The last piece of code is what I use myself for lotsizes. I'm not sure what you need the balances from last day, week and month for but I believe the only way to keep tabs is by running an EA and using a global variable that updates the values every ...

Adding Compounding Rate to EA

Wow, I am shocked. Alorente's trading system is bogus?! My world has collapsed. Now, I wasn't really using his system or even thinking about testing it. I did stumble into his thread and when I saw his avatar I was psyched. He looked like the cool ...

The life of a trading system on Forex Factory

Thanks guys, I figured it was something simple like that.

Any way to use extern values with scripts?

I'm a horrible coder and my heart is as black as oil. Let me know when you're desperate enough.

Looking for help from good EA coders

Uhm, but what if I'm kind of pain-averse (whatever you would call the opposite of a masochist)? Not that you would "rob" many guys from painful experiences because most of the time people are too stubborn and stupid to listen to others. From all ...

One thing you would pass on

Yea sure you can be relieved that it is not being implemented and it might not be implemented in forex either way, but this is more then about individual inconvenience. This is the perfect example of how democracy does not and never will work. The ...

Tobin Tax Effect on Forex

Around a foot?

Forward Trading and Backtesting difference

2nd timeframe shouldn't have any problem as long as you manually change this through either external int or through conditional operators. How have you backtested? If you download automatically from MT4 server or use the same MT4 data that is ...

Forward Trading and Backtesting difference

This is a big one for me, as I've learned MQL4, been programming new EA's non-stop, when what I should've been doing is examining how and why markets move and what could help me with identifying these moves. I've read a couple of books about ...

One thing you would pass on

What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Do you get an error when it tries to open a position? If so, what error? Does it open weird lot amounts? I added in a digits check and if it's either 2 or 3 digits it adjusts to JPY pairs. If possible, try to do a ...

simple trend method EA request, will pay

No. Tradehour works with the time of the server on the broker you are using. A broker which uses +2 GMT is 2 hours ahead of GMT so you need to set TradeHour to 2 (0:00 + 2 = 02:00).

simple trend method EA request, will pay

Hitting both stoplosses will only possibly happen due to 60 pip ticks (with using an EA) or being too slow. The main danger is new support being formed between 30-59 pips from current price which will cause 3 trades to lose 30 pips. @2+2 What do you ...

simple trend method, discussion requested

I intend to follow all these steps with every system I post here, for science! I shall find out what happens to "the guru" after the system threads die.

The life of a trading system on Forex Factory

I'm bumping this because I want to ask folks to drop their opinions on how improvements could possibly be made. The system is pretty simple and I have seen similar systems (one in a thread called something like "Big banks and institutions" or ...

simple trend method, discussion requested

Hey, just read your message. I think it was posted before we talked on skype, let me know if I need to write it up here or if it's all clear now.

simple trend method EA request, will pay

I'm not sure if this is the right place for such a question (I have tried searching the thread and didn't find any answer). I'm currently running a demo account on MBT UK and if the results of my system continue to be good I will probably sign up ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Ah that makes sense. Of course the part outside start doesn't get ran again and as such the variable doesn't get redefined as 30 again.

External int changes into -570425344 (No calculations or whatever)