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Drawing MA with an EA - Possible?

  • #1
  • First Post: Dec 6, 2013 1:58pm Dec 6, 2013 1:58pm
Am I missing something? I'm trying to draw a MA onscreen via EA. Is this possible? I tried iCustom and the MA Custom Indicator and it doesnt draw the MA onscreen when called. Is there a way to do this short of calculating and drawing it?
  • #2
  • Dec 6, 2013 3:45pm Dec 6, 2013 3:45pm
  •  FerruFx
  • Joined May 2007 | Status: MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder | 6,542 Posts | Online Now
Quoting BlackOpz
Am I missing something? I'm trying to draw a MA onscreen via EA. Is this possible? I tried iCustom and the MA Custom Indicator and it doesnt draw the MA onscreen when called. Is there a way to do this short of calculating and drawing it?
EA isn't an indicator ... you can't draw buffers like indicators do for lines or histograms.

Calling an indicator by iCustom() doesn't plot it on chart.
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
  • #3
  • Dec 6, 2013 4:18pm Dec 6, 2013 4:18pm
I know its not a indi but I've done a couple brute-force sequential trend lines (with no ray) if I just needed to plot a line and wanted the entire code in the EA. Never really tried before but that seems weird that a EA cant trigger a Indi to display on the main chart.
  • #4
  • Last Post: Dec 6, 2013 4:29pm Dec 6, 2013 4:29pm
  •  FerruFx
  • Joined May 2007 | Status: MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder | 6,542 Posts | Online Now
Quoting BlackOpz
I know its not a indi but I've done a couple brute-force sequential trend lines (with no ray) if I just needed to plot a line and wanted the entire code in the EA. Never really tried before but that seems weird that a EA cant trigger a Indi to display on the main chart.
Trend lines are drawing objects so can be plotted by EA. The only way for an EA to plot an MA is to draw multiple trendlines (1 for each candle).
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
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