EA limiting lot size to 5?
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I created my EA to open positions with % equity but in my backtesting, it limits the lot size to 5 and does not increase anymore. Is there a setting I need to change?
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it is limit because your equity in MT4 or MT5 is reached to limit you can't add more as i remeber the limit is 100 LOT
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Thanks for the reply, Rami.
However, the EA I bought before creating my own EAs does not have a problem increasing the lot size to more than 5 lots.If 100 lot is the limit, how come my EA does not increase more than 5? Can someone please shed some light?
TIA!
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I have something that could help. I have a similar process where my lotsize updates as the account equity grows. You can change this to account balance if you prefer.
So I have a set ratio, in My shared link, for every $100 in equity, the EA will trade 0.01 lots. so for $200 equity, the account will trade 0.02 lots. 
So first we first the lot divider or ratio calculator based on the input ratio you type in. Then We use the actual equity of the account and divide it by this new variable. and put this value into a new variable which I called LotSize. When trading, we use this lotsize variable to place trades.
Please note that since it is a mathematical calculation and that there are more than 2 decimal places, that this will cause this particular setup to trade 0.02 lots at any equity value above $150. this is because the divider will gives a value that rounded off is closer to 0.02 lots than 0.01 lots therefore it will open 0.02 lots. -
@stantonhitz Thanks for the tip.
The built-in money management in fxdreema seem to do this automatically up to 5 lots so I didn't try the manual calculation.
I'll try manually calculating it and see if it gets around this. -
Unfortunately, even manually calculating the lot size didn't work
It's still limiting the lot size to 5. -
Anyone else?
Is there a support team who can offer more info on this please?
