Automatically shutting down an EA?

Well though i never asked this as new thread, i remember, previously in some other topic thread, someone mentioned that to do do this, just crash MT4 externally and that's it.
Though i agree that's a way for automatic stopping an EA from taking new trades (Say after a set time or set profit or set loss..whatever), it is a crude way and already open orders (esp. which you do not want to close) may be in jeopardy, if they are still being managed like trailing etc, by the same EA or another trade management EA. Other things can also come as issues when while mt4 is shut down.

What i want to know is ..is there any other way out to stop EA from taking new trades (Time based setting or profit based)
I see that if you change properties of an EA by un-checking "Allow live trading" , the EA will get kinda shut any way. Can this be done automatically? from mt4 itself ? some hotkey (using a script)? some other EA ( this sounds weird ) or some other shortcut (we can use automated programs like "Auto Power on and Shutdown" for this).
(Barring screen clicker macros, i doubt their reliability)

Kindly post with your expertise...esp. the old ones helping out here.
Share the wisdom.
Regards

The is an example of an EA that shuts itself down when a certain condition is met. Is this close to what you are talking about?

Hey ZZ...
still don believe i forgot to post a thanks here. Any way..thanks for the work.
Didn't know before that this can be done.

Ok. Do you think one ea can add/remove other EA working on same account (same pair or another pair)chart?
Lead would be great. Views welcome.

If it can be done. i would request you to post a basic code of some timing based EA which starts/stops another EA (on same account) by starting/shutting it down.

Regards

P.S. i was wondering , though it won't make any difference, that can we just some way change properties of EA to "Disallow live trading". That would also do the same purpose. Just wondering whether that can be done?

Removing an EA on another chart is easy - you just need to get the window handle of the chart containing the EA you want to remove. See EA below.

Starting an EA from an EA on another chart can be done. Although, change user inputs would certainly be difficult. See here:

http://forum.mql4.com/20946



I do not know how to do this.

Hi ZZ,

Thanks for the trick