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  • #1
  • First Post: Apr 19, 2012 5:48pm Apr 19, 2012 5:48pm
I'm building some EAs using a visual design platform and everything is working as designed. The problem I'm having is not with the EA, but with knowing how to use either Comment(), or Print().

The following condition I created returns its value as a price level:

MQL Block3:
((((iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,1)+iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"TCDi7_0001", 5, 8, 100, "", true, true, true, true, true, true, false, false, "", ForestGreen, LightSalmon, White, CornflowerBlue, Maroon, PaleGreen, White, CornflowerBlue, "", 3, 1, 2, 2,1,1))+(iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"TCDi7_0001", 5, 8, 100, "", true, true, true, true, true, true, false, false, "", ForestGreen, LightSalmon, White, CornflowerBlue, Maroon, PaleGreen, White, CornflowerBlue, "", 3, 1, 2, 2,1,0)))/2)+(((iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,1)+iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"TCDi7_0001", 5, 8, 100, "", true, true, true, true, true, true, false, false, "", ForestGreen, LightSalmon, White, CornflowerBlue,Maroon, PaleGreen, White, CornflowerBlue, "", 3, 1, 2, 2,7,1))+(iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+
iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"TCDi7_0001", 5, 8, 100, "", true, true, true, true, true, true, false, false, "", ForestGreen, LightSalmon, White, CornflowerBlue, Maroon, PaleGreen, White, CornflowerBlue, "", 3, 1, 2, 2,7,0)))/2)+(((iOpen(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,0,1))+(iOpen(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,0,0)))/2)+(((iOpen(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+ iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,3,1))+(iOpen(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,3,0)))/2)+(((iOpen(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+ iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,4,1))+(iOpen(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,4,0)))/2)+(((iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)- iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,1,1))+(iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)-iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,1,0)))/2)+(((iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)- iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,5,1))+(iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)-iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,5,0)))/2)+(((iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)- iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,6,1))+(iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)-iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen,Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1,6,0)))/2))/8


I have several of these so-called MQL Blocks already coded. As you can see, this condition will return the arithmetic average of eight (8) numeric values, which are themselves derived from eight different formulas added together. The short version would be something like:

if(B+C+D+E+F+G+H+I)/8 >= iCustom; return True

I need to somehow display the value of this condition on the chart. Drawing a horizontal line at that level, or printing the actual price to screen, or even a message box with the returned value would be ok. I just need to be able to see that returned value in relationship to the market price, during the back test (also during live trading).

Any ideas on how to convert this condition to something that can be visualized on the chart?

Thank you!
iD
The Event Horizon
  • #2
  • Apr 19, 2012 7:36pm Apr 19, 2012 7:36pm
Quoting iDouble
I'm building some EAs using a visual design platform and everything is working as designed. The problem I'm having is not with the EA, but with knowing how to use either Comment(), or Print().

The following condition I created returns its value as a price level:

MQL Block3:
[size=1][font=Calibri]((((iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,1)+iCustom(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"TCDi7_0001", 5, 8, 100, "", true, true, true, true, true, true, false, false, "", ForestGreen, LightSalmon, White, CornflowerBlue,...
This is how to draw a line on the chart:
Inserted Code
 
string sObjName="Buyl_Line2"+Time[1];
 ObjectCreate(sObjName,OBJ_VLINE,0,Time[1],0);
  ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_WIDTH,1);
  ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_STYLE,STYLE_DOT);
  ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_BACK,FALSE);
  ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_COLOR, Blue);


and Text:
Inserted Code
string sObjName="B2"+Time[1];
string text="some text";
 ObjectCreate(sObjName, OBJ_TEXT,0, Time[1],High[1]);
 ObjectSetText(sObjName,text, 10, "Corbel Bold", Red);
  • #3
  • Edited 3:24pm Apr 20, 2012 3:04pm | Edited 3:24pm
Quoting cyber1
This is how to draw a line on the chart:
Inserted Code
 
string sObjName="Buyl_Line2"+Time[1];
 ObjectCreate(sObjName,OBJ_VLINE,0,Time[1],0);
  ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_WIDTH,1);
  ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_STYLE,STYLE_DOT);
  ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_BACK,FALSE);
  ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_COLOR, Blue);
and Text:
Inserted Code
string sObjName="B2"+Time[1];
string text="some text";
 ObjectCreate(sObjName, OBJ_TEXT,0, Time[1],High[1]);
 ObjectSetText(sObjName,text, 10, "Corbel Bold", Red);


Thanks for responding Cyber1.

I did look-up the ObjectCreate function on codebase.mql4.com, before posting to see if there was an easy way to do this.

So, let me ask you this - given the output from the condition above is a price level, how do you take he output from the above condition (a price level) and paint a line that corresponds to the same price level, using the lines of code that you have shown here?

If you notice, the condition is actually a formula with eight (8) inputs to generate a single price level as the output. I just need the line that resides at the price level generated by the formula. I see the ObjectCreate function and its parameters, but getting it to paint the line according to the return value of the condition (above) is unclear to me at this point.

As you can see from the pic below, the formula above is simply dropped into the procedural flow of the EA and is evaluated on Every Tick, along with the rest of trade logic for both the Buy and Sell sides of the EA (hopefully you can imagine how this works). So, this segment of code that is being evaluated by the EA on Every Tick, is just one component of the trade logic.

What I was thinking was this: What you see labeled in this particular EA flow as "MQL" (the green and blue boxes), are just ways in which you can enter some custom MQL to create a trade condition. Ok, I did that successfully and the EA does run - no problems there. But, the MQL Blocks themselves, don't have the ability to "draw lines on a chart." So, I was thinking, that if the MQL is properly formatted (which apparently it is, or the EA would have not compiled error free), maybe I could snip that conditional trade logic (above) and dump it into Meta Editor, so that an indicator (of sorts - maybe a script, I really don't know at this point) could be designed with it that would output a simple line on a chart given its return value. It is nothing but a formula that generates a price.

I hope that makes sense - I'm not 100% certain that I explained it well enough, however.

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/...alEASample.png

Thanks for trying. I realize this is a bit unorthodox.
iD
The Event Horizon
  • #4
  • Apr 20, 2012 3:42pm Apr 20, 2012 3:42pm
Essentially, this is what I need to plot lines for on the chart. This is the manual version in Excel. Its funny how it only took me 30 minutes to build this in Excel, yet I'm still trying to find a way to get it done with MT4, LOL!

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/...5Apr201339.jpg


One line for the BuyZone price level and one line for the SellZone price level. This is essentially what the MQL code above in my first post actually does. It generates a single price price level. One buy side and one sell side number.

Thanks!
iD
The Event Horizon
  • #5
  • Apr 20, 2012 3:42pm Apr 20, 2012 3:42pm
Quoting iDouble
Thanks for responding Cyber1.

I did look-up the ObjectCreate function on codebase.mql4.com, before posting to see if there was an easy way to do this.

So, let me ask you this - given the output from the condition above is a price level, how do you take he output from the above condition (a price level) and paint a line that corresponds to the same price level, using the lines of code that you have shown here?

If you notice, the condition is actually a formula with eight (8) inputs to generate a single price level as the output. I just...
The following code will draw a Line on the chart.
It needs two time values and two price values.

At anytime you have condition that equals true(or false)
Supply the four values and it will draw the line.

I would suggest woking on something much less complex like RSI or Stochastics. If you can get that to work then go back to your current project.

Inserted Code
string sObjName=HashName+"_"+Time[1];
ObjectCreate(sObjName,OBJ_TREND,0,time1,price1,time2,price2);
 ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_WIDTH, 2);
 ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_RAY,false);
 ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_STYLE, STYLE_SOLID);
 ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_COLOR, Red);
  • #6
  • Apr 20, 2012 3:56pm Apr 20, 2012 3:56pm
Quoting cyber1
...At anytime you have condition that equals true...Supply the four values and it will draw the line.

Quoting cyber1
I would suggest woking on something much less complex like RSI or Stochastics. If you can get that to work then go back to your current project.
LOL, this is actually as uncomplicated as my system's get - which means MT4 might not work out for me, if its this difficult to do something this uncomplicated. These are really simple formula to price conversions. I've got some that run for pages in Word, when you write them out fully.

I might be in trouble with MT4 when it comes to integrating ideas. That seems to be the shortfall of MT4.


Inserted Code
string sObjName=HashName+"_"+Time[1];
ObjectCreate(sObjName,OBJ_TREND,0,[color=Blue][b]time1,price1,time2,price2[/b][/color]);
 ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_WIDTH, 2);
 ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_RAY,false);
 ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_STYLE, STYLE_SOLID);
 ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_COLOR, Red);
[/quote]


time1,price1,time2,price2

I have no idea how to get that to work, which is why I'm posting the request for help. Codebase.mgl4.com, has some docs that I read which indicate the need for logical coordinates in order to paint the object. But, it was extremely vague on how to actually do it. Of course, Meta Trader does not support their product for start-up users, so you basically have to learn MQL on your own - which no doubt means learning and then unlearning a lot of bad programming habits along the way.

30 minutes in Excel - done. You just gotta love that irony!

Thanks for the help - I appreciate it!
iD
The Event Horizon
  • #7
  • Apr 20, 2012 4:05pm Apr 20, 2012 4:05pm
Quoting iDouble
LOL, this is actually as uncomplicated as my system's get - which means MT4 might not work out for me, if its this difficult to do something this uncomplicated. These are really simple formula to price conversions. I've got some that run for pages in Word, when you write them out fully.

I might be in trouble with MT4 when it comes to integrating ideas. That seems to be the shortfall of MT4.


[code]
string sObjName=HashName+"_"+Time[1];
ObjectCreate(sObjName,OBJ_TREND,0,time1,price1,time2,price2);
ObjectSet(sObjName,OBJPROP_WIDTH,...

time1,price1,time2,price2

I have no idea how to get that to work, which is why I'm posting the request for help. Codebase.mgl4.com, has some docs that I read which indicate the need for logical coordinates in order to paint the object. But, it was extremely vague on how to actually do it. Of course, Meta Trader does not support their product for start-up users, so you basically have to learn MQL on your own - which no doubt means learning and then unlearning a lot of bad programming habits along the way.

30 minutes in Excel - done. You just gotta love that irony!

Thanks for the help - I appreciate it!
iD

[/quote]

If you want to use MT4 then you will have to spend some time learning how to code in MQL as you would with any language, good or bad.
If you aren't willing to do that then Excel is your ticket.

I wish you good luck.
  • #8
  • Edited 6:24pm Apr 20, 2012 6:09pm | Edited 6:24pm
Cyber is correct. IDouble is approaching this with the wrong attitude. Programming is much, much more than typing. It involves analysis, coding and testing. Some people don't use this approach when using Excel, but I can't image how to it any other way with a programming language like MQL4. After 30 minutes I wouldn't even be done a quarter of the analysis stage of a typical app. Testing typically takes days, not hours. What I have learned after many years, is that more time testing and analyzing means less time recoding.

Keep in mind too, MQL4 is about the easiest language out there for coding FX. Others provide more flexibility but that comes at the expense of a much longer learning curve.
  • #9
  • Edited 2:22pm May 1, 2012 2:08pm | Edited 2:22pm
Quoting CodeMeister
Cyber is correct. IDouble is approaching this with the wrong attitude. Programming is much, much more than typing. It involves analysis, coding and testing. Some people don't use this approach when using Excel, but I can't image how to it any other way with a programming language like MQL4.

Actually, I was just thinking the same thing about programmers. They often times think that it's easy developing real trading systems that are consistently profitable in any market condition, until they find out that software development, is not trade logic development. I think sometimes programmers approach the development of trading tools with the wrong attitude. I might even start a thread about the subject some day.

Traders trade and programmers program. Precious few have both skill sets tucked neatly under their belts. I spent my time over the years, developing the skill of writing trade logic. I could have spent that time developing code writing skills, but I figured that learning how to be profitable in any market conditions was more along the lines of what I would need in the future. So, my software coding skills suffered.

Anyone that has worked with Excel in business, knows that many companies and organizations, where there are people doing calculation intensive tasks, will use Excel to design test-bed algorithms for a variety of different kinds of projects. I've seen Excel used this way by people creating and designing new algorithms for use in everything from Aerospace to Finance, and everything in between. Using Excel to prototype and proof a mathematics oriented concept, is nothing new.

There are no ready-made compilers in Excel, no ready-made methods, class libraries, APIs and no published book of function calls. Everything you do in Excel is from scratch and that requires a lot of creative design work. It is the ultimate design environment for calculation intensive tasks, as you have to create the logic and the meaning behind everything you do.

Excel can be is used for far more than merely adding two numbers together, or for calculating a Simple Moving Average. You can build an entire trade execution platform using Excel and a decision support engine that drives the entire platform. You cannot have pretty looking charts, however. But, you can build a Digital Dashboard!


Quoting CodeMeister
After 30 minutes I wouldn't even be done a quarter of the analysis stage of a typical app. Testing typically takes days, not hours. What I have learned after many years, is that more time testing and analyzing means less time recoding.
Testing and analysis of what?

That's the problem I have with MT4. It takes days to accomplish what it take minutes or hours to accomplish in Excel. The pic that I posted proves that point. And, with Excel, you know you have the right answer immediately, so QC is near real-time on sub-components. Also, the creating I/O driven algorithms in Excel as sub-components to other indicators and other signals, is far more efficient as well, and this makes the design and engineering of fully integrated trading systems far more palpable in Excel. You can flat out do things in Excel, that are simply not possible in MQL.

For example:

Take a look at the code that is required to build a Harmonic Indicator using MQL. You can take a look at any ZUP version. The work that it takes to accomplish that is staggering using MQL. Now, here's the exact same Harmonics Indicator in Excel:

http://i47.tinypic.com/1zqt2me.jpg
http://i49.tinypic.com/352q6fq.jpg

That's it! Connect a real-time streaming data source and you get automated Harmonic Pattern Indicators output for use in any trade logic algorithm module you desire. The tough part is figuring out how to design a Harmonic Indicator using Excel. Once you figure that out, the actual build process is rather easy.

Now, compare that amount of coding with ZUP, and my point becomes very clear. How long did it take to design/build ZUP. And, when I run my Excel based Harmonics Indicator, there is no CPU issue and I know that every calculation is as designed!

The testing and analysis comes after the idea is turned into something of value. That's where Excel is so useful. The prototyping of the idea is accelerated. It is the idea in prototype form that gets tested and analyzed, not the development of the idea.


Quoting CodeMeister
Keep in mind too, MQL4 is about the easiest language out there for coding FX. Others provide more flexibility but that comes at the expense of a much longer learning curve.
I can appreciate that. Hey, its a programming language and that means taking the time to learn it. I was hoping for an easy fix to a simple problem, that was easily accomplished in another tool, that's all.

My point is that traders need to spend their time focuses on developing trade logic that works - not code that arranges pixels on a screen a certain way - that's a waste of time in my professional opinion.

But, I do get the point that if you are going to use MT4 for anything beyond a basic cross-over tactic, then you might have to learn MQL. Of course, that's why I use a Visual EA platform, so that I don't have to learn how to code an EA using MQL. Fortunately, that part is working out nicely.
The Event Horizon
  • #10
  • Edited 6:26am May 3, 2012 6:16am | Edited 6:26am
Quote
Posted by iDouble

Any ideas on how to convert this condition to something that can be visualized on the chart?


I cant help it, hope your trading skills are better then your coding.


To answer your question.... Hire some one that knows what there doing.



Quote
Posted by iDouble

LOL, this is actually as uncomplicated as my system's get


You need to write one liners in Excell but not in MQ, I not saying MQ is very advance but its more then your capable of handling.



Inserted Code
 
iCustom( Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 7, 7, 100, "", true, false, false, true, false, false, false, "", LightSalmon, C'64,0,0', Orange, PaleGreen, Orange, PaleGreen, CornflowerBlue, "", 4, 4, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1 )


If you know what your doing then that one line of code can be reduced to


Inserted Code
 
iCustom( Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"DV_Short_0001", 1 )


and with a loop and function call I can reduce your mess into a few lines of code.





This is pure garbage......
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[size=1]((((iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,1)+[b][color=red]iCu stom[/color][/b](Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"[b][color=black]TCDi7[/color][/b]_0001", 5, 8, 100, "", true, true, true, true, true, true, false, false, "", ForestGreen, LightSalmon, White, CornflowerBlue, Maroon, PaleGreen, White, CornflowerBlue, "", 3, 1, 2, 2,[b][color=red]1[/color][/b],1))+(iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+[color=red][b]i Custom[/b][/color](Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"[b][color=black]TCDi7[/color][/b]_0001", 5, 8, 100, "", true, true, true, true, true, true, false, false, "", ForestGreen, LightSalmon, White, CornflowerBlue, Maroon, PaleGreen, White, CornflowerBlue, "", 3, 1, 2, 2,[b][color=red]1[/color][/b],0)))/2)+(((iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,1)+[color=red][b]i Custom[/b][/color](Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,"[b][color=black]TCDi7[/color][/b]_0001", 5, 8, 100, "", true, true, true, true, true, true, false, false, "", ForestGreen, LightSalmon, White, CornflowerBlue,Maroon, PaleGreen, White, CornflowerBlue, "", 3, 1, 2, 2,[b][color=red]7[/color][/b],1))+(iHigh(Symbol(),PERIOD_D1,0)+[/size]
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I can see why the Print() and Comment() statments are giving you such a go of it,



I cant see you as a man that can trade base ball cards.


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I just could not let this get by...... this is pure
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  • #11
  • Jun 5, 2012 7:41pm Jun 5, 2012 7:41pm
[quote=CockeyedCowboy;5633495] I cant help it, hope your trading skills are better then your coding.[quote]

They are about 11.2 million times better than my coding skills thus far, as a matter of fact. Since you mentioned it.

I'm not a coder, or script writer. I'm an actually trader who makes their living building private capital. My private capital.

Shall we take a look at your last 100 trades, so we can find out what kind of trader you are? Or, shall we take the last 100 lines of "MQL" as proof positive that you know what you are talking about?

Traders, trade. When I have time to learn a programing language, then I'll both skills under wraps. But, for now, I'll rest easy at night knowing that I can grow capital at a rate that would make your head spin off like a top.

Like I've said before, if developing trade logic was as easy as developing programing logic, Silicone Valley, would have surpassed Wall Street as the Meca of all things financial market related.

Of course, anyone living in SV, knows that's not the case. I've met many programmers who can't write a single line of code that contains a high probability patterns that repeats with fluency and historical accuracy. Yet, I don't ridicule programmers who can't write solid trade logic that actually works.

There might be a stiff lesson in that for you.
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  • #12
  • Last Post: Jun 5, 2012 7:57pm Jun 5, 2012 7:57pm
Quoting CockeyedCowboy
You need to write one liners in Excell but not in MQ, I not saying MQ is very advance but its more then your capable of handling.
Handling a procedural programing language is not handling OOP. Excel, is still being used today by many to do early prototyping of various kinds. If you had any industry knowledge (at all), you would have known that before writing off Excel as less than MQL. In fact, you can far more with Excel, than you would ever be able to do with MQL, merely because MQL is lousy at handling Memory.

That's my point. Must all MQL based EAs are some kind of moving average "crossing" form of trade logic. There are a million types of those EA flying around and that's what most MQL programmers are familiar with producing. However, you are not going to build a fully integrated, sophisticated trading system, predicated on moving averages alone. A different type of indicator that is not based on 50+ year old information, and the trade logic necessary to integrate it, would require the use of storing and then accessing memory at a rate and volume that a procedural programing language like MQL, simply can't handle.

When you get to a point where you know how to create, design, architect, engineer and integrate, a real trading system, as opposed to yet another MA Cross trading strategy, then you'll have a better understanding of what you are missing.


Quoting CockeyedCowboy
If you know what your doing then that one line of code can be reduced to
That fact that you would attempt to "reduce" that which you don't even understand, is amusing to say the least.

Quoting CockeyedCowboy
...with a loop and function call I can reduce your mess into a few lines of code.
The problem is that you read like a fool, who doesn't have the slightest clue what he's looking at. Yet, you somehow know that you can reduce it. You don't even know why I left the code in the form that you see it, and you don't understand the component trade logic that stands behind it - nor do you understand that it's a fraction of the total algorithm that produces a signal.

Yet, you know that "reducing" it is even possible, let alone desirable?

You've got a lot to learn.



Quoting CockeyedCowboy
This is pure garbage......
I think you are a bit delusional, but that's just one man's take on the matter.

You have an opinion about things you don't understand, and that for me is enough to know about you.

Get a clue.
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