use a rectangle object instead of an arrow object. I can't imagine that this will make the chart any less messy. I would try smaller arrows ...

Help needed to mod gap indicator

Never an EA — I doubt anyone could make this into an EA. Especially when there are statements like "We can also see at that exact same time the stoch's have all bunched and are starting to rise in one neat line ". Strangely enough computers ...

Forum System turned into EA

Don't Think We Need Another — There has been plenty of discussion already. Just last week this one was started and there are more listed at the bottom of this page. url

What are the best pairs to trade

Normalize — All values sent including price have to be normalized.

error: 130:invalid stops

Try This — IF you have a script that is fully functional then getting it to do the rest shouldn't be very difficult. You will have to convert it to an EA which won't be too hard if your script is structured properly. You have to identify what ...

Export Datas to MT4

Small Differences — Some broker's historical data is atrocious. I have seen gaps of several hours in 15M data as recent as the day before. That is one explanation and is easy to identify. The other factor you have to consider is the Strategy ...

123 Pattern EA