If your drive is formatted NTFS then it will work (for links pointing to somewhere on the same drive).

Can I share a csv file across 2 accounts

Why waste buffers and not just create as many horizontal line objects as you need?

Latitude lines.

There are many. Like i said in my other post in the other thread, trendlines in MT4 simply *can* not be drawn exact due to the fact that the time axis is non-linear on lower timeframes. A day may have 24 H1 candles but only 1200 M1 while the next ...

Serious chart problems that could destroy your strategy

You are right, you simply cant trust it. This is a design flaw of metatrader, due to the way metatrader is drawing the candles it is not guaranteed that for example one M15 candle is composed of exactly 15 M1 candles, it could be only 14 or even ...

Why do trendlines appear in different places on different timeframes?

You can just make a symlink to the file (or the whole directory) on newer versions of windows.

Can I share a csv file across 2 accounts

There is an indicator called "Alerter", don't remember where exactly but you should be able to find it by this name. You can draw arbitrary lines and then put commands like for example "Alert_10" into the line description to be alerted when price ...

Alarms

This is correct. iBarShift() returns the index number of the bar that can be used in iClose(), iOpen() and other indicators.

Continuous Append CSV File

Try to do it with the python binding. url you can then just comfortably use python file IO functions while at the same time circumventing all MT4 limitations. #include <py26.mqh> int init(){ PyInitialize(); PyExecute('f = ...

Continuous Append CSV File

@forexza: the minus sign means that it found the pattern after mirroring at the x axis. It searches both, original and mirrored price to find more suitable candidates. @Mechthildche: I am currently working on something similar but it will be written ...

Pattern recognition

1.44, 1.43 or even lower. There is a one-week short coming. And it will start today. Close your longs now.

EURUSD

I dont really have this problem because i don't try to run so much MT4 instances. I have had only 2 Intances running for a while without problems, at the moment i only have one. My host OS is Ubuntu Linux and Metatrader runs in a Windows ...

Multiple MT4 Clients open and charts freeze

the indicator has access to all bars in the chart, so you can just loop through all bars and count the crosses.

EA like indicator

These times are long gone since DOS. All commonly used operating systems and even Windows can schedule processes, they dont need to be cooperative anymore. And a quick google search shows that Windows indeed will automatically distribute the running ...

Multiple MT4 Clients open and charts freeze

are you making heavy usage of custom indicators on your charts? I have seen quite a few indicators that make *heavy* usage of the CPU on every tick which will lead to bad responsiveness of the whole metatrader GUI since they all use (and block) the ...

Multiple MT4 Clients open and charts freeze

Really? (I dont use windows for anything else than metatrader. I just assumed that MS were finally able to produce at least the very basics of a functioning operating system after all those years of trial and error with their thousands of paid ...

Multiple MT4 Clients open and charts freeze

The OS will distribute the the individual Metatrader instances evenly across all the available cores. Additionally MT4 Expert Advisors run in a different thread than the main program (only indicators run in the main thread).

Multiple MT4 Clients open and charts freeze

metatrader will wake up the authistic robot on every incoming tick. the robot then looks at its instructions written down in the start() function, follow them literally and blindly, without thinking about them and then goes back to sleep. This will ...

How to send an email once an Expert Advisor places a trade?

You wont have much fun when trying to accomplish very specialized things with very generalized tools without trying to understand how they are supposed to work. This is a programming forum, so you'll have to dive down into programming if you want to ...

How to send an email once an Expert Advisor places a trade?

#!/usr/bin/env python import SimpleHTTPServer, BaseHTTPServer try: BaseHTTPServer.test(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler, BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer) except KeyboardInterrupt: print '^C received, bye bye!' ok, these are more than 3 lines but ...

Looking for a "dumb" EA

There are some options missing in the poll: I use stops only when i am in Profit and then only if i dont have a target, which effectively means i could just as well close the trade immediately because it will hit the stop anyways. There were times ...

POLL: Do you use stops? If so, how large?