Edit; ignore the above, I had the "specified" block empty which defaults it to the current symbol already, my issue must lie elsewhere.

@gwydaer I think I've fixed it, removing project link for now

If anyone can solve this problem that would be ridiculously handy.

My issue is twofold:

I'd like all trades to close out should price retrace to their entry (break even) level (+/- 0.7 pips offset) or if they hit their stop loss not to re-enter.

I've added a few variables to try and make this work however my "continuation" trades don't seem to continue after a while, i.e. if they are doing well and are well above/below break even levels, they don't re-enter if my indicators are saying to re-enter.

I'm baffled as to why it isn't working at least 24 solid hours trying to work this out so far.

Initial double value for the candle open variables are set as: 0 for buy candles and 1000 for sell candles.

Ah legend thanks! I'll have a play around with this, it's a bit more sophisticated then the tree I was in the process of setting up

This sounds like a great idea, so add a time filter for that hour period, temporarily adjust the spreads by +45 pips to account for maximum spread, and then have them revert to former levels at the appropriate time. How do you mean by pink for each trade? I need to try and have a stop placed on all trades at all times rather than any full deactivation

Hi there,

Just a thread to gather ideas on how to avoid EA's stopping out and re-entering themselves during the increased spreads of pre-market.

I currently have an EA that runs on the 4H, and it has a trail stop of 1 X ATR when it is in a trend. However this will at some stage end up getting stopped out by the large pre-market spreads (my broker is generally pretty good good with spread widening). If it does gets stopped out, it will then automatically re-enter itself at the disadvantaged larger spread due to an immediate on event "trade closed" re-entry signal.

I've been trying to think of ways to work around this problem but have hit a wall each time.

I've thought of adding:

1. A time filter; so that the EA doesn't re-enter the trade at a disadvantage, however I'd have to then trade manually manually once spreads are lower because the on event-"trade closed": signal to re-enter is gone the second the trade gets stopped out in the large spread time period. (I.e. the signal for the robot to re-enter is gone).

2. A spread filter: This has the same issue as #1 and can prevent trade re-entries in this period if spreads are too high- results in manual trading because the EA signal to re-enter on event: trade closed is gone.

3. Manually modify the SL so that it isn't at risk of the higher spreads. This one I'm unsure about. If I modify an on-tic event trailing stop to protect a spread widening stop out, will this break the EA? Because it is on-tic, i'm guessing the EA placed trail stop would instantly revert back to where it should be placed if it was to be manually altered, in which case it would get stopped out on the next tic...

It's a tricky problem to have, any ideas? I might have to message you in private & sort you out for potential fixes to this @l-andorrà if you have the time.

Sorry for the spam guys, I found the issue. A different EA had this block specified to trades open across all active symbols. I didn't realise EA's interacted with trades linked to the account rather than being isolated to the charts they are being run in. This thread can be closed

Edit; ignore the above, I had the "specified" block empty which defaults it to the current symbol already, my issue must lie elsewhere.

Hi,

I've been forward testing my EA and have noticed that if several positions are open at once, and one of them hits take profit, then the same EA running on different charts seem to all move their stop loss to break even automatically, even though they are on different instruments and haven't yet hit their take profit!

The block currently moves the trades grouped as "group 1" to break even, however I haven't specified a symbol on as I assumed the EA's do not interact across different currency pairs/charts that are open + running the same EA. (I.e. I thought if the EA running on EUR/USD triggered move stop loss to break even, then it wouldn't move the stop loss to break even on a different active pair, i.e. AUDNZD even when it hasn't taken profit here).

So my question is, is there a way to specify the symbol to "current" rather than pointing it specifically to the chart that is open (i.e. typing in eurusd as the specified symbol) so it doesn't effect other open trades? Otherwise I'll have to make a copy of the EA for each currency pair it is running on (18 pairs) and point the EA to only move the break even point for the active chart it is running on.

Cheers!

@l-andorrà

Hi Andorra

I'm running the indicator off a single signal line (colourless buffer). I don't use the red (not shown)/blue buffer options for it when using it in FX dreema (it shouldn't require it). All back tests run in MT4 work as expected with standard entries using this single signal line buffer. I don't think using the other two buffers as a filter would work too well with this strategy either due to the 50 level being an exit signal

Have you tried closing/re-opening MT4 completely? Sometimes mine weirdly glitches out particularly when swapping between time frames or when making edits then re-running again, only for it all to work perfectly again when re-opening MT4.