Posts made by jstap

Attach your project link and I'll show you from there: project screen - projects - create web link - open in browser - copy address bar - paste here

trade signal - (pink) for each closed trade - buy/sell (lot selected in a loop adjusted to *2)

How long is a bit of string? Some yes... some no... but people don't fill out a table of success, along there journey. But anyone that can do it with code, can do it with FX.

Yes. Any EA you build—whether in FXDreema, MQL, or Python—is a quant system if it expresses rules, logic, and measurable behaviour. FXDreema is just a visual interface for building algorithmic logic. The reason you don’t see many "quants" talking about it is because most quant developers prefer coding directly, but the underlying concept is the same.

Of cause it was, even great coders will use AI, is much quicker than Writing it yourself. This will give you an idea of what goes where: https://fxdreema.com/forum/topic/21603/close-all-mt5-trades-quickly/14

@Xtacado

Yes (possibly) you could generate a custom block, but this gets quite difficult, but if you understand how you may manage it, the easiest way is to ask AI a few questions, on trade may go into here, in here you will see how the sections work, for this I think you need to treat the setting section as on trade which is where you would use the block, ask ai what code should go in what section. Save and use the block in a project, any errors that come up will be from what is written in "create custom blocks, keep changing/saving/refreshing project.

The tabs tells you what they do, on init = at EA start (initialisation), on timer = only when the timer event fired (change this in settings), on trade (non mt4 native, so internally goes in on tick) = work with running trades, on chart = many things you see on chart, trades on mt4 are fired from here (in backtest use on tick), on deinit = all actions when removing/stopping EA working (like deleting everything drawn on the chart).

Ask AI:

Looking at the code, I can spot a few issues:

1. static variable won't work in a Custom Block
   static ulong last_logged_deal = 0; — Static variables inside FXDreema custom blocks don't persist between calls the way they would in a native MQL5 function. This means last_logged_deal will reset every tick, so the duplicate-deal guard will never actually work.
   Fix: Use a Global Variable instead:
   mql5ulong last_logged_deal = (ulong)GlobalVariableGet("LastLoggedDeal");
   And after updating it:
   mql5GlobalVariableSet("LastLoggedDeal", (double)deal_ticket);
2. No HistorySelect call before accessing history
   HistoryDealsTotal() and HistoryDealGetTicket() require history to be loaded first. Without this, you may get 0 deals even when history exists.
   Fix: Add before your history calls:
   mql5HistorySelect(0, TimeCurrent());
3. Missing CSV header row
   The file is opened in append mode (SEEK_END) every time, so there's no header written. This makes the CSV harder to work with in Excel etc. You'd want to check if the file is new/empty and conditionally write a header row first.
4. _Digits used for spread
   Spread is typically displayed as points, not price digits. Using _Digits gives you a raw price difference like 0.00010 rather than the more readable 1.0 (in points). Consider:
   mql5DoubleToString(spread / SymbolInfoDouble(symbol, SYMBOL_POINT), 1)
5. FILE_SHARE_WRITE without FILE_SHARE_READ
   If anything else tries to read the file while it's open, it'll be blocked. Adding FILE_SHARE_READ is safer:
   mql5FILE_READ|FILE_WRITE|FILE_CSV|FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE|FILE_COMMON
   The most critical of these is #2 (missing HistorySelect) and #1 (the static variable not persisting) — both could cause the logger to silently log nothing or log duplicates.

I don't know if admin will do this, for now only option is download the ex and import back... this will leave it in your project list.

Start a new question for this, only ex files created on FX can be used (except indicators, they can be used in a FX EA)

You'll have to say if it does/doesn't, not recently I have tried to use HA this way, but didn't show the right candle, why I used ChatGPT and it said:

Why the lines appear on the wrong candle
Your logic is correct, but the visual mismatch happens because of how MT4 handles:

• Heikin‑Ashi indexing
• Shift timing
• Bar completion
• Redrawing on every tick
  Two things cause the lines to appear on the 3rd candle instead of the 1st:

1. Heikin‑Ashi is not aligned with the chart candles
   You’re drawing lines on the real chart, but your logic is detecting HA candles, which do not line up 1:1 with the visible candles.
   So:

• HA shift 1 ≠ real chart shift 1
• HA shift 2 ≠ real chart shift 2
  This alone can move your line forward by 1–2 candles.

2. Your code uses Time[1], but the HA candle you detected may actually correspond to Time[2] or Time[3]
   Because HA candles are synthetic, the “bullish HA candle at shift 1” might visually appear on the chart two candles later.
   So the line is drawn correctly according to your logic, but not where your eyes expect it.

so good luck relying on the standard blocks... as in your picture above it looks like this is the problem you are facing.

Add a shared project link rather than mq4. project screen - projects - create project link -open in browser - copy address bar and past here. As for using the standard blocks they cannot amend the candle ID so will have to use custom code regardless.

I think the HA problem is how it measures the candles, try this and see if it works correctly: https://fxdreema.com/shared/bIah92CYd

@KLG....

@KLG So you are saying all I said is correct, and you use AI and custom code to make it work better?

Ok, you are right, I have built projects with thousands of blocks,,, but these tend to consume computer power on back test, rather than actually make the bot better. Adding custom code blocks can considerably cut this, and speed things up (especially on backtest).

That doesn't show a lot, but lots of blocks aren't normally needed...

@machTucker

No mate, only the Amazon version, you can get the app to view it on the ipad.