Posts made by Tulefi

I moved over today to MT5. I have two EAs running on my IC Markets account - one for EURUSD and the other for USDJPY. Both work perfectly fine on back-testing but on live today only the USDJPY opened trades. They are both set to always open pending orders at a certain time so one traded and one simply did not. I have exactly the same set-up on my MT5 Pepperstone account and oddly the opposite happened, the EURUSD opened a trade but the USDJPY did not. Is there some kind of restriction around hedging as they are both USD pairs? Is there a setting in fxD that will sort this out?

Has anyone come across an issue with an EA refusing to trade a Forex pair that has the symbol, for example, EURUSD.r or USDJPY.p? If yes, is there a fix?

I have found the answer. To ensure the EA opens stop not limit orders, make sure you select Ask pending buy and Bid for pending sell.

I am with ICMarkets, supposedly one of the most reliable brokers out there. I am also trading in the UK pm session when volume is good. The issue is that with a market order the broker can let it slide but with a stop order the broker should be more likely to open at the price you want to enter in.

I am trying to implement a break out forex strategy but slippage is so big, up to 20 pips, that it's really stuffing up my strategy. The issue may be avoidable by placing pending buy and sell stop orders. In other words, say the USDJPY current bid price is 150.500, if I place a buy stop at 150.505 and a sell stop at 150.495, when the price either goes up or down the broker should honour that price as it's a stop order rather than a market order. However, FXDreema doesn't seem to allow this and I am wondering if anyone has had this challenge previously.

Please will you explain how to do this "When I use a 'for each position' loop block to close trades after n bars". I can't see how to do this. Thank you.

@l-andorrà Th problem is with mt4 testing. I put it live today and it's working fine. When backtesting the system can only read one chart.

When I am on the XAUUSD chart & use the formula box to calcuate the ratio of XAUUSD to XAGUSD, the EA is correctly taking the right numbers but it is rounding the XAGUSD value to the nearest whole number.

Update - I have put the same EA on the XAGUSD chart and the problem is reversed. So it is showing the XAGUSD prices correctly but rounding the XAUUSD prices to the nearest whole number. This is a bug for sure, no? Or is there something I need to do?

Did you ever find an answer to this as I am having the same problem?

Dear Dreemas,
In my EA I am comparing the price of XAUUSD v XAGUSD in a trade set up for XAUUSD so the EA goes on a XAUUSD chart. The EA is not referencing the XAGUSD price correctly. It is rounding it from say 23.234 to 23. I have no idea why. Any thoughts?

Hi
I am looking for a way to print the candle ID number above each candlestick so I can quickly see, for example, which candle is x periods before current without having to laboriously count back.
Thanks for your help.

Yes I am after this too, please. Simply for the EA to look at lowest or highest prices based on period close.

Have you got an answer to this yet?

Hi @l-andorrà - the block is at the top of the tree.

A further note on this. One of the conditions that follows "once per bar" is IF candle ID1 low > candle ID 2 low yet the EA is actually looking at candle ID2 low > candle ID 3 low. I think this is an issue with how the "once per bar" works, not sure?

I am finding that often my EA will look at the previous plus 1 period rather than the previous period. I think it is because I am using "once per bar" but this is not forcing the EA to apply the subsequent conditions to the right periods. Any ideas please on how I can force the EA to wait at least 1 tick into the new bar before it applies the condtions?

Thanks - will try this or add more funds

I have set Lots on the EA at 0.27 lots but the EA is opening at 0.17 lots. I can only think this has to do with the fact that I am using custom price level to set SL & TP. Any ideas please as to why this is happening? Sure there is a bug.

I have looked and tried to understand. Thank you. I can't find "For each position" in the menu?