When I try to evaluate data, I really just check for gaps in time. Price gaps can happen over the weekend.

Assessing the quality of historical data

Just use LogMeIn free version. Does exactly what you need.

Leaving Computer on - Multiple Terminals

Well, most likely, the EA is checking every tick if a trade's stoploss needs to be moved, or if a trade needs to be opened/closed. Try it on your terminal. Try to close a trade the EA opens. See if the EA 'fights back'

Leaving Computer on - Multiple Terminals

You can be logged into the same account from multiple terminals, if that's what you're asking. I suggest that you don't interfere with the trades, otherwise the EA will fight back.

Leaving Computer on - Multiple Terminals

Multiple EAs and systems are my bread and butter. I classify the market into 6 types: Flat Choppy uptrend Uptrend Choppy Downtrend Downtrend Choppy sideways. There are 6 types of EAs I use: Trending Ranging Counter Trending Scalping News Breakout ...

Durability of an EA

If I knew it would make 100 pips per month in 2009, I'd use it. As for knowing if an EA will do well, you need to figure out what type of market the EA will do well in, and then whether or not you can expect that market in the weeks/months to come. ...

Durability of an EA

There is nothing wrong in the code (as far as I can tell). I would look into the properties of timeout.wav and compare them with alert.wav I can't fully explain it, but it seems that bitrate is a factor.

HELP!!! Trying to play custom alert sound file!

So...there is always a channel really. Let's say we are stopped out of a long trade. The upper end of the channel is the SL + 25 pips. The lower part of the channel is the other end of the box. The upper end trails the price down until it hits the ...

4H Box Breakout

ever thought of renaming "MyOwnSound" to "alert.wav"?

HELP!!! Trying to play custom alert sound file!

Tried Tried that. Most people didn't want to work in decimals, so I just use the int

4H Box Breakout

That long entry part of the comments was an artifact from debugging (yea, I know, sloppy coding). As for the multiplier, I'll look into it. If the EA is returning 0 for the stoploss, that usually means stoploss isn't activated.

4H Box Breakout

the settings in there were purely pulled out of my ___ so I could test the indicator. I tend to use multipliers in the 10-15 range on lower (30 min and down) timeframes.

Dynamic colors?

bool OrderDelete( int ticket, color Color=CLR_NONE)

Cancelling trades

I think trend magic would be appropriate for another thread. Also, the 4H breakout Droland version is running into a slew of problems, mostly in the 'recoverability' part of the code. I'm getting to it as quickly as I can, don't worry.

4H Box Breakout

Whenever 5 digit brokers came about.

4H Box Breakout

You have pippettes. So to your broker, 1 pip = 1/10th a real pip.

4H Box Breakout

Make the buffer 100, and tell me if that changes anything. Most likely, the buffer is very small.

4H Box Breakout

Ok, I had a chance to run a few backtests. Here are the fixes: EA wasn't calculating the correct number of closed trades during the week. There were some instances where the range was 0 bars which means that there was a theoretical entry price of ...

4H Box Breakout

If there is no value in the data window, that usually is "EMPTY_VALUE"

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