VHands Trading Simulator

I can't find the article referred to:
"If you have never worked with visualizer, you have to read the article named Testing of Expert Advisors in the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal: An Outward Glance."
Could someone please send it to me or direct me to it
Thanks
Mauro

http://articles.mql4.com/192

You should save this URL in your favorites:
http://www.mql4.com/
as everything related to MT4 (articles and codebase in particular) will be found there.

Thank you

Mauro

Please help me , I can't close or modify an open trade. In my tester journal appears this message:

2009.02.25 11:43:43 2000.02.15 01:00 vHandsTrade EURUSD,Daily: ObjectSetText( "Profit_49", "", 8"Arial", 0 ) - Error #4202

When I try to compile VTerminal, and VHistory, apperas this message:

Start function not found and cannot be run.
0 error(s), 1 warning(s)

When I try to compile Visual Testing Tools, appears this:

Compiling 'VisualTestingTools.mq4'...
Start function not found and cannot be run.
Function "vTerminalInit" is not referenced and will be removed from exp-file
Function "vTerminalRefresh" is not referenced and will be removed from exp-file
Function "vHistoryInit" is not referenced and will be removed from exp-file
Function "vHistoryRefresh" is not referenced and will be removed from exp-file
Function "vLabel" is not referenced and will be removed from exp-file
Function "SetText" is not referenced and will be removed from exp-file
Function "vOrderType" is not referenced and will be removed from exp-file
0 error(s), 8 warning(s)

Re-download again the whole set, you might have erased some of the code when recompiling and it's not working now.

I re-download a lot fo times, but don't work

ok, now is running ok. I've found the solution in this thread

http://www.forex-tsd.com/tools-utili...ulators-6.html

thank you very much

Hello,
I have read the post about modifying an order. It says take the column where the Take Profit is and drag it onto the chart and a yellow line will appear. I've tried dragging everything, from the main chart window as well as the vHistory window and anything I try to select, selects only the object. Dragging it anywhere just moves it and it moves back to the original position once the simulator is started again.

I haven't been able to close an order either. I have tried pausing first and not pausing.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thank you

You just need to click on the TP price that shows on the Terminal window, and move it a bit off the column, then the yellow line will appear on the screen. Then you have to double-click on the line to be able to move it (another way I use is to go to the objects list, find the line and change the parameters directly in the settings, as sometimes the line is not visible on the chart).

It is better to pause the simulator to place or close trades or any other activity, as it can sometimes do weird things (like opening a dozen trades with the same specifications if it is running). Closing trades work the same as modifying SLs and TPs and entries on pending orders.

Just click on the order number of the trade you want to close (be careful that no other gets selected), then "move" the number on the screen (you don't need to drag it much, just change its place) and it will close. To modify, as stated above, click on the price (SL, TP or entry) of the trade you want to modify under the appropriate column, drag it a little and then perform the changes on the line.

I also use the objects list as a faster way to set pending orders that are far away from the visible prices on screen: click drag the buy/sell limit/stop line on the menu onto the screen, then right-click and set the desired price in the parameters. When the running resumes, the trade will appear on the terminal window.

Here's a rough image of some actions, I guess you can figure out the rest with the above explanations.

One of the things i was doing, in trying to delete an order, was not starting "play" again. (if you pause and move the number nothing happens until you "unpause").

Thanks again for your help.

anyone know if its possible to load historical data from the history folder while offline in the simulator

Hi,

I've got a peculiar problem. I can open a trade in vhands, this then shows up in the vTerminal window, with the profit loss moving around. However, pretty much whenever a candle closes, my trade seems to close (and move into the vHistory window).
I've even tried placing it with no Take profit or Stop loss, and this still happened (and no, I am not running out of money ).

Has anyone had this issue?

First a big thanks to the members of this forum who have made MTF testing in vHand possible.

A couple of problems:

I am able to get a 1m and 5m chart ticking at the same time. Can't get any more than two at the same time.

Also, the MS Word doc instuctions list 3 settings for the period converter:
example:
· Periodmultiplier = 5
· ForceOfflinefileperiod = 2001
· ThisActualPeriodMins = 1440

But the actual period converter scripts only have the ExtMultiplier entry field.

I have this thing almost 100% up and running, someone please help if you understand my problem. Thank you.http://www.forexfactory.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

You need to use the "period_converter_opt.Mq4" indicator rather than the MT4 standard "period converter" script. This can be found in the zip file attached to post #233 of this thread

Well, I gave up using MTF Vhands last year because I couldn't resolve the dual core stalling problem I was experiencing. I recently decided to give it another try after several new builds of MT4 and lo and behold..... it now works!

I don't know what happened, but I am now able to run several different MTF Vhands charts at full throttle on my WinXP Pro powered AMD dual core lappie.

Of course, now I have a different problem....lol

I have some older offline charts which I cannot seem to delete. I originally created them back in 2008 running MTF Vhands on the M1 timeframe. Now, I'm trying to experiment running Vhands on M5 to see if it will increase performance any. When I try to create a M15 chart from the M5 Vhands, I'm forcing my M15 offline chart to show up as M16. However, when I load it, the candles are identical to my M61 chart....one hour.

My "period_converter_opt.Mq4" settings are as follows:

M16 chart:
PeriodMultiplier = 3
ForceOfflinefilePeriod = 16
ThisActualPeriodMins = 5.

M61 chart:
PeriodMultiplier = 12
ForceOfflinefilePeriod = 61
ThisActualPeriodMins = 5.

I have tried to delete the history files for all of my MTF Vhands offline charts and tried to remove their entries in the offline chart register, but I still end up with two identical one hour charts. It's almost as if the system can't "see" any difference between 16 and 61. As a temporary fix, I simply created a new M15 offline chart and called it M17, but I'd really like to know how to clear out these previous charts so it doesn't affect future testing/changes I would like to try.

Thanks again to Rangebound and everyone who has contributed to this thread...this is a very helpful mod! A special thanks goes to Squeegee for posting the information about how to permanently modify terminal.exe to single core affinity! That works like a charm and it saves you from having to reset affinity every time you open your Vhands MT4 terminal! Just be sure to make a backup copy of your original terminal.exe file before you run imagecfg.exe as it will permanently alter the terminal.exe file.

Well from your description

I have tried to delete the history files for all of my MTF Vhands offline charts and tried to remove their entries in the offline chart register,

It seems your M16 file may have a read only attribute. If you cant actually delete it using windows explorer then open the properties of the file and uncheck "read only".

If its not this (and the M17 chart works well) I cant really think of any other reason.

However this was a quick hack and it was all based on the premise that the base chart would definitely be 1 Min.
Also I doubt if this will speed you up any as there will still be the same number of ticks to process.

On the issue of full speed problems, Ive recently discovered the following :

On any speed slider setting below max (<32) the vhands EA gets called every tick which is what we absolutely MUST HAVE!
At max speed however this is not the case. If enough ticks are missed then any new 'missed bar/s' will cause the timeframe creator to make a (sometimes) lengthy calculation (or rebuild) to make sure the other charts are accurate. This then compounds, as more ticks are missed and the whole process kicks off again.

Hence I'd advise that no one attempt to run at Max speed on the slider as it could easily (appear to) hang on any machine.

Haha! Just a poor choice of words on my part. I went through the proper steps of deleting them...they appeared to have been deleted from the history folder, but for whatever reason, they still showed up in the list of available offline charts. But I must have imagined it all because I just tried it all again and this time....it worked. I actually emptied the recycle bin before I closed and restarted MT4 this time. Guess I'm just losin' my marbles!

Thanks for your help once again and the tip about the full speed setting! Time for some more testing!


EDIT: I figured out why the history files would not disappear... You must remove all the instances of the Period_Converter_Opt indicator from the charts....THEN delete the history files, otherwise they will just keep regenerating...duh! So, I was deleting them, but as soon as MT4 rebooted, they would be recreated. Mystery solved...

Hi,

When I try o put a market order (buy or sell) I get this Incorrect Stoploss for Buy/Sell error even if this SL 50 pips, so I have to set SL to zero in the panel.
TP works and also works to modify the SL later.

Any advice ?

Thank you,

Cristian

hello. i like this simulator a lot but theres one problem. i cant use TrailingStop feature. i succeeded only once, but every time i SELL or BUY i drag the line on the chart it OPENS the position with the desired STOP LOSS> i have selected the trailing stop value from the CHART but it does not move. what should i do in order to use it? thanks