http://www.cubesteak.net Forex Trading with MetaTrader 4 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:21:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Someone on the MT E and I Yahoo group requested an indicator that drew horizontal lines on the screen every 25 pips. I figured I could bang that out in no time and started to make this indicator. I called it nPipLines because the number of pips between ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/11/npiplines/ I found a reference to Elder's Safe Zone, which is a trailing stop methodology attributed to Alex Elder, the author of The Legendary Approach to Trading for a Living.  Since I've read his book, I was intrigued. The reference that I found had the code for an indicator from MT3, so ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/11/elders-safe-zone/ Ever want to have a MA of volume? Some indicators out there would provide such a thing, but didn't go as far as I would have liked.  So, I put hacked up someone else's MA of Volume indicator and added a JMA option, as well as a dynamically changing level that ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/10/moving-average-of-volume-bonanza/ In a previous post, I made a little time filter indicator that simply was a visual reminder if you should be trading or not based upon three configurable times. It simply used a comment in the chart window to convey the information. In that post, I made the offer to ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/10/3-fold-trading-hours-in-a-separate-window/ Someone asked me if there was a manual on how to add a Magic Number to an EA. Since I haven’t seen one, I put together the following basic steps and thought that others may find it useful too. These steps can also be used to verify that an ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/10/adding-a-magic-number-to-an-ea/ OK, the FINAL (I hope) word on decompiling EX4 files in the U.S. If you want to refute this, please feel free (I would welcome the re-education), but don't bother to unless you provide a URL or quote that explains a specific statute or law. OK, here goes: A copyright doesn't forbid decompiling. ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/10/the-final-word-on-ex4-decompilation/ In a previous post, I made available a small indicator that simply mentioned if you should be trading or not based on three different configurable timeframes. In the process of changing the logic for use in an EA, I also improved on the previous indicator. You can now use hours ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/08/3-fold-trading-hours-filter-for-ea/ One of the things that has bugged me, is the inability to search a multi-dimensional array in MT4. So, I made a function to do so. In this case, we really want the function to give us two things: If the value exists in the array's second dimension If it does exist, the ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/08/more-array-functions-for-mt4/ A forex-tsd buddy was working on a project that needed to filter trading by 3 separate timeframes.  Answering his question prompted me to make this little indicator that displays a comment telling you if it is currently within your preset trading hours. The hours to trade can be set either in ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/08/3-fold-trading-hours/ MT4 provides the function ArrayBSearch to search arrays. It seems a bit "non-standard" to me, in that according to the documentation, it "returns the index of the first occurrence of a value in the first dimension of array if possible, or the nearest one, if the occurrence is not found." It ... http://www.cubesteak.net/2006/08/a-better-way-to-search-arrays-in-mt4/