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I learned something today. With Forex demo accounts, algorithm trading must be enabled by them. Again, this is only for demo accounts, not live ones. I am waiting for confirmation of this enable, and then I hope to see some trades happening. Hopefully this will be useful information to others/newbies.
Bob
 
Still waiting for that first thread, but certainly the algo enable on the demo account was the (only, first?) inhibitor.
 
I finally got a trade! And now I have two trades!

Two orders, 1.5hrs apart, but identical numbers? I have two charts open, and slightly different triggers & exits, how do I know which chart/triggers executed an order?
Bob
 
You can check it on the experts tab on the toolbox section below Metatrader platform screen.
 
I am still having trouble getting this bot to even make a dollar. Right now, I am on the eur/usd M1 Every time the bot sells something, the journal shows a SL and TP commensurate with the buy or sell price, but, if I look at the trade tab, ALL orders have the SL and TP the same as the last trade. What is going on? Doesn't each trade retain its original SL and TP? Am I doing something wrong? If I am buying in an up in a bull market, the TP line keeps going up and I will never take profits as no trade will every reach the new TP if the bot keeps buying!
 
Hi bob, kindly share the screenshots of your journal, trade tab (if there's any trade). If possible please provide a recording of the screen so that we can understand what's going on.

Thanks for writing
-Sanchay Kasturey
 
Sanchay,
Here is the trade tab. Note how the SL & TP are the same for the two trades yet the purchase price is different. Maybe this is just a bug. Below is the journal what contradicts the trade tab. It also doesn't help that the times are different, one is the exchange time (CET), and the other is local time (EDT). I've also included the trade parameters and history. I just changed the parameters this morning, I cut the SL & TP in half.

One more note, last night when I complained about the SL & TPs, I had no limit on the # of trades. It sold a bunch of contracts, but I could not buy due to "hedge" restrictions. I later changed them to 1 and then later this morning to 2.

Question; does the spread loss effectively bring in the SL & TP lines? I seemed to SL out of a position and the trade was not (visually) near the SL line.

Bob

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I am still having trouble getting this bot to even make a dollar. Right now, I am on the eur/usd M1 Every time the bot sells something, the journal shows a SL and TP commensurate with the buy or sell price, but, if I look at the trade tab, ALL orders have the SL and TP the same as the last trade. What is going on? Doesn't each trade retain its original SL and TP? Am I doing something wrong? If I am buying in an up in a bull market, the TP line keeps going up and I will never take profits as no trade will every reach the new TP if the bot keeps buying!
I might be having the same problem, but not positive based on your description. I opened a case with Support because every single trade the EA places for me, regardless of the execution price, the SL and TP are all the same. This is obviously not how it should work, the SL and TP prices should reflect the price that the trade was executed at.
 
I might be having the same problem, but not positive based on your description. I opened a case with Support because every single trade the EA places for me, regardless of the execution price, the SL and TP are all the same. This is obviously not how it should work, the SL and TP prices should reflect the price that the trade was executed at.
me too
 
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