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Hedge Trading the US Market using 2 symbols 50 replies
How to save currency pairs symbols and use them later? 4 replies
MT4 Mobile Ed., How do you arrange the order of the symbols on the quote board? 1 reply
Calling another Symbols in backtest 5 replies
Dislikedi am fairly well versed regarding metatrader functionality, and i dont think that is something that metatrader can do.. mind sharing why you are trying to do this? why are you doing this?Ignored
Disliked{quote} well.. I'm using an indicator that I really like but unfortunately it doesn't allow me to select pairs that I want. Instead seeing a few pairs, indicator shows me stats from all the instruments that are in the market watch. So I thought it will be easier to remove them, than modify an indicator code. Anyway, thank you for reply. Now I know what to do.Ignored
tradebot("EURUSD"); tradebot("GBPUSD"); tradebot("EURGBP"); tradebot("GBPCHF"); tradebot("NZDUSD"); tradebot("USDJPY");
QuoteDislikedindicator shows me stats from all the instruments that are in the market watch.
Disliked{quote} well.. I'm using an indicator that I really like but unfortunately it doesn't allow me to select pairs that I want. Instead seeing a few pairs, indicator shows me stats from all the instruments that are in the market watch. So I thought it will be easier to remove them, than modify an indicator code. Anyway, thank you for reply. Now I know what to do.Ignored
QuoteDislikedbut i dont see how i could use this function to learn which symbols are currently added to the marketwatch tab..
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Script program start function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ void OnStart() { //--- int iCount=SymbolsTotal(true); // true, the function returns the number of symbols selected in MarketWatch; false returns ALL symbols in terminal. for(int i=0; i<=iCount-1; i++)Print(SymbolName(i,true));//true symbol is visible in market watch window; false symbol is not present in MW Print("Number of symbols in marketwatch window = " + (string)iCount); } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+
QuoteDislikedin the init() function, we use this symbolselect function to first remove every possible symbol and then add the ones that he wants.. it is a bit clunky, but if it would work then it might be a solution for him..
Disliked{quote} if you can't delete Symbols from Market Watch by deleting them with the Delete keyboard key or right clicking hide, then that Symbol must be opened in a chart tab or an indicator is using it. try closing all the chart tabs you have opened, remove all indicators that scan multiple symbols from charts, close MetaTrader reopen and then try again to delete the symbols from the Market Watch if the symbols show back up after you deleted them from Market Watch, then that indicator is opening up the symbols on Market Watch and using them there was...Ignored