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mallet52 · #**1551** (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 11:11 AM

here is my ea that I forgot to add in last post

mladen · #**1552** (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 11:16 AM

The way it has to be coded is not to use the delay (delay will not help in cases like these) but to break apart new order placement into two parts :

1. Placing orders without stop loss and/or take profit
2. Placing stop loss and/or take profit in separate step (when and only when an order is already accepted)

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Now, Phoenix EA is doing that operation on 10 separate places and all of them would need to be rewritten (or the logic of the EA placing orders should be rewritten in order to be able to control potential errors strictly, and so on, and so on...) Right now I do not have the time to do the complete rewriting (it would require more time in order to do it right), so I can not promise you that I will do that

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regards
mladen

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Originally Posted by mallet52

Hey guys,
I still haveing trouble getting my ea to work with fxcm bt,they tell me that I have a problem with the ea placing sl ant tp at the same time it puts in a market order,
Mladen kindly recoded this ea for so it would accept the 5 digit pricing and now this problem came up,
It would be great if somone could code the delay in to the ea that is needed for me,or explain it in great detail ( as I have no knowalge on how to code) and I will have a go at it myself, so I don't have to keep bothering everyone else.
thankyou in advance
and to all those who have helped me in the past

newcoder · #**1553** (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 12:18 PM

I tried to change the one line of original code for the Moving Average that comes with MetaTrader 4 and place it in a seperate window but when I do it does not show all the options that I would like to have that comes with the original code i.e. like [ Ma method 'simple'] and apply to 'close' or open etc...

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks so much.

mladen · #**1554** (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 12:21 PM

You are not doing anything wrong
Metatrader, for now (it is going to be changed in version 5) does not allow those "descriptive" parameter entries in custom indicators (so, the non-built-in indicators).

Quote:

Originally Posted by newcoder

I tried to change the one line of original code for the Moving Average that comes with MetaTrader 4 and place it in a seperate window but when I do it does not show all the options that I would like to have that comes with the original code i.e. like [ Ma method 'simple'] and apply to 'close' or open etc...

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks so much.

mallet52 · #**1555** (**permalink**) 08-12-2009, 09:55 AM

Thankyou for helping me out mladen,your help is much apricated,
I tried sending you a pm but can't for some reason
anyway, thanks again

V-Force · #**1556** (**permalink**) 08-15-2009, 05:46 AM

I am new to mq4 and i am trying to create a display on screen when there is a crossover for my custom MACDs. Below is my code but the alerts keep poping up every few minutes.

How can i code it to display alerts only once every hour? Or one alert per bar?

//--------------------------
int start()
{
string MACD1="";
color colt9;
double MACDM_S10 = iCustom(NULL, PERIOD_H1, "MACD", 8,17,9, MODE_MAIN, 0);
double MACDS_S10 = iCustom(NULL, PERIOD_H1, "MACD", 8,17,9, MODE_SIGNAL,0);
double MACDM_S11 = iCustom(NULL, PERIOD_H1, "MACD", 8,17,9, MODE_MAIN, 1);
double MACDS_S11 = iCustom(NULL, PERIOD_H1, "MACD", 8,17,9, MODE_SIGNAL,1);

if ((MACDM_S11 < MACDS_S11 && MACDM_S10 < MACDS_S10)) { MACD1="IN UPTREND"; colt9=LimeGreen; }
if ((MACDM_S11 > MACDS_S11 && MACDM_S10 > MACDS_S10)) { MACD1="IN DOWNTREND"; colt9=Red; }
if ((MACDM_S11 > MACDS_S11 && MACDM_S10 < MACDS_S10)) { MACD1="NEW UP CROSSING"; colt9=LimeGreen; }
if ((MACDM_S11 < MACDS_S11 && MACDM_S10 > MACDS_S10)) { MACD1="NEW DOWN CROSSING"; colt9=Red; }

string MACD2="";
color colt14;
double MACDM_L10 = iCustom(NULL, PERIOD_H1, "MACD", 12,26,9, MODE_MAIN, 0);
double MACDS_L10 = iCustom(NULL, PERIOD_H1, "MACD", 12,26,9, MODE_SIGNAL,0);
double MACDM_L11 = iCustom(NULL, PERIOD_H1, "MACD", 12,26,9, MODE_MAIN, 1);
double MACDS_L11 = iCustom(NULL, PERIOD_H1, "MACD", 12,26,9, MODE_SIGNAL,1);

if ((MACDM_L11 < MACDS_L11 && MACDM_L10 < MACDS_L10)) { MACD2="IN UPTREND"; colt14=LimeGreen; }
if ((MACDM_L11 > MACDS_L11 && MACDM_L10 > MACDS_L10)) { MACD2="IN DOWNTREND"; colt14=Red; }
if ((MACDM_L11 > MACDS_L11 && MACDM_L10 < MACDS_L10)) { MACD2="NEW UP CROSSING"; colt14=LimeGreen; }
if ((MACDM_L11 < MACDS_L11 && MACDM_L10 > MACDS_L10)) { MACD2="NEW DOWN CROSSING"; colt14=Red; }

if(MACD1=="NEW UP CROSSING"&&MACD2=="IN UPTREND")
Alert(Symbol()," - ","H1:"," MACD MAIN UPTREND MOVEMENT"," at ", Bid, " - ",TimeToStr(CurTime(),TIME_SECONDS));
if(MACD1=="NEW DOWN CROSSING"&&MACD2=="IN DOWNTREND")
Alert(Symbol()," - ","H1:"," MACD MAIN DOWNTREND MOVEMENT"," at ", Bid, " - ",TimeToStr(CurTime(),TIME_SECONDS));

if(MACD2=="NEW UP CROSSING"&&MACD1=="IN UPTREND")
Alert(Symbol()," - ","H1:"," MACD, MAIN TREND CHANGE TO UPTREND"," at ", Bid, " - ",TimeToStr(CurTime(),TIME_SECONDS));
if(MACD2=="NEW DOWN CROSSING"&&MACD1=="IN DOWNTREND")
Alert(Symbol()," - ","H1:"," MACD, MAIN TREND CHANGE TO DOWNTREND"," at ", Bid, " - ",TimeToStr(CurTime(),TIME_SECONDS));

return(0);
}

increase · #**1557** (**permalink**) 08-23-2009, 01:37 PM

Hi Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the periods on this indicator?

luxinterior · #**1558** (**permalink**) 08-24-2009, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by increase

Hi Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the periods on this indicator?

Set the label property of each of the buffers to an empty string.

Code:

SetIndexLabel(0,"");

You can also set the IndicatorShortName to an empty string to get rid of that if you want.

Lux

increase · #**1559** (**permalink**) 08-24-2009, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luxinterior

Set the label property of each of the buffers to an empty string.

Code:

SetIndexLabel(0,"");

You can also set the IndicatorShortName to an empty string to get rid of that if you want.

Lux

Thanks thats great just need to fix the bar label please

Chistabo · #**1560** (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 02:22 PM

Ola!

Thank you, all CodeMasters, for your help.

Problem:
EA enters trades per Fractals signals, exits by Heiken Achi Smoothed.
Every now and then both indicators fight - Fractals opens a trade, Heiken closes it imediately... constantly on one bar (Balance goes waaay down).

I would like to code EA to only trade once per bar, like if there is order in History on current day, no more trading for today.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Have fun,

Simon