Depends on your speed. I have fiber because I use it for other things than trading (bloomberg, news feed, etc) ADSL should work, but again it depends on your speed. Yes, reduce the number of bars in history and chart for your EA trading platforms ...

Difference between Hosting MT4 in a VPS and in a common PC

Tools -> Options -> Chart and I'm on FiOS (fiber optic) so 20mbps

Difference between Hosting MT4 in a VPS and in a common PC

Well.... I'm running 20 MT4 terminals on one computer. 1.6Ghz celeron processor, 1GB ram. It's been sufficient thus far. Just make sure that when you load the EAs on the charts, reduce the bar history to ~1,000 bars. Most EAs don't look past 1000 ...

Difference between Hosting MT4 in a VPS and in a common PC

You can do that. It's certainly possible. The main reason I see people using a VPS is because their own internet connection isn't reliable.

Difference between Hosting MT4 in a VPS and in a common PC

What's wrong with any of the Generic Breakout EAs? url Kore also coded a generic breakout EA url

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

The short answer: No. The long answer: Stuff coded in MT4 needs to be tweaked to run in MT5

Does all EA in MT4 can run in coming MT5?

Oh, I'm sorry. That looked a lot like the lower wick.

Murrey Math Daily System

That's a huge spike!

Murrey Math Daily System

Just have the EA scan through all the trades and see if the magicnumber matches the EA's magicnumber. If it does, then don't trade...

Code to prevent Rogue Trades

I'm submitting an old EA for sure. But I have so many to choose from I'm still going to try my web-based signal generation.

Forex Robot World Cup?

There are plenty of ways to manipulate an MT4 backtest in addition to overoptimization. Just look at what I did here. I have until the end of the month, so I'll play with the concept and post here if there any favorable results.

Forex Robot World Cup?

You know Fulltime, I think if I move the logic to a webserver, (ea just feeds data), I stand a better chance of hiding my logic, while exposing my code within the rules. I'm gonna play with this...

Forex Robot World Cup?

Well, I'm looking at the rules: B(14) - Should the entrant of a submitted EA be announced as a winner of any prize category, said entrant (as the acknowledged owner), hereby agrees to unconditionally grant to the FRWC organization sole, exclusive ...

Forex Robot World Cup?

tkimble's daily system sounds almost exactly like yours: url

I need an EA Coded

Not in MT4. A nice workaround would be to click on the chart, press "enter" and type in: EURUSD, 15 Just put the pair in, a comma, and the timeframe you want.

Can this be done?

OrderSelect(BuyTicket, SELECT_BY_TICKET, MODE_TRADES); Also, a suggestion to detect order type... if(OrderType() == OP_BUY) { do whatever it is you do when the pending order converts to a market order } if(OrderType() == OP_SELL) { do whatever it is ...

Setting closing price for pending orders

What really sucks is I now have to convert my EA library. What sucks even more is the strategy tester may be crippled even further (can't use your own tick data).

MT5 For Download

I think something is happening to ticket between OrderSend and OrderModify Another possibility is: OrderModify(OrderSend(),0,0,Blue);

Setting closing price for pending orders

Yes. The EA is running on the platform, and thus, needs the platform open. Yes, in order for the EA to send signals to the broker (change stoploss/takeprofit send order, etc), it needs to be connected to the internet.

How can one use the expert advisors?

I'm curious, when you say you have a friend on the street, do you mean works in a wall street building (janitor, receptionist, "waste management engineer") or something like that? I had the pleasure of working on the street for a trading desk as a ...

55 day channel and 21 day Trailing Stop by Van Tharp