MT4 keeps freezing up

Hey guys,

I played around with some indicators and apparently MT4 did not like that to much. It looked up but unfortuantely when I restart MT4 it loads my recent Chart with the Indicators and.... locks up.
What cache file do I have to delete inorder to start with a normal screen?
Deleting a bunch of old indicators did not help. btw.

If the problem indicator is one you downloaded in the last month or two. You can cut and paste the more recent indicators to another folder. Both *.ex4 and *.mq4. The charts will start up with out the problem indicators.

A more drastic way would be to move the profile you are using out of the profile directory. It can be good for testing to find the bad indicator. Then you can remove the indicator and move the profile back.

A more advance way to deal with profiles is to actually enter the sub-folder below the profiles folder. For example MT4\profiles\default\ if you are using the default profile. At this point you will see the *.chr files. There is one file for each chart. You can open these files with Notepad. That will show you the pair. You can delete the chart if you know which pair has the problem indicator. If you scroll down in the *.chr file you can see what indicators are on that chart and with practice delete or edit those indicators using Notepad.

You can always uninstall and re-install mt4. If you have nothing important.

i remembered having this problem with an indicator which freeze up my mt4 sometime back.

this may be due to the indicator calculating too many bars in history and your cpu capacity is insufficient.

try this:
1. temporary remove that problem indicator from expert indicator folder.

2. restart mt4, go to tools, options, chart, reduce the "max bars in history" to 5000.

3. Re-install indicator and see if it works.

Great that worked.
I had two of SwingMans NeutralHedge Indicators loaded and that was too much computing for MT4 as it seems. I moved them into another folder and MT4 started up without loading them. To bad there seems to be no way I can get them on my charts without crashing MT4. Mhhhhh

you may be able to get them on your chart, please read my post above again, it might work...

I agree with you. Reducing bars is a good way to troubleshoot and operate some buggy indicators. Did you mean chart bars or history bars?

What i did previously was to reduce both to the minimum on the drop down selection. Then slowly increase and see how the indicator work without freezing the mt4. Some indicators have too much complicated calculations and i guess my 7 years old laptop can't take that kind of load.

How are you going into the setting in MetaTrader? I do not see that and my session is frozen

You are not the first to have this problem

https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...7#post13896677