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  • #1
  • First Post: Jan 24, 2011 10:54pm Jan 24, 2011 10:54pm
HELLO

Could someone please write a program (indicator) that would print a bunch of charts. For example a couple of pages of charts from 2008 till THE present, in the one hour time frame or any time frame.


THANKS
  • #2
  • Jan 24, 2011 11:53pm Jan 24, 2011 11:53pm
This might work, but I haven't confirmed it. There is an EA on this thread that captures a chart and saves it to a file. The file is given an unique name based on the timestamp. For your purposes, you could run it in Strategy Tester in visual mode and it will create the screen shots for the selected period.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...ghlight=screen
  • #3
  • Jan 25, 2011 2:02am Jan 25, 2011 2:02am
Quoting CodeMeister
This might work, but I haven't confirmed it. There is an EA on this thread that captures a chart and saves it to a file. The file is given an unique name based on the timestamp. For your purposes, you could run it in Strategy Tester in visual mode and it will create the screen shots for the selected period.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...ghlight=screen
I was actually just looking at this earlier today. I was wondering if it would be possible to send the capture screen in an email (maybe through sendmail?) after the picture has been taken. I was trying to do it myself, but was unsuccessful. I

THANKS!
  • #4
  • Jan 25, 2011 3:37am Jan 25, 2011 3:37am
Thanks CodeMeister I will check it out soon
  • #5
  • Jan 25, 2011 4:07am Jan 25, 2011 4:07am
Quoting jamesmean
I was actually just looking at this earlier today. I was wondering if it would be possible to send the capture screen in an email (maybe through sendmail?) after the picture has been taken. I was trying to do it myself, but was unsuccessful. I

THANKS!
It is not possible to do what you want with SendMail. This thread explains how to get around the problem.


http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...11#post4340311
  • #6
  • Jan 25, 2011 1:15pm Jan 25, 2011 1:15pm
Quoting CodeMeister
It is not possible to do what you want with SendMail. This thread explains how to get around the problem.


http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...11#post4340311
Thank you very much. I actually followed the instructions and it works fine I think. It's actually a good alternative.

However, I do have one quick question about the EA though. I saved it to the experts folder, opened it up, compiled it, then opened my metatrader. Once inside, I attached the EA as an expert advisor to a currency pair chart with a 5min time frame. I only chose 5min just to test out the EA.

After every 5min, I have been checking the experts/files submenu and I cannot find any pictures in that folder. It is still empty.

Am I doing something wrong???

THANKS!
  • #7
  • Jan 25, 2011 5:00pm Jan 25, 2011 5:00pm
It doesn't matter what timeframe is used. I am sure that the files are there.

Are you using Vista or Windows7? MT4 is not compatible with the file structure of them and the files won't show unless you have administrator priviledge and use Compatibility mode as per the attached.
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  • #8
  • Last Post: Jan 26, 2011 10:59am Jan 26, 2011 10:59am
Thanks! It works perfectly now. I'm just trying to figure out how to automatically sync up the files; but the links in the other thread gave good sources. I'm working on that part now.

Thanks again
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