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  • #41
  • Edited 5:16am Nov 7, 2017 3:18am | Edited 5:16am
Hi dukas_trader,

I have a question about MT4 strategy tester.

Strategy tester was always clunky when I used it but I was able to get by because most of the time I only used it to observe price moving more quickly than real-time. Unfortunately even most of that functionality has now gone with the current build (1090).

I did buy Forex Tester and at first liked it but now loathe it! I find it a very difficult program to work with, almost impossible to import my broker's 5 digit data and most annoyingly, supdem, which is the only indicator I use, doesn't work in Forex Tester (a few of us did try and port supdem into Forex Tester but with little success - the program runs so slowly it's practically useless).

I want to be able to observe price moving at faster than realtime in MT4 with supdem using my broker's 5 digit data. I'd also like to be able to pause playback. Do you know if there's any way to do this?

Cheers

Edit:

Spent a bit of time this morning checking over some other forums and found the answer, which is quite simple. In the later builds, the strategy tester window loads in a compressed fashion and just needs expanding. An easy solution, but easy to miss as well. The old issue of being able to properly adjust the speed of playback still exists but I can work with that. Have included screen grab for thread:

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  • #42
  • Nov 7, 2017 3:20am Nov 7, 2017 3:20am
Quoting dukas_trader
{quote} borker is "broker", only wrong written yes spread is ask-bid. you used so a SL that is smaller then your spread. after you get your limit order filled you get it closed and you lose the spread! dont do this! paint all to a paper and mark all your levels and try some example trades for some situations. you always get with limitorder in the trade by bid price, but takeprofit and SL is triggered by ask price.
Please help understanding why brokers declare their spread as fixed value (like 30$ or 0.7%)? In my understanding this should be defined by market situation: minimum sell order minus maximum buy order.
  • #43
  • Edited 6:02am Nov 7, 2017 5:49am | Edited 6:02am
Quoting simond2002
Hi dukas_trader, I have a question about MT4 strategy tester. Strategy tester was always clunky when I used it but I was able to get by because most of the time I only used it to observe price moving more quickly than real-time. Unfortunately even most of that functionality has now gone with the current build (1090). I did buy Forex Tester and at first liked it but now loathe it! I find it a very difficult program to work with, almost impossible to import my broker's 5 digit data and most annoyingly, supdem, which is the only indicator I use, doesn't...
can you tell me whats exactly is the problem with visuell mode in metatrader 4 at the moment?
and what exactly you would need to have in or like to test, maybe one short example would help me.

edit: ups, i did not see you "edit" before i wrote. is the problem now solved and tester works like you wished? yes the metatrader windows can be other size from time to time in different builds.
  • #44
  • Nov 7, 2017 5:52am Nov 7, 2017 5:52am
Quoting xooox
{quote}Please help understanding why brokers declare their spread as fixed value (like 30$ or 0.7%)? In my understanding this should be defined by market situation: minimum sell order minus maximum buy order.
their are brokers with fixed spread and variable spread (it reacts to market situation, how other will buy or sell).
but fixed spreads are in general displayed as pips , not as money or percent.
can you give me an example picture ?
  • #45
  • Nov 7, 2017 6:01am Nov 7, 2017 6:01am
Quoting dukas_trader
edit: ups, i did not see you "edit" before i wrote. is the problem now solved and tester works like you wished? yes the metatrader windows can be other size from time to time in different builds.
Yep it's solved now, thanks
  • #46
  • Nov 10, 2017 1:41am Nov 10, 2017 1:41am
Quoting dukas_trader
{quote} i would take metatrader 4 directly from a broker, not from metaquotes. metaquotes wants to push metatrader 5, because stopped to improve metatrader 4 and thatswhy lets you only install metatader 5. so its no problem with your computer or file.

Thank you for your response dukas_trader. Is sad to know they want erase mt4, I think mt4 is better than mt5. I hope that the brokers continue using mt4 for another 10 o 20 years.

Greetings
  • #47
  • Nov 10, 2017 4:13am Nov 10, 2017 4:13am
Quoting Invermac
{quote} Thank you for your response dukas_trader. Is sad to know they want erase mt4, I think mt4 is better than mt5. I hope that the brokers continue using mt4 for another 10 o 20 years. Greetings
only when they make mq4 files executeable inside mq5, metaquotes has the chance that people will switch faster to mq5 or by brokers dont use mq4 any more.
we will see in 2-3 years.
  • #48
  • Dec 6, 2017 8:13am Dec 6, 2017 8:13am
Please to understand why this order has been filled. I tried to place pending sell limit at 59292, but actually entered at 59321 immediately. You can see that the price never reached 59292.
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  • #49
  • Edited 5:39am Dec 7, 2017 5:27am | Edited 5:39am
Quoting xooox
Please to understand why this order has been filled. I tried to place pending sell limit at 59292, but actually entered at 59321 immediately. You can see that the price never reached 59292. {image}
your broker just filled your limit order with a positive slippge. your limit order says: i want sell for 59292 or any price higher then this. by fast moves it can be easy possible that you get with a better price. in reality (depends how good your broker is and what time and currency is traded) limit orders are filled 50% of time with positive slippage, but often only for 1-5 pip, because this fast moves are not often (more in news or smaller traded markets).

so when you send a limitorder with a condition that is true (price is higher or same as 59292) you get filled immediatly as market order. in reality this was a good luck for you, you got extra wins.

maybe you did want a pending sell stop order? there you get filled as market order after the bid prices is at the 59292 level.
  • #50
  • Aug 4, 2018 3:34am Aug 4, 2018 3:34am
hello everybody
i have 2 questions about MT4 and i will be thankful if anyone helps.

1. is there a way in MT4 that when i trade by "One Click Trading" , the MT4 automatically puts the SL and TP on my trade so i dont need to put it manually?
im a scalper and i need this to protect my trades if suddenly electricity or internet cutout happens.
at this moment, i have to edit my trade and manually put SL and TP on it after pressing buy or sell bottom.

2. is broker able to see our MT4 platform? for example see how we trade and what our strategy is?

thank you all
  • #51
  • Aug 4, 2018 9:42am Aug 4, 2018 9:42am
Quoting farhad021
hello everybody i have 2 questions about MT4 and i will be thankful if anyone helps. 1. is there a way in MT4 that when i trade by "One Click Trading" , the MT4 automatically puts the SL and TP on my trade so i dont need to put it manually? im a scalper and i need this to protect my trades if suddenly electricity or internet cutout happens. at this moment, i have to edit my trade and manually put SL and TP on it after pressing buy or sell bottom. 2. is broker able to see our MT4 platform? for example see how we trade and what our strategy is? thank...

  1. You can use an EA with a GUI like this one.
  2. No. They don't need to. They know if you're a good trader or not, whether or not you're over-leveraged, and where your orders are. A broker cannot pull is prices sideways to come after you because if they did someone much bigger than you would swoop in an arbitrage them into the ground. The only thing a broker can do to game you (these days) is spread-widening.

  • #52
  • Aug 4, 2018 10:07am Aug 4, 2018 10:07am
Quoting farhad021
hello everybody i have 2 questions about MT4 and i will be thankful if anyone helps. 1. is there a way in MT4 that when i trade by "One Click Trading" , the MT4 automatically puts the SL and TP on my trade so i dont need to put it manually? im a scalper and i need this to protect my trades if suddenly electricity or internet cutout happens. at this moment, i have to edit my trade and manually put SL and TP on it after pressing buy or sell bottom. 2. is broker able to see our MT4 platform? for example see how we trade and what our strategy is? thank...
1. use market deep (Alt B) - there you can put in TP and SL and use market one click orders. you can use this market deep window for each currency and place it everywhere on your multi monitor setup. much better then any ea, faster, less problems...

2. the broker can see what its in the journal and experts (journal).
so he know what you trade, what experts, indiators and so on you loaded..... take a look in the journal. but brokers dont care what you do, until you have extrem wins.... even then they dont care because many have extrem wins and lose it all in some days or weeks (brokers have seen this many many many times), so no broker is really interested.
  • #53
  • Sep 3, 2018 10:49am Sep 3, 2018 10:49am
Hello all
could you please explain me how to eliminate view of order - order not to see in chart?

Many thanks
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  • #54
  • Sep 3, 2018 1:00pm Sep 3, 2018 1:00pm
Quoting Isabella_D
Hello all could you please explain me how to eliminate view of order - order not to see in chart? Many thanks {image}
you have any indicator or expert advisor attached to a chart , who is producing this effect?
  • #55
  • Sep 3, 2018 1:20pm Sep 3, 2018 1:20pm
Quoting dukas_trader
{quote} you have any indicator or expert advisor attached to a chart , who is producing this effect?
thanks for your interest in my question. Used indicators have no influence on visualization of orders in chart. even naked chart shoes orders.
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  • #56
  • Sep 3, 2018 2:53pm Sep 3, 2018 2:53pm
Quoting Isabella_D
{quote} thanks for your interest in my question. Used indicators have no influence on visualization of orders in chart. even naked chart shoes orders. {image}
Change the colors for the same as the background

Change the color of :

- Foreground
- Grid
- Volumes
- Stop Levels

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  • #57
  • Sep 3, 2018 3:44pm Sep 3, 2018 3:44pm
Quoting Isabella_D
{quote} thanks for your interest in my question. Used indicators have no influence on visualization of orders in chart. even naked chart shoes orders. {image}
try this:
Strg -O (or extra --> option) and choose diagramme tab and there first point, uncheck "trade-level"
  • #58
  • Sep 3, 2018 3:51pm Sep 3, 2018 3:51pm
Quoting dukas_trader
{quote} try this: Strg -O (or extra --> option) and choose diagramme tab and there first point, uncheck "trade-level"
a very good tip, now the chart looks like I wanted it
  • #59
  • Sep 3, 2018 3:52pm Sep 3, 2018 3:52pm
Quoting palpite
{quote} Change the colors for the same as the background Change the color of : - Foreground - Grid - Volumes - Stop Levels {image}
thank you palpite
  • #60
  • Last Post: Sep 3, 2018 4:37pm Sep 3, 2018 4:37pm
Quoting jonmck
Just wondering if anyone knows if there is a way of changing the template for a whole profile instead of having to change each individual chart when you have a number of pairs in a profile
Nobody answers you?

Time to go to school



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