p.s. candles can be created in indicators fairly easily... it's just generally not worth the effort of bothering to perfectly recreate a candlestick when it's far simpler to substitute with some other form of representation that is more favourable ...

Setup own chart/pair within MT4?

the government should just gtfo. if there is one thing i believe it is that the world as it is currently promotes idiocy and stifles intelligence. put a warning label on this. ban that. tax this so it costs more. certain governments seem to want to ...

Managing your Money : Leverage

have you used mt5? i haven't. but if you also haven't then perhaps you are jumping the gun a little? i hope it does not suck!

GoMarkets Discussion

rambling boring story ahead... tl;dr alert! you are RIGHT. i can't be told. it's that simple. i take little 'knowledge' from the half-sentences and pseudo-hints dropped all over the place. it's a game for some to stand on the shoulders of others. i ...

Thinking Outside the Box!?!

you probably didn't set it up correctly and missed a key point or step. go back and re do it following the instructions exactly. vhands isn't robust and will break if you don't set up the indicators for it in the exact order it tells you to. eww ...

VHands Trading Simulator

sorry for not being elite and spinning in circles. good day.

Thinking Outside the Box!?!

something that has been gnawing away at me that i struggle to make anything of (that doesn't involve a risk model that i don't like) is the element of fat tails / black swans. a coin-flip has a beginning and an end and either a win or loss... ...

Thinking Outside the Box!?!

my setup? you want to see my setup? see that red x up in the top right corner of the screen.... THAT is my setup

Show us your workstation!

holy shit i was joking! HAZZAH!!!!!

Show us your workstation!

no way man that's a diva shield for when he goes all maria carey ballad into the microphone

Show us your workstation!

i don't see it. i see the 3d magic-eye shark... are you referring to the 2 bits underneath it towards the tail-fin? i figured that was the right hand find as well as some minor under-fin that i didn't know sharks had *confused*. as for the 95% ...

A Million ways to make Money!

you are kidding right? do tell where/how?

A Million ways to make Money!

you've realized that you can't game the money-management aspect to gain an edge. you either have an edge or you don't. scaling up and down the position sizing doesn't so much affect whether you will make money or not, it's more to do with smoothing ...

Trading least risk while trading at your worst

regarding.... a) to me the order does have importance because it shows the evolution of mindset. if later posts are about stuff that you had since moved right on from a long time ago then it is regressing from evolved thinking to earlier primal ...

A Million ways to make Money!

crucialpoint : perhaps i have missed the point. but sentences like the above from privatefr do nothing more than shout to the world "hey i'm great, and all you other fools are too dumb to understand. watch me repeat myself and see how dumb you all ...

A Million ways to make Money!

i'm tired of the arrogance. it doesn't help anyone. i'd personally like to take this opportunity to say hi to everyone who knows more than the rest of us. HI. yes you crap on us. yes you are great. would you like fries with that? would you like to ...

A Million ways to make Money!

it's a vista / win 7 thing. remember back to windows 3.1 and how programs would write ini files and so on all over the hard drive, in the windows folder even. vista and 7 are simply circumventing certain shithead program behavior such as this by ...

When i save a chart template, does the platform also..

hanover told you they aren't saved the files, if you have created them yourself in metaeditor, are in a windows hidden folder C:Users.....USERNAME......AppDataLocalVirtualStoreProgram Files (x86) you really need to consider ripping your mt4 ...

When i save a chart template, does the platform also..

well if we have established that the indicators do not get saved INTO the templates, and they therefore aren't loading on a different computer... how do you expect the indicators to magically make their way onto the computer that doesn't already ...

When i save a chart template, does the platform also..

hopefully metaeditor in mt5 is more helpful in tracking these things down. i spend more time debugging looking for silly mistakes i've typed than actually writing mql scripts.

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