You cannot directly access the buffers if you don't load it with iCustom() and you cannot use iCustom() to dynamically load any arbitrary indicator with a different number of parameters at runtime. Making this all work somehow would require some ...

Is a horizontal line indicator with alarm on separate window possible?

I suggest modifying the Alerter.mq4 for this and making it an official part of it. Alerter is one of the better alert indicators, does already provide some of the needed infrastructure and giving it this additional ability would make it even more ...

Is a horizontal line indicator with alarm on separate window possible?

paradigm shifts — Identifying "paradigm shifts" by visualizing the strength (and phase) of certain auto-correlations. Changes in the "vibrations", the "rhythm" of the market: image

EURUSD

There is always a difference between what a piece of software is supposed to to and what it actually does if it is buggy. This is the definition of a bug! "only trades one currency" is not guaranteed in the presence of a bug! If the EA has some ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

From all the problems that can be found here and on mql4.com (questions being asked, strange behavior of code, wrong assumptions about how something is supposed to work, etc.) it always turns out that in 99.9% of all cases it was some flaw in the ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

This is nomal with ECN brokers. If you try to send an order with tp/sl it will be completely rejected and not opened at all: 130 invalid stops

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

This wouldn't hinder it closing trades on other Pairs.

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

But this would still not explain why the trades are closed by a different EA than the one that opened the trades.

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

Hey, I just looked at the screenshot you posted. The "Probability EA". Maybe we have the guilty EA. I only see OrderClose() in this chart (left pointing triangle), I cannot see any right pointing triangles (OrderSend()) in this chart, this means ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

if the other logs are on the machines that you can only access on monday then simply relax now and wait until it is monday. Once all 4 log files from all 4 machines are available it should be only a matter of a few minutes to find the one offending ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

the log of the other tab would have shown who was it that sent the closing order There are two types of logs (this is confusing but MetaQuotes built a lot of confusing things into MT4, confusion is the norm). The logs are in the following two ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

It happened with "Caliber" and the losses showed up in the trade history as losing trades by "Caliber" so you intuitively assumes that "Caliber" was responsible. Lets assume there are three EAs in the account running on 3 terminals: "Caliber" and ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

yes. It happens to any EA that wants to open a trade during the timespan during which the offender is in "close all trades"-mode. In the log you can clearly see that the cloverix EA is desperately trying to open a sell trade starting for example at ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

The problem is he does not know which one is the offending EA. Many of his EAs are "offended" in the same way but the actual offender itself is not yet known.

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

"mature" or any other claim does not have any meaning with commercial EAs. They are full of bugs. Most of them are not even written by professional programmers and work only by pure coincidence. Try my suggestion from the other thread on the other ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| expert CheckTrades function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ void CheckTrades() { string symbol; for(int c = 0; c < OrdersTotal(); ...

Programming Help

The OrderSelect() in the function that calculates the profit will mess up the state of the OrderSelect() in the outermost loop (in checktrades). There is only one OrderSelect(), it is global, only one order can be selected. When your profit summing ...

Programming Help

Such a regulation would not fall into their competence. It is not their business to forbid any US citizen to transfer his money to bank (or other) accounts in foreign countries. They regulate trading of certain securities within the US and not how ...

CFTC NEW Document - Overseas Accounts OK?

Its not Vista's fault. Its Metatrader trying to store them where they do not belong. C:/program files is not the place for applications to store files. Period. No excuse. The only thing that could be blamed on vista is that it does not completely ...

Indicators not showing up in Explorer

Only one of your dozens of concurrently running EAs might have something like for (...){ OrderSelect(...); if (OrderSymbol() == Symbol()){ OrderClose(...); } } while it must read. for (...){ OrderSelect(...); if (OrderMagicNumber() == magic){ ...

MT4 Problem - Opening a Deal, then Closing it again straight away