Posts made by General Melchett

Hi all

I would like to send myself a notification when an EMA line has touched x number of candles in a row. Is there a way to do this with fxdreema?

I am guessing it is possible with 'indicator moves with' block but I am not sure how to configure it. Can anyone offer any advice?

Hi peeps

How can I make some text appear right justified? As far right as possible but justified?

This text below is left justified. I want it right justified to appear on the other side of the chart

Also, if possible, if text could stay right justified as new candles get added to the chart..!

I would like to select all horizontal lines on one chart (so that the small white box appears on either end).

I know I need to use 'OBJPROP_SELECTED' but this isn't referenced much in this forum so I am not sure how I could use it.

I basically want to select all horizontal lines - if they are already selected, then do nothing. If they are not selected, then make them selected (small white box at either end).

I figured it out.

I only need to change the default colour of the horizontal line. So I first markup weekly (in Violet) and set script to change only that colour. Then I move to D1. When I draw new lines they are in Violet as the W1 markup has already been changed by the script. And so on.

Here's my scenario:
I am using Soft4FX backtesting software in MT4 to practice my manual trading. It uses offline charts with different timeframes in their own chart tabs. I would like a script to modify horizontal lines so I can identify which timeframe they belong to.
For instance, in H4 I make a horizontal support line thick and black. (You can copy objects to other timeframes, so I do this with Soft4FX).
I move to H1 and make some more horizontal lines but in a different colour.

Bearing in mind the previous lines I created will have been copied to H1, I want a script to only apply to the lines I have created in H1, and not ones that have been created in other TFs. Might this be possible?

Thank you @l-andorrà , just the hint I needed.

If anyone is interested you can set price per pip variable with this calculation

Problem solved, my bad: I set group mode to 'All' and now the EA performs as expected.

This is weird. Even if I put an 'if trade' block, in oninit or on tick, it returns false, even when 2 trades are running??

https://fxdreema.com/shared/RChf9BtGc

I put an 'if trade' block before the bucket, the argument fails (I know this as I put a log message to print).

So the EA believes there are no trades running (there are 2 open on the same chart/pair! It's a demo account).

I now have to figure out in what instance the EA would assume no trades are running (where there are).

Tried normalizing...same. No difference. Still doesn't fire bucket block...

Hi there

I have a bucket of trades block in oninit but the block doesn't fire when loaded. I have tested but with some buy/sell blocks before it and it works perfectly.

And when I say the bucket of trades block doesn't fire, I mean I put a log message on both true/false outputs and nothing happens.

Anyone shed any light on this?

https://fxdreema.com/shared/otQ1Hjorb

Is it possible to calculate an open trade profit/loss at a certain price? So if price reaches level 'a' I can lookup that profit will be 'b'?

Bah, ok. I'll have to do it all one by one then. I'll only have a max of 3 to do so in both directions that's 6. Better than nothing I suppose. Thanks for the help!

I want to loop through trades (say trades a, b and c) and assign individual trade values to variables.

Problem is the same variable name will be overwritten by the next loop? So how do I ensure the variable name changes each time the loop happens?

I tried appending a number to the variable name (eg 'stop_loss_ + loop_number' but couldn't get it working?

Under 'Draw Arrow' block

@jstap Great idea, thank you!

Hi everyone, I am trying to automate the identification of a specific candle pattern. I had a go at this last night but couldn't think of a way to do it. I had limited success with the impulse block as it doesn't identify specifically a break of a certain amount of candles.

So in the picture I am trying to identify the impulsive 3 candle break (I need to identify similar setups of at least 2 candles). How could I identify this?

I was thinking maybe a (minimum) 2 bull bar break with (total) candle length a minimum of 3x the average candle size over the last x candles period. But I couldn't find anything that could give me the average candle range over the past x candles. Anyone have any ideas?

I've used the pip size setting in project options to set a custom pip size (for indices at my broker, eg '0.01 = 0.1'), but is there a way of accessing this within the EA so I can correctly calculate stuff like pip difference in price? As all my calculations are wrong, and if I correct them they will all break if I change symbol to one with different decimal places!

I'm coding a grid system and as part of it I am using the functionality to use a trailing stop for a group of trades. This works fine, however it would be nice to know where the SL/TP is for the basket of trades, and even better to have it shown on the chart.

At the moment the EA only shows the first trade TP. I would like the EA to show the TP level that price needs to get to before it closes the trades.

Can anyone help

I know this is an old topic but I went around in circles thinking the reply above was valid.

It is not correct: the boolean function DOES work and is expected for the weekday.

So Tuesday boolean value of 'false' means 'Reject'