Brakkar: Some decisions depend on your budget and your programming skill level. No, MT does not offer native tick charts, but - yes, if you know how to capture the ticks as they come in you can build your own charts from them - likewise from other ...

Is metatrader the right software ?

scripts and hotkeys — Does Saxo have scripts? Can they be started with hotkeys?

Metatrader vs. Saxo-account ??

Check out TradeStation, but only 1 broker. eSignal - good charts and scripts, some hooks for direct submit of orders to various brokers. MB Trading - write your own in C or VB. MT4 is probably the easiest and most straightforward to get a system up ...

Is metatrader the right software ?

thanks — Hey 4X: I actually got this to work. Sending data from Excel to MT4. It took me some time to figure out what you were doing with all that shifting - now I see you are using all 4 bytes of the integer. I thought at first it was some ...

Named Pipes for MT4

lumesh: Not sure I can answer your question totally. Different strokes for different folks. Some people deal only in options. To be good at it one must understand time decay and volatility. One problem now with outright contracts is the margin on a ...

E-mini S&P500 futures - buy underlying & put option

show screen shot — Post a screen shot - bmp or jpg etc I don't know what error you are getting - I'm using Excel2000 on XP - maybe you are using a newer version and/or Vista and have security issues..??

Help Needed With Xls Script

no scripts — The only function call is to a built in function CORREL - The errors I get on it is that each pair/symbol must be listed in the Market Watch window in order to get data. Do a list all symbols and try again. Ken.

Help Needed With Xls Script

Thanks — 4X: Thank you very much - I know this sort of thing takes a while to develop and debug. I can see that it will have use between VB (and/or VBA) and MT4 due to the restricted DDE interface. I am also working on an Ninja Trader app that ...

Named Pipes for MT4

pipes — 4X: Would you post a code snippet of the pipes usage? Thanks, Ken.

backtesting on c++/vb

free — free training on this stuff at info @ commoditytradingschool . com (and I have no connection with them)

E-mini S&P500 futures - buy underlying & put option

delta — An at-the-money option has a delta of about .5 - that is - it will move about 50% as much as the underlying. The further out of the money the lower the delta. The further in the money the higher the delta, but I doubt it would reach 1. ...

E-mini S&P500 futures - buy underlying & put option

and also — You can also sell a call above that to offset some of the cost of the put - this is named a "collar" - it limits your potential gain, but reduces your cost.

E-mini S&P500 futures - buy underlying & put option

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MT4 with USD index, DownJone index and Gold

No market stands alone. The currency futures in Chicago open at 7:20 am CT, and then 10 minutes later there is usually news. Bonds also open at 7:20 CT. There are "pros" on every continent in every time zone. At 9:30 am CT on Wednesday there is an ...

what start hour do the pros use?

see post #2 — 1) Study and code the example in post #2. If you get that down it will save you hours and hours. When an indicator is first loaded it is given all the Bars (lets say there are 1000 of them). The number processed so far (ie ...

Programming Newbie. Please Help.

use F1 for help — highlight the command, hit F1.

How to change the size?

Gain — url has years of data at the tick level - you can consolidate it up to 1-minute

1 minute data

see — url

Which E-mail Providers Can be Used for MT4 E-mail Alerts?

Post Message required — The offline chart must be told to do a refresh. That is done with a PostMessage win32 api call. see line 303+ in PeriodConverter: if(hwnd == 0) { //trying to detect the chart window for updating hwnd = ...

How to display cross currencies in MT4

I got a simple MsgBox to display a popup message. Any thing more complicated gives me an error "Trying to read/update protected memory." Enough for now, this takes too much time.

Passing data from one MT4 client to another