Posts made by Trader3487

Tickstory does support mt4 600+ via this link: http://www.tickstory.com/files/tickstor ... 1.3RC2.zip
I've also noticed improved performance in the new mt4 release, especially in compiling mq4 files.

Thanks for the tips - Ramdisk sounds interesting

Is there a way to print group # on the chart - either on the candle or comment?
Is there a way to print free text? I tried using text value with indicator but it returned an error. Thank you

that's strange - why would the next generation of metatrader not support concurrent trades?

I was just thinking that mt5 would be faster for backtesting since it is said to support use of mutli-threading/multiple cpu cores. But I can't figure out how to get older historical data in there and when I set it to tick-level, it was about as slow as mt4 in visual mode. Without visual mode, mt5 is much faster.

Do you know any ways to speed up mt4? I tried it with 16 processors and 60Gb RAM but 2 processors and 4Gb RAM performs almost as well.

Thanks

Is there a way to convert a metatrader 4 project into metatrader 5? Would copying/pasting blocks work?

ok, I can understand the code but am not good at writing my own (yet). That would be a nice feature for the future - same idea as with markets but with groups

Is there a way to check trades count for group #s 1-15 without using 15 separate check trades count blocks?

thanks - working again now! When do you plan to update the desktop version?

ok, it's sticking now but unless I forgot something the dynamic values are not working like they did before (I had gotten them working correctly) as discussed in this forum post: topic/2114

I tried using different variations of +TimeToStr(TimeCurrent()) to no avail: http://fxdreema.com/shared/ce0AX4jbc

any text including "example text" or "symbol()" with or without quotes. Interesting, it's sticking sometimes now (but sometimes not)

... and when I input them now they get erased after exporting .mq4 or .ex4 file

It appears that in one of the recent updates to fxdreema, text labels set in alert & comment messages were erased. These were pieces of text like "symbol+".

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oops - good eyes. I corrected the sign in block one and now it detects the crossovers even with tick 1 but something is still not correct because it's drawing many arrows on the same tick/second (see attached screenshots of journal and chart). In the meantime, I built the crossover system using candle close[0], "<", variables and counters and it works exactly right. The "price cross indicator" block as you suggested comparing bid and MA of current and last bar would still be preferable. If tick 0 and tick 1 are the same then orange output would not pass but wouldnt' there have to be cases where tick 0 is less than tick 1?

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it's drawing arrows before crossover happens (see screenshot). Previous tick for MA would be useful in order to make the crossover detection accurate. Otherwise, wouldn't it be comparing bid tick[1] with ma3 tick[0]?

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I set it back to 0 but it's still not working.

Out of curiousity, is there a way to specify previous tick for indicators?

I tried to build it but it's not working correctly - it is drawing an arrow even if previous tick was not on opposite side of ma3:

http://fxdreema.com/shared/ZavPlA6Uc

when I think of crossover, I think of simply "does indicator A cross over indicator B at a given point?" so comparing this to the previous candle's close would make this statement false if candle[1]'s close is also "crossed over" ma3. But translating the above statement to "is indicator A < indicator B" will be true every tick even after candle crosses over ma3. So:

__compare the current Bid with the current MA and the previous Bid with the current MA, and this will give us 1-time signals... I think this is for a block like "Price cross indicator".[/quote:3cozblbe]
yes, I think this is the right way

and, as before, instead of "crossover width" option, I think the best thing is to have an option to check for crossover in previous n ticks/bars/minutes, etc. (in addition to detecting crossover in current tick)

ok interesting. need to digest this info. and will get back about what I think is the right crossover algorithm

... follow up thought from previous post: what is the difference between using the cross below symbol "X<" and the below "<" symbol? When I use "<" in the above example instead, it gives accurate results. In general, isn't the candle "going below" the ma3 technically a crossover?

Hi,

Do you know why this ea is responding to some crossovers but not others? There are candles where candle close[0] definitely crosses below ma3 but the ea does not pick it up. For example, 25-feb-14 on the D1 TF. Also, 17-jan-14, 01-aug-2000 on the D1 TF. Does the candle need to cross over the ma3 line a certain amount in order to trigger the orange output of block 1? What I noticed is that if the candle previously in the bar crossed over ma3 a little bit and then crosses over again, the orange output of block 1 will not pass.

http://fxdreema.com/shared/tYv47Gn1e

Thank you

figured it out - I had illegal character "/" in title of file