How do you get info on a previous day?

In an EA, how would you get info on a previous day, week, etc? For example, suppose I wanted to know yesterday's close price of USDJPY. Is that possible? Thanks.

locutus - Welcome to FF. Ive seen quite a few questions from you this morning and they're all pretty basic ones that have been asked plenty of times before. Might I suggest you spend a few hours using the search facility and reading. It'll be time well spent I can assure you.

Good luck

Lux

PS: Just noticed another post from you too which funnily enough says you can't be bothered reading all the valuable information here so feel free to disregard the advice above.

Read up on the iClose function. As an fyi... you can also get high/low/open prices with the related iHigh, iLow and iOpen functions.

Oh my, where do I begin? Everything you said is B.S. First of all, do you make lots of friends with that patronizing attitude of yours? You have only 1 post more than me, yet I get the distinct impression that you think you know everything. If I'm a newbie, guess what? So are you. I don't think you know nearly as much as you think you do. You said my questions had been asked many times, and I could use the search utility to find ALL the answers. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.


One of my questions about an EA had never been asked before. I know that because I read through the entire thread. That makes you a liar, but then you already knew that. The answer to another of my questions was totally unsearchable. If you don't have a good search term you won't find anything or you'll find way too much. There is no logical search term I could have used to find posts about what MQL command I would use to get info on a previous day. The fact you don't understand such a simple concept is proof of your ignorance. Another of my questions was about a trading strategy. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that you don't want to read an entire 42 page thread. I think most people who say the same thing, yet you dumped on me for saying that!? How much time do you think I can spend here? Reading for an hour a day, it would take weeks to read the entire thread, not days, yet that's exactly what you expect me to do. LOL. What's the matter with you? Ignorant is an understatement. You really are amazing.


Now let's talk about you. I took a look at your posts and found one in a thread about a strategy called “The Bat”. I was shocked to see that you were asking a very simplistic question. Were you too lazy to read the entire thread? It was only 17 pages. Why didn't you use the search utility to find the answer? What a hypocrite.


Apparently, at least several of my questions were not “pretty basic ones that have been asked plenty of times before“, for which the answers could be found easily with the search utility. I congratulate you on your wonderful personality.

Thanks, that appears to be what I was looking for. I looked through the tutorials in the metatrader forum and they are all about using the platform. The MQL editor reads like a technical manual: a 1 sentence definition of a function, a 1 line definition of each parameter, and an example. Is there a good site I can go to for more detailed explanations of all the functions? I have Coders Guru's tutorial and he doesn't explain it. Thanks.

If you expand on why you need this figure you'll get a fuller response.
Just a few points to bear in mind, as a newcomer.
(1) The number of posts bears no relationship to a person's experience in Forex (check out Dopey's posts for example)
(2) Never respond to any post which you feel slags you off, it's a negative state-of-mind from your point of view. Wait for another post from someone else who you feel is more open to your enquiry.
(3) Understand that if you DON'T study any particular thread, completely, you WILL miss important information.