Hi,
I am new to this. I use MT5 on a VPS and IBKR papertrading with a gateway. In MT5 I use the MetaQuotes demo account. I'm still trying to find a strategy that actually does any trades. I currently have 10 charts up with different strategies I downloaded.
One strategy that actually wanted to execute a trade is Rogue Breakout Helix XAUUSD on M30 chart. The trade didn't execute on my demo account because it said there's no money. When looking closer I see:
2026.01.12 18:30:00.018 Trades '10009063399': failed market buy 43.85 XAUUSD sl: 4600.22 tp: 4621.99 [No money]
This means that the bot tried to purchase 43.85 lots of XAUUSD is usually 100 oz so that would mean that it tried to purchase 4300 ounces of gold (!!) which would cost 19.8mio! Good thing I'm doing paper trading.
But I see the settings in the bot for the lot is set to 0 / meaning dynamic. The risk is set to 2.5%.
How is it that it wanted to buy 43.85 lots?? Do I have to manually set the lot sizes somewhere?
best,
Maxim
I am new to this. I use MT5 on a VPS and IBKR papertrading with a gateway. In MT5 I use the MetaQuotes demo account. I'm still trying to find a strategy that actually does any trades. I currently have 10 charts up with different strategies I downloaded.
One strategy that actually wanted to execute a trade is Rogue Breakout Helix XAUUSD on M30 chart. The trade didn't execute on my demo account because it said there's no money. When looking closer I see:
2026.01.12 18:30:00.018 Trades '10009063399': failed market buy 43.85 XAUUSD sl: 4600.22 tp: 4621.99 [No money]
This means that the bot tried to purchase 43.85 lots of XAUUSD is usually 100 oz so that would mean that it tried to purchase 4300 ounces of gold (!!) which would cost 19.8mio! Good thing I'm doing paper trading.
But I see the settings in the bot for the lot is set to 0 / meaning dynamic. The risk is set to 2.5%.
How is it that it wanted to buy 43.85 lots?? Do I have to manually set the lot sizes somewhere?
best,
Maxim
