Are you sure that renko charts must have wicks at all?

How to backtest Renko?

If there is martingale involved then you don't want to use it. It will only delay your progress, after half a year you will be thrown back to square one and will realize that you just wasted 6 months for nothing or even worse. If you don't believe ...

EA with 100% gains on live forward account?

With "tool" I meant the machine itself sitting there on the desktop and waiting for something to do. It does not need MT4 or NinjaTrader or some other trading software to make it do something. All it needs to instruct a computer what to do is a ...

Back Testing Software

if ( Volume[n]*((High[n]-Low[n])) != 0 ) is just a fancy way of saying: if (Volume[n] != 0 && High[n] != Low[n]) it means if volume is non-zero AND high - low is non-zero. && is logical AND, || is logical OR see also the section about operators in ...

Help with explaining code

Why would you want to test all the possible combinations on all these days manually? You have a computer in front of you that is capable of doing millions of boring calculations with great precision in fractions of a second and is only awaiting your ...

Back Testing Software

US citizens elect a different government next time.

What will US citizens do now with 50:1 leverage?

Where is the "hidden secret"? Is it hidden somewhere in this thread?

Some hidden secrets u might want to know about this broker

There are many people who *want* something because they have no education in this field and a completely wrong idea of the implications and consequences. Something like this would be equivalent to instantly deep freezing the liveblood (money) of the ...

Vote No on the Robin hood tax (Tobin in drag!)

Won't happen. This would impact those who own the politicians. Therefore it won't happen.

Vote No on the Robin hood tax (Tobin in drag!)

This definition is of course wrong. It would destroy all the clichés on whose establishment we geeks have been working so hard. :nerd:

Geeks and FX

Then they are not Geeks by definition and also most likely not extremely good programmers.

Geeks and FX

Reduce the lot size but keep using it and keep updating your statistics. 0.55 * 1.2 = 0.66 this is still far better than what most other traders achieve, its still extremely profitable, 95% of the population of the "Trading Systems" forum would give ...

Re-assessing usefulness of a trading system

I'm at a loss for words...

How to close trade in Metatrader after amount of time or bars

For example a for loop over all orders for closing trades. You only need one such loop in the whole program. Put it into a function, name it CloseTrades() and then call it wherever you need it instead of putting multiple copies of the whole loop ...

Help me to find out what is the problem

The positive side effect from refactoring is that you will probably find the bug through doing this because with each step of breaking the big problem down into smaller units the program becomes simpler and the logic becomes clearer.

Help me to find out what is the problem

I personally use JEdit with the AStylePlugin for mql4 code. I set the whole thing to 3 spaces indentation and K&R style formatting. Then you can save the formatted code and continue working with MetaEditor. The next step is to identify blocks of ...

Help me to find out what is the problem

Still unreadable. Run it through a code beautifier / formatter first. This is a completely unmaintainable mess. And then refactor it to remove all that code duplication and reduce the nesting level to something more reasonable and don't have any ...

Help me to find out what is the problem

Also you should consider breaking up this HUGE monster function into separate smaller functions, each of them not bigger than one screen.

Help me to find out what is the problem

sorry, I made a typo, i meant CODE tags. The ones that appear if you click on the # button. 5 levels of nesting is impossible to read if it is not properly indented.

Help me to find out what is the problem

You would get more replies if you edited your first posting and place the code properly formatted between code tags because not everybody wants to download the file and open it instead of just looking at the code in the posting. I would have looked ...

Help me to find out what is the problem