Ugh... This is the toughest indicator code that I have ever converted. Each version has worked in the IDE debugger but a few ticks arrived last night in my demo platform showing errors again. I had to reorganize the MQL4 code's compound nested code blocks and then compare my MQL5 code to it element ...

Ooh, my demo platform is receiving ticks (while my live broker's platform is not) so I was able to test. Now for real, this is my last post today because I have to get cleaned up and make stuffed mushrooms and cheddar biscuits before my wife returns for Christmas dinner. Local and global scope varia...

Here's a converted volatility indicator. "White caps" on the waves show high volatility. Credits to original works appear in the source code.

zz-nrp-aa-indicator_v6 stalled in my continued testing. Fixed in version 7, attached.

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andrei-1 wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2024 3:45 am I'm going to have trouble sleeping.
I have to go to my psychiatrist, I need to write a prescription for antidepressants.

Power to you for sharing your disability.

Ask your psych about Effexor XR by day and Banophen by night. I'm not a doctor, and this is not medical advice.

galaxy wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:27 am backtesting and journaling is what makes a successful trader no matter how you do it

Amen to that.

Although I have more degrees than a thermometer, my undergraduate Intro to Statistics course is the most valuable thing to my trading.

I finally returned to the actual subject of this thread and voted "Yes." I've been trading for 14 years but did not become profitable until I became fluent in MQL4/5 languages. I cannot overstate the value of being able to build custom chart structures, custom indicators, and trading algo'...

...coding. The GG_TrendBar indicator below is mostly coded anew. For the first time ever, I received a loading warning while working on it from MT5... "Your code is too long. Please consider shortening." Ironically, I subsequently replaced several loops with longer form lines of code and ...

Sutatong wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:03 am I'll try it when the market opens again...

I put a simple bar counter in this one to make it cycle through bars while the market is closed. Looks ok on all timeframes.