That's just one more way "pipettes" give the advantage to the broker!

MT4 Buy Stop at Bid instead of Ask

Thanks, I will check that tomorrow. Ken ps: No VPS

Trading Dow Futures and Silver with Pippo EA

Oh, forgot to say, using the EA and indi from the first post.

Trading Dow Futures and Silver with Pippo EA

fxpro — I'm using FxPro, standard settings except I made all the Lots whole numbers, just shifted the decimal over. Have no idea what the P variable does. Thanks for the reply.

Trading Dow Futures and Silver with Pippo EA

what hours — Do you turn it off after hours, or let it run all night? I started a fxpro demo late today, running on 15 min chart. Had a few winners, but now after hours in the red. It missed one entry by one point (tick), so watching this and ...

Trading Dow Futures and Silver with Pippo EA

yahoo finance might have it (free) ps: with the free NinjaTrader you get a free link to yahoo and good charting.

Stocks historical data 1900+

I do not know of one - never seen one. ps: Others have posted tick data collectors/programs better than the ones I posted. They are all clunky. Use Ninja Trader (free version).

Modify Tick Chart Indicators

NYMEX Futures

Since gold and silver are going to be banned in the USA

free NT — Ninja Trader ver 7 is free and handles IB data. It can filter out overnite and Sunday data if you do not want to see it. 3 hr, 3 min, not sure about quarerly never tried it.

Does IB TWS have 3 minutes, 3 hours and quarterly timeframe?

busy busy busy — Ben: This might be overkill, but I put it in all my EAs and it works: if(!IsTradeAllowed()) Sleep(500); //no thread available if(!IsTradeAllowed()) Sleep(500); //no thread available if(!IsTradeAllowed()) Sleep(500); //no ...

2 quick questions and hopefully simple answers

U.S. Index futures open at 9:30 ET, close at 4:15 pm ET. There is no "markets open at 8 am". Different commodities on different exchanges open at different times. See CMEGroup website (Globex) for details of indexes, and ICE for Russell, NYMEX for ...

Futures/Indicies Trading hours

shell execute — url see post 2 ps: well i see now this thread is years old :=)

how do I run external programs within mt4?

No special system, just trying to stay with the trend. Using the 1-minute chart for the "long term". Using a tick or seconds chart for entry. Mainly trendlines, s/r, 123s. I like grids at 00 levels and constant distance ma channels. I found scalping ...

Scalping the DAX?

Non-d: What broker are you using? 4 or 5 digit? Thanks, Ken

Triangular Arbitrage

Hey Non-d: Good work. I just took a look at your code. The only advice I can offer at this time is that all variables should be static. "Time is of the essence" in this endeavor and allocating variables more than once is a waste of time. Can you ...

Triangular Arbitrage

Too Much Margin — The margin is too much for me - about $12,000 last time I looked on IB (Interactive Brokers). But I have charted it. Here is a pic of a 15-second chart on Ninja Trader ver 6.5, with some of my indicators. Ver 6.5 is becoming ...

Scalping the DAX?

1. DDE.? It would have to be a customized DDE, like Pipes or Mailslots (see posts by me and sangmane on how to do IPC - (Inter Process Communication). 2. Offline charts - have secondary MT4s collect the data and write it to the hst file of the ...

Getting data feeds from multiple brokers

Brooks — Working on "Al Brooks" Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar - for the SERIOUS Trader Yes, you better be damn serious. Tough read. Good stuff tho. For you wanna-be-scalpers - this is it.

Whatcha Read Lately?

so lonely — I must be the only one getting partial fills.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

partial fills — on demo: Sometimes on a partial fill, I get the second ticket number and the from / to ticket numbers are in comments and the lots are correct for each ticket. Other times, I know there was a partial from looking at the log, ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction