kristjantelve I agree with CodeMeister, hes covering his ass. From what you are saying I assume that your system auto trades and can hold positions over night, all done with out you at the monitor. In that case he is right in saying the system has ...

A question to coders - Is this normal?

I under stand a little more now of what your doing but still comfused, are you createing a histogram on the data as in a history or just the open bar and disregarding any history. if your only looking at the open bar then you still need to zero that ...

Tick Size, Tick Rate, Tick Spread, and Tick Logger indicators

zznbrm I have a question, How can one fill a buffer to form a histogram, when your not defineing its element, as the code is writen the only element that is filled is the zero element. Now I know your a better coder then that. Keit int start() { ...

Tick Size, Tick Rate, Tick Spread, and Tick Logger indicators

Non D MT got you going?? The error is not in the 'extern int myInt=21;' veriable, its in the use of it in defining the array elements in this statement 'double myArray[myInt];' you cannot define the elements in an array with a veriable it has to ...

Error: 'myInt' - integer number expected?

Pipanator That is interesting I have never seen any thing like that coded in MQ4 but it can be done, just like you see there too, that is with a manual slide device built into either the chart window or into subwindow. Post all the details that you ...

MT4 Timeframe Scroll Controller

SC answered your PM. Its all MT4, I reconstructed the chart window to show what and were I wanted things. its all coded in mq4. Keit

Toggle custom indicator on and off

Kas I am not giving you a hard time, but making you think of what your really want... I have see people write strength indicators and other things that have an out put in the -/+ range. To explain I will use a strength indicator... Most people will ...

Condition Identifier Indicator?

how would you handle the area of the histogram between +50 through to -50, your need to remove this area on the histogram? Or use a different scale? Keit

Condition Identifier Indicator?

Royston I though I throw this in to; The menu that appears to the left is also a hot spot on the chart if you mouse click on one, it will pop up a ledger sheet with some information on it. this one is the lot sizing. note that it has long and short ...

Toggle custom indicator on and off

Royston what your asking can be done and more, but you have to have the knowledge of how MT runs and programing in general. In the screen shots attatched you can see that not only can the charts be removed but changed, and I have taken it a step ...

Toggle custom indicator on and off

below 50 is classified as what ???

Condition Identifier Indicator?

Koneko As I said above, there are a few ways to do this, but you have not given any details as to how you want to use it. The best way can not be determined with the little you have said so far. Any one can give you a laundry list of different ways, ...

MT4 navigational tips and techniques

SBfx The reason that theres no reply in 3 years to the first post on this thread, and that theres no copy of this with an alert function yet, is that no skilled coder will waste there time on it, theres some useless code there, the coder, and I use ...

sweetspots alert.take profit semi automated

Futurespec your code sample will not enter anything in the description field... From his post it appears he needs; MT has a few things to say; It only states that text and labals not lines... but like a lot of MT thats BS it can be done on all ...

Searching script: Drag and Drop H-line (with predefined description)

Remember its only a tool, you must add your own indicators to derive any thing from it. and do not trade from any window that contains this rotation engine. also you can not have any scripts on this window as MT will force them to end on changes to ...

Take pics from different TF at same time...

bandung what are you saying??? You may be like this one beter. Its a currency portfolio reserach tool. attach it to a chart and what ever indicators you use to eveuate the market and it will let you see each currentcy in your portfolio. ...

Take pics from different TF at same time...

crusader I dont know anything about your set up so I made a general purpose indicator to take screen shots of the 3 screens. its an indicator so it goes into the indicator file. theres a script that will generate ticks to make it work off line and ...

Take pics from different TF at same time...

koneko Theres a couple of ways you can go about this, some are automatic, that is you can program the changes to take place, but you have to relise that when you cange the chart symbol or time period it will recalculate all your indicators from the ...

MT4 navigational tips and techniques

you have your answer in the title of the post "#EURUSD" use the quotation marks to make it a string. The compiler is reading the # as a compiler directive with out the quotation marks. Hens the empty token. Keit

MT4: how to change "EURUSD" to "#EURUSD"?

I found 'IndicatorCounted()' to be buggy too. I dont use it in my code. I prefer to do my own calculations of bars. I found that the series array functions are back wards, that is, in more ways then one. There are ways to create multiple related ...

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