leverage — Leverage is your friend/enemy. Brokers make it way too high for new traders. Deliberately, imo. Fastest way to blow you positions is to have too many trades open for the size of your account. Once they go against you, (and if you're ...

Where's the meat? So far, all you've done is tried to drum up traffic for your article on another site. With nothing to show here, you'll forgive me for wondering what snake oil you're peddling. Bring it on board, if you want to have a discussion.

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tigpips has it, if you want the code to permanently disable the alert. If, however you want the alert to fire once and then disable it, you need to have some logic. Try this thread

Windows 7? Vista? Known problem. Install MT outside of the default C:\Program Files folder.

This is a valid point. I've had problems using magic numbers with the strategy tester.

Plenty of ways to do this. If you don't care what the magic number is, but just want to track the trade, then you can use a simple counter like so: int GetMagicNumber() { int Counter = GlobalVariableGet("MagicNumberCounter"); Counter = Counter + 1; ...

Dredding, You're already 95% of the way there with your routine. All that's left for you to master is how to test your own code... Create a new script and call it whatever Copy your function to it Modify the start() as follows: int start() { int ...

This is a well known shortcoming of MT4 on Vista and Windows 7. Windows no longer allows MT4 to write to the default program folders that MT4 is programmed to use. Simplest is to re-install MT4 outside of the default C:\Program Files\ folder and ...

Excel is a powerful tool. While it is designed to work as a spread sheet and modelling, etc, people have used it to do all kinds of amazing things, including AI, data bases, etc even though there specialist tools designed specifically for those ...

MT4 has a tick chart. You can set this to show Bid and Ask. You will then see that the spread can increase quite substantially during 'after hours' trading and news. If you use trailing stops, you may sometimes think that your stop is quite safe, ...

Some brokers don't allow you to hedge. With some brokers your positions are all aggregated, so two opposite trades of the same size will close the position.

Are you using Windows 7 or Vista? If so, your problem is that MT4 does not have permission to write to C:\Program Files, etc. With XP, this is not a problem. Simplest solution then, is to re-install MT4 and to make sure that it is NOT installed in ...

debugging 101 — With MT4 programming you don't have any debuggers to help you so you need to remember one simple rule. Rule 1 - Keep things as simple as possible. When you have a problem, isolate the problem. Get rid of any code that is not ...

The logs folder is in the Metatrader folder. e.g. C:\Program Files\Your brand - Metatrader\logs Note that if you are running Windows 7 or Vista, with the program installed in the default Program Files folder, then this is probably not happening ...

Look in the logs folder. You will find a file with the datestamp - today would be 20110829. A bunch of stuff is logged there, including trades.

Be careful with the 49% assessment. I voted for that, but I think a lot of them, (well, me anyway,) are ready to pay for the real thing, but are not really expecting to find the "real thing" available for sale. For me, by definition, if it's for ...

So where do you get the figure $4000/year from? A "cite" is a reference to at least one (reputable) publication that serves as the source for your numbers. When you spit out a number be ready to back it up. Otherwise admit that you are guessing, or, ...