Yes you can. Obviously the problem is somewhere else. To see what part of the code is not executed print a debug statement after each if-statement. Btw, use "source"-button to insert source code.

I will code your EAs and Indicators for no charge

I see. Well, this is most unfortunate, because the key to use MT4 effectively is to know how to program it. Anyway, in the scenario above you would not use the standard order dialogue anymore, but the expert's. The expert would perform the sanity ...

Prevent opening of large orders on MT4? Volume limit on trades

Make an expert from this code below (ignore warnings). It is just a proof of concept, it does not open any trades, only print a message. When you drag the expert to a window (or assign a hotkey for compfort), the open dialog of the expert will ...

Prevent opening of large orders on MT4? Volume limit on trades

You could use an EA to do the trade; EAs are configurable at start, so you put inthere your lot size. The EA then would check against the limit and act as desired.

Prevent opening of large orders on MT4? Volume limit on trades

It ain't that hard: 1. when you open a trade, give a variable (barcount) the desired bar count; then put the time of current bar into another variable (time = Time[0]) 2. on every tick check time snapshot against current bar's time, if it is less it ...

How to close trade in Metatrader after amount of time or bars

Would not want call them smart. How would I call someone smart that supports a platform that was outdated the very moment it came to market? It is such 'smart' brokers and users who gave the industry almost a decade of technological stillstand. And ...

MT4 build 579 doesn't work

These kind of stuff becoming somewhat obsolete with the new mt4 build to come very soon..

Anyone ever use MT4 GUI?

Event objects refer to windows api event objects, see here: url Btw: Smalltalk is great..

Calling MT4 commands externally (e.g. from C++)

I think you do not need polling. With the current build you could use event objects to signal data availability. And with the beta builds (> 509) they have implemented OnChartEvent event handler, so that you can possibly "use" that to "tick" the ...

Calling MT4 commands externally (e.g. from C++)

To my knowledge this is not possible in a direct way, only indirect via pipes or shared memory or other means of communication between an external process and a script or expert on the side of mt4 - that is using windows api (I am currently using ...

Calling MT4 commands externally (e.g. from C++)

You can use the new builds, however, until your broker updates its server(s) nothing will change in respect to how orders are transmitted - meaning no speed improvement.

Improve MT4 order execution speed by 500ms

Does Programmable Server-side Trading Platform Exist? Yes - cTrader. If you can find a broker who accepts US folks..

Does Programmable Server-side Trading Platform Exist?

If you have figured out what pair you want to trade, you tell mt4 to do so by using one of the trading functions: url And if you want to trade a reverse pair (i.e. JPYUSD instead of the available USDJPY), you simply do the opposite trade with the ...

Need MQ4 examples of logic that chooses the pair to trade

Currently I am tinkering with Spotware's Connect API (cTrader platform): url The good thing about it is that it can be used with all brokers that offer cTrader platform, and all in one place, so not broker dependent but platform dependent. It has ...

Going Platform independent! Going pyhon!

Re: figuring out: To do it "by hand" use task manager or similar, there you will see how much your instance "draws" currently; then take off indis one by one and observe the change.. In general I do not have the impression that mt4 is a "system ...

MT4 Processor Drawdown

You mean ping. Ping time != execution time. On mt4 execution time is north of 300-500ms if your session has expired, that is if a session's time (~30s) has expired since your last interaction with server..

Broker with fast order execution time

I need speed, so, it be c++ of course. I use it for real trading probably since one year now. Before that I have used basically the same gui, based off java, on a java platform (Dukas) for also at least one year. Once you have done the basic work it ...

Going Platform independent! Going pyhon!

Also consider the cTrader platform (that is cAlgo, Connect API).

Free or Opensource Trading Platforms other than Metatrader?

I'm running my own (live) platform that directly interfaces with mt4 and commands mt4 to do execution and report back. From this perspective I can tell you that you can export any data from, and pass on any command to, mt4, easily. At least with ...

Going Platform independent! Going pyhon!

Ah, these intelligent soviet guys again. They should have stopped mt4 development, stopped selling it, and revoked all granted license so far long time ago. In order to make a smoooth transition to mt5 (what mt4 should have been 10 years ago). Again ...

Big changes for MT4 2013/2014...