Import to 1M, then convert to 5M. Otherwise, you'll have 1M data in the 5M timeframe.

Old Dog with New Tricks

The EA already does adjust itself. You only need to supply a fixed takeprofit (Reverse = True) or a fixed stoploss (Reverse = False).

Old Dog with New Tricks

Not sure if you meant for this, but with CrossBuffer = 5, MA1 needs to be MA2 + 5 pips or more for long or MA2 - 5 pips for short.

Generic MA Crossover Version 2 [TD]

Recalculate the MA at the time of entry. You'll see that the MA did in fact cross. If you want to wait for the end of the bar to confirm, set EachTickMode to false.

Generic MA Crossover Version 2 [TD]

Do you see some sort of really fast animation involving only 'R's? I should probably note that when I run these EAs on MT4, I have multiple terminals with the pairs spread across them. In my particular computer running this, I have 8 logical cores ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

This also includes setting ECNBroker to True?

Old Dog with New Tricks

When you attach the EA to the chart, what do you see in the upper left corner?

Old Dog with New Tricks

I'm in Orlando, FL at Walt Disney World at the moment, and I can't get to my trading platforms or programming computer at the moment (be back August 1), so this is off the top of my head. The short answer: Is it possible? Yes. By me? No The long ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

The help would be most appreciated Marc. Do you think your friend can find a way to make this EA less resource-intensive? A number of folks here on FF are having trouble it seems with running multiple instances of the EA.

Old Dog with New Tricks

When you have a small number of libraries, yes, but when you start increasing the number of libraries, it's far easier to just pass parameters back and forth instead of having shared global variables.

Can I get a little help with EA which includes many functions?

Should be at most 1 trade per bar... Can you go into the experts tab and e-mail me the data from 30 mins before the first trade and 30 mins after the last trade? (RonaldRaygunForex(AT)gmail(dot)com

Old Dog with New Tricks

Would it make a difference in resource usage if I can shrink the chart and instead access the HST files?

Old Dog with New Tricks

This EA is running on Intel Xeon x3440 with 16GB ram. I fully agree that this is resource-intensive. As for streamlining the code, I'd love to hear your tips lionsden

Old Dog with New Tricks

I generally do 10x spread TP/SL. There are some exceptions, (GJ *cough* *cough*).

Old Dog with New Tricks

One box.

Old Dog with New Tricks

I agree completely with you. However, this is to my knowledge the best free data source out there.

Bad historical data

Don't use metaquotes data. url

Bad historical data

I have 30 pairs running simultaneously with this EA.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Varies. I've seen institutional trades going 10 digits. Granted, these were 3-4 billion dollar deals. How many bars? Technically, the EA is infinitely initializing itself, so no, if you want to disable the EA, you need to remove it.

Old Dog with New Tricks

This portion: 15;209;1134;0.5;6.96666667;3.483333 33;Counter;10;4 Tells me that on hour 15, your take profit is 209 and your stoploss is fixed wherever. The profit achieved with this specific 'system' was 1134 pips. Win rate is 50%, reward / risk is ...

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