Hendrix, as far as I can tell, these are retained internally until MT4 is exited, at which point they are saved in file alerts.ini in the folder c:\Program Files\<MT4 broker name>\profiles David

Where are the Alerts saved in MT4?

Un6oitil, are you asking for trailing stop indicators? Attached are a couple of ATR-based trailing stops that I've used. Parabolic SAR (supplied with MT4) is another option. David

Need of help on trailing stop ea!

Jim, one thing you could possibly try is to install three instances of Alpari MT4 into three different folders. I've never had reason to try this, hence I have no idea if it will work satisfactorily. But, if it saves you having to buy additional ...

3 MT4 accounts, same machine, same time?

Bwk, yes you can. The second last parameter (highlighted in the text that I pasted in below, from the MetaEditor on-line help) has a value of 0 thru 7, that correspond to the values in buffers 0 thru 7 of the custom indicator, respectively. The ...

icustom help

Trujillo, MT4 shows the "used margin" and "available (free) margin" instead (see the red arrows in the attached graphic). My explanation of risk and leverage here. Hope this helps, David

True Leverage in MT4

For anybody seeking help with their trading, see this recent thread. The link happens to be to my own post, but there are some excellent posts by others, who are more experienced than I am, in the same thread. David

i'm lost.....

Also, the calculation in MT4's MACD is not strictly correct. More info here. There are other custom-made MACD indicators attached to ealier posts in this thread. David

Confusion about MACD

Ustcer, some info (and pivot indicators) in the following posts: url url url url url There are plenty of other pivot indicators if you perform a forum search. Hope it's useful, David

Pivot Point and Fabonacci Level

OK, you got me! (aren't these animated emoticons fun?) I'm not sure that I have deep enough pockets to run a Martingale across a 10,000 pip chasm, while somehow banking regular, worthwhile profits along the way. But ...

Buy/Sell Stop MM Strategy?

Burger, I think there's a good reason why this can't be done tidily. For example, if I buy 2.3 lots at 1.6889 and another 4.1 lots at 1.6895, then when the orders are combined, I would have 6.4 lots at an average price of (1.6889 x 2.3 + 1.6895 x ...

MQ4 sending Pending Orders with OrderSend

LiS, As I see it, the bottom line is that any activity that involves speculation and risk is ultimately subject to expectancy theory. However impressive (or otherwise) the theory might appear, the laws involving probability, expectancy, etc are as ...

Buy/Sell Stop MM Strategy?

Fair enough, if you consider multiple timeframes. David

Buy/Sell Stop MM Strategy?

Rabid, that's exactly my point - MM operates independently of expectancy. The latter is determined solely by the efficacy of one's entries and exits. The fact that nobody's taken over the world by writing an MM-based EA that employs random entries ...

Can you actually live off Forex trading?

LiS, I don't believe it turns my theory on its head. If you're saying that you can succeed long-term with random entries and exits, then I must disagree. Costs make trading a negative sum game. Re MM, you can: -- vary position size, but with random ...

Buy/Sell Stop MM Strategy?

LiS, are you saying that it's possible to profit without studying price charts (given that LudaPtica says that both TA and FA are unnecessary)? If a simple MM algorithm is all that's necessary to be long-term profitable, then the large fund managers ...

Can you actually live off Forex trading?

D2, thanks for the feedback. I'm still undecided about NCI, and I'm snowed under with other projects at the moment. MM8, thanks for the feedback. Migrating the indicator to another platform would necessitate a significant amount of work, including ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Zykas, more info here and here. Hope this helps, David

pp calculation

Hypnos, copy the file into the C:\Program Files\<MT4 broker name>\experts\indicators folder. Then quit and restart MT4. Press Ctrl-N to open the Navigator. Open the 'Custom Indicators' tree, and drag the indicator onto your chart. Set the parameters ...

need Linear Regression Indicator

Stcktrdr, It's a long time since I've used MetaStock, but stdev(C,10) looks like a MetaStock formula, if I recall correctly. Is it possible that you're confusing MetaStock with MetaTrader? David

How to calculate standard deviation?

Let's assume the spread for GJ is 7 pips. So, everything else being equal, the odds against 15 consecutive winners (with TP=100, SL=50) is approximately [(100+7)/(50-7)]^15 or 868,420 to 1. Might as well play Powerball. David

$100 to Infinity - 20pips