No, all SLs stay where they are. This is intentional to not lose any level. I want to make sure that when I am x pips away from the bottom (or top) it is guaranteed that I have always (x/distance) trades running and in profit. Therefore it will only ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

A you can see: This method needs some patience and I have much time to do other things while waiting. Yesterday it went down and hit a few more stops but also trailed down the first entry a few pips, the green break-even line was also trailed down. ...

Trading the anti-grid with the snowball EA

The advantage is to save yourself time during which you can do other things while the robot will patiently wait for some predefined conditions and then carries out its orders with great discipline and accuracy. However, this is a two-edged sword: It ...

Advantages of Expert Advisor (ROBOT)

new version 2010.6.2.1 — There is a new version: 2010.6.2.1 of the snowball EA available. If you want to compile it yourself you will also need to update to the current version of common_functions.mqh which is at the time of this writing also ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

Less than a few hours later I could close this pyramid one level above breakeven and make a total of twohundred-something dollars. I closed the pyramid here mainly because I didn't want to let this already long running thing continue any longer. It ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

What exactly does not work? The screenshot does not show anything unusual, the EA is loaded and awaiting your commands. Did you carefully read all the instructions and tried it on demo?

Snowballs and the anti-grid

This is difficult to answer. I usually wait at least until it goes into profit one or two levels beyond the green breakeven line, sometimes I have to wait a week(!) or even more (with 30 pip per level on eurusd), sometimes I can have one or two ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

You might be interested in this: url because it was created with the same ideas in mind. It is not exactly the same system, it wont trail the stoploss and wont increase lotsizes (and I won't ever change this, because it is the way I trade it) but ...

EA reverse martingale

the last parameter of the iCustom() function is the number of the bar you want. 0 is the current bar, 1 is the previous bar, and so on. So just call iCustom() with the number of the bar you are interested in and you will get the indicator value at ...

indicator madness. want to go from future to the past.

Maybe yet another instance of the "write into program folder"-problem. Although it is not allowed for programs to write into "c:/program files/*" windows won't throw an error mesage and instead silently maps the file to elsewhere. MT4 is designed to ...

How to create an .EX4 file?

The subject of this thread has sparked a crazy idea in my mind: How about re-engineering the .ex4 format with the goal of creating a better language along with a compiler for it to make important missing features like for example anonymous functions ...

How to create an .EX4 file?

Use a library with foolproof order functions that work around the shortcomings and pitfalls of the mt4 trading API, especially the fact that it is not thread safe. There are a few ones around, for example liborderreliable or the ones found in ...

TradeDispatcher: trade context is busy error + sale and buy to late

DJB2 is a very simple hash function, probably the most simple one that can be found and that still works somehow. I would not call it "a good one". Its a simple one. If you look closely then you'll note that the spirit of djb2 can be found in my ...

Dynamic (Magic Number) - Randomizing

here is a more generic approach, a hash function. Give it a unique string and it will return a unique number: /** * create a positive integer for the use as a magic number. * * The function takes a string as argument and calculates * an 31 bit hash ...

Dynamic (Magic Number) - Randomizing

Computing power is cheaper than manpower. And it does scale much better. And OOP (which is the topic of this thread, btw.) on its own does not slow down computing in any way. OOP just provides language constructs that lets one express certain ...

Object Oriented Programming

No. C++ is THE textbook example of a language lacking even the most basic sort of type safety. Use google to educate yourself about what type safety is and why C++ is missing it. Also the existence of some libraries to implement things that should ...

Object Oriented Programming

It is not about "holding hands" or not being able to "understand" ones own program. Programming is not a contest to find out who can write the same program with the most complicated tool with the biggest effort and the winner is the one who makes ...

Object Oriented Programming

The reason is not because the pascal compiler is strict and encourages good programming style and there is type safety. The reason why C++ came into widespread use is unknown. It must have been a tragic accident with catastrophic consequences. This ...

Object Oriented Programming

I know that strings are represented as arrays of bytes (or chars) but I see no reason for not making strings an integral part of the language. One can still access individual characters or even cast it to an array of bytes if this is needed ...

Object Oriented Programming