HOW DO I WRITE THIS?

In my indicator I have a statement re to send an email message stating:
SendMail("From TM","TM : "+Symbol()+" "+Period()+" - Changing Trend Direction Long now");

How can I edit this statement to include the last price of the symbol as well?

thanks,

Liz

Hi Liz,

Here goes:

SendMail("From TM","TM : "+Symbol()+" "+Period()+" " + Bid - Changing Trend Direction Long now");


or you can use "+ Close[1]" instead if you want the closing price of the last closed bar.

Good Luck
Lighty

SendMail("From TM","TM : "+Symbol()+" "+Period()+" " + Bid + " - Changing Trend Direction Long now");

ok, that's better (left out quotation marks after Bid in the last post)

HOW DO I GET UP TO SPEED WITH THIS LANGUAGE?
I KNOW TRADESTATION EASYLANGUAGE WITH EXPERTISE,
BUT THIS MQ4, IS THERE A TUTORIAL, OR GUIDE THAT IS WELL WRITTEN?

Liz

Yeah, it's a big problem with MQ4. The language itself is great (with a couple of glitches but they keep improving it) but metaquotes have not released any reference documentation.

I've found a thread with beginner-level tutorials and started from there.

http://www.forexfactory.com/forexfor...ead.php?t=6011

Then of course you can open existing indicators (like ones that are similar to what you want to do) and look at the code, modify it to your needs or just get ideas from it.

One fellow has posted loads of MQ4 indicators in a single zip file:
http://www.forexfactory.com/forexfor...ead.php?t=8539

The structure of MQ4 and the language itself is simple to learn. Problems start when you try to use buffers to draw indicators. It takes a while to get a hang of it.

Good luck and if you need any help let me know

Lighty
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