ATR is a default indicator in MT4, but you need to create your own indicator if you want to apply it to price (e.g. as a trailing stop). Attached is an example that might help to get you started: -- ATRperiod is the number of prior bars over which ...

What's the formula for this indicator?

It can be done....... — TC, do the following: 1. Place the Momentum (ROC) indicator on your chart. Change Fixed Maximum and Miinimum on parameters tab to 100 and 0 respectively. Change the color to "None" to hide the indicator. 2. Press Ctrl-N ...

RSI of ROC

Another suggestion........... — MTF, check out this big thread (the method is all about trading breakouts thru Demark supply/demand lines on H4 charts). url Click on the paper-clip icon and browser-search the 394 attachments for ".mq4" ...

Demarklines EA

YR, the indicators attached to this link will give you daily/weekly pivots, with mid-points, customizable daily start time, and historical pivots for prior days/weeks. http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=1641288 A forum search will likely ...

Pivot Indicator

Mlawren2, I don't know if this is helpful to you, but here's a link to MT4 navigational tips: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=1825195 Good luck, David

Real newbie to Metatrader

MM8, I'm not quite sure what you're describing, but it might be some kind of ATR-based trailing stop, or a countback line (try a Google search on Daryl Guppy countback line). Good luck, David

What's the formula for this indicator?

Dragoncat, that's a very neat solution. Thanks for sharing. I've been writing EAs for around 6 months now, and I didn't know that the WindowPriceMax/Min functions existed! Best wishes, David

How to draw arrows perfectly???

Thanks for your reply...... — Thanks fxstu, I eagerly await your answers to my questions. IMHO your EMA(10) and LSMA filters are a big improvement. A couple of other points for your consideration: 1. Can I assume that the 100 pip profit ...

Swef System

a couple more questions...... — .

Swef System

A couple of questions.... — Hi Fxstu, Just trying to understand the final SWEF rules in post #163. i) The setting for LSMA is 34 - yes? If no, what is it? ii) Points 3 and 4 from post #1 (blue typeface) are not included in post #163 and ...

Swef System

Erron, The pivot indicators in the following link url meet your points 1 & 2. If, by turning the levels on and off (point 3) you mean the mid-levels, simply remove the mid-level indicator from your chart. MT4 supports a maximum of 8 plots per ...

Configurable Pivots with M levels

Caveat emptor! — Moon, assuming that the data modelling quality is satisfactory, the next two figures that I look at are the number of trades, and profit factor. If number of trades < 1,000, then IMHO the sample size is too small to offer any ...

MQL question

Eagle, I assume that you realize that history can be downloaded via the history center (like nvwine says). Press F2, then select pair/timeframe, and use the Export button. Beyond that, do any of the following links help? Export price history to ...

Need help downloading quotes history

Split_unit, many thanks for the feedback. I'm glad that you find Plot_News as useful as I do. The function that grabs the data from the FF server is handicapped in much the same way, if the server is overloaded. There's no way around this, at least ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Autotod, sorry, it can't be done. Only workaround I can think of is to plot two dotted lines that are so close together that they overlap. Or find a font that plots a thick line with some whitespace at the each end of the character, and then attach ...

Variable thickness dotted lines

Fair enough, FXNorm, my comment is simply based upon JohnW's system description (see blue typeface in quote). From the very first post in this thread, and the exchange of PMs I had with JohnW, he seemed like a very honest guy. Somebody I could ...

The Holy Grail - Found

Please try the following......... — GFC, If the software is faulty, I want to fix it for everybody. But first I want to make sure that I understand what you're saying. Please see the attached image below. OK, first you click the SETUP button ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Thanks everybody for the feedback, glad to hear Plot_News is working 100% once again. David

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Thanks, Bruce — Hi Bruce, Plot_News started out very small, and was originally intended to be solely for my own use. If I’d known how many hours I’d spend enhancing it, and how many people would end up using it, I might well have marketed it ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

This isn't a news trading EA. It's merely an indicator that plots little circular symbols on your MT4 charts that show: (i) what news occurred in the past, and when, so you can view the effect that the news had on price; and (ii) what news is about ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator