Is this a thing?

[danerius]

Hi

Just to check to my EAs are working as they should. I tried a standard EA from the examples on fxdreema. Its not working as it should.

Its supposed to place trades at Arrows. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesnt

Is this a thing or is my Metatrader setup at fault?

Thanks /danerius

[fxDreema]

If I'm not wrong, Fractals repaints a little bit. You can try this on Visual mode while having the indicator, you will probably see the arrows at the moments of trade, and some of them might disappear after that.

[danerius]

Hi

I did another try and added the indicator as the EA was running. And indeed it repaints... quite a lot...

Im trying to check that positions are placed properly

Any other - more solid EA I can test that with?

Thanks /danerius

[fxDreema]

Depends on what "properly" means. I made this fractals example to show that if the indicator prints arrows, Candle ID should probably be set to something bigger than 0, and also to show those Indicator Appear blocks. I don't know another built-in MetaTrader indicator that prints arrows, so I used this one

[danerius]

Hi fx

My goal is to make sure my EAs are working as intended. Im suspecting that some of the issues Im having are broker/platform related. So Im trying out tried and tested EAs to confirm that

The main thing that bugs me is that trades arent executed when the EA indicates it. So Im looking for an EA that is spot on timewise ie. not lagging or repainting

Wich one should I try? MA Crossover?

Thanks /danerius

[danerius]

I think the technical phrase is Slippage

I want to check broker slippage...

[ambrogio]

@danerius most of the indicators work on closing of the 01 candle ID, and Fractal is not one of these, read this post

https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs/post/493620

for this you will see a lot of signals appear and disappear, especially in the lower time frames, you can not simply use it as a buy sell indicator

[danerius]

Cool. Thanks for the input. Im learning slowly

/danerius