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For several weeks now I am unable to create demo accounts on every terminal (=every broker) and every machine I'm using. I always have to contact some broker to create one for me. Did Metaquotes change anything

Do you, and if so how often do you reboot your production -level systems? So far, I've rebooted my systems every night. However I reduced this to a weekly reboot 2 weeks ago and had no problems so far. I'd be interested in your experiences - thank

fun with equity curves! Strategy Tester Report test (Build 226) Symbol EURUSD-fx (Euro vs US Dollar) Period 1 Hour (H1) 2008.01.02 01:00 - 2008.09.03 23:00 (2008.01.01 - 2008.09.04) Model Every tick (the most precise method based on all available

Good day fellow traders and traderesses, I just tried to run >15 instances of an EA in a single terminal and then it crashed. I had no problems running 10 instances and up to 5 terminals on this machine for months now. So my question is, if

Hi, I've created a demo account and then I've disconnected MT and deleted the hst-files. Then I've imported external data into several markets such as EURGBP, XAGUSD, EuroStoxx50 and so on. Most of them work fine, but on several markets I've

Has anyone found out, what it is that's slowing down the strategy tester ? On the one hand I have rather complex EAs that I can backtest in around 10 sec / month. Some other EAs really slow down the strategy tester exponentially and take >1

If you're running several terminal-instances on a server, then it's really useful if you can see on first sight, which terminal you have in front of yourself. I've already changed the icon, and the colours, indicating productive environments. I'd

Like many other users I would really appreciate it if the Metaquotes staff would implement some features that would rise the quality of this forum. Introducing categories would be a first step. I want to help a little by asking the forum users, which

Hi, I'm currently working on an EA which is causing me some headaches... In the strategy tester the EA soaks up all my RAM, something I've never experienced before - and I'm working with MT for quite a while now. This screenshot was taken while

Hi everyone, first I'd like to say, that with this question I'm actually addressing to the more experienced traders around here - thank you for your understanding. I'd like to share experiences concerning the development process of (profitable)

Hi! I'm looking for an indicator I found in NinjaTrader called swing high low indicator. I also got the Ninjatrader-code but I don't understand it well enough to be able to rewrite it for MT. Can anyone help me

Something really strange is going on here and I just don't get it. ... double TrailingStop; ... if (OrderStopLoss() < TrailingStop) { Log("StopLoss="+OrderStopLoss()+" TrailingStop="+TrailingStop); doStuff(); } My log shows

Has anyone figured out how to define the exact age of an order - in bars? Period() must be included as well as OrderOpenTime () and TimeCurrent() ... aaand yes: it would be perfect if the actual opening hours of the market would be included. I'm

Hi, I've experienced a really strange thing with some self-written indicators. I ran MT Client for 1 or 2 days live and found that my indicators show wrong values. So I double-clicked the indicator and the settings-menu popped up. I just checked the

Because: there are no mods. There is no structure. This source of knowledge is totally neglected by Metaquotes Corp! 30 new threads per day - and everyday the same: 70% of the threads here can be answered with: "read the (f.) manual" /

Hello everyone, I want to tidy up my EAs and store my functions in libraries. Example: EA contains this: extern int loglevel = 1; int start() { [...] Log(1, "Important message, like errors and stuff"); [...] Log(0, "Warnings, Infos

Please have a look at this and tell me what you think about it. Would you run it with your own money? I don't want to influence anyone, therefore I just want to give you some neutral information: - ran for 2 weeks - performs poorly in trending

Hello Community! My question is: what's the difference between running an EA in a productive environment compared to a simulated environment such as the strategy tester ? I'm thinking of aspects like - quality of modeled environments (data quality