True ScreenShot – powerful screenshot indicator sending image to e-mail

Here’s an easy-to-use and customization-based indicator designed to save screenshots of your work schedule in the Meta Trader4 terminal.

Indicator Description

There are five options for saving screenshots:

• Each time you open a new bar (candles), depending on the timeframe;
• After a particularly set interval in minutes;
• When opening trades, manual or automatic;
• When closing trades, manual or automatic;
• Every time you press the “Screenshot” button, you press the button.

The distinctive feature of this indicator, compared to analogues, is the ability to send a screenshot to your personal mail after setting it correctly.

There are many variations in the application of the indicator. For example, you trade manually and keep a trader’s diary (what to do, especially if you are new to the market). In this case, you will be useful to have a screenshot of the active chart before opening your position, to then assess the accuracy of the entry after its closing, look at the result before and after, draw conclusions. These screenshots can be stored together with a trade report in specialized programs, or simply in separate folders on your computer.

You may have an advisor who trades while you’re busy with other things – no problem, the indicator will save each of its login/exit to a pre-arranged folder with a convenient name for sorting, and you’ll receive a notification to the mail or phone that the transaction is open or closed at any profit/loss.

Alternatively, you can open a graph with the indicators you use, draw support/resistance lines, graphic figures, etc., make 20-30 screenshots at the opening of each new bar, and then, flipping through them in turn, see how the price behaves gradually, each new bar and whether the right signal gave your patterns and indicators. This method of graphics analysis is advised by many professionals.

Saving in the specified interval in minutes, can make as many screenshots as necessary: from 1 to 60 per hour.

With time settings, you can flexibly adjust the period of saving images and eliminate unnecessary trading ranges.

An example of a hand-save button and notification that the file has been saved can be seen in the image below:

How to set up an image to your phone or tablet

To send a message to your phone or tablet, you must have a MetaTrader4 app installed and login to your personal account. Next, you need to know your ID, you can do it in the Settings app in the Message graph to find Meta quotes ID. Now this number needs to be installed on the site www.mql5.com in the security settings “Settings – > > Sequrity – > > Metaquotes ID” , as well as in your trading terminal, click “Service – > > Settings – > > Notification – > > Metaquotes ID” and test correctness with the “Test” button .

After these actions, your phone or tablet will receive notifications from the terminal if one of the send notification options is selected in the settings.

How to set up your image message

Unfortunately, MetaTrader’s built-in features don’t allow you to send files and images to the mail, so we’ll use a third-party DLL from fxblue.com. This file is already in the archive with the indicator, you just need to put it in the folder of the terminal.

To send the letter correctly, we must specify the server from where the email is sent, the sender, and the recipient in the settings.

The data is sent through the SMTP server, to connect to which you must specify your login and password from the sender’s mail. If you’re worried about the security of your data and are afraid that an indicator or built-in DLL can view it, you can start a separate email to send an image, say, gmail.com and use it only to send a message.

We created gmail.com mail to test this feature, but you need to know that the SMTP mail server now has extra protection and won’t let you send a message from an unknown device. In order for the indicator to still be able to send mail and image, you need to unlock unsafe applications (i.e. access for your terminal). By clicking on the link, you can read the login photo through an unsafe app. Or try to disable the lock by direct link. There may not be such a check on other email servers, or it can also be turned off by analogy.

Below, the settings of the indicator will describe where to enter data from the mail. When you send a message, there may be errors that you can read about in the log (if the comments are included). A -1 error means you don’t have enough space on the disk, you may have a -2 bug if you don’t have a .NET Framework, or you don’t have enough resources. If the error number is different, you can read more information about it in the den file, finding it in the following directory: “C:Users” < Username > “AppData”Local-MT4-Email” in the “MT4-Email.tsv” file, opening it through a notebook.

To work the indicator correctly and send a message to the mail, you must also include In the settings the import of DLL (Service – > Settings – > Advisers – allow the import > of DLL).

The received letter to the post office will have this look:

Indicator settings:

All stored screenshots when using the indicator can be found in the folder … Files’True ScreenShot Indicator,the full way looks something like this:

– For the trading account:
C\Terminal:UsersUsersqAdminqAppDataqRoamingqMeta’uotesq Terminal < number > MQL4

– To get results when testing with visualization:
C:Users’Admin’AppData’Roaming’Meta’Saotes Terminal < Terminal Number >

You can open the way to the files through the terminal by clicking File – > Open the data directory.

That’s it. We hope this tool will be useful in your trading!