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Hello,   Is there a way to retrieve the date-period over which EA is back-tested, from EA's code, at runtime?  I'm referring to Strategy-Tester's  Use-Date fields ( From , To ).    Thanks

Hello,   Terminal global variables are available for concurrent access from all running EAs. Each EA runs on its own thread (as stated on official documentation). Is access (Read/Write) to global variables assured to be race-condition-free

Hello there,     I have 2 (symbol) graphs open on MT4, representing offline-data. Is it possible to scroll them together, synchronously? In other words, when the timeline of one graph is manually scrolled, the timeline of the other is

Hello, I want to buy Indices M1 (bars) history-data of several years (primarily of SPX). Does anyone know where could reliable data be bought ? { Ofcourse it should be in MT4 supported format } Thanks much. P.S. I'm familiar with the

B"H Hello there, I have self-implemented the Bollinger bands indicator. Attaching it to symbol's graph produces exact results (I've compared them with those of the standard indicator-implementation supplied within the MT4 package). In other

B"H Hello, Couldn't find such an answer on the forum... Does the Open[] time-series hold bars opening Bid rate or Ask rate, or something else altogether? Thanks much

B"H Hello there, Assume I have reliable M1 history bar-data. Is it possible to generate reliable M5 bar-data out of it? For example, by applying the following conversion scheme: Observe 5 consecutive M1 bars on each iteration. On every iteration

B"H Hello, Is there any restriction on accessing / allocating ( using ArrayResize ) local EA arrays from within EA's "init" method? It produces errors. Solution? Thanks, Simha

Simha : B"H Hello, Upon running my EA (which makes use of a single self-developed DLL) on a single symbol, the memory consumption of the MT4 terminal ( terminal.exe ) is raised by ~100[MB]. Running the same EA on another symbol (additionally)

B"H Does anyone know from where could the latest MT4 build (229 for the best of my knowledge) be downloaded directly ? Thanks, Simha

B"H Hello, 1. Where could I find a trusted sample of a history-data text -file imported by MT4's History-Center? 2. Can anyone exactly define the format of these files? Thanks much, Simha

B"H Hello all, I've managed downloading history -data using MT4's internal History-Center for several coin-pairs, but NOT even once for a CFD symbol (e.g. SPX500). It keeps opening a dialog stating: "There are no new data for symbol

B"H Can trading a certain symbol (by an EA) be performed while symbol's chart is closed? (In any manner) Thanks, Simha

Hello, What would be a good method for auto-handling the OFF QUOTES error? I've tried the following but with no success: while (RefreshRates() == false) Sleep( 10 ); I'm trying to close the position and all retries fail over and over again due to

B"H Hello, Using the strategy tester , positions of a volume larger than 100[Lots] are not allowed. How can I change this limitation to a higher number? Thanks

B"H Hello! At the "Execution Errors" documentation (https://docs.mql4.com/trading/errors), few variants of the ERR_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS error are described, but I find the explanation there a bit confusing. Could someone please explain

B"H Hello, Trying to run the strategy tester on a certain symbol, " TestGenerator: no history data ... " message is plotted to the journal window. { I'd like to emphasize that symbol's graph is open at the same period in which I'm

B"H Hello, What is the meaning of these two values returned by the "UninitializeReason" method? The formal documentation lacks information regarding the situation(s) in which either of these values shall be returned: REASON_PARAMETERS

B"H Hello, The "SendMail" function allows mail-sending to a single pre-defined recipient. How can I send a certain message to several email addresses? Thanks, Simha