Hi,
i am writing a EA to calculate the cross price for EMA. How can i determine at what price the crossover has taken place???
Basially, how does one track if the 5 EMA has crossed over the 20 EMA...???

1.Ema period=5 with shift of -1
>>> 2.Ema period= 20 (no shift)

Open -Close-Open (reverse position)
Open- Close- New order...could be several orders inside a bar
If Requote, always a YES

What makes your message "urgent"?

Because he can't wait to be rich!

The actual answer to his question is very simple. However, it ticked me off to see the first post by a member marked as urgent.

Was marked urgent as a 6 month Testbench results are to be compared with and posted here.

For EA so: if price close so ma with 0 is crossing ma with 0. And one bar ago (+1 bar if it is close mode) ma is below or above the other ma with 1 bar as well.
If ma with other mode (not close price mode) so it is 1 and 2.
- (minus) 1 bar is the future.

"Future is not set". We have a thread with this "Future is not set" indicator (based on tartan's indicator for Goldwarrior EA).

There are a lot of EAs developed on this forum concerning MA crossing. As I remember Codersguru developed some EMA crossing EAs - look here http://www.forex-tsd.com/ema-cross/

Besides there is thread with 3 EMA crossing EA here.

You may take it from this examples (attached):
1. MA_ExpertProfit.mq4: it is the same EA but it will close the orders in s/l or t/p only.

2. MA_ExpertProfit_all.mq4: it will close the order on s/l or t/p, or on the other crossing signal. This EA should work on particular account only. Just change the line "int Account = 111111;" to your account number inside the code. For example your account is 1235463. So this line should be like this:
int Account = 1235463;

3. MA_ExpertProfit_noacc.mq4: it is the same with item # 2. But without any account and it may work in any account (i mean account in Metatrader).

And check this very good thread as well Universal MA Cross EA

Attached Files

	MA_ExpertProfit.mq4 (7.0 KB, 31 views)
	MA_ExpertProfit_all.mq4 (7.2 KB, 26 views)
	MA_ExpertProfit_noacc.mq4 (7.0 KB, 25 views)