"Price action" vs MA crosses — I can think of two reasons why “price action” based entry techniques are more likely to be productive than those based on technical indicators, like MA crossovers. The first is based on the idea that ...

Cross systems trash? help me!

IMQT, can you be totally sure that you now have both (1) a profitable method, and (2) the mindset necessary to implement it? If not, then what has changed from the way things were before, when you were losing money trading? If nothing has changed, ...

The Biggest Challenge: What will YOU do?

Four Kids, You can do any of the following: With the mouse cursor in the vertical scale area: Drag downward (left button) to compress the chart vertically. Drag upward to undo the compression. Double click (or press numpad 5) to restore the default ...

Vertical scale MT4

59fender, I'm not quite sure what you mean by asluncos indicators. Can you tell me what they are and where I can find them? If an indicator is attached to a forum post, simply save the attached MQ4 or EX4 file in one of the following folders: For ...

How to program Higher-High Higher-Low

Peter, I've never tried Felix's news trading method - hence I'm not commenting on it. And (assuming I understand him correctly) he believes it's virtually impossible to profit by using TA alone. Again, I won't comment unless/until I'm in a position ...

The Biggest Challenge: What will YOU do?

Peter, you're most welcome to. I only just discovered your newbie thread the other day (I've been totally "buried" by so many things!). It's magnificent! Best wishes David

The Biggest Challenge: What will YOU do?

Some suggestions to help you start over........ — Hi IMQTrader As you and I are both discovering, there are no real short cuts to learning profitable Forex trading. Forex is not a “get rich quick” scheme. Just as it takes many years training ...

The Biggest Challenge: What will YOU do?

Leon11, I have attached the Sessions.MQ4 indicator that I use. Perhaps it is the one that Droesparky is referring to? David

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Hi Nmpeters The simple answer to your question is that you can only anchor objects to time and price, not to each other. With regard to plotting text on your charts, MT4 provides "Text" and "Text Labels". Text Labels: These remain at an anchored ...

Question about Text Lables

I apologize — Of course this is quite possible. Perhaps I should point out - as a general comment - that I don't regard this as "my" thread, and it goes without saying that anybody is welcome to post here, about anything that they wish. I ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Hi Jhp2025, Welcome to the forum. If I understand correctly, you would need to post your EA's source code, and have it modified by a programmer. Can I respectfully suggest that you also start a new thread on the "MetaTrader Forum"? I suspect that ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Hi TickJob I’ll try to offer a little more detail than the last poster. It’s possible that there’s a custom indicator that already does this, but I’ve searched my library (of over 500 MT4 indicators), and can’t find one. Re defining “local” highs ...

How to program Higher-High Higher-Low

TTH: IMHO your post is an excellent summary of the trading fundamentals presented here at the forum. I've been reading FF posts for around 12 months, and have not found it easy to assimilate the vast amount of information. I wish you all the best in ...

Lessons learnt from forexfactory beginners forum

In my view, the Martingale is like playing Russian roulette: you never know when that long-enough sequence of losses will occur that will wipe out your account. The more frequently you trade, the greater the likelihood that you will encounter it at ...

Playing the Double-Up Game?

Hi Beero1000 Try the following: url [Note: For some strange reason only the primary mouse button (left for a right-handed user) seems to work navigating the links on this site...... perhaps it's because I use Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet ...

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Hi Dreamliner It seems that MT4's in-built indicators can't be deleted (which makes sense), but right-clicking any custom indicator in the Navigator allows the "Delete" option..... well, at least it does for me. What happens if you try the ...

Attaching Moving Average to MACD

Dreamliner, try this. I'm only guessing, but I think it might work. 1. In the Navigator, right click on the indicator and click on Delete to remove it. (Note that this removes both of the relevant .mq4 and .ex4 files from the folder c:\program ...

Attaching Moving Average to MACD

Dreamliner, Benssol is correct. Press Ctrl-N to open the Navigator, then open the "Indicators" tree. Drag the MA indicator into the MACD window, and then set the Apply To parameter as shown in Benssol's image. David

Attaching Moving Average to MACD

JJK2, the ^ symbol is used to perform a binary exclusive OR of two integers, not to raise a number to the power of another number. To raise X to the power of Y, use Z=MathPow(X,Y) According to the on-line help, X and Y can be double (floating point) ...

'^' - bitwise operators are to be applied to integer value

Hi Zinvestor Does the attached indicator suffice? It doesn't change color between positive and negative, but you can set a horizontal line at the zero point (on the "Levels" tab) to delineate between positive and negative slope values. Re your ...

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