BreakOut Box 5 — Boxes do seem to be the rage! Time1 has also consumed a fair amount of my time. Hopefully to good effect. At the least, an artistic outlet. It is timely and prompting to me that you bring up the use of open/close on the fixed ...

Box Breakout indicator

Excellent object manipulation and data display in a separate window. Very thought provoking. Thanks! hap

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box 4 — Example of "Day" inputs for indicator configured for pre-Tokyo session.

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box — Glenn, I really don’t have any specifics about best pairs or time periods in these lower time frames. I now mainly look at breakouts on the daily timeframe using Narrow Range 4 and 7. What I did do to the indicator is make ...

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box 4 — Well, maybe not perfect. I am glad you like it. I have made some more changes to the indicator. Specifically, the ability to cross 00:00 with the time sets, the addition of a Unique ID to permit multiple indicators and the ...

Box Breakout indicator

Custom Time Frames — See "The 10min!" thread, post #9 which explains how to set up Period_Converter_Opt. url

in need of 2 hours

BreakOut Box 3 — Configured for Frankfurt Opening Range BreakOut. Period A: First thirty minutes after Frankfurt Open Period B: Frankfurt Open minus thirty minutes to London noon.

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box 3 — Configured for Asia Session BreakOut. Period A: Tokyo Open to Frankfurt Open Period B: Frankfurt Open to USA Open

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box 3 — The indicator as it now appears.

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box 3 — Well, I corrected some errors and made some changes. Changes made for BreakOut_Box_3: Corrected error in high-low selection code. Removed ability to plot on Sundays. Other changes were made to facilitate use of this indicator ...

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box 2 — Looks fairly close to the original request. I expanded the limits of the Period Box to catch the contrast between colors. So far, I have only run this on the Strategy Tester. When the price crosses mid-night a large rectangle ...

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box 2 — Markj, Glad to be of some help. It will be interesting to see what you come up with. I decided I did not like the overlay of objects because of the unpredictable results in color. I modified the code so that there are now ...

Box Breakout indicator

BreakOut Box indicator — I wrote a breakout indicator several months ago that was close to what you describe. I put the basic elements together in the attached indicator. The logic is simple and straight forward but has its limits. As long as ...

Box Breakout indicator

Limit of eight buffers — An indicator can have a maximum of eight buffers. The Vegas indicators use eight buffers each on four indicators because of this limit.

Can I have more buffers

Histogram for range — Take a look at the MQL4_Tutorial by Codersguru: url Lessons 10, 11 and 12 shows in detail how to create an indicator for the daily range. A histogram version is attached.

Simple indicator: High-Low

MACD — Give this a try.

Real MACD for MT4?

Posting Image 2 — Roughly equivalent chart using MetaTrader. Posted as a gif image.

Method BB

Posting Image — Instead of pasting your image into word just save it as an image. If you upload one image with an appropriate suffix (jpg, png, gif, etc.) then it will automatically display. The image size is limited to 600x600 pixels. I ...

Method BB

Creating csv files for OHLCV data — OHLCV data from MT4 can be extracted to csv files by using the History Center export. After some time exporting, cutting, pasting and deleting to get the data that I wanted I wrote a script to do this. The ...

Saving data as CSV

Connection to bluebottle — Thanks nvwine for posting your image of the configuration. I am now able to successfully connect to bluebottle. I am in the process of moving and do not currently have an ISP. I use the wireless internet in the motel ...

Email Alerts on MetaTrader?