Posts made by james

Ah! That's it! Thank you so much, once again!

Although I could create 100 condition blocks to check if every one of the last 100 bars were greater, I feel there must be a better way. I've tried using the method here: http://fxdreema.com/shared/h4P3JghMb. What I've tried to do is create a feed-back loop which I thought might work, but doesn't seem to.

I'm sure there must be a way to do this, but I can't figure it out! Help!

Grateful thanks, as always.

Oops! Sorry. I've completely failed to frame my query properly, and I have now realised what I need to do.

The "(in loop) Add to volume" provides a "% of current trade volume". Therefore the following sequence is possible:

However the size remains unaltered, so if I wish to increase or decrease this, I need to use a variable. This is my method:

http://fxdreema.com/shared/DO95YeIMb

I haven't tested this yet, but I assume it will work! I'm sorry for being so daft!

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Hello again!

The "(in loop) Add to volume" block is very useful for catching and building a position in a long running trend.

However, I don't see a way of increasing, or decreasing, the volume size of each addition to the volume. Is this possible? If so, how? If it isn't, could we have a block that does this, please?

Many thanks, as always!

Hello - me again!

Could I make a small feature request, please?

When you click the "Expert Properties" button in the strategy tester, up comes the optimisation variables you have enabled. Beside most variables inside each fxDreema block is a small tick-box to enable the variable to be visible and changeable inside "Expert Properties" in MT4.

Take a look at the following:

It would save some typing and mouse work when testing to have the __-= Input parameters for block (n) ([/quote:o3skv1fh] bit removed. We should all know that this is an input parameter, and which block it is since __inp(n)[/quote:o3skv1fh] is visible in the column immediately to the left.

Just a thought to save my tired fingers!!

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Hi, and thank you for the reply.

What I'm still not understanding is why on my EURJPY, showing say 129.934, do I have to specify a point format of 0.0001 in fxDreema options to get the spread in the chart to show the correct figure.

Alpari seem to offer varying point formats for different markets.

...or am I being totally stupid - again!

Although I've had a look at search results on this forum for point format, I'm still not clear on the spread value visible on the bottom left of the chart and the broker's chart point format.

My broker is Alpari, and on EURJPY they show a price of 129.934, implying a 3 point format (0.001 in fxDreema Project Options). However, to obtain a correct spread reading in the bottom left hand corner of the chart I need to put 0.0001. They advertise EURJPY from 2.2 pips to 3.2 pips spreads.

I feel hopelessly lost in trying to figure this out! Is there some way that an EA can simply self-adjust to the market spread it finds itself looking at without me having to trial and error the point format? Or is there some formula I can use manually to enter the correct point format?

Thanks again!

I think I've worked out where I've been going wrong with this. Thank you for your help.

Yes. My little shared EA was only an illustration, but I've amended it to avoid multiple trades! http://fxdreema.com/shared/pgenKEUid.

And even at 5 pips in 2 candles I still get no trades on the live feed, but plenty on the back test.

I have checked the error messages on the live feed, and there are no errors.

I have the point format set to 0.01, as the instrument is priced 2531.32, for example. Have I understood the point format correctly?

Have you any other thoughts?

Hello again

I've created a small EA here: http://fxdreema.com/shared/xpg9VW2Yb.

In back testing the new trend blocks seem to work fine and pick up trends, but running on a live demo account, nothing.

Am I misunderstanding the use of these blocks?

Thanks.

Excellent!
Thank you so much for the assistance. Much appreciated.

I'm back again! Sorry!

I think I have done everything correctly, but would be grateful for confirmation before going back to PZ with further queries regarding their indicator.

Thanks to your guidance, I've created an mq4 indicator file, waves.mq4, which is the same name as the copyrighted compiled ex4 file. I've attached my mq4 file. As we know, there are 21 input parameters (see the screen shot in an earlier post), and 2 buffers for the indicator:

So far I've been unable to pick up any values from the buffers, which seems odd:

I have got this to work on other indicators, the only difference being that I have their source codes.

So what I'd be very grateful for is if you could check my mq4 file, and tell me if what I've done so far is correct. Should I be able to pull the buffer data into my EA from the indicator in this way? Where am I going wrong?

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Ah! Now I get it! Sorry for being so slow on the uptake! So, to summarise:

• • create an .mq4 file with the same name as the copyrighted .ex4 indicator

• give the .mq4 the same list of input parameters as the .ex4
• save it but don't compile the .mq4
• upload into fxDreema as normal
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  One last - important - thing (just in case anyone else is searching this forum!): when you've copied your copy of the .ex4 indicator to .../experts/indicators, mark it as read only on the file system. If you don't it will be overwritten and the indicator will stop working, and have to be re-installed.

I'll use your kindly provided examples as my template and figure out how to add the extra input parameters using MetaEditor.

Good software becomes great software when it has the level of help and support you give it. Thank you again!

P.S. Just a wee thought for fxDreema: this information about using .ex4 indicators (i.e. no source code) isn't covered in http://fxdreema.com/documentation/proje ... indicators. Maybe it would help someone else who is as clueless as me in the future!

OK. But I'm really sorry, I don't understand what you mean about creating a file to upload. Do you mean creating an mq4 indicator file?
Thanks - and apologies!

Thank you again for a great service.

If I've understood correctly then the following string goes into the condition:
__"------- Indicator Settings",5,15,30,false,4000,"------- Wave Settings",Tomato,DeepSkyBlue,Green,Teal,3,"------- Breakout Settings",1,2,"------- Alerts","My Alert Name",false,false,false,"alert.wav"[/quote:sl6p2kia]
I've created an EA here: http://fxdreema.com/shared/FJ2LkhVS.

Is this correct?

Hi

Thank you so much for the quick and helpful reply. I am able to upload .mq4 indicators happily into fxDreema, including the two you kindly provided here.

The .ex4 indicator in question does allow me to input parameters when placed into a live chart on MT4. These are they:

[attachment=0:1meyzzav]http://fxdreema.com/documentation/proje ... indicators

What I can't say is what Arturo, the very helpful programmer and owner of the source code at PZ, has done inside the indicator, and whether clear text names are employed or not.

It may be, of course, that I simply cannot use this indicator, which would be a shame. Do you think this is it? I simply can't use it in fxDreema as its a "closed box"?

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Actually I think things are worse than I thought!

I'm wondering if the constant loading and re-loading of the indicator means it isn't working at all. I'm unable to pick up any values from it, leading me to think this.

__Also, in built-in indicators (Condition) there is a "Custom indicator" option. So there you write the name of the indicator and it's parameters separated by ",". This should work. Go down to this page: http://fxdreema.com/documentation/projects/using custom indicators[/quote:smjpgpds]
OK. I've done the above, but testing is mind bogglingly slow as the indicator is reloaded all the time! In fact its so slow, that testing is almost impossible! In addition I don't see a way of making a zero value report 0 and not 2147483647 using this method.

I know its probably a bit cheeky of me to ask, and I hope I haven't misunderstood what you wrote, but as I've only got a limited number of days before I have to decide on whether I like this indicator or not, is there any way you could implement the uploading into fxDreema of compiled indicators, .ex4?

Due to my lack of knowledge, I also didn't understand what you meant by it is "possible to upload another indicator with the same parameters count, and it will work." In any case, I don't have the facility to create a dummy indicator to make this work, and trying to find one with a match would prove difficult and take a long time given the number of parameters involved!

Thanks again

I have an indicator in .ex4 format. I can't get the .mq4 version as its copyrighted. Something I hadn't appreciated is that in fxDreema it seems I can't use the "Add new indicator" function without having the .mq4 source version of the indicator. Is there a work around?

I just noticed in another post that the "Time bomb up" and "Time bomb down" blocks are inaccurate when used in back testing:
http://fxdreema.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1883&p=2309&hilit=bomb#p2309

Does this also apply to the "New top in trend" and "New bottom in trend" blocks, or are they accurate?