@Tickmill Today my trade took 1000 ms round turn (net) to execute. Too slow, guys. You know that in trading speed is crucial?

Tickmill

No, but execution is painfully slow: 500+ ms. Which is like eternity, and may cause loss of several pips when price changes fast, not to mention silppage. Time to server is like 30 ms and should be by far the biggest time slice in the equation, ...

Tickmill

Look at a m1, m5, m15 charts. How many price reversals (local low/high) do you see? All of them can be traded, so you can make a ton of money every day.

What's the average percentage a trader makes monthly

Very suspicious. Seems intentionally to me. Looks like they want to sell you some more than just an EA.. E-mail is a common venue for distributing malware, and this EA may well contain or load malware and by e-mail bypass checks from MetaQuotes - if ...

Hacking an MT4 account via EA

Plese provide a direct Link, not this one which is from a FXCM campaign, with trackers.

FX Trading in Europe under threat - act now

@Tickmill Finally MetaQuotes has "pulled the plug" on their outdated MetaTrader 4 (MT4) platform. Q: When will Tickmill free its customers from the burden of having the sole option of trading with the inadequate MT4 platform? It's a shame.. And more ...

Tickmill

Gooood news, everyone!

Metaquotes Will No Longer Sell its MT4 Trading Platform

Without OOP: //| ss.mq4 | //| rockit | #property strict #property indicator_chart_window int OnInit() { EventSetMillisecondTimer(250); return(INIT_SUCCEEDED); } int OnCalculate(const int rates_total, const int prev_calculated, const datetime ...

Let's code in C++, Daytrade, & Daydream :)

Best thing about cTrader account right now is that one can use the FIX API at no additional cost! That's quite a bold move from Spotware; and it makes all the other stuff opsolet for the pros. But that's the only good thing about a cTrader account. ...

MT4 vs cTrader: Which platform would you recommend?

Not true. The only valid source of information is metaquote's site, keep in mind.

Difference between MT4 and MT5

Not true. Mql4 has been changed since build 600 and now is the same as Mql5, a subset of C++. Do not confuse language with implemented functionality (functions). It is true that MQ almost left the possibility to code for mt4 in the old way, but one ...

MT4 or MT5, Which do you prefer?

MT5 of course. More possibilities..

MT4 or MT5, Which do you prefer?

Loop through all (non historical) orders; select order and look if order type is above 1 (indicating a pending order); if so, get order lots and add to existing lot size. double lots = 0; for(int i = OrdersTotal()-1; i >= 0; i--) { if(OrderSelect(i, ...

Need help with this part of code mql4

ECN ist just a means of routing orders, and has nothing to do with slippage. The real impertinence in forex is that MetaTrader-type of brokers simply ignore the slippage parameter in the MetaTrader orders. There is no IOC or FOK type of ordering. ...

True ECN/STP Broker recommendations

The simple answer: in order to spare me the guesswork. And I have not yet come across anything more useful. Yet I first had to make sense of indicators: pick the appropriate ones, and equally important, the right settings. However, indicators alone ...

A question to all you indicator traders

Your comparison is tricky (and you have an error).. It is really simple: you compare the typical cost of trading: typical spread for "no-commission" brokers, versus typical spread plus commission (commission to spread) for commission based brokers. ...

scalping - commissions and lower spread vs spread all included

Naturally one would generate an event and use an event handler. The function EventChartCustom() will do. Combined with a broadcast event function. And the event handler OnChartEvent(). For an example see (code is at end of page): url

Best Way To Code EA To Communicate Across Multiple Pairs?

The problem with mt4 is that as long as mt4 exists, the wast majority of brokers will not offer an alternative platform like mt5. Because contrary to popular belief, mt4 (server) is not for free (neither is mt5), it costs a lot of money on a ...

MetaQuotes "This is the last MT4 upgrade"

As far as I can see, brokers offer MT5 only under less favorable terms compared to MT4. Then it is clear that demand is lower. But that is the fault of brokers. Perhaps try with better conditions Advantages of MT5 not mentioned before: netting; ...

MT5 brokers with zero spreads

The parameter passes an input value ("[in]") only. There might be parameters that pass an output value ("[out]"), where something will be put (back) (by the callee), i.e. as you can see here: url

What is [in] ?