what causes an EA not to work after attaching it in the chart

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hello,pro,im a new bies, after i compiled an EA from the online library,then add to my navigator window, from there i attached it to a chart its show the EA on the top right corner of my chart with a dagger and i enable it and smily comes out the wait for the EA to work but its not working,pls can any body tell me whether i was right in the steps and what causes the EA not to work. thanks jude ben

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JB

Look for error messages in the Journal & Experts tabs of the Terminal view.

Also, you may have to wait a while before it does anything!

Which is why I add something like this to show if the EA is 'awake'!

Paste it in just below the start function line, so that it runs every tick

start()
{
   Comment("SelectFX Expert Adviser\n",

            "Forex Account Server:",AccountServer(),"\n",
            "Account Balance:  $",AccountBalance(),"\n",

            "Price:  ",NormalizeDouble(Bid,4),"\n",

            "Date: ",Month(),"-",Day(),"-",Year()," Server Time: ",Hour(),":",Minute(),":",Seconds(),"\n",
            "Minimum Lot Size: ",MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_MINLOT));



// Rest of your code START

// Rest of your code END

return(0);
}

You will see the price & time changing if the EA is working OK.

So then, if there is no errors and no orders, its because the conditions in the code have not been met...

-BB-