As long as it takes for you to make money on a coin toss.

What is the key to sucessful FOREX trading?

//return number of open trades int TradeCount = 0; for(int T = OrdersTotal(); T >= 0; T--) { if(OrderMagicNumber() == MagicNumber && OrderSymbol() == Symbol() && (OrderType() == OP_BUY || OrderType() == OP_SELL)) TradeCount++; }

How do I allow only 1 open trade at all times?

Change the object to horizontal lines.

New backround chart design

The short answer is: You don't. You'd need to use Bid/Ask - OrderOpenPrice() to get the pip value.

How do I close a trade based on pips count?

you multiply your gains by 1000 and divide your losses by 1 million

You know you're over confident as a trader when.....

Symbol() => Currency Pair Period() => Timeframe in minutes (1440 for D1)

Need Help With My Code

Just get the current stochastic value... Inverted value = 100 - Current Value

Inverted Stochastic

Then compare each permutation of MAs MA1Current MA1Previous MA2Current MA2Previous MA3Current MA3Previous if(MA1Current > MA2Current && MA1Current > MA3Current && MA2Current > MA3Current && MA1Previous < MA2Previous && MA1Previous < MA3Previous && ...

Need Help With My Code

There is very rarely a bar where multiple moving averages are exactly the same. Instead, you should check for the cross of multiple moving averages. so.... if(FastMACurrent > SlowMACurrent && FastMAPrevious < SlowMAPrevious) Print("Cross Up")

Need Help With My Code

double LastPrice = iClose(NULL, 0, iBarShift(NULL, 0, StrToTime("20:00") - 24*3600, true));

EA compare yesterdays 8pm price against todays 11am price

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I suspect you'll need to delete your .hst files in the history folder. Those history files have a header which I think wasn't updated for build 226. I deleted those files, redownloaded the data and no problems thus ...

Help with strategy tester please

Backtester confirmed working for me (build 226). Windows XP XP2 and Windows server 2k8

Did anyone else have to do that MT4 live update today?

Successful trader is a profitable and disciplined trader. A trader's success increases with time and gains (adjusted for drawdown)

So, what IS a successful trader?

Don't. This is trading without a safety net. If you lose the account, what happens?

borrow money from credit card to trade? without hurting your trading emotion?

I think someone already did this: url url url url

Need help interfacing a Matlab DLL with Metatrader

Hey Carl, Your method identifies bars based on their relative shape. I'm not sure if you intended for this circumstance, but let's assume we have two bars which are perfect scaled replicas of each other. When looking at a chart, would you visually ...

Pattern Matching Concept EA

I'm averaging 10-12GB / week across all my servers.

bandwidth usage with mt4

If those 4 are your only choices, I'd suggest C#, but for MQL5. MQL4, I think you're better off learning that outright.

What's the best programming language to learn?

Are you running the application as administrator? Right click on the metatrader icon and click "Run As Administrator" As I understand it, in Windows 7, is has to be done on a per-application basis.

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When running Metatrader, make sure to "Run As Administrator"

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