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  • #1,001
  • Jun 9, 2016 10:50am Jun 9, 2016 10:50am
  •  FerruFx
  • Joined May 2007 | Status: MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder | 6,542 Posts | Online Now
Quoting heispark
{quote} I am sorry but I don't get it. Is 'Refresh' from Windows menu or MT4 menu? I cannot find it from Windows right click menu. I only find it from MT4 but it doesn't work. I expected I can use newly added indicators without restarting the MT4..... (I am using Windows 10.) {image}{image}
From MT4 indicators/EAs list in the panel on the right side of your platform.
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  • #1,002
  • Edited 6:14pm Jun 9, 2016 10:55am | Edited 6:14pm
Quoting FerruFx
{quote} From MT4 indicators/EAs list in the panel on the right side of your platform.
Got it. Thank you so much! It's really handy.
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  • #1,003
  • Jun 9, 2016 11:01am Jun 9, 2016 11:01am
  •  FerruFx
  • Joined May 2007 | Status: MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder | 6,542 Posts | Online Now
Quoting heispark
{quote} Got it. Thank you so much! It's really handy. {image}
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
  • #1,004
  • Jun 10, 2016 7:21am Jun 10, 2016 7:21am
Hi platform experts,

Is there any way I can please increase width of bars and lines on the chart (not candles) ? I use MA rainbow and sometimes unable to notice the bar opening and closing bars.

Appreciate help.
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  • #1,005
  • Jun 10, 2016 5:01pm Jun 10, 2016 5:01pm
Quoting FerruFx
{quote} From MT4 indicators/EAs list in the panel on the right side of your platform.
The Navigator, Data Window, Market Watch panels have always appeared on the LEFT for me, is this the Australian way?

Glad that tip is still helping people, I did try to capture a screen shot but the pop up menu disappear when I click on SnagIt

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  • #1,006
  • Jun 10, 2016 6:37pm Jun 10, 2016 6:37pm
  •  FerruFx
  • Joined May 2007 | Status: MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder | 6,542 Posts | Online Now
Quoting Erebus
{quote} The Navigator, Data Window, Market Watch panels have always appeared on the LEFT for me, is this the Australian way?
Left for me too ... Typo in my last answer
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  • #1,007
  • Jun 30, 2016 3:58am Jun 30, 2016 3:58am
When I scroll the chart during trading times it always comes back to the current candle. Is there a way to scroll the chart without going forward to the current candle?

Thanks.

Edit: I've already figured it out. Thanks.
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  • #1,008
  • Jul 4, 2016 5:23am Jul 4, 2016 5:23am
Hi Everyone, I wonder if someone know how to scale horizontal axis to a specific degree (and not by dragging mouse over timeline). I want to reduce the width and space between candles but the standard method resize them too small on my 4K display.
  • #1,009
  • Aug 1, 2016 6:29pm Aug 1, 2016 6:29pm
Hi, I am currently trying to do backtest using optimization option. I checked those variables need to step up. But after running here is my optimisation results:


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Can anyone help how to fix this issue please?

If I run tester without optimisation my results are fine and I won't face any issue at all.
  • #1,010
  • Sep 20, 2016 11:07am Sep 20, 2016 11:07am
Hi;

https://www.mql5.com/en/charts/58097...d1-fxglobe-ltd

Please refer to above link. Is there any way in mt4 to show entry, SL, and TP labels on the right side of chart instead of on the left side?

Thanks for any and all feedback.



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  • #1,011
  • Edited 8:31pm Oct 15, 2016 8:13pm | Edited 8:31pm
Good Morning
I am posting this question for a friend, he is trying to install indicators and templates on his MT4 platform but on an Apple computer
He reporting that the mq4 files are loading ok but the .ex4 files are not.
Could anybody please shed some light ?
Kind Regards
Anthm

EDIT: the error message attached
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  • #1,012
  • Oct 15, 2016 8:50pm Oct 15, 2016 8:50pm
Quoting anthm
Good Morning I am posting this question for a friend, he is trying to install indicators and templates on his MT4 platform but on an Apple computer He reporting that the mq4 files are loading ok but the .ex4 files are not. Could anybody please shed some light ? Kind Regards Anthm EDIT: the error message attached {image}
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  • #1,013
  • Oct 16, 2016 7:11am Oct 16, 2016 7:11am
Quoting anthm
Good Morning I am posting this question for a friend, he is trying to install indicators and templates on his MT4 platform but on an Apple computer He reporting that the mq4 files are loading ok but the .ex4 files are not. Could anybody please shed some light ? Kind Regards Anthm EDIT: the error message attached {image}
I don't clearly undestand your issue. He seems Wine or Wine variable. Need to find program folder for mt4 inside of Wine folder. The others are the same as Windows's version. Just put into Indicators folder. In short, MT4 works just fine with Mac.
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  • #1,014
  • Nov 16, 2016 10:20am Nov 16, 2016 10:20am
Hi Guys, anyone know how to add sub window into main window?
  • #1,015
  • Dec 2, 2016 9:49pm Dec 2, 2016 9:49pm
Friends, please I need an solution for the next trouble:

It is possible to have one mechanism or do it an code in mq4 that allows me to synchronize the view of any currency pair chart with the MarketWatch/TickChart, from way that if I change from GBPUSD chart to the JPYUSD chart, the MarketWatch/TickChart window also changes to JPYUSD ?....

Thanks in advance.
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  • #1,016
  • Dec 3, 2016 5:00am Dec 3, 2016 5:00am
Quoting fxmini
Hi Guys, anyone know how to add sub window into main window?
This indicator from my collection will open a blank sub-window:

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File Type: mq4 Blank.mq4   < 1 KB | 439 downloads
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  • #1,017
  • Dec 3, 2016 1:13pm Dec 3, 2016 1:13pm
Hi MT4 experts,

Does anyone have an example, including source, of something (e.g. a dashboard? widget?) that could display a popup of Object info? Currently, I make use of Text objects to calculate and display some measurements of interest to me and display them near the object points.

For example, the chart below shows the 3 prices, the 3 swings in #pips, and the #bars between each. (Fyi, the text at pt1 is actually #pips/#bars from pt3 back to pt1).

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This is a simple example, but I have many more measurements that I'd like to make, and for some measurements, to highlight something of interest. Here, the #bars from pt2 to pt3 is "62". Interestingly close to "61.8" so I want to highlight it.

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The popup I want is a per-object attribute, although if I had to settle with some window that is per-chart, I could adapt to it. Less easy is some window-per-MT4-session.

I'm interested in source code examples of any and all dashboards anyway, but this is one specific need.
Maybe what I need would call DLL's to display the popup and that's fine. A DLL can do all the calculations I'm interested in from the 3 object points. I just don't know of any DLL-with-source-code examples (be they in C, or whatever; I can learn by example).

Any help and examples are MUCH appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Kent (pips4life)
  • #1,018
  • Edited 6:31pm Dec 4, 2016 6:17pm | Edited 6:31pm
Hi
when u use range bar chart in mt4 there is some issues
1-after the first using range bars.. u need to restart the mt4 again or change the time frame in feeding chart to apply the recent bars
2-the range bars always change their shape after restarting the mt4 or changing TF in feeding chart !

any solution for these ?
(i,ve read some things about not saving tick data in mt4 and stuff .. but in any case can this be fixed? )

thanx
  • #1,019
  • Dec 5, 2016 4:13am Dec 5, 2016 4:13am
Quoting golden-way
Hi when u use range bar chart in mt4 there is some issues 1-after the first using range bars.. u need to restart the mt4 again or change the time frame in feeding chart to apply the recent bars 2-the range bars always change their shape after restarting the mt4 or changing TF in feeding chart ! any solution for these ? (i,ve read some things about not saving tick data in mt4 and stuff .. but in any case can this be fixed? ) thanx
I have been using range bars for years, but I am not experiencing issues you mentioned. It probably depends on the generator, try other vendor.
  • #1,020
  • Dec 5, 2016 4:44am Dec 5, 2016 4:44am
Quoting golden-way
Hi when u use range bar chart in mt4 there is some issues 1-after the first using range bars.. .. but in any case can this be fixed?
I don't use range bars, but my understanding is that they are not native to MT4, i.e. they must be plotted on an offline chart that's generated by an EA. Hence the problem most likely lies within the EA program code, so you would need to have a programmer look at the EA's MQ4 file.
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