New to MT4 - Need a little help

I would like to have daily, weekly and monthly pivots on my charts. Searching the forum, I've a found a couple indicators that members offer but I can't figure out how to install them.

I've saved the indicator to C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 4\experts\indicators but it doesn't show up. I suspect maybe it's because I don't have the .ex4 file that appears with each indicator. All I have is the yellow apostrophe icon.

Would love a little guidance on this. Thanks.

shut down mt4 and restart it and it will compile the files for you. Once you have done that, you can attach them to a chart as needed.

Did you restart MT4?

Yes, I tried that first.

What about the .ex4 file that appears with each indicator in C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 4\experts\indicators? Don't I need that too?

no, when you restart mt4, it will compile the file into an ex4 file for you. It should then show up in the custom indicators folder in the navigator window.

If it does not, you may have a problem with the mq4 file and it is attempting to compile with errors.

Okay. Thanks.

Is there a place to go to look for specific indicators or is just a matter of searching around and asking? Seems like pivots are a pretty basic indicator. I'm kinda surprised they're not part of MT4 already.

you can do a search here there are a ton of them around. Also, forex-tsd has a bunch.

Try this one, it only prints for the current though

Thanks much for your help.

Hi Traderjai_inhi,

Thanks for the PP attachments. I saved them to my folder: C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 4\experts\indicators and restarted mt4 (rebooted too). They don't show up.

I haven't had any attempt at adding indicators show up either so there must be something else I need to do.

Anybody have any ideas what I doing wrong? Does it make any difference that I'm on a demo acct and not a live one yet?

You might want to try using add/remove to get rid of it, then go in and delete the folder and then re-install it. Unless anyone else has some ideas...