Problem with Custom Indicator for EA use

hello,

i have found this wonderful Market Statistics indicator in the version 4.2, now i have a problem with the Indicator, i will use the Indicator with an Expert Advisor, the indicator is working perfectly with the iCustom function and all data are printed, but the problem is, that the EA is reloading the Indicator with each new Tick on the Chart, and the CPU is continous working and the terminal is slowing down. I am not a professional Coder and i have no idea, what is the Problem in the Indicator for the continous reloading.

Is there a Coder here, that can me give a idea to resolve the problem?

thank you
zickzack666

here is a part of my Logfile when the EA is on;

15:07:10 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:11 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:11 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:12 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:13 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:13 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:14 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:15 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:16 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:17 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:17 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:18 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:19 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:20 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:21 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:22 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:23 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:23 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:24 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:25 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully
15:07:26 Custom indicator Market_Statistics_v4_2 EURUSD-fx,M1: loaded successfully

The problem is not so much with the indicator as with the EA.

I have no idea how the indicator works or how the EA was designed to work. I know that others in the same situation have solved the problem by changing from every tick to once per bar mode. Technically its simple to do, the question is whether the EA requirements allow for this.

Edit: if it isn't possible to use once per bar, the alternative is to create the indicator inside the EA. This is not easy to do, be prepared to do a lot of testing.

hello CodeMeister,

thank you for your information. I have use with the same EA a very lot of Custom Indicators, and all there were ok, without any problem, this is the first indicator that give me this problem. Now my question is, how can I modify the EA to load the indicator only with new bar? i have added the EA as attachment. The idea to integrate the code into the EA i had already, and i have already tried to make work the code in the EA, but the buffers data are always 0.

thank you
zickzack666

P.S. i have attached the EA with the iCustom function and printing data for the indicator, the EA have no entry rules, i use this one only to test and print indicators data.

I remembered something else since my last post. Some people have claimed that the indicator reloading problem is caused by lack of memory. I don't know if this is true or not, because I only call iCustom() once per bar. I suppose if you had 10 EAs on the platform, MT4 might run out of memory. So you might want to try running the EA on one chart only.

hi CodeMeister,

thank you for your information, the problem is always presented, also with only 1 EA actived. Can you give me the programation code, to called the iCustom function once per Bar in the EA? Then i will test it.

thank you
zickzack666

Here is the code I use. Remember to declare barStart as a static Datetime var.

hello CodeMeister,

thank you very much for your code, its working fine, now the indicator loads only with a new bar. Now I'm still trying to implement the indicator code into the EA, so I do not need more an external indicator. But i have a problem with the integration, the editor not gives me any error, and the FindStartIndex() function is working fine, but all the buffers gives me always 0 data. I think i have necessary to emulate the buffers into the EA, but i have no idea how that works. Can you take a look at the code? Sorry for my lot of questions, but i am not an expert coder.

Ps. i have not necessary to draw any lines on the chart, i have only necessary for the buffer data.

thank you
zickzack666