they did — They did, but it's in MT5... Making the sort of changes necessary to improve performance significantly under MT4 would have required such a big re-write that it wouldn't be worthwhile. It's natural that it's been done in the next ...

MT4 Strategy Tester Computer Hardware Bottleneck

it's the tester not the PC — PC speed won't make much difference to the tester as it's only a single threaded process and can't take advantage of the better hardware. It is only using one of your cores and doesn't write enough data to warrant ...

MT4 Strategy Tester Computer Hardware Bottleneck

OK — I've never checked it but from other sources it seems they might have a 9 hour session. What do you think the correct times should be? I emailed them to query it anyway. Regards, Paul.

New very cool CandleTime and session time Clock indicators

or try this — url Here you can also specify your local time zone so it will tell you when each market opens & closes for your local time. Regards, Paul.

New very cool CandleTime and session time Clock indicators

renko eh? — Peter, nice result! I've been 'experimenting' with renko myself lately. How have you incorporated the idea within Gi? It seems an ideal combo. Regards, Paul.

002097's PwR scalping auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood

nice work — Hi All, Nice work, thanks to all the contributors. Steve, was this Gi code line intentional if (trend == down && TradeShort && (Open[1] && SlopeVal && Close[1] < SlopeVal) ) Regards, Paul.

002097's PwR scalping auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood

error 133 — usually one or more of: expert advisors are not enabled on your MT4 options - expert advisors tab the expert advisors button at the top is turned off live trading is disabled on the ea properties - common tab when you apply the ea ...

Trading Made Simple EA by Guess Whom

that's interesting and reminds me... — Hey diceman. Your strategy sounds very similar to Hurst cycles which were originally applied to stocks & shares but which some are now using on 4X. It was interesting that you mention those cycle ...

Trading by the Light of the Moon

and to ensure they close — You could call this instead of OrderDelete. It retries the operation if MT4 is busy handling other things. You need to have called OrderSelect() first before using this (this is done in the other code). Call it like ...

Learning to Code Problem

try this — This should work if I understand what you want correctly. If any buys are active delete all buy stops and similar for sells. Not tested, you can do that bit Regards, Paul. void DeletePendings() { int buycount = 0; int sellcount = ...

Learning to Code Problem

nice one! — Thanks for that. Regards, Paul.

Basket Trading

You can use them just like you would your 'local' PC. They are better suited to EAs because they are up all the time without interruption (99% of the time usually at least). They are fine if you just trade manually too. The remote desktops still ...

Windows XP, Vista, Win7: which do you prefer?

Consider a VPS — I would consider looking at getting a good VPS service and just connect a remote desktop session to it from your current PC (XP upwards). The remote desktop doesn't require much processing power but a decent broadband internet ...

Windows XP, Vista, Win7: which do you prefer?

updated script — I had a PM about the TradeHedgeBUY_8Pair script. Here is a modified version of it. It allows you to set TP & SL if required and also does buys and sells within the one script. It should also adjust itself for micro accounts ...

Basket Trading

DC connections — From my global switch sydney based VPS, I see 2 demo a/c connecting to Sydney and 2 live a/c (1 micro & 1 std) are choosing Melbourne. Server time 06:13 All 4 instances are set to auto configure and have been restarted. I had ...

GoMarkets Discussion

OK will do — Thanks for that, I'll let you know... I may still call him anyway, there are a couple of other things..... Regards, Paul.

InputResizer: edit EA/Indicator settings comfortably

That's what I thought — Thanks for your reply. Looking at the code I thought it should treat script dialogs the same as EA dialogs but it just doesn't. All the EA dialogs work fine but none of the script dialogs. I 'guessed' they might use a ...

InputResizer: edit EA/Indicator settings comfortably

Nice utility, thanks — Very useful, thank you. You wouldn't happen to know the window ID for the script parameters dialogs would you? This is working great for setting EA params but I'd like it to handle script params dialogs too. :nerd: ...

InputResizer: edit EA/Indicator settings comfortably

Thanks for the info (and the investment) — Thanks Chris, Do you have any idea at all when you'd be looking to run a live MT5 ? Would your MT5 setup allow same pair hedging or is that limitation enforced by the MT5 client rather than at the ...

GoMarkets Discussion

this might work — It will monitor and restart an executable if it hangs or the PC is re-started I don't think it alerts you though. url Regards, Paul

Tool to check MT4 is running