Been studying and playing around with this, but still lots of confusions. My system is now all depending on the SL and BE, and really need your input here so I can move forward.

Look at what I have configured so far. Attached link.

https://fxdreema.com/shared/No9MkdlWb

The explanation of what I pretend it to do is this. (please dont mind about decimals, as my broker uses this big numbers for CFD):

• If I have open trades, check the number of open trades.
• If open trades are less than 3, then each of the trades will move to BE when profit of each is over 90 points.
• If have 3 or more open trades, it will move to BE the whole basket when 2000 pips (sum of all trades) in profit.
• If have more than 5000 points on profit, start trailing stop at 30%.

What I see so far is this:

• None of the trades move to BE when reaching over 90 in profit.
• Some times it moves SL of the basket to BE, but not when reaching over 2000, even way over that, 2 or 3 times fold, and do not move them to BE stop. Haven't got when it is moving that BE when it does.
• At the top of my EA, it checks for time. I have a link to close all open and pending trades when time is not in my trading hours, but this is not closing anything at all.

Can you please check this and help? Maybe there are some other avenues to do what I want.

Many thanks again

__What I don't like in the screenshot is the size of Step. I said this before, but Step is normally lower than Stop. It can be bigger of course, but the you don't have normal Trailing anymore.

I also said that Trailing Stop block can be used to make it work as Break Even. I think the configuration was something like this - Step is some giant value that never will be reached, Start is the profit that must be reached, Stop is equal to Start (or lower). Like this - https://fxdreema.com/shared/gaJnbwWY
It looks a little bit like this in the screenshot and because of that I giess that you have some SL movements that look like break even, but not real trailing stop frequent movements. Again, this is because of the Step size.[/quote:3fmzsy8o]

Hi there,
I cannot make the print the trades status coments on my MT4. Copied the logic as in the main example, and it does not do anything. Not a single letter. Do I need to enable special permision?

__Check profit (period of time) - this block collects the total amount of profits from the existing trades. It doesn't care what Equity or Balance is. The block does not know what was Equity at 01:00 am.[/quote:1r30jz22]

Existing trades open or closed or both? What really counts is closed trades. Open trades can result in BE or Loss, thus that floating profit does not exist any more.

How do I have to set it up in order to stop trading after closed profit of XXX ?

Thanks

__It looks correct. I made this to check the block, I think that it's working as expected https://fxdreema.com/shared/rpdSx31Oc[/quote:1ytothns]

I have a question here... if I use the function as shown in the image, if my profit target say is $10, is the function checking this amount vs balance or equity?
What I mean, if my floating profit is say $15, this exceeds the $10, thus the condition would be met, BUT is no realized profit.

If it uses floating profit (equity now vs equity at 1:00 am), then this could be a problem, as all the funtions around trailing stop, close trades, etc, are under the "FALSE" condition, together with the execution of new trades. So, this will stop you closing profitable trades strategy.

What can you say around this? Or how can I handle it to use real closed profit? Moving all closing strategy is complicated, as it is attached to the "no trade/order"

EDIT: I see an issue here... the block description says that if time 2 is left empty, then it counts current unrealized profit. An in reality time 2 is left empty as I want to check profit (realized) at all times to stop trading when target is reached. Sooo, what to do to make it work as needed?

Many thanks

__I guess you have same issue as I had many times and in my case it was not only fxdreema EA, it was EAs created with "my own code" - this problem is something with MT4 and I have rule:
after a couple of tests EA (mainly on different pairs) is great restart MT4, or delete big log files in mql4 tester folder[/quote:2h52lovd]

Thanks for your response Miro. I've restarted my MT4 instances. Let's see how it goes.

Lets see what Fxdreema has to say as well.

Regards

__was something in journal, message or info why it was stopped?[/quote:1kn4qfgl]

No, it just stopped placing orders and drawing the trace function lines. This has happened few times already, no errors, and not always same pair that I can "recreate" the error.

Hello fxdreema,
I'm trying to set up a filter in which if I make over XXX profit in a day, starting at 1 am, the EA stops trading until next day.

Attached is my configuration image, but I see the EA continues trading no matter such target is met.

Is this configured properly, or what is missing, or what to do?

Many thanks

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daytarget.jpg

Hi there,
I noticed when testing an EA, same EA in different pairs, that some times it stops (in one of the instances, and is a random thing).
How do I know it stops? Well, the smiley is there as it should be. BUT, I have the trace fuction to show the indicator lines and see if it acts accordingly. So, I notice that the EA stops because it stops placing trades and the trace lines stops drawing as well, but the chart continues normally.

Why it stops, or how to make it reactivate?

Thanks

Is it possible to automatically apply an indicator (sutom indicator) to a chart when the EA us active?
If so, is it possible also that that indicator takes the values of the EA for its settings? For example I don't have to change values por MA period in the indicator to display, and also in the EA. So this way they are always "married".

Thanks

I want to use a custom indicator, but cannot add it. When try to upload it as in the image, it does nothing.

How to upload it and how to use it? Does it embed in the code, or have to attach it in MT4 as well?

Thanks

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customind.jpg

Hello,
I have different settings for buys and sells, and each condition is differentiated by a group number (1,2,3,4) when a trade is placed.
Now, at the beginning of each set of conditions for a trade, I have the "No trade/order" option, with a the origin of trades set to group # corresponding to that set, so that I can filter out if a trade from those conditions is in place.

What I see is that is the "no trade/order" funtion is not filtering by group as expected, but only by buy or sell. So if I have a buy from group 1, it does not place buy trades of group 3.

Image represents each of the 4 groups. Of course GROUP # is 1,2,3,4 accordingly. Am I using this incorrectly?

Thanks

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notrade.jpg