5*Poin divided by Point =5*Poin/Point You use "Poin" to express the pip value; (i call it "pip" in my EAs, so there is no confusion ) Sq

Simple 3 order GBPUSD EA

Ask and Bid are prices, so are not expressed in pips or points or anything else but just the currency itself. So it does matter using 4,5, or 6 digs brokers: Ask and Bid will just have 4,5, or 6 digits after the coma: 1.5123 or 1.51234 or 1.512345 ...

Simple 3 order GBPUSD EA

That's right, the EA already takes care of 4/5 digits brokers for you: all input values are in PIPS, whatever broker you use. TP1 set to 14 means 14 pips. 140 means 140 pips. BTW running backtest with MT4 during the week-end (= markets closed) makes ...

Simple 3 order GBPUSD EA

i think i can reproduce it, finally!... By changing the Indi time settings while the EA is loaded, to make it draw the box just a few minutes later. I see it is sending orders while outside of trading hours, and also using "yesterday's" values... ...

A Simple London Breakout

Wow! Great work Pat1! Changes are pretty straight forward. I'm sure Mer will love it! ok... i just quickly spotted a first bug in GetProfitLossThisOrder() i think: the selection function is wrong, it uses SELECT_BY_TICKET with ...

A Simple London Breakout

Another question: i see you have defined extern double iTrailingStop2 = 50; But it is not used. As far as i understand the code, locking-in 10 pips profit on order3 when it has reached 22 pips profit. While order2 is moved to BE after 22 pips ...

Simple 3 order GBPUSD EA

Yes, multiple retries may be needed to work-around the "trade context busy" errors... I have coded myself "reliable" versions of Orderxxxx() functions that i use in my EAs, if you want to use them, feel free to do so; Simply add a preceeding _ on ...

Simple 3 order GBPUSD EA

EU sucks on 2010... indeed! — Indeed... I backtested EU over 2010... and got 5 losses (420 pips each... OOoouch! ). Which wiped out the small profits aquired all along (and much more...) Remark on the v3 code: when Hide_Targets==true, it ...

Simple 3 order GBPUSD EA

Using it on other pairs in parallel ? — hi there! Impressive results out here !!! (So much) better than our London Breakout stuff ! (so far... ) Has anyone of you tried on different pairs ? Why would it be limitted to GU only ? If ...

Simple 3 order GBPUSD EA

hmmm.... trying to open 0.00 lots... ! It has to do with the "Risk" input (2%), and your current Account Free Margin. I have put a check for the fixed Lot input, but not for the calculated Lot based on Risk and SL at trade open. Can you try this ...

A Simple London Breakout

yes, i do sleep a bit... having hard time with those time-settings though... seems like everyone is having different behaviours ! Mer, please post or email me the buggy charts with the before-00:00 hours. I thought i had it fixed... at ...

A Simple London Breakout

EA. It has it in its name. Just like the Script V3.1 has "script" in its name. SQ.

A Simple London Breakout

I haven't mentionned it, but... i also added a check for "part-close failed (with error 131)= invalid trade volume" error for you...

A Simple London Breakout

London Breakout EA-V4.0.mq4 — Hi all, i know you've been waiting long since my last V3.0 EA... Here comes V4.0 version of the EA... New features: - Added TRAILING STOP capability New inputs: TrailingStopPips(0): pips to trail the StopLoss; ...

A Simple London Breakout

good boy...

A Simple London Breakout

not much the pix is too small to read the values on the chart and the report. Can you post what the "expert" window reports ? It logs all actions and alerts/prints so we can check what is going on. I never saw that behaviour before... very ...

A Simple London Breakout

Hi please use latest EA, it is V3.0 now (in post #653 ). Also make sure the objPrefix is set to "LB-". Sq.

A Simple London Breakout

Hi Bluemele Interesting thread, indeed... I think i will incorporate some of this stuff in our LB EA... 7bit: interesting to hash a string to create a unique magicnumber. I use a simple DJB2 hash algorithm to build 32-bits hash values out of ...

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Bluemele, i think you have the same issue as reported in post url I will update the EA soon. SQ.

A Simple London Breakout

yes that's because too many trades are sent simultaneously. I have fixed it in my beta-test version that will come out soon. All orders will be sent using a "reliable" version of the trade functions... Coming soon... Sq

A Simple London Breakout