Just want to make it clear that I have never called what I do on the 1 min chart the Holy Grail or even the Holy Crap! That rumor was started by another. I have full respect for any person who can pull pips out of the market and deposit them into ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

most of the yen pairs do well during Asia. I like EURJPY and GBJPY during Asia. I don't usually trade London so I can't give much input there.

London/Asian session

mini lots will most likely be 0.1 with your broker your purchases were standard lots 1.0 and 2.0

Position size, Pips and Leverage calculation...

Does just using Bid return the same value?

Getting that 5th digit?

Thanks for all the nice comments, you are starting to make me blush. Asia has come out to play tonight. Between my normal strategy and the enhancement I worked on over the weekend, the pips are flying in tonight. While tonight has been ...

The Ogre's Trading Journal

Although CurTime() works it is considered an obsolete function. Below is a partial list from the help files. In further development of MQL4, some functions were renamed and moved from one group to another in order to systematize them better. The old ...

CurTime() vs. TimeCurrent()

Phew!!! Laid down to take my usual Sunday pre-startup nap which is normally about 2 hours and I woke up about 6 hours later. LOL! Dang this old age! Originally I was going to be a hard nose about this thread (see first post). It didn't take me long ...

The Ogre's Trading Journal

People who enjoy trading Forex are the most backwards people in the world. While the rest of the world hates Monday's and loves Friday's, people who trade Forex, love Mondays and hate Fridays. LOL!! I spend a large portion of my weekends studying ...

The Ogre's Trading Journal

Because I do not know when a trend will end, I don't re-enter. I just wait for a new signal. I have looked at things like price rejecting off of one of the lines but I have found that although they are reasonably reliable (around 70%) signals I just ...

The Ogre's Trading Journal

it would be interesting to compare those values from previous years. Some of the volatility from early in the year could have been a result of the turmoil in the financial systems. The markets started going crazy around october of 08.

FX Statistics

The compiler does not care, you can write the entire program on one line if you like. There are a number of limitations that are not mentioned in the documentation. That is what makes working with mt4 such a great pleasure.

Five dollar programmer

{ total = OrdersTotal(); for(i = total - 1; i >= 0; i--) { OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES); if(OrderSymbol() != Symbol()) continue; if((OrderType() == OP_BUY) || (OrderType() == OP_SELL)) { if (((type == _OP_BUY) && ...

Five dollar programmer

It's about 1 am eastern time U.S. Near Augusta Georgia studying charts, analyzing last weeks trades, preparing for next week. Forex is what I do, it offers me the opportunity to stay home, use my mind and not my back to build a legacy for my family. ...

Where Are You Now??

Run several free online seminars on how to invest in Forex (or whatever). Highlight the fact that it is a 24 hour a day market, it's hard to find time to sit down and trade, etc etc. Share with them a complex trading strategy to get them really ...

Manage OPM (Other People Money)

FileSeek(handle, 0, SEEK_END); Just tell it to move to the end of the file with the FileSeek command.

Need help on csv

Around 430 pm eastern on Friday. LOL! I don't set upper limits because I feel if the markets want to play nice, I can play all day.

When do you stop

Because I am weird! LOL! Actually I found that with my style of trading there is a large percentage of trends that will start in the hour before each session. On the days I don't get a clear signal during the hour before, it gives me time to get my ...

The Ogre's Trading Journal

Yeah, because heaven forbid you should have a few extra lines on your charts. Just go back to the unedited version and see if the problem persists. If not then you will know it was your fault.

Tigertron Pivots

Probably because you close the file after you write the data to it but you never re open the file prior to trying to read from it.

Need help on csv

Nobody knows based on the pathetic information you have posted. Instead of just guessing at snippets of code that do not paint the whole picture of what your error laden program is doing why not post the entire file so someone can dig through it and ...

Need help on csv