Hi Gumrai, I finally managed to find a crude solution which ended up being almost 3 times as many lines of codes as your elegant solution above !! I have now replaced it with your code and am working my way through it to try to understand it fully. ...

Issues with trying to sort

Thanks everyone :-) The collective knowledge here is great.....

Quick Programming question

Thank you to you as well for responding so promptly... Happy Trading....

Help with using iHighest in an indicator

Firstly, Thank you HonestK as this worked I thought iHighest function returned the shift which i interpreted as "the number of bars" so was assuming that the result had to be a number between 1 - 10.

Help with using iHighest in an indicator

Hi Ferru, I tried that initially and that didn't work either. When I change it to this all the arrows on the chart still disappear although I can clearly see examples where both conditions (i & ii) are met. Correct me but my understanding is that ...

Help with using iHighest in an indicator

Thanks for the reply Genghistar. Good points made. I'm actually looking for advice as to how others go about "confirming" the reliability of their strategy via a demo account. ie. do they host it on a vps, use trade explorer, etc, etc and if so, how ...

How do you validate your trading idea?

Hi, Just thought I'd bump this up in case anyone who may be able to offer advice missed it. Thanks.

How do you validate your trading idea?

Hi All, Following on from my previous question, if I have a strategy which I would like to demo test on a live account what is the best approach for doing this? I'd like to test it over a few months (say 3-6mths) and the system is designed to look ...

How do you validate your trading idea?

Hi FerruFX and Gumrai, A big thank you to both of you for your help and advice.... Being new to programming sometimes I'm not sure which is the best approach.... Happy Trading guys Chorlton

Help with determining time elapsed since an indicator reading

Hi Gumrai, Thank you for your input. I appreciate your help here and will try and go through and understand your code.

Help with coding this problem - sort buy orders

Thank you rockit for your help here. I now have both your code and Gumrai's to look at and hopefully learn from.

Help with coding this problem - sort buy orders

Hi rockit and thanks for the input. I'm fairly new to MQL4 programming so to date have had no experience with arrays or how to get data into them. Would you be able to offer any additional help in this regard? I've gone through the MQL4 ...

Help with coding this problem - sort buy orders

Hi FerruFX, All sorted now !! I tracked the problem down to the Strategy Tester. It needed to be RESET.

MT4 Difference between ATR indicator and iATR function!

Hi FerruFX, Thanks. Are you able to give me any ideas as to what may be going on then, or where to look? My code definitely states ATRValue = iATR(NULL,0,10,0) and I am using this variable ATRValue to check against for my EA. When I stop the ...

MT4 Difference between ATR indicator and iATR function!