Catlitter, If you are using MT4, insert a vertical line on your M1 chart. Right click on the chart and select Objects List. In the dialog box, select Vertical Line and click Edit. In the next dialog box, select Parameters tab, enter whatever exact ...

Of course you can, if you are persistent and have a strong desire to succeed. To answer the question in the thread title: Yes, you can learn it all by yourself. All the data you will ever need is freely available on the net. But do not expect to be ...

I don't think there is a single big reason for any trader failing in the financial markets. There are probably multiple reasons, one or more applying to each individual trader. Looking back at my own personal experiences and the thoughts that used ...

Most beginning traders grossly underestimate the time and effort required to be consistently successful in this game. It actually takes years, probably not less than 5 years of continuous daily exposure to the market for most people, to gather ...

Price action on AUDUSD is nothing out of the ordinary. Long upper or lower wicks just indicate price hitting and bouncing from (rejection of) a support or resistance level within the duration of that particular candle. If you care to check earlier ...

Add ExpertRemove() in the EA code after checking that the last trade is successfully closed. Check this link for example of use: url

Are you expecting someone to give trade signals to you or you want to learn how to find such trades? Or just informing us what you have been doing? Why go for 100 pips trades when you can have 10 trades of 10 pips each with less risk of market ...

Open the History Centre in Tools menu and find the concerned symbol and time frame. The top most row in the database is likely to be the culprit. Delete that row and the chart should automatically readjust.

On your attached chart the last couple of highs on AUDUSD weekly are not forming a double top as both highs are not roughly the same height. Though there is a good divergence that could be used as entry signal.

Whether or not there are trading opportunities every day depends upon one's strategy and the timeframe one is working with. Currently, most active currency pairs move about 100 pips every day on an average. For someone going for 10-20 pips a day ...

Trading 0.5 lot on a $1000 balance will be taking a huge risk. Personally, with that balance, I would be trading 0.05 lots or probably 0.1 lot max on each trade. With a stop loss of, say 25-50 pips, you would be risking about 2.5% of your balance on ...

You will have to write your own function in EA for trailing stop. You might get help from Code Base on mql5.com. There are some good EA's and scripts there.

Trading is a profession. Like any other profession, it has a small percentage of highly successful practitioners and a high percentage of average or mediocre performers. And just like any other profession, it takes a lot of learning, understanding ...

Probably the attached spreadsheet might help. Don't forget to enable DDE Server ("Server" tab under Tools/Options menu on MT4) for updating spreadsheet in real time.

Binary.com does offer a free web application where you can create a bot to trade on their platform. Check under "Shop" on their main menu.

Probably ChartRedraw() function needs to be added to source code of the indicator at the end of OnCalculate(...)

buster has most probably already busted long time ago, if he ever started live forex trading, which I doubt. #Post 12 was his last post on FF.

MT4 doesn't read any subfolders in the profile folder. Probably you can create an empty profile and name it "Aussie Pairs---------" and "AUD..." pairs will be placed under it in the profiles list in status bar. But as the profiles list is sorted in ...

MQL4 is based on C++. There are several excellent online tutorials available for this language. Once you get the hang of it, you can study the source codes of various indicators bundled with MT4, referring to MQL4 documentation as needed. That ...

The calculation is straightforward. Margin Required in USD = Price of Base Currency in USD * Volume * 1/Leverage Assuming that your broker is offering 100:1 leverage (so the margin required will be 1% of trade volume) and you intend to open 1.0 lot ...