Double Click — Double clicking works for me. I don't think there are any restrictions on the thread although they may not apply to me.

Inverse EA

I am impressed with your efforts and your kind offer of compensation. If you get really stuck, send me a PM. The email notification is trivial. Just use SendMail in the same manner as MessageBox or Alert. The key to email is the setup configuration. ...

Help Needed to Update Existing EA

Not a New Idea — There are dozens of threads like this and with the same unhappy conclusion. Doesn't matter if its MAs crossing, channel breakout or any other strategy. Here's one url

Inverse EA

This Just Isn't Right — Excuse my rant. Every time this discussion starts, somebody comes up with this pearl of wisdom. So how do you suppose it will work if you are using a pin or inside bar as your entry signal? Exits are separate and ...

Entry is easy, but Exit is really difficult

Strategy Tester Is Slow — If you are running in "Every Tick" mode, Strategy Tester is very slow even for the most basic of calculations. The overhead seems to the number of ticks not the amount of calculations. For some of my EAs I run in ...

EA Backtesting Speed

Me Also — I have a PC running Vista and haven't changed anyting for several months. About 2 weeks ago I had the same problem with some pairs (FXCM Micro). On others it would ignore my date range and pick up a few ticks near the end of the data ...

no ticks generated in strategy tester

Try This — The code seems to be just fine. If you are getting arrow indicators, you should also get alerts. If you are getting alerts you should get emails. Are you sure that you have selected the email option on the input settings? The other ...

HELP: EMA crossover with arrow but no e-mail alert

Process of Elimination — When you get into situations like this, you sometimes have to use a process of elimination. The screen shot shows that this line is OK because the breakeven amounts are 2 and 4 digits. int dig = MarketInfo(Sym[i], ...

Why is this indicator wacky

Normal Situation — That is normal for 4 digit brokers. I forgot to ask does this problem appear for most pairs or just a few?

Why is this indicator wacky

Broker Problem — This indicator worked fine on my 4 digit broker FXDD, but I obviously didn't stress test it, so you might have found something I didn't. This is the part of the code that is affected by 4/5 digit and looks alright. There is ...

Why is this indicator wacky

Normalize — The number you provide to OrderSend must be 4 or 5 digits not something like 1.4333333. Use the NormalizeDouble function as in NormalizeDouble(SL, Digits);

Point in 5 decimals enviroment

Useful Thread — There is finally a thread where we can direct the new wannabe programmers. Thanks guys

Note to programmers: Division by zero errors

You Are Right — I am 99% sure that you are right, but of course there may be more than one thing wrong. To fix, just look for the places that convert pips to points and vice versa and multiply or divide by 10 or 1. Here is what I like to use ...

Why is this indicator wacky

Manual Confirmation — In the EA properties dialog there is a checkbox for manually confirming trades. This allows you to review the trade and confirm, change or cancel it before it goes to the server. That may not be exactly what you want, but ...

BuyStop/SellStop pause

Greed and Fear — I think someone once said "All you need to know about the markets is greed and fear."

Why market overreacts?

Most indicators, including candle patterns work better on the higher timeframes because the signal to noise ratio is better. But of course you get fewer signals and trading on the higher time frames requires more patience. I don't think there's an ...

I love Patterns

Challenge — I am not surprised you have done well lately. The EurUsd has been in a nice downtrend for the past 2 weeks. But I wonder what will happen in the next 2 when things quiet down? I admire the fact that you have put some thought and ...

2 trades everyday entered at midnight GMT

Website — Apparently this guy wrote the book on candlestick patterns.He talks about stocks, but it probably applies to forex as well. url

I love Patterns

Doesn't Work — I have written two EAs very similar to what you describe and backtested them thoroughly. Works fine in trending markets and is a bust when markets goes sideways. I eventually was able to find a group of settings that produced a ...

2 trades everyday entered at midnight GMT

My Understanding — I think my understanding of leverage is a little different than this. Essentially the markets run on margin or leverage. This is true of the housing market (5% down depending), the stock market (50% down depending) and the ...

1 cent change in currency considered a large movement?