I would first demo this method for a few months with chicks only, the Risk-Reward-Ratio is better there.

Need EA to trading hot chicks

I have read the first few postings and he writes you have to wait for the "perfect" setup. Nowhere is defined in exact terms what exactly a "perfect" setup is and i fear it cannot be defined. The RSI and the stochs are most likely only placebos, ...

Forum System turned into EA

Then he used a very unclear terminology. There are a few threads here about splitting OrderSend() into sending opening the order and separately setting stop and limit. All boils down to making a library (or using an existing one), a simple include ...

Making EA's "market exectution"

Using by reference is not as bad as using global variables. In practice the function call will (almost) always happen inside other (small) functions that will declare the needed variables local so you can at least make sure that no side effects will ...

Steve Hopwood's programming room... Share your hints and tips here

Did you find a way to declare an mql4 function that will return an array? I couldn't find any documentation on this and also didn't find an undocumented way so i am still forced to use by reference.

Steve Hopwood's programming room... Share your hints and tips here

2 pip takeprofit for a yen pair could be below the minimum allowed size, at least the error message in this case would be the same as far as i remember. And the suggestion with NormalizeDouble(x, Digits) for all prices is also correct. Although the ...

error: 130:invalid stops

I'm currently collecting some of my findings about the exact requirements and not so obvious details for interfacing Metatrader with your DLLs in this thread: url , so you can save yourself some hours of trial and error.

Visual Basic and MT4

it is possible to write one but it would be much easier if the orders were written into something else than Excel. Excel, due to its incompatibility with almost all other software (software in existence and software yet to be written), is one of the ...

Bulk Ordering from Excel

Are we speaking about Metatrader? In Metatrader all you have is the OrderSend() function. As you can see in the documentation for OrderSend() there is no option to control what the broker should do with this order. The broker will decide on his own, ...

Making EA's "market exectution"

This would duplicate the logic that determines when to stop (in our case we wanted a trailing stop on the equity which is a bit more complicated) across every single EA, which is cumbersome to maintain and you have to specify the same stop ...

Total Equity trailing stop EA for MT4

Whats the difference?

Making EA's "market exectution"

Yes, both things sound familiar. The part with the PNN and the "didn't work" part even more ;-) So many things didn't work, but i still keep trying and *some* things already look promising. And while i keep trying to find the mechanical grail my ...

pattern matching

Try to find a way to create a dll that exports the functions you need with VB. I'm not totally sure if it is possible, i think you have to create an activex object that must be registered and you can then somehow use this like an ordinary dll in MT4 ...

Visual Basic and MT4

I would use the above code only as a last resort if you are dealing with commercial closed source EAs that cannot be turned off. It has some flaws, for example you cannot be 100% sure that in the small time between the closing of all open orders and ...

Total Equity trailing stop EA for MT4

It's an entirely different concept. The ZUP indicator measures the ratio of distances of certain zigzag corners and can only find such type of patterns. My dll scans for a certain (predefined but exchangeable) sequence in close prices as described ...

pattern matching

You must allow dll calls in the EA settings dialog. You can enable them per individual EA or globally for all EAs in the Metatrader settings. They are disabled by default.

pattern matching

equity recorder will start the recording at a virtual equity of $5000 by default. Since it is capable of recording partial equity of individual strategies it naturally can not show the total equity. The total equity would always include all other ...

History of AccountEquity

untested: #define SW_SHOWNORMAL 1 #import "shell32.dll" int ShellExecuteA(int hWnd, string Verb, string File, string Parameter, string Path, int ShowCommand); #import /** * start an external program but DON'T wait for it to finish */ void ...

Total Equity trailing stop EA for MT4

Its an ordinary text file, use any text editor to read it's content, set syntax highlighting to C. (assuming you don't have metatrader installed, otherwise you wouldn't ask this question)

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