Hi guys,
I'me new here.Can anyone show me how to attach the EA to forward test it?I just can't get the smiley face.if the EA got involve indicators,must the chart also display the indicator required?I'm interested to learn how to write EA as well,can provide some information any website I can learn?Thanks so much in advance.I do hope to be able to contribute an EA in the near future.

Hi darrenlck,

Make sure the followings.

1) Click the smiley and open common tab. Check "allow Live trading".
2) Open Tools menu --> options --> Expert Advisors tab. Check all except "Ask manual confirmation".

You don't need to apply any indicators on the chart even if EA uses them.
But if EA uses custom indicators, you need to place required indicators in your MT4 --> experts --> indicators directory.

I didn't learn mql here (I just read a book and made try and error), but there seem to be a course of lectures for begginers here. Maybe administrator can guide you.

Hi latimeria,

Thanks so much.I manage to get the smiley face now.
By the way,what is the title of the book you are learning from?
I can't find find any book related to this in the library so if its available
for sale anywhere,i will get it.

darrenlck,

I can show you the title of the book I learned from, but It's a Japanese book.
(And It was very basic and not enough for further coding at all. But there are sample codes that can be download from a publisher and they help to understand mq4 structurally.)

I found these lessons written by a famous veteran coder "codersguru".
It will help you.

http://www.forex-tsd.com/3746-post20.html

I recommend you to open some mq4 files (available here, there and everywhere) and see what they are doing, and play with them, not only reading lectures.

Don't try to do complicated things from the beginning. If you do so, you'll hate programming.
It is said that the most famous program in the world is to print "Hello world !".
Start from an easy thing, then proceed.

I'm glad if you can be a contributor, not just a downloader.

Thank you latimeria.Ya its a great one.I started the course now.
By the way,i got a simple strategy not sure if you can help me write an EA.Actually I have been emotional during trading thats why I thought of having an EA that have all my rules in it.

darrenlck,

At least I won't write an EA for you or anyone although it's easy to do so.
Doing it yourself is the best way.

Before everything, you must finish the lessons, learn from the codes that other coders have written and make try and error for your own one.

You can search web for information, and MetaEditor itself has a search function and dictionary for its prepared functions.

Then, if there is something you can't figure out, ask here. I will and Other coders will help you.

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About your problem to be emotional during trading, EA doesn't solve all your problem.
Yes, EA has no emotion, it's true. But what if you break your programmed rules manually? (And most people are doing such a thing, taking profit manually or trying to fit by changing parameters everyday...)

Remember that EA helps you as long as you follow the rules you have decided.
It means if you can't be consistent, EA won't be of any help to you.

Hi Latimeria,so you are japanese?Thanks for your advise.I will strive to learn and write myself. If I don't know anything,can I ask for your guidance,not asking you to help me write an EA?I need to understand more into it on how its writen.

I like the martingale one because it actually shows all the figures (and percentages) in real time. It is better than the simple basket close. I would advise all users to go directly with the martingale equity script if possible. Does exactly what u say it would do. Great job. I was searching for something like this for a while. Found several things that came close, but yours seems to have the best of everything I was looking for.

One of the things that I particularly like also is that you can specify the initial equity. This is huge, because, like you noticed, there are times where you have to shut down mt4. Also there are times where you may be applying this to a terminal that already has trades initiated. So this way you do not have to close everything out and start from scratch. You can start it at any point and it can control your trading.

It also closes out trades quickly. Something else I like.

A few suggestions:

- I'd like to add a template to make the chart blank and then add the ea in such a way that all I see is the text for the equity mgmt. I don't want to see anything else related to the chart. I saw another money management script that did this (you applied a template that made the whole chart completely black. Then applied the script and all you saw was the script text in larger letter)

- make the text of the equity manager script output TEXT bigger. It is small on the screen. Also would like to move some of the text to the right. So make 2 columns so to speak of text. You could break it right at the

- Perhaps you could expand on this equity trailing as so to make it symbol-specific. I would like to see each symbol get the trail as well.

- have it automatically check the equity every .5 seconds or xx seconds. Right now it is tied to the next tick. I choose a chart like gbpusd or eurusd, but it still misses ticks sometimes as that market may be quiet and other markets are moving and affecting real-time equity. So the ability for the program to take snapshots of equity and run calculations independent of waiting for next tick of the chart ea is running on.

also, I had thought of a couple of other things. Either write to a txt file or take a screenshot of the latest stats BEFORE the reset of the numbers when the stop loss or take profit target is hit..

This way, we can keep tabs on how many times our profits or losses were hit and what were the stats at that time. We are not guessing what happened or how many times our target was hit over the last few days.

Should also have labeled maximum drawdown just like it has maximum equity (and percentage). Should show the maximum drawdown that the acct has witnessed.