EA won't load on chart

Can anyone tell me why this EA I`just loaded won't load onto a chart. I noticed the little symbol next to the "bbsqueeze" EA is grey
and not colored. I can't drag it or modify it. Can anyone offer a solution?? Thank you......

A quick guess would be it is not an EA. I know there is an indicator by that name. There may be an EA also. I'd suggest downloading it again or use Windows Explorer to move/copy it to the indicators folder. Re-start MT4 and see if it attaches on a chart as an indicator.

The gray icon just means you do not have the source code, *.MQ4 file which is used to modify or view the code. You have the compiled *.EX4 file which is the file MT4 uses to run EAs, indicators, and scripts.

I've run into this also. What I've found is that the grey ones won't drag BUT they will right click.

So, I suggest you open the chart & window you want to attach it to. Then right click on the EA. The top option will be "Attach to a chart". Click on that and you should be good to go.

Pip Parade

Had incorrect file name. EA file was an indicator file. Thanks for your help.

EA on grey won't run unless I remove a line of code measuring the length of candlestick before entering trade

I bought an EA and am trying to run it on the Xbtfx4 Metatrader terminal on my MT4 account. I have attached it to the chart and it loaded and seemed to be running (as seen from the Alerts it generated) but when I logged off the terminal and came back again, the EA got removed immediately. From then on, every time I dropped the EA on to the chart, it would immediately get removed. I tried the whole setup on a new computer, and met with exactly the same story. The account I'm doing this was previously granted license by the EA developer. The developer of the EA refuses to help saying that it works fine for everyone else and so he won't look into my problem. Could it be something specific to Xbtfx4's Metatrader terminal? Any idea what is causing this? I have attached the screenshot of the getting removed immediately after loading it.

You should look in the Experts tab. The journal is not really for telling what the EA is thinking - it will simply tell you that the EA is loaded and removed. The experts tab might provide more information.

The Experts tab contains no additional information either, it also just says loaded and removed. On a hunch when I attached the EA to a different chart then it apparently got loaded, there was no "removed" message after that, as shown in the attached picture. Why would this happen?
Also I noticed that only alerts get displayed from the EA that a certain price target was reached and all, but no trades at all happening. I have enabled Expert Advisors trading and dll imports from the Options menu, and in the EA settings I have enabled Allow live trading. Any help is much appreciated.