INDICATOR WORKS AND THEN DOESN'T and INDICATOR GONE
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I'm using a customer indicator...SMI
It will literally work in the EA one test and then another it doesn't...without changing any of the conditions to initiate the trade!
I'm beginning to wonder if there is something wrong with the customer indicator or the way I have imported it.
The EA is simply supposed to initiate trades when the SMI crosses the signal line and the signal line is supposed to be heading in the same direction (compared to previous candle).
I can't see what's wrong and why no trades are starting...especially when they did at one time but not now...?
Also, one of my closing possibilities includes CCI but when running the test, that one is not even showing up.
What troubleshooting can I do?
the EA is SMI CCI 1-1 in case you can take a look.
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I don't expect problems in blocks when working with custom indicators. But you must understand how they work. Here is more about the indicators:
https://fxdreema.com/help/-/you%20shoul ... indicators
https://fxdreema.com/help/-/working%20w ... indicatorsI renamed "Indicator tester" to "Plot". I don't know, these days I will decide what will be the last name for this block.
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I had read that article but I'm thinking what I was missing was the "name" of the file.
I read the bottom of the indicator upload window and am I interpreting it correctly that I need to use the whole file path for the "Name of the Indicator" field?
like this:
C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\CBC1E074A032EF0E6A1328D19FB1736E\MQL4\Indicators\SMI.mq4
This is where the indicator's name is SMI.mq4.
Is that correct?
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Still having problems.
What does there error mean?
The steps I took:
- Deleted the customer indicator from fxdreema.
- reloaded fxdreema
- opened "Load Customer Indicators"
- clicked "browse" to choose the mq4 file.
- parameters loaded automatically. I just changed the names of the output buffers and set my own defaults. NOTE: When it loaded the input type said "inp" when on the input window of the actually indicator in MT4 it said "123". I changed all of those to 123. (I attached the screencaptures of the indicator upload and the MT4 indicator parameter screen)
- Clicked update.
When I used the indicator in my EA, I got the following error...
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I am having the same problem. I´ve added to MIndicators some that came in "Examples" from MT% e others from "Codefree". They are recognized by "Indicator Tester" but when I use them on a EA they are note read and appears the code 4802. I cannot run my EA. Thanks for your attention. Lobo
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When I run the EA, i do not get any error codes. The trades simply don't trigger...and I know these conditions are being met repeatedly. It's a very simple cross-over trigger.
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__I had read that article but I'm thinking what I was missing was the "name" of the file.
I read the bottom of the indicator upload window and am I interpreting it correctly that I need to use the whole file path for the "Name of the Indicator" field?
like this:
C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\CBC1E074A032EF0E6A1328D19FB1736E\MQL4\Indicators\SMI.mq4
This is where the indicator's name is SMI.mq4.
Is that correct?[/quote:3ilzjioj]
No, not correct. When you add indicator in fxDreema, only use its name, like SMI
123 is not a data type. This is just number, it's not a type of data. At the bottom of this page https://fxdreema.com/help/-/working%20w ... indicators you can find this picture:
https://fxdreema.com/help/pics/datatypes_mql4.png
Compare this with your pictures and you will see that all of your data types are int. I looked in your profile and the SMI indicator is wrong, but SMI2 looks ok. But then you must have SMI2.mq4. So I will suggest to just fix data types in SMI.You can always check how some indicator works. Just use that block that was "Indicator tester". I renamed it to "Plot" today and I added more options to it. Currently some example is shown here at the bottom - https://fxdreema.com/help/-/you%20shoul ... indicators
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Okay and finally to make sure....
When I "Choose file" to choose the indicator from my indicator folder, is it mandatory to place the entire path name in the "Name" Field?
From the directions I can't tell if by "subfolder" you mean in subfolder inside of the "indicator" folder or just any subfolder under MQL.
OR
Do just put the name of the indicator in that field if it is only directly inside the indicator folder?
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Pardon the previous question/post....didn't read everything.
I had added another SMI (CORRECTLY...input parameters as INT)
Just to troubleshoot I changed the crossever blocks to do it the long way, using 2 blocks instead and the testing is finally triggering trades.
Not sure that had anything to do with it but because I'm pretty sure I had loaded the 3rd smi correctly...although I was tweaking it all so much I don't know, I may have entered the 124, thinking that was the input type.
Anyway, thanks for your help on this.
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Wow. Having trouble with this one.
I started the EA.
It generated 1 trade immediately and then nothing...for months of ticks.
I feel there is something simple I'm missing here.
My conditions for a trade are not convoluted. It's very simple and therefore there should be a lot of trades.
It like the EA works once and then stops...like there is something entered in the cache that's changing the nature of the EA.
I could understand if I had conditions set that were impossible and that is why, but it's just a simple cross system of the smi and signal.
After testing the the indicator shows on the chart in visual mode. So it is running and the indicator numbers are plotting. It's just not triggering the trades.
As I write this I'm trying the standard Stochastic that comes with MT4 to test but the indicator does not reveal as much as a Stochastic Momentum indicator.
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Got working...This one just takes a long time to calculate each tick.
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You are doing things blindly. And I am even more blind, because I don't even know how your indicator looks like. But once you understand indicators, it's not hard at least to find what the problems are.
Here the first two examples are showing how to inspect values, including indicator buffers - https://fxdreema.com/examples/#Tips-and-Tricks
Before using any indicator make sure that:
- the indicator can be loaded, works well and there are no error messages in the logs
- you know it's values
