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  • #101
  • Sep 21, 2009 2:27pm Sep 21, 2009 2:27pm
Quoting Shabs19
Have a look at the objects configuration folder maybe that is "read only" in the properties attributes. Check to see if both boxes are unticked.

Metatrader > config > objects

Anyone else have any ideas ?

thanks, just for the record, clearing the Read Only box for the the CONFIG folder (and subfolders) didn't work.

it has something to do with my template. when i use one of the default MT4 templates, my drawings remain when switching between timeframes. one of my indicators must be knocking them out.

thanks all
mark
  • #102
  • Sep 21, 2009 2:40pm Sep 21, 2009 2:40pm
custom indicator 'PinBar' (from the Jankone M5 forum) seems to be causing this behaviour. As i'm not a programmer, i don't know why. Just thought i would let everyone know.

cheers
Mark
  • #103
  • Sep 24, 2009 4:33am Sep 24, 2009 4:33am
i have a problem with using standard mt4 script- period converter
can somebody tell me how to use it?
i doubleclick on it, type in period multiplier number in parameter box, press ok then, and it is actually running but nothing happens on the chart...
i want to for example have 12H candles on the chart by multipling 4H x 3 am i using righ tool to do this???
  • #104
  • Sep 24, 2009 5:43am Sep 24, 2009 5:43am
Quoting walb99
Is there any tool available to get inverted price charts for MT4?

Thanks
walb99,
What exactly are "inverted price charts", & how are they useful to your trading?
If it doesn't exist guess you could open a thread in the programming discussion area & probably find a programmer that will give you hand in creating it.
There wasn't a very good free renko chart ea/indi until recently, so that maybe a good place to start.
  • #105
  • Sep 24, 2009 6:17am Sep 24, 2009 6:17am
Quoting cinex
i have a problem with using standard mt4 script- period converter
can somebody tell me how to use it?
i doubleclick on it, type in period multiplier number in parameter box, press ok then, and it is actually running but nothing happens on the chart...
i want to for example have 12H candles on the chart by multipling 4H x 3 am i using righ tool to do this???
Yes, it can do it - instructions here.

If you still can't get it to work, you might like to try these:

  1. Custom Candle indicator here.
  2. Dynamic candles indicator here.
  3. Candle Aggregator (v5) indicator here.

  • #106
  • Sep 26, 2009 4:58am Sep 26, 2009 4:58am
hanover, thanks for your help

but the problem with periodcon.ex4 indicator is the same as with the script - when I put it on chart nothing changes in visualisation , like not working.
The second indicator CandleAgregator works but this is not what i really need
maybe I havent explained well what i need

i want to have for example 12h chart and do analysys on it, and when i use some indicator i want it to be based on 12H TF , it not just about visualisation
i also wanted to run EA's on custom tf but thanks to your link i know it is only possible by internal ea code

are you (or somebody) able to run period converter script which mt4 has built in ?

btw I cant understand why MT4 creators havn't put an option to simply type in and chose whatever time frame i want to chose , i dont have programming knowlege at all but something tells me there is nothing more simple to do than that and it would be very useful , they have chosen 9 timeframes for us - like saying- on this you can trade and do analysys on others you cant because we say so
  • #107
  • Edited 1:23am Sep 27, 2009 12:53am | Edited 1:23am
Good Morning,

Does anyone know how to make the Account History stay on the custom period you select and not keep reverting back to the entire history. (i.e. I only want the history from 9/24/09 forward to show at ALL TIMES)?

I know how to select the custom time period but it seems like a few times a day the entire history comes back and it is causing the MT4 publisher to send all the data to my tracking site. Then I have to go back into MT4 and change the Account History back to the custom period.

I have a LIVE account that I have tested several EAs on and I am trying to only publish the information from the current EA that I am testing to MT4Stats.Com. When it reverts back to showing the entire Account History File it is causing problems with tracking the performance of the New EA because of the old information. I run this account off of a remote server and this is how I check the current status of how the EA is trading during the day.

Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.

Have a PipFull Day
  • #108
  • Sep 27, 2009 4:15am Sep 27, 2009 4:15am
@cinex (#106):

but the problem with periodcon.ex4 indicator is the same as with the script - when I put it on chart nothing changes in visualisation , like not working.
Not sure what you mean. Provided that you follow the instructions in the link I provided, you should get a synthetic chart. If you check the "Allow DLL imports" ON (see point 8), data should update itself in real time on the syn chart.

i want to have for example 12h chart and do analysys on it, and when i use some indicator i want it to be based on 12H TF , it not just about visualisation
i also wanted to run EA's on custom tf but thanks to your link i know it is only possible by internal ea code
You can place factory supplied indicators (MAs, RSI, Bollinger bands, etc) on the synthetic chart, and they should behave as you would expect, i.e. calculate and plot based on the syn chart's candles. As for third party developed Custom Indicators, much will depend on how the indy has been programmed, e.g. some are set to operate on specific MT4-based TFs. It's not possible for an EA to reference a syn chart directly, e.g. if the EA has a 'TimeFrame' parameter, you couldn't type H12, and expect it to base its trading decisions around a H12 chart (unless the programmer had specifically coded the EA to recognize 'H12' as a valid TF, and calc the OHLC of the H12 candles, etc).

are you (or somebody) able to run period converter script which mt4 has built in ?
Not possible, that would be trying to turn the process 'inside out', i.e. MT4 can't be built into a script; script has to be built within the confines of MT4 (i.e. the MQL4 programming language). However (as I said previously) it would be possible to code an EA to calc the OHLC of H12 candles, and base its trading decisions around those values, or indicators based on those values. But there would likely be some complex programming involved.

btw I cant understand why MT4 creators havn't put an option to simply type in and chose whatever time frame i want to chose , i dont have programming knowlege at all but something tells me there is nothing more simple to do than that and it would be very useful , they have chosen 9 timeframes for us - like saying- on this you can trade and do analysys on others you cant because we say so
You're correct, the 9 TFs are an MT4 limitation.
  • #109
  • Sep 27, 2009 4:25am Sep 27, 2009 4:25am
hi,

thanks for all the info - I'm a complete idiot with mt4 - but have to start somewhere...

Can someone tell me how to draw trendlines without the 'ray'?

I don't know what 'ray' is....think it's to stop them stretching out, as I just want a wee t/l to highlight entry points to a trade. It is only for learning.

I want to see if my entry is correct as per trade set-up rules and witness what happens next.

thanks in advance if anyone can help.
  • #110
  • Sep 27, 2009 3:18pm Sep 27, 2009 3:18pm
hanover, thanks for all informations again , i must sit and get a closer look on it, that's very interesting subject

"are you (or somebody) able to run period converter script which mt4 has built in ?
Not possible, that would be trying to turn the process 'inside out', i.e. MT4 can't be built into a script; script has to be built within the confines of MT4"

but here i don't know if you understand me - in MT4 navigator window you have scripts folder and period converter there...
  • #111
  • Sep 28, 2009 3:48am Sep 28, 2009 3:48am
Quoting annieb
hi,

thanks for all the info - I'm a complete idiot with mt4 - but have to start somewhere...

Can someone tell me how to draw trendlines without the 'ray'?

I don't know what 'ray' is....think it's to stop them stretching out, as I just want a wee t/l to highlight entry points to a trade. It is only for learning.

I want to see if my entry is correct as per trade set-up rules and witness what happens next.

thanks in advance if anyone can help.
Click or double click on the trendline to select it. Go to the Parameters tab and check the Ray parameter OFF.
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  • #112
  • Sep 28, 2009 4:26am Sep 28, 2009 4:26am
Quoting 45Fxguy
walb99,
What exactly are "inverted price charts", & how are they useful to your trading?
If it doesn't exist guess you could open a thread in the programming discussion area & probably find a programmer that will give you hand in creating it.
There wasn't a very good free renko chart ea/indi until recently, so that maybe a good place to start.
Once I saw charting software which was able to invert the price scale to upside down.
It's useful, because you may check, when you see a sell-signal on the regular chart, whether there is a buy signal on the inverted chart.

I now do this with US$ Index and EURUSD, but I thought, to have inverted scale for EURUSD might be also very good idea.
/ ... clarifying decisions ... /
  • #113
  • Sep 28, 2009 5:37am Sep 28, 2009 5:37am
thanks a million Hanover - would have taken me yonks to find that out for myself
cheers
  • #114
  • Oct 4, 2009 7:12pm Oct 4, 2009 7:12pm
Can anyone advise how to put the 2 STO together into 1 window ? Please refer to attached chart. Appreciate any help .
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  • #115
  • Oct 5, 2009 12:09am Oct 5, 2009 12:09am
Quoting nico28
Can anyone advise how to put the 2 STO together into 1 window ? Please refer to attached chart. Appreciate any help .
open the "Navigator" panel, drag and drop the 2nd Stoch to the 1st Stoch window will do.
  • #116
  • Edited Oct 7, 2009 12:33am Oct 6, 2009 3:06pm | Edited Oct 7, 2009 12:33am
Hi David

I tried out a SendMail function and my stupid code sent an email each tick, I already got that solved but now while trying it out again I get a message :

Mail: 535 too many message from you (#5.7.0)

always refering to an alarm (the same) that occured some hours ago.

Is there a way to reset it?

Thanks in advance.

The issue was auto repaired after 4 hours, maybe it was the mail server that blocked the IP.
  • #117
  • Oct 7, 2009 11:22am Oct 7, 2009 11:22am
Quoting maxximuz
open the "Navigator" panel, drag and drop the 2nd Stoch to the 1st Stoch window will do.
Thankyou
  • #118
  • Oct 7, 2009 10:56pm Oct 7, 2009 10:56pm
I have a custom indicator that contains an alert. I have it on several different charts and when the alert goes off, the pop up box doesn't indicate which pair or which timeframe the alert is for. Can anyone tell me how to revise the indi so that when the alert box pops up it says which specific pair and timeframe the alert pertains to?

Thanks for any help!
  • #119
  • Oct 9, 2009 4:42am Oct 9, 2009 4:42am
@Cobra: just noticed your post now. Sorry, I don't know any way of resetting this, short of reinstalling MT4.

@Iceman: change code from
Alert("xxxx");
to
Alert("xxxx"+","+Symbol()+","+Period());
and press F5 to recompile.
  • #120
  • Oct 9, 2009 8:00pm Oct 9, 2009 8:00pm
Hi David

Thanks for the response.

An additional question: I have a list for Hot Keys in MT4 but can't find any to make a screenshot and that is one of the most used function, any suggestion?

Have a great weekend.
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