It is indeed. To speed things up I hired a developer to add extra buffers that are plotted on each high and low. That should solve it

Hello,

as the default Zigzag indicator doesn't recognize all highs and lows correctly, I want to use a different Zigzag indicator.

This one: alexstal_zigzagprof.mq5

In order to use it in an Fxdreema EA, I have to identify the candles where it is visible (in other words, where it has a value in the data window). For now, I want to draw a vertical line on each candle that has a zigzag value (high or low).

I created this: https://fxdreema.com/shared/Ubxkf64fc

The indicator mentioned above creates 2 rows in the data window; one for the identified highs, and one for the identified lows.

When I use the "Indicator is visible" block, it only recognizes the highs (first data window row), but not the lows (second data window row).

Here you can see how it recognizes the highs from the data window, but not the lows:

How can I recognize the lows as well?

As far as I know, I can work with iCustom, but I unfortunately have no idea how to approach this.

Any help is much appreciated.

Yes, 100% sure. It also has the file name of the project. I also noticed that some older projects are not in my project list anymore. It seems like my database table on fxdreema has some errors.

Thank you for providing this, @QuantEngineer

I pasted your latest code into the Studio, and created the parameters from the "out-commented" beginning of your code.

When I add the block to my project, however, it is empty. Am I missing something?

Hi,
I just finished working on a project which took around 200 hours. I downloaded the .mq5 file just in case.

When I started a new project, the 200 hour project wasnt appearing in the projects list anymore, and when I import the .mq5 (which has the correct project name), it imports some old project.

How can I get my project back?

Hi all,

this is quite a long shot, but I just had the idea to let my EA simulate trades on different indicator settings, to always know the best settings for i.e. the last 3 or 6 months. I would then automatically update the real entry settings with the best performing ones.

While I am aware that I could do this by using demo accounts, and update the settings manually, this would not be suitable for backtesting.

Is there any way to simulate trades without actually taking them?

Thanks a lot, didn't know that one. This would't give me enough candles though. However, I added a condition to only loop back 2000 candles and it works now

Hey, thanks for the reply

This is the part that checks the candles:

https://fxdreema.com/shared/6VSzHpSBd

I think I need to find a way to stop the loop once it hits the oldest candle on the chart.

Hello,

I have an EA that loops back through many candles on the chart. It works so far when putting it on a live chart, but when I run it in the tester, there are only around 100 candles in the past. and it causes a critical error.

Is there a way to identify the oldest candle on the chart, so that I could stop the loop at that candle? Or add something like "if candle exists" to the loop.

I am aware that I can add a delay to the EA, but that does not solve the problem if it ever occurs on a live chart, so the oldest candle ID would be good to know.

Found a way, it works via Indicator is visible