yeah the ea is not working as stated by OP. Running it in the backtester [visual mode] for proper operation it does open buystop and sellstop but if the market takes off it doesn't enter more trades in the direction it just holds on to what it has ...

let's go where the price goes

Excel to manipulate data — Do you program in Excel? If you do what you could do is export the data from MT4 in Excel and manipulate it from there using macro commands. You can see from the mql file you put in there with the excel file how much ...

Candles (H to L) sum

This EA has been decompiled and requires a DLL file to operate. I think you should contact the owner of the EA.

Need Help: correction in EA lot size calculation

yeah what you have is not right. You have to define everything seperate and then put calculations with in start body to run the code. you can try the other stuff by adding in the code and saving it to another file and recompiling the EA. Mind you ...

Candles (H to L) sum

//+------------------------------------+ //| Variable Define | //+------------------------------------+ extern int BarStart = 1; double Bar4, Bar3, Bar2, Bar1, sumbars; //+------------------------------------+ //| Calculations HeadQuarters | ...

Candles (H to L) sum

I am not sure I fully understand what you are asking... I think you are asking if it matters what time frame you put the code on? It makes no difference what time frame the chart is because current bar on any chart is always 0... the second bar back ...

Candles (H to L) sum

sum of bars — //+------------------------------------+ //| Variable Define | //+------------------------------------+ double Bar4, Bar3, Bar2, Bar1, sumbars; //+------------------------------------+ //| Calculations HeadQuarters | ...

Candles (H to L) sum

The body (OPEN -to-CLOSE) going up is 1.25 * ATR The body going up is 1.5 * ATR The body going up is > 2 * ATR The body going down - same thing. [if you have to you can substitute another value for ATR, the reason I say ATR is that it will vary per ...

Binary profiling of candlesticks

1. It means during the current bar it will give a signal one way or the other. If the market moves against the signal it will "repaint" to show that the indy is now going with the market. IE hindsight is 20/20. 2. If one indy repaints they likely ...

What does it mean when Indicators repaint?

FX is zero sum. A buy has an opposing sell, a sell has an opposing buy... and your broker controls whether you get in, out if you are in and stopped out or margin called. A backtest is only a general idea. Not actual. You start throwing in slippage, ...

Learning to program - where to start?

3:10 to disappointment — you don't want to waste hours? LOL. Good one. This is a russian programing software. You will waste more than hours. But I can save you countless hours by telling you don't waste time chasing a backtest. They don't ...

Learning to program - where to start?

Doesn't really matter even a big company can fail. Sincerely Enron, Lehman bros. etc. Theyareinbusiness-tomakemoney.com most if not all will do it anyway they can... cheat, steal, lie, make / break promises as long as they don't get caught... hey ...

Have brokers improved their performance?

How about "Trade Context busy" and "Price off-quote" and "Ping failed"? To this day I still get these errors on a demo acct. The other thing I hated about IBFX when I left was the mailbox melodrama about some stupid "lesson" they are trying to ...

Have brokers improved their performance?

yep, any EA can fail. Much of it can be blamed on the skills of the programmer. But it can also fall on the shoulders of the broker due to platform freezes, trade context busy errors, requotes, off-price error, Mt4 error of the month. I guess for ...

BURU expert trading system?

Pack mentality — It's pack mentality or the need to feel accepted, is the only conclusion I can come to. I can understand the need to belong because trading in and of itself is isolation magnified. But are you trading to belong to a group? Or ...

Thinking Outside the Box!?!

L is for Loser — The Box: As I see it the box is anything that makes you apart of the "Herd" mentality. If everything anyone ever told you was wrong, the implied opposite would be true. If being apart of "The Box" leads to losses and utter ...

Thinking Outside the Box!?!

Not really.. I think you're surfing with your eyes wide closed. FX Brokers fined for MT4 plug-in that caused disadvantage to traders Monday, November 1st, 2010 by DeltaQuest The MT4 platform’s Forex plug-in called the ‘Virtual Dealer’, is causing a ...

Top 50 brokers - where OTC is likely headed

It's not a list perse... why they called the article "top 50 brokers" is beyond me except for maybe the fight to be in the "in" group. It's a glimpse of where OTC is headed and that is a Centrally cleared spot forex market. When that happens the ...

Top 50 brokers - where OTC is likely headed

To expand on this further, just realize that even central banks have trouble moving the market, unless it is a coordinated effort by multiple central banks. An example of this is BOJ and SNB this year. Both intervened and while the effect was felt ...

Just lovely discussion :)

Well in my mind the forex market is only accessed when you have to convert. So just buying bonds or some security on wall street whatever doesn't do anything to forex. I know my example of google buying (er trying to buy) groupon for some 6 bil ...

Just lovely discussion :)