I just spoke to IC Markets about opening an account and when I asked about historical data I was told that it comes from Metaquotes only. They don't provide it for the MT4 platform. As I need the ability to backtest using the actual brokers data I ...

Looking for LOTS of historical data (1985 and earlier)

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Is there a Stocks forum like FF?

Thanks RParm..... Good advice also.... My strategy is more longer term but I will be drilling down to lower timeframes to place orders throughout the day.

Best Way to set up EA Trading at Home

Hi Hayseed, Appreciate the clarifications. Am I right in assuming that I would use a downloaded version MT4 on my phone?? This might sound thick but if I have the EA running on my PC at home with its own magic number and I log into a ...

Best Way to set up EA Trading at Home

Hi Hayseed, Really appreciate the reply. Great info, so thanks!!! Reading through your comments I do have some further questions. If you have the time I would really welcome some clarification as Im fairly new to MQL4 programming. Are you able to ...

Best Way to set up EA Trading at Home

Thanks blamshakk... that puts my mind at rest.... I only plan on having around 4-5 EAs running at any one time....

Best Way to set up EA Trading at Home

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Best Way to set up EA Trading at Home

Just thought I'd bump this up in case someone who can help missed it

Best way to monitor and analyse EA results on a demo account

Thanks for the reply Pharley....

90% of traders fail...

Hi Pharley, You seem to have a good approach. Couple of observations: 1. Have you considered dropping down to an even lower timeframe (15mins, 5min, etc) in an attempt to get tighter entries and improve your R:R even further? 2. If I have understood ...

90% of traders fail...

To 919gilead, honestKnave and all, Firstly, like all others on here I'd also like to say a big well done for what you guys have created !!! Really impressive guys!! Out of interest has anyone referenced this indicator as part of an EA or is everyone ...

MADdash (Moving Average Distance)

I tried to do this but for some reason the white box just didn't seem to appear. I did find an alternative solution though. I created a function (as per your code) and then called it within the OnTick function. However I added a check to ensure that ...

Clearly reading Comments on Screen when running EA

Thanks cja, I'll take a look.... thanks for the reply...

Clearly reading Comments on Screen when running EA

Hi GumRai, Appreciate the help. I'd like to incorporate this into my EA rather than run a script separately. With this in mind I have created a function using your code and have tried to call it from within OnInit() function with no luck. If I move ...

Clearly reading Comments on Screen when running EA

Thank You Gumrai.... I'll take a closer look at your code to see how its working...

Help with analysing ZigZag indicator

Hi Gumrai, Firstly, a massive thank you for providing this. Whilst working on my EA strategy this afternoon I've just realised that in order to provide necessary flexibility to my EA, I also need to determine the number of pips / or points in the ...

Help with analysing ZigZag indicator