Two Mistakes — If you have a successful system, why mess with it? Most people spend years searching for something bouncing from one idea to another. Why do you think something more complex will be more successful? Simplicity is a beautiful ...

SMA works

Poorly Coded — It is not processing every tick until you re-initialize it. Post the code here and my theory can be confirmed.

Indicator is acting weird

Easy — In the trade window find your order and right click on it. One of the menu choices is Close Order which puts up an order panel with a "Close Order..." button.

how to close an order in tradestation?

Out of Date — I get the same the error with my GMX account. I believe that GMX has enabled SSL with their SMTP server now which means that most of the information in this thread is out of date. I got around the problem by using the SMTP server ...

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

Reply — As I stated, the EA at present will only stop losses, but I will add the trailing stop logic. The EA has no dependency on 4 digit logic.

EA - That uses MA for SL

Guessing — I can say with certainty that the problem was not related to the lot size. Setting it to 0 will close it without fail. So now I am left to guess what the problem might be. I looked at my code again. There was a problem with it not ...

EA - That uses MA for SL

Noticed the Same Thing — Can't tell you why. But my FXCM Micro Demo allows me to trade micro lots manually and then I can't do smaller than .1 in my EA. I verified that this was deliberate by checking the Minlot setting. Didn't check every ...

EA with microlot

Redo — I have been there, done that. A few times I have rewritten my code from scratch on the assumption that I won't make the same mistake twice. But of course that raises the real possiblity of making an entirely new error.

"Phantom" Close!!

Very Difficult to Know — An obvious question to me is why use iClose instead of Close[1]? I doubt this will solve the problem but I had to point it out because it is not standard coding practise. Another suggestion, if these values are so ...

"Phantom" Close!!

This Should Do It — I have made the mods you requested and the EA is ready. The input settings are: MAperiods - the number of periods to be used by the MA calculation. MAmethod - the method to be used by the MA calculation ('S', 'W', 'E', ...

EA - That uses MA for SL

Try This — Change Digits-1 to Digits. Logic means change the number of digits after the decimal to the default setting of the broker.

Editing Magnified Market Price

Learning — I would not recommend learning MQ4 as a first language. Java and C++ are also tough for first time programmers. There are easier languages with better documentation, debugging and tutorials. I particularly like Visual Basic and C#. ...

Learning to Program MQL4/5

Feedback for Brandon — I have not been feeling well so I am a bit late in replying. I had been giving your idea consideration before you posted and was inclined to try it. The biggest problem with waiting for the bar to cross back inside is ...

My EA and Indicator "wish list"

Can Be Done — I have written an EA for closing the order when the profits hit an EMA level. It would be easy to modify to do what you want. Its quite flexible as it allows for closing part of the order and also has a TP in pips of profit ...

EA - That uses MA for SL

Item 3 — Here is the EA that will An EA that takes profits upon touching __ ema (fill in space). The ideal TP function would also have a partial close function and a pip count function. Input Parameters: TakeProfitEMA1 - the number of periods ...

My EA and Indicator "wish list"

Latest Version — As requested here is the latest version with the following modifications: 1. Remove Prev Pos size and current pos size including data as we dont need to see this during the day only be able to change it. 2. Change Contract to ...

ATR Indicator Mod

Just Repeating What I Was Told — I have listened in an admittedly small number of Webinars with professional traders during the last several years. Inevitably someone would ask what indicators they used and inevitably they would answer none ...

Price Action Trading

Try This — I wrote this indicator several days ago for somebody else. It is similar to what you are looking for and I made a few changes for your needs. It has more features than you asked for, but they can be ignored. Hope it works out for ...

Need alert for price action crossing MA

Stoplevel — There is a reason your broker establishs a STOPLEVEL. He needs room to be able to react before the price that he is trading on the other side changes again if that makes any sense. You can't trade within STOPLEVEL manually and you ...

How to bypass/trick Mode_stoplevel

Software Isn't the Whole Answer — Even if you found a system that others claim to be profitable is no guarantee that you can replicate success. I believe different people using the same software will get very different results. Even using the ...

Profitable Systems