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  • #6,461
  • Jul 8, 2010 12:55pm Jul 8, 2010 12:55pm
Quoting piptician
..... I need to know what it says in the title bar of the main MT4 terminal window (excluding your account number).

This is what I have so far based on the 5 versions of MT4 I now have installed on my PC (I need to know the full text of the terminal names for all those marked TBD):


Thanks in advance

Piptician

Hi .

FxPro-MetaTrader 4 (+3)
SIGTrader 4 (+3)
MetaTrader - Alpari UK (+2)
Oanda FXTrader (-5)
FXCM MT4 powered by BT (+2) (+1) doesn't work for me.


Mac.
  • #6,462
  • Jul 8, 2010 1:01pm Jul 8, 2010 1:01pm
Quoting MacMG
Hi .

FxPro-MetaTrader 4 (+3)
SIGTrader 4 (+3)
MetaTrader - Alpari UK (+2)
Oanda FXTrader (-5)
FXCM MT4 powered by BT (+2) (+1) doesn't work for me.


Mac.
Thanks
  • #6,463
  • Edited 1:30pm Jul 8, 2010 1:25pm | Edited 1:30pm
Try this. Place in experts/indicators folder.
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File Type: mq4 GMT-offset.mq4   3 KB | 645 downloads
  • #6,464
  • Jul 8, 2010 1:51pm Jul 8, 2010 1:51pm
Quoting piptician
Now that I have multiple MT4s installed on my PC, I have been bitten by the GMToffset gremlins. To help fend off those nasty gremlins, in the next version of Tokyo, I'm planning on getting it to read an external file containing all the broker terminal names + their assocatied GMToffsets so that the EA can auto-set the GMToffset for you.

To achieve this I need everyones help to compile a list of MT4 broker terminal names and their respective GMToffsets. For each of the brokers listed on page 1 of this thread I need to know what it says in the title...
I am grateful for your work on this amazing, spectacular expert advisor! However, is this practical?

I just do NOT understand how this is always such a huge issue with traders! How about allowing each trader to be responsible and accountable for inserting the gmt offset into the EA on their own, by themselves? Why should you go to all the extra work? Why must you spoon feed those who should have long ago learned this most mundane piece of information - the difference between their platform time and gmt? A simple live chat or phone call to their broker solves this quandary immediately! I've had accounts with five different broker in the last 3-1/2 years and everyone was very helpful in answering my questions.

This one is a no-brainer!

I'll repeat that: a simple live chat or phone call to one's broker asking the difference between the platform time and gmt will solve the matter very quickly!

If one can learn to trade foreign currencies, one should definitely be able to figure out how to use the trading platform and its gmt offset number! I don't get it...
If nothing changes, nothing will change...
  • #6,465
  • Jul 8, 2010 2:52pm Jul 8, 2010 2:52pm
Quoting MacMG
Hi Sky.

I'm not against you at all, trust me please.
On your post and my present post's title is your " statement" which is simply not true.

Tokyo for GBPUSD "ONLY".

To be clear , you know that very well.

Best wishes to you Sky

Mac.
Best wishes to you too, but, listen all I ask: if you think EA is working

on other pair, show it to us.. I run optimization on EURUSD today

and didn't find any profit combination by changing Offset time/TP/SL

and EMA settings and more..

If you can show performance Graph with backtesting

on other than Cable pair, that be nice.. Otherwise what you

base your statement on? I run 100 of tests, - that's how I know this

strategy not working with anything but Cable..

As for Cable, until error with TSL is fixed , I cannot use it, because I have to sleep while it's running and with

dead TSL it could easily run into SL.
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  • #6,466
  • Jul 8, 2010 3:00pm Jul 8, 2010 3:00pm
Quoting jcf
Try this. Place in experts/indicators folder.
Excellent thanks - it seems to work just fine

I had briefly looked at this article which describes what you need to do but, I did not have time to go into it in any detail (the mq4 file you posted fills in the missing details for me):

http://forum.mql4.com/31002

Thankfully there is a broker GMT offset function provided in mql5.

I guess I won't be needing everyone to send me their broker terminal names now.

Thanks again,
Piptician
  • #6,467
  • Jul 8, 2010 3:01pm Jul 8, 2010 3:01pm
Also I'd like to know how TSL in EA suppose to work..?

For last night I have it set to 14 pips, and it didn't triggered till

1st TP at 24 gets hit.. How it's really design to work, I'd like to know..

When it's should trigger?
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  • #6,468
  • Jul 8, 2010 3:04pm Jul 8, 2010 3:04pm
Quoting rnfuller102
I am grateful for your work on this amazing, spectacular expert advisor! However, is this practical?

I just do NOT understand how this is always such a huge issue with traders!...
I tend to agree with you, but just read through some of the posts on this forum and you will see that many seem to be struggling with getting this right. Since it's such a crucial setting for this EA, setting it automatically seems like a good thing to do and is one less thing for the user to get wrong.

Regards,
Piptician
  • #6,469
  • Jul 8, 2010 3:10pm Jul 8, 2010 3:10pm
Quoting SkyzerFX
Also I'd like to know how TSL in EA suppose to work..?

For last night I have it set to 14 pips, and it didn't triggered till

1st TP at 24 gets hit.. How it's really design to work, I'd like to know..

When it's should trigger?
Hi Sky,

The trailing stop does not start trailing until the 1st TP gets hit. Normal trailing stops would trail the price straight away.

Regards,
Piptician
  • #6,470
  • Jul 8, 2010 3:10pm Jul 8, 2010 3:10pm
Quoting SkyzerFX
Also I'd like to know how TSL in EA suppose to work..?

For last night I have it set to 14 pips, and it didn't triggered till

1st TP at 24 gets hit.. How it's really design to work, I'd like to know..

When it's should trigger?
Read the thread!
  • #6,471
  • Jul 8, 2010 3:16pm Jul 8, 2010 3:16pm
Quoting piptician
Hi Sky,

The trailing stop does not start trailing until the 1st TP gets hit. Normal trailing stops would trail the price straight away.

Regards,
Piptician
Thanks, that's what I thought..
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  • #6,472
  • Jul 8, 2010 3:19pm Jul 8, 2010 3:19pm
Quoting gir
Read the thread!
What exactly should I read..? Gazillion posts about

how to figure out GMT_Offset? This thread been spamwised

by newbs.. Need to filter about 95% of the posts to actually

cut to the chase and get some real meat.. *LOL*
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  • #6,473
  • Jul 8, 2010 4:27pm Jul 8, 2010 4:27pm
For those who care: GMT offset for ATC is -4.

For FXDD it is +3

Just called them both so these numbers should be correct.
  • #6,474
  • Jul 8, 2010 4:47pm Jul 8, 2010 4:47pm
Hi Geoff & piptician:

First of all, I'd like to thank you again for sharing such a fantastic EA with us.

I've been trading live with v9 on fxcm uk/vps for a month now and the result so far is very successful. The reason that I have not upgraded to Tokyo yet is that none of the Tokyo versions including this v15 works on my fxcm acct. All I got is a big red error message - "ERROR () see comment/journal/log for details" acrossed the chart. The errors listed in journal are all about "old tick GBPUSD" and sometimes even show old tick other pairs which are not active at the time.

Appreciate your help and thank you in advance.

Richard
  • #6,475
  • Jul 8, 2010 4:48pm Jul 8, 2010 4:48pm
Quoting gir
Read the thread!
  • #6,476
  • Jul 8, 2010 4:48pm Jul 8, 2010 4:48pm
The EA default setting is 1%. If I leave it at that, can I trade .02 lot with a $1160 account? Skyzer, don't yell at me!! (I know what my broker GMT offset is...)
  • #6,477
  • Jul 8, 2010 5:45pm Jul 8, 2010 5:45pm
Quoting SkyzerFX
What exactly should I read..? Gazillion posts about

how to figure out GMT_Offset? This thread been spamwised

by newbs.. Need to filter about 95% of the posts to actually

cut to the chase and get some real meat.. *LOL*
not everything is spam what is not useful to you. This sounds quite arrogant Sky....
  • #6,478
  • Jul 8, 2010 5:50pm Jul 8, 2010 5:50pm
It is in giving that we receive.
  • #6,479
  • Jul 8, 2010 6:00pm Jul 8, 2010 6:00pm
Quoting Haishang
not everything is spam what is not useful to you. This sounds quite arrogant Sky....
I agree...
I remember old days in this thread. Even geoff mistook GMTOffset and the EA was set wrong start time. When I asked about it, some members thought it as newbie's question and tried to filter it.
Eventually wwwild picked up my question then geoff noticed about it.
If my question was filtered as newbie's question, most traders would still use wrong start time.
Haishang is right, do not take most of posts as spam.
  • #6,480
  • Jul 8, 2010 6:03pm Jul 8, 2010 6:03pm
Quoting Taiyakixz
I agree...
I remember old days in this thread. Even geoff mistook GMTOffset and the EA was set wrong start time. When I asked about it, some members thought it as newbie's question and tried to filter it.
Eventually wwwild picked up my question then geoff noticed about it.
If my question was filtered as newbie's question, most traders would still use wrong start time.
Haishang is right, do not take most of posts as spam.
Taiyakixz, on another note:
Unexpectedly I got the 197 and 10 sma not in consolidation now, that means no trades. You got the same?
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Smas are not in consolidation
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Sma 10 [2] : 1.51462, Sma 10 [1] : 1.51454
Sma 197 [2] : 1.51112, Sma 197 [1] : 1.51116
no trades are expected
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OK
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