Posts made by dscoles

Hi Admin,

One thing that would be very helpful is for each of the fields on screens to contain flyout help that tells us what to put into each of them. I do not know what many of the fields are for or how to use them (what kind of data to put in them) and have to experiment quite a bit to figure them out.

For example, (though this is not needed at this moment)... Chart Event Data... On Key Down. This looks very interesting. Does it mean that we can create hot keys? Consider how many various fields exist and the nuance that is required to understand anything more than just the fundamentals.

Just a suggestion that would be helpful for newbies like us.

I would love for you to have 1,380 members !!!

Thanks,

Dwight

I would like to add a string to the value that you can see here in the screen shot of the comment block. I created the temp string so that I can display a number in the Journal (for testing) but once I have that string, is there a way to now add some descriptive notation in the same block?

http://prntscr.com/6yhjue

Thanks,

Dwight

Who would have thought?

Thank you.

Thank you. That is very helpful.

Am I simply missing bid and ask price for the most recent tick?

Here is what I see as the options...
http://prntscr.com/6y2rqn

Sorry, you will clearly see that I am a newbie..

Bid and Ask current prices (in my mind, this is the current candlestick condition).

Again in this case, I wold like to close a trade very close to the end of a spike by using some measure against the size of the body of the previous candlestick (OPEN/CLOSE?) and the size of the spike as it exists at this moment in time based on bid and ask pricing.

I truly hope that my irritating questions do not cause offense.

Dwight

OK, so I was picking indicators that only had one buffer... and under those conditions there is no need to "pick" a buffer...
Sorry...

Well, on a similar theme, how do I capture into a variable the current candlestick (buy) bid and (sell) offer price values (or any of the other candlestick values)? In this case, what I want to do is to follow a candlestick that is spiking and (sell) close the trade when the spike turns (per tick tracking).

Thank you,

Dwight

I know that this seems rudimentary, but it is something I need to do all of the time and seem unable to find the "secret" combination.

(It would be very nice if one of the blocks you made available is: IndicatorValue)
(Also, this forum cannot tell me if you have already answered this question... I put in the search string in Advances search of "get indicator value" and it tells me that those words are too common... even using get+indicator+value")

So, how to I set a variable to the value found in one of the buffers of an indicator?

I do see how to use ModifyVariable. However, that does not allow picking the buffer (as far as I can tell).

(picture please)

• I find that even simple words in this context [maybe any context] often do not translate well for me.

Thanks,

Dwight

Admin,

Thank you. Hmmm... More playing to do!

I have programmed for 32 years, but in a "natural language" environment that nobody probably has heard of. My programming language is WAY different than MQL4/MQL5 which are more like "C" or Pascal (IMO). So, I'm pressed hard to even create a working function in the MQL4 language.

I have looked for an environment like this one that makes the logic crystal clear, and yet provides full access to the underlying fundamentals without restriction.

What you have created in FXDREEMA is simply amazing.

BRAVO!

Thank you!

Hello Admin,

I am also very interested in this topic.

You state "here I created an example" but I do not see any link. I have looked in the "? Help" section of the web page and do not see anything there. Are there examples in pictures some place for this?

Thank you

This is one of those things that are totally simple (I am sure) ONCE a person understands them. Until that point though, it is like looking into a dark room.

So to confirm, the actual string you put into the box titled "Param." in the picture is "21,3,0" (without the quotes) using your example. (And, yes, I agree that it would be better to use your indicators from the list... It just happens to be an indicator I had immediately on hand as an example.)

So, let's say that I have three CONSTANTS called HULL_PERIOD; HULL_METHOD; HULL_PRICE.

How would I fill in the box with those constants? I have not seen anything that is specific to this exact question. If I have missed it, please try to overlook my newbie question, but please provide me just a bit more information...

I have to assume that you cannot just enter "HULL_PERIOD,HULL_METHOD,HULL_PRICE" in the input box... Or can you?

If not, how do we use multiple constants and variables in an entry like this? I can see how we can use one... but here we have three.

Thanks,

Dwight

Here is an indicator that I would like to use... but am not able to understand how to send the multiple parameters...

......
hull-moving-average.ex4

I would not keep coming back to this, but it is very important for my project, AND I do not understand how to push the parameters into the indicator....

Let's say that my parameters are in variables. Using the example here in this thread, I see only one box for input parameters. Can you show a visual example of how to send multiple parameters as variables to the indicator?

Thanks

http://prntscr.com/6x94rs

I have reviewed the suggested page. But do not understand the idea of "you have 3 buffers, so you should define not more than 3 buffers." I understand that this is the goal, but where (in what block) is this done. Without the source code, we are not able to use the "My Indicators" menu option. This has been a stumper for me for indicators that are ex4 compiled. I end up hunting through the internet for source code, but sometimes that is not available.

Can you provide example pictures of how you tell FXDREEMA that, for example, we are going to use something like hull-moving-averages.ex4 (any example would be great with multiple input and buffers) and how to set up the inputs and the buffers in our code?

Thanks,

I am a bit confused by the answer.

What causes blocks 1000 and 2000 to both be included in the build, but 3000 excluded? Is it the location (close to the top)?

Thanks

Hey... that could be all that it was... I just was getting nothing. Maybe that's because I asked for nothing.

My project for this test is TEST MACD CROSS X.

All that is in this project is an isolated condition of a standard MACD signal line crossing (over/under) the main line.

I have put in this project all four ways I can imagine to create this particular condition test. None of them will trigger the print statement into the journal in the tester.

I am going to guess that there is something totally simple that I am missing. BTW, I read the document a couple of times on Crosses, but I do not understand what it is attempting to show me.

Sorry for the minimum brain activity here... but I need some help.

Thanks,
Dwight

Thank you. I will try it.

Thank you!

Is it possible to show an example of a couple of ways of using comments?

I see that there is Line1, Value1, Line2 has Value2. Is there a way to have the line have more than one value in a logical phrase such as "MACD Val1 = " + MACD_Val1?

Thanks,

Dwight