Don't Have To — MT4 was kind enough to provide a number of indicators including ATR with the trading station. Click on the add indicator icon, and then Oscillators and then Average True Range.

ADR indicator

Don't Understand — By definition, the price has to hit the first EMA before it hits the second one in a retracement. Therefore you only need to have an indicator that signals for a single EMA - the second one. When the price moves strongly in ...

Retracement indicator

Correction — With a little bit of help, I was able to get my free GMX mail account to work. The SMTP server has to be mail.gmx.com:587. So my previous post of Nov 10 is wrong in regards to GMX.

Which E-mail Providers Can be Used for MT4 E-mail Alerts?

Thanks — I was able to sort of get it to work. Before it failed when I used smtp.gmx.com:587. The error message was:Sender address does not belong to logged in user {mp-us001}. Now I don't get the error message when I use the Test function and ...

Sends an email every hour of current price?

Care to Share — You are making fast progress. I couldn't get GMX mail to work. Would you care to share the configuration settings you used?

Sends an email every hour of current price?

Configuration is the Challenge — The coding to do this is very simple. The configuration of the SMTP is a challenge. Here is some recent info. url The MetaTrader forum is much better for explaining the problem and I suggest you review the ...

Sends an email every hour of current price?

Too Easy — I made a ton of pips in the 2 weeks of demo and then went live. First trade was a nice 50 pip winner. Figured I could take this kind of profit any time I wanted. So I took a breather and of course never repeated those kind of ...

What was your biggest Forex mistake ?

iCustom — iCustom is the function you are looking for and there are lots of examples in MQL documentation pages. Your indicator must have a SetIndexBuffer call for this to work.

One Indicator calling another indicator in MQL4

Modelled Time — For backtesting purposes, the server models the time. The problem is how can server accurately provide a value - it can't. What you are seeing is the correct MA for another time and you are assuming it is the time you want. I ...

Major problem with metatrader

I'll Think About It — No I don't have an EA with that functionality and right now I'm in the middle of a number of other things. Once I get time, I see how easy it is.

EA - That uses MA for SL

Use Objects — There are 2 objects - OBJ_TEXT and OBJ_LABEL that allow you to annotate the chart. I think OBJ_LABEL is more suited to your purposes because you want to annotate the gap, whereas OBJ_TEXT would place the annotation at some ...

Printing pip number on chart

Here it is — The new logic was added and tested.

EA - That uses MA for SL

Happy With 80% — I seem to recall somebody with much more experience than I making a statment that markets trend 80% of the time. It wasn't made by somebody on one of these forums. Since hearing that statement, I haven't seen anything that ...

indicator for trending and ranging

Check This Out — url I am still testing the last part. The first part works, but isn't what people want. With a little bit of manual effort you can close partial orders at different MA levels, but I have no intention of building that into ...

Moving average trailing stop ea.

Here it is — Here is the modified script which allows for a date range. Just change these lines to get the desired range (YYYY.MM.DD). extern string fromDate="2009.10.1"; extern string toDate="2009.11.1";

Looking for a specific setup back in time with an EA

New Version — Here is the corrected version with higher lows and lower highs. I am attaching both the source and executable files. Copy both to the experts/scripts directory, double click in the Navigator window to run it. It can be run on any ...

Looking for a specific setup back in time with an EA

Here it is — I am going to assume that the script should look for lower lows and higher highs. Let me know if that is wrong. For verifying my results, I marked the chart with arrows. I am going to leave this logic intact in the script. If you ...

Looking for a specific setup back in time with an EA

A Question — In your description, you state that #2 is the opposite of #1, but then say that I should look for a higher low for #2 but #1 is looking for a lower low. The opposite of lower low is higher high, is this what you meant to say? Or ...

Looking for a specific setup back in time with an EA

This Should Do It — I don't know what is going on with the code, but I put in a better default processing scheme. There are 2 parameters that control the way ticks are handled and if you set them, you will see how he manages updating. It seems ...

Indicator is acting weird

Script is the Answer — Scripts are for one time tasks such as you describe. EAs are for executing the same thing over and over again. I often do as you describe without exporting the data to Excel. Instead I like to mark the charts with my ...

Looking for a specific setup back in time with an EA