Told you it was a good read, no? xD Read that thing back and forth more times than I can count. I know he said at the end that he found some formula that he couldn't mention and that pissed some people off but not me. Instead it gave me optimism. Or ...

I don't get how 10 pips a day can make you rich?

I went through something similar long before I went live. There's just so much to think about, isn't there? So many factors that influence our TPs and SLs. I too wanted to start with 10 a day and risk just the same giving me a 1:1 ratio. ...

I don't get how 10 pips a day can make you rich?

Wisdom — Because trading is sometimes seen as majorly psychological, many traders find themselves applying the wisdom of trading to the wisdom of life. So go ahead and apply these back and forth as you please.

No more BS - What have you learned?

Success! Agh finally xD I'm so stoked now that it finally works :] Alright so the problem was that my balance that I was demo-ing with was too small. It was at 3000 but I bumped it to 5000 and now it works great. The weird thing is that it's set to ...

Buy and Sell script help

I haven't demoed on FxOpen yet. Still on Alpari but I don't get that error message. The trade just doesn't go through. I'll try making my demo account larger and then I'll try using an FxOpen demo. I hear the FxOpen demos are limited and you can ...

Buy and Sell script help

I can still comment it out if I want it to be hotkeyed, correct? Once I get it working of course xD Right now it's just a script and not under any EA. I wonder if that's the problem. Alpari's demo has let me set my stop loss nearly anywhere. How ...

Buy and Sell script help

Ah interesting to know as I'm switching to FxOpen soon. Thanks a bunch for the script I tried using it and when I dropped it in, it brought up the small input window. So I commented it out and now when I drop it, it doesn't send an order. And ...

Buy and Sell script help

Great thanks a bunch I'll just extract the parts from it that have the buying/selling scripts that worked out haha

Buy and Sell script help

It won't let you have a 5.6 pip stoploss? I mean I know 5 or 6 pips is a little tight but still... Anyways! I tried that to no avail =/ Here's what I tried: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Buy with SL and ...

Buy and Sell script help

The script when executed normally will instantly throw down an order and without any modifications to the original code, it'll instantly put TP and SL and change lot sizes based on MM (that last one I do not want it to do and need edited) All ...

Buy and Sell script help

It compiles with no errors. And it's not really an EA. It's just two hotkeyed scripts. Is your's part of an EA? Could you just like cut out the parts that has the buy and sell scripts? I'll try your suggestions and let you know how it works. Thanks ...

Buy and Sell script help

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Buy with SL and TP | //| Copyright 2008, smjones | //| sjcoinc | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ #property copyright "Copyright ...

Buy and Sell script help

double AccountPercentStopPips(string symbol, double percent, double lots) { double balance = AccountBalance(); double moneyrisk = balance * percent / 100; double spread = MarketInfo(symbol, MODE_SPREAD); double point = MarketInfo(symbol, ...

Buy and Sell script help

This looks like a promising thread. I have a thread open about a small script I'd like to have written but it looks like there's a chance I'll find what I'm looking for here. I downloaded a script from Forex Factory that looks like this: ...

I code your Expert Advisors / Indicators

I understand that much. That's how I've been doing it so far because that's what the script is designed to do and that's not what I want it to do so I've always had it set to false. I've had to set to false because when it is, my lots are 1 and ...

Buy and Sell script help

No dice. Thanks for trying, though. I used your code and it didn't work. I tried figuring out writing MT4 codes and my novice knowledge tells me you're really close haha Not that I really know. I tried using the same little knowledge plus your code ...

Buy and Sell script help

You got it right on the money I'm trading EUR/USD Thanks a thousand for understanding my problem and offering a solution. Should I just slap that anywhere in the two codes I provided? Thanks again, 60minman.

Buy and Sell script help

Yeah that last bit there is what I've been doing. It's pretty tedious. And I'm fully aware of how it's traditionally done. And of course it's coded in this way. That's pretty much the reason I asked for this change. Because it's not something ...

Buy and Sell script help

Awesome that worked great. Thanks a thousand As for the other part, if I have a $5,000 account, I still want it to buy a standard lot and not a lot that equates to 2% of my account. So if my account is $5,000 and it's set to buy 1 lot, then I ...

Buy and Sell script help