Moody gave good advise about Ninja Trader. You can not scalp with MT4, too much lag and built-in gotchas. There are brokers that will let you day-trade the ES for $500. One tick is $12.50. Two ticks is $25.00, minus a $5 commission and you have $20 ...

How to scalp small pips?

maybe ArraySort? — rangebound shows a bubble sort here: post 6: url

Sorting Variables by Numerical Order

"Intraday Initial margin $1,406. Assuming sp500 is at 1100. Does that mean I need $55000 + $1,406 to just start trade 1 e-mini sp500 contract?" - No, it means your broker allows you to trade 1 contract for $1406 during the day session. The broker ...

daytrade emini S&P Leverage question

tick data — url

history data - help

NT is still free. Trouble is there is no free data feed, unless you have a live account with one of their vendors. Except: Gain still has their archive of historical tick data. You can download that, import it into NT, and do your tests. MT4 is ...

Ninja Trader or MT4

free NT — Ninja Trader

Best charting and backtesting software?

Also look at .setfiles in symbolsets folder. This might require some manual maintenance. To see if a symbol is still active, make sure you have ShowAll in MarketWatch, then use MarketInfo and get the Bid (might be zero), also get Time and compare ...

Obtaining valid symbols from broker in MT4

Pipes or Slots — I could not get pipes to work the way I wanted, but I did get Mail Slots to work pretty well the way I wanted. The only thing missing is I could not get mail to receive from more than one sender, which I believe it should do, ...

Named Pipes for MT4

see FF Cal — I don't have the code, but I think it is in FF Cal.

TimeZoneInfo class in mql4

iCustom — double iCustom(string symbol, int timeframe, string name, ..., int mode, int shift) double dMonthlyWave = iCustom( NULL,0,"long ass Neely name here",0,1); 1=shift, probably what you want if you are calling it from an EA, but if you ...

iCustom()

My recomendation: Since you have the source code, remove that bunch of externs, and just call it with no parms, with the 1 buffer that you want data for.

iCustom()

BroCo, ODL, many others free MT4

Platform with futures data

I use free Ninja Trader with IB. The demo data is not good, get a "paper trader" account - free - request it from admin, then you have real live quotes the same as your live account. There are plenty of free add-on indicators for NT. x-minute, ...

Replacing IB's Software

hayseed and xlr8, yes that is done in the range bar and renko programs using PostMessage( proper code here) (don't remember the code)

EA to collect data each millisecond , not just when Ticks occur

How I would approach it: ======================= 2) Script - run on any chart. while(true) { ... do forever ... look at GlobalVariableget(symbol1,time) ... look at GlobalVariableget(symbol1,price) ... look at GlobalVariableget(symbol1,volume) ... ...

EA to collect data each millisecond , not just when Ticks occur

Yes, but not practical. Some options: 1) Use a script. Every milisecond look at the data with MarketInfo. Very CPU intensive. 2) Use a capture EA on each symbol. Fires whan a tick is received for that symbol, send that info to a script that ...

EA to collect data each millisecond , not just when Ticks occur

Yes, some people have access to the facts. Those are the reps that are in the broker discussion threads. They can see the results of EAs runnig and of individual traders. I expect there are few very profitable EAs, just like few very profitable ...

Expert Advisors or Human Traders?

I use IB to trade futures and sometimes options. Like them ok. No problems. Low commissions. Fast executions. I use a different order entry front-end than the one they provide. I use free Ninja Trader for charts. They do have a habit of removing ...

IB interactivebrokers.com - how is your experience?

"int limit=Bars-counted_bars; for (int ii=start... ii>=limit; ii--) { ... re-calc here ... etc" Any time you see this code, YES it repaints. You need to understand what that code does. Indicators (most of them) do not need to update tick-by-tick, ...

Do these Indicators Repaint or Not?

time for a break — I like to eat, sleep, take coffe breaks, and go out. My robots work 24/7. Poor guys. No food, no breaks, no pay. So some days I make 10%, other days I can't get out of bed. My robots just consistently ka-ching ka-chng, even ...

Expert Advisors or Human Traders?