moving averages are determined by the past "x" periods average,


for example, if you apply the moving average to the close, one period closes at 1.3417, and the next is 5 pips higher, and the next 5 higher, and etc, a moving average would "average" thoose values to come up with a current value.

and because the price is always changing, only the moving averages that look back for over 100 pips or so, look close to straight most of the time

in answer to your question, if it is possible, please let me know! (lol)

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hello, i am working on an EA that I am trying to do a price cross with.

how do i know if it has crossed?
if i do if Ask>iCustom() then it puts in orders any time it is above
if i do if ask=iCustom() then it misses buys because it does it per minute

on dealbook i would do if ask[-1] <iCustom() and ask[0]>=iCustom but i cant fiure it out here as Ask and Bid do not have history

hi,
this is probably irrelevant to this thread, but i wanted to know how to add on extra charts for metatrader 4...like silver, audnzd, nzdusd, platanium etc. Someone had given me this attachment once to copy paste in the metatrader folder to get these charts, but it seems i lost it, so can someone please help me out here.

thnx
kev

Hello,

I am a newbie in programming and I don't know how to retrieve the value for the previous tick : previous ask and bid values.

Thank you for your help.

I have the same question, would like to retrieve ask[-1] and bid[-1]and don't knw how to do so.
If you have a solution, please post it.

Many thanks.

Ask and Bid is the current price at which you can buy or sell (always the latest tick). The only “historical” values you can retrieve for price is Open / High (so far) / Low (so far) for current bar, “so far” meaning that until the bar closes these values might change, and High/Low/Open/Close of any previous bar on any time frame.

Yannis

Thank you for the answer.

So, I will have to store the values. Maybe you can give me a little advice and some code about the array.

This is wat I intend to do

1)int init :
a loop : select by position

declaring a two resizable dimensionnal array :
getting the ticket for each trade
storing the ticket and bid (or ask) value in the array : please help

2) int start
a loop : for each line in the array (first value stores the ticket of a trade
-->select by ticket)
a) retrieve the bid_1 (or ask_1) stored in second value of the line :
b) store new value of bid (or ask) please help

Every help is welcome - Thank you

Hi Yannis, great to see you here too. All the best

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Hi FireDave, Thanks for the warm welcome. Glad to see you here too. Are you a Moderator here ?

DayTrSuccess,
this should get you started:

// Fill your array
MyArray[][3];
ArrayInitialize(MyArray,0);

for (int cnt=OrdersTotal()-1;cnt>=0;cnt--)
{ OrderSelect(cnt, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES);
if (OrderSymbol()==Symbol() && OrderMagicNumber()==Magic)
{ MyArray[cnt][0]=OrderTicket();
if (OrderType()==OP_BUY)
{ MyArray[cnt][1]=1; // Buy
MyArray[cnt][2]=OrderOpenPrice();
}
else
{ MyArray[cnt][1]=2; // Sell
MyArray[cnt][2]=OrderOpenPrice();
}
}
}

// Search your array for OrderTicket
int MyArrayIndex=ArrayBsearch(MyArray,OrderTicket(),WH OLE_ARRAY,0,MODE_ASCEND);
if (MyArray[MyArrayIndex][0]==OrderTicket())
{ // Your code here
}

Nope, just another holy-grail-searcher

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