Right, as I imagined, it's pretty much useless unless I include other stats with it, which I'm not inclined to do at the moment. If there are other opinions regarding the relation of raw Z score to probability in regards to EAs by anyone, I'm all ...

Are these good Z-Scores? Which is better?

why would I ask the question in first place... what makes you assume that i don't use sharpe ratio? my questions and thread is related to Z score not sharpe ratio. although you are trying to be helpful and it's appreciated, it's not helpful.

Are these good Z-Scores? Which is better?

Pretty tame nfp volatility so far. 50p down from pre nfp to 10min after report, but looks like buyers were just waiting for liquidity to settle in before buying the dip, short scalpers looking for a runner may be about to get burned it they don't ...

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I'll have to absorb what you wrote and work with it. It can not lose count if the platform closes. I need it to count open active trades in market separately from open limit orders. OrdersTotal() just will not do it. Obviously I want to control the ...

Is There an Alternative To OrdersTotal() in MT4??

too much, loss of several hundred milliseconds and possibly lost trade if there's is hiccup in the exporting/reading between programs/eas. several of my entries have less than a 60 second window or less, or within ticks, if that window closes while ...

Is There an Alternative To OrdersTotal() in MT4??

Looks like I may gravitate towards that route with my own separate ActiveOpenTrades() function and OrdersPendingTotal() function to distinguish the two.

Is There an Alternative To OrdersTotal() in MT4??

Global variables I understand but " pass by reference to the exit functions" not sure what you mean by that. I suppose I could try the GV route, but Kilian's solution got me thinking against it, however, I suppose I could also simply assign ...

Is There an Alternative To OrdersTotal() in MT4??

of course i use magic numbers, the ea I'm currently working on has 16 different magic numbers for 8 different types of entries x buy and sell

Is There an Alternative To OrdersTotal() in MT4??

shoulda/coulda didn't unload at the R2 which probability-wise it would have p/b from under most circumstances. was contemplating closing and then going short to 1.1280 and then reenter at 80 which would have been a perfect textbook scalp but instead ...

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H4 may put in a pin or it could go to R3 of course second option is preferred. News unemployment claims was basically a non event was looking for a smash through of R2, but looks like it's just going to continue accumulating or release itself at ...

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short closed hours ago. currently long from below 1.1370 next significant areas Pivot R2 is 1.1410 area and R3 is 1.1490 area

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nice trade...stocks, futures, indices, metals and fx basically

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yeah I can have them counted which is how it is now and is fine for entering trades, however, all my exits are nested in different functions and the count code can not be read from inside the individual separate exit functions, unless I code another ...

Is There an Alternative To OrdersTotal() in MT4??

Not sure if it wants to go to 1.14 Morning short from 1.1335 looking for 1.1310 and a possible break below 1.13 H4 candles don't look too bull friendly atm

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Long EURUSD from 1.1320 target is 1.1420 time window today and tomorrow

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From Post#1 No tolerance on this one.

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Nice Trades folks...timos, don96 Short EURUSD at 1.12 even with a tight stop...fear that stop will be hit, tight 10p stops have been easily hit on EURUSD yesterday and today with the exception of the breakout above yesterday. Support has been pushed ...

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Insead of using StdDevasArray I set up another variable as a separate buffer and used the regular StdDev calc and just multiplied the buffer to the existing buffer and it works.

Help Adding StdDev Calc to Simple Histogram