Posts made by Trader3487

that would be great - I found this ea online (attached) which does something similar but instead of full words it puts abbreviations.

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Pattern_Recognition_Master_v3.mq4

Is there a way to print text underneath or above candle? For example, if candle is a hammer write the word "hammer". Thank you

Ok I set body offsets to +0/-0 but how do you set ea to detect only candles with tops aligned? screenshot attached

http://fxdreema.com/shared/Aoefn4Ktc

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tops aligned.gif

According to ea (link below), wick size should be 100% of body size +50/-10 (at least 90% of body size) but results are showing candles with zero or close to zero wicks. screenshot attached.

http://fxdreema.com/shared/rDA8pNDOd

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upper wick size.gif

so candlestick patterns block does work?! that's beautiful - thanks!! The example answers a lot of questions about how the block works (a picture is worth a thousand words I'll play around with it and let you know if I have any other questions.

hi, for single candle template the "from" and "to" wick sizes are percentages relative to body size instead of absolute values but what if I don't care about body size but I want to have certain proportions for wicks. For example, what would an ea look like that draws an arrow for "tweezer" candlestick pattern?

where does metatrader show that? As far as I know, I need to manually count the number of open trades. I just want something that will display a pop-up window with that information (number of trades per symbol and number of total trades for all symbols).

ok, thanks for the information. I'll have a look at the source code. Just to clarify, is it possible to specify zero wick?

ok, can you please share an example? I tried with two candles in pattern but I still can't get it to recognize the candle on the left (hammer with no lower wick). What does checking/unchecking the "high", "body" and "low" boxes do?

Why does it* not detect candles with small base and long upper wick? Screenshot attached.

*http://fxdreema.com/shared/MA9FmNonb

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candlestick patterns.gif

ok great, it's complex but does everything function correctly? I understand the different parameters so I'll try it again.

I tried to recreate candlestick pattern using single candle templates, I think it works like this: single candle template - bull [bar 0], single candle template - bull [bar 1], single candle template - bull [bar 2]...

Thanks.

I wasn't able to get candlestick patterns to work in testing environment. Is there another way to create candlestick patterns? Single candle template does work but I don't know how to group several of them together to form candlestick pattern.

Hi, how would you go about writing an ea or script to display open orders count for each symbol? Thanks

I understand that but my questions are 1) whether virtual stops can be used with trailing stops? and 2) whether virtual can be triggered by opening price instead of timer?

Thanks

yes, but I wasn't sure how to set it up to do that. I have trailing stop block set up and want to use virtual stop with trailing stop. And I didn't see any option to activate virtual stop when market crosses opening price.

but can virtual stops trail the market to lock in profit or are they fixed stop losses?

and can virtual stops appear when market reaches a certain point (for example virtual stop appears when market crosses opening price) or do they only respond to timer?

Hi,

1. Is it possible to set virtual stop to appear when market crosses opening price and also use trailing stop?

2. Can virtual stops be used with "start when profit is above" offset or only by timer?

Thank you.

I'm forwarding question to broker's development team...

do virtual stops also trail as market goes up?
can virtual stops be used with "start when profit is above" offset or only by timer?

I know that this is not a limit that fxDreema introduced. Just trying to understand how things are working - this is not related to 130 error (you solved that in the beginning thanks