I agree with the need for some coding standards and mostly agree with your first draft but i don't like a few things: Indentation: I would suggest leaving the indentation at the MetaEditor defaults of 3 spaces, which is what you get when you use the ...

MQL Coding Standards

LOL You need to install a text editor. Search Google for a free text editor, any of the 1000s of free text editors available will do the trick. Unfortunately Windows has no built-in Text editor. Notepad is not a text editor its something else. I ...

Optimized Trend Trading

I think it is about automating the edge. None of the manual systems here on the forum will be profitable if automated. They all rely on discretion, the last missing bit that makes them profitable is something that cannot be expressed by simple ...

Artifical Intelligence EA

Unfortunalely mt4 has not the ability to place user defined buttons on the chart. dragging objects around is the best approximation of button presses you can have in mt4 without doing dirty hacks with the windows API which to my knowledge nobody has ...

Train Yourself EA

1) This does not make any sense here. In this EA the perceptron output is not linear but it uses a step function instead, its output has only to states: >0 or <0. 2) Also it is not possible with this EA to use any other training mechanisms (voted ...

Artifical Intelligence EA

It should be possible to encapsulate this all in one well designed library that could maintain an internal list of individual trades and has an interface towards the EA that is similar to (or even better than) the current MT4 trading API. The whole ...

NEW MT5 Seriously Stuffed For Traders Platform

Who would force you to play the average-down-game if you don't want to? And how does this relate to MT5 or any other platform? All platforms allow averaging down but no platform will force you buy or sell more if you don't want to.

NEW MT5 Seriously Stuffed For Traders Platform

Aren't you supposed to work for your company instead of trading your own money during work hours? Be careful with installing tunneling software on their computers or doing other things to bypass the company firewall without their permission. This ...

Backdoor to Proxy and Firewall

I doubt that this is a good idea. In fact it is the worst possible idea for handling this. It does not solve the problem but instead makes it even worse because the code will continue to run and produce difficult to debug errors elsewhere without ...

Note to programmers: Division by zero errors

How would you model the main loop of the trade simulation that models the passing time for the strategy, how would you model an optimization with many runs of the same strategy with different parameters, how would you model the broker, the order ...

MQL4 or Excel for building strategies

I cannot imagine how one could model the above in Excel without years of learning all kinds of hidden features, dirty tricks, VBA, etc. and the result would most likely be an extremely complicated thing with difficult to understand, difficult to ...

MQL4 or Excel for building strategies

Why not learn both? You will have to learn more than only one language anyways when you (seriously) plan to learn programming, but it seems *this* forum is very mql4 centered.

MQL or Easy Language

This looks like a typical martingale or grid EA curve. Could you please integrate this: url into the EA and produce a proper equity chart (because the account balance alone is meaningless since it shows only half of the information)?

Best "real" EA in the world

Why not just leave it the way it works and use the indicator via iCustom()?

indicator and expert advisor

Do you have more such examples (preferrably othogonal ones)?

Can a great programmer make an EA from this?

Then my first sentence must read: "There is no rational explanation of how the author could have arrived at these ridiculous numbers" instead of "The only explanation [...]" I have read the paper a few months ago and i did what i recommend to ...

Can a great programmer make an EA from this?

Please immediately forget this PDF. The only explanation how the author could have arrived at these ridiculous numbers is that it all is based on the assumption that you never ever use a stop loss. A quick look at any chart will show you how the ...

Can a great programmer make an EA from this?

do it correct from the beginning on, you will have to do it right at some point anyways, so don't waste your time messing around with half-baked solutions. Only checking OrdersTotal() is the wrong way because there may be other trading activity on ...

Order send, management

Open another trade. This is the only way to do it.

ea question: increasing position size

No. You also need to tell it exactly *which* ones of the many objects to delete. The indicator is poorly written. Throw the indicator away. Don't expect an indicator written by someone who cannot program at all (not even a little bit) to be of any ...

lines and objects dissapear