both are correct. It is up to you to find the time frame you are most comfortable trading. I do horrible in longer time frames but really well in shorter time frames.

Which advise is correct?

Tools -> Options -> Charts -> change max bars in history and max bars on chart. you will need to shut down then restart mt to complete the setup.

Setup MT not to delete historical data

1 minute charts are as low as you can go on MT4.

30 Seconds Chart

The only people the NFA is doing a favor for are the lazy get-rich-quick thinking morons who come to forex looking for a lottery ticket. Let's make it perfectly clear...... INCREASED LEVERAGE DOES NOT EQUAL INCREASED RISK! 2% risk at 400:1 IS EQUAL ...

NFA has it's wish

If you factor in the 16+ hour days plus weekends then it has been at least 3 years of study and testing. Been generating a consistent profit for a while now. oh, the study and testing still hasn't ended. Never will.

How long to be profitable?

It's been a tremendous month. I will be around here and there but because of a move next week it could be spotty as to when I am here. Hopefully this is the last move for a while. Hard to turn down some of the homes for sale around here, people get ...

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it is best to post all of the code when asking for help. Without it simple things like where "long" and "short" variables are being declared and/or set cannot be determined.

Modified Trailing Stop Routine

shhhh, nobody tell him that he has at least 4-6 indicators on his chart. Maybe they slipped in without him noticing.

Classic Method Strategy

for (int i = 0; i <= 0; i++) this statement will only execute one time before i becomes larger than 0. Try it this way: for (int i = 0; i <= Orderstotal(); i++)

Modified Trailing Stop Routine

Thanks for the comments. I am now going offline and I will be there until the 2nd of October. Should be back online sometime between the Asian Close and U.S. open on the 2nd. I sincerely hope that you will exceed your own expectations and make heaps ...

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no. I learned money management early.

Have you ever blown an account? (Poll)

Please understand that I am not knocking everyones efforts on this EA but in my experience I have never seen a trading method with a stop loss bigger than the take profit that has been successful over a longer period of time. In the previous test, ...

FrankenPip's C4 EA --- Would appreciate help

The All Time Greatest Trading Secret That No One On FF will tell you until NOW! — This may get long winded so bear with me...... It is about 11 pm eastern time U.S. as I start to write this long winded explanation that I really hope will ...

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personally I am looking forward to the day computers do what we want them to do and not what we tell them to do.

2 Days now, cannot make this code work

o<=0 should be o>=0 since you are counting down.

2 Days now, cannot make this code work

Yes, but he was asking if "they" work not if "those" work. They may be different than those.

Seriously, does those EAs really work?

If you are using metatrader you can go to the history center and download tons of data.

data needed to backtest system

34,000,000 +...... now what significance does that number have? That's the number of pageviews the top three threads in the "Interactive Trading " forum have combined. They are also bound by one other thing. They are filled with "experts", "guru's" ...

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That's probably a good assessment of what I am doing. I have not given much thought to trying to describe what I am doing. Not that I think it has no value, just that I have never thought about it. I just know that it works.

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I find it interesting how much time people spend trying to predict where price is going. Some do really well at it. I applaud them for their skills, I really do. I can't justify the expenditure of time and effort. I guess I am lazy in that respect. ...

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