No worries. As I understand it, the term "pips" has grown a definition relating to trade size, meaning that a 1 pip move of a 1 lot trade corresponds to a known value amount. The term "Point" in MT4 more strictly means the granularity of price movement, i.e. the smallest difference there can be between two prices; or that every Bid/Ask price is some integer N times Point.

So far there has been a 1-1 translation between pips and Point in MT4, but that's no longer the case. Instead, for your broker, you have 1 pip = 10 Point, and therefore, if you want the "spread" variable to be in pips you will have to use the expression "(Point*10)" wherever you previously used "Point". The expression is without the double-quotes, but *with* the parentheses.

To make it very clear in the code, you could also add a function to provide the appropriate pips measure:
and in that case, you would replace "Point" at all other places with the function call "pips()".

Alternatively, you let the program work with the Point granularity, and merely translate to pips when the spread value is presented. I.e. forget about using the pips() function above, but have the following function for translating a Points value to be a pips value:
Then the spread value component in the ObjectSetText call would be like:

I now use the following code and replace all occurances of Point with myPoint.

First I declare a global variable

double myPoint;

I then add the following line in Init function.

myPoint = SetPoint();

Then add the function

double SetPoint()
{
double mPoint;

if (Digits < 4)
mPoint = 0.01;
else
mPoint = 0.0001;

return(mPoint);
}

This works whether the broker uses fractional pips or not.


Robert

can you any body help me?
I want expert 20_200 with trailing stop.
PLEASE put anybody.

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little help

You do not really need a function, it's enough to put in the init() function:

please help NEWDIGITAL

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I would do it your way if I only had a few EAs to worry about. I actually have this code in a library along with numerous other functions that use myPoint instead of Point in the code. That way I only need to change code in one place and recompile all EAs. Just in case some broker decides to add another decimal place.

Robert

What type of trailing stop?
I have over 10 types now.

Robert

Sorry, I don't know exactly, but
I thing is good like this ea. EA_TrendStrengthEMAv2

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I want to get a date range.

Yesterday at 5 PM to 3:00 AM today... then want to look at the bars between that range.

I dont see a function to get the beginning of the day (seconds from 1970)
I can do the math myself, by using modulus etc. but wondering if there any easy mt4 functions Im not seeing to do this..
There must be an easy way in MT4.


Craig