"Ask manual confirmation" makes EA not trade

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Hello! i've got some EAs and i installed them on my demo account, and i can't seem to make any of them trade automatically when i uncheck the "ask manual confirmation". if i check it, the order requests start appearing, and i guess it runs fine.. are some EA's built so that they won't work but with manual confirmation or something? (none of many in a big list ever worked automatically)

i am running metatrader 4 build 225, the EAs might be older, i don't know...

 
nickul:

Hello! i've got some EAs and i installed them on my demo account, and i can't seem to make any of them trade automatically when i uncheck the "ask manual confirmation". if i check it, the order requests start appearing, and i guess it runs fine.. are some EA's built so that they won't work but with manual confirmation or something? (none of many in a big list ever worked automatically)

i am running metatrader 4 build 225, the EAs might be older, i don't know...


I have exactly the same problem on the same version.

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Have you ticked "Allow Live Trading"?

And do you have access to the source code (.mq4)?


CB

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Which broker are you trading with?
 
snafu4:

I have exactly the same problem on the same version.

I believe I have figured it out.


ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3,0,0,"",1234,0,Blue);


works but doesn't have a stop loss or take profit


ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3,dStopLoss,dTakeProfit,"",1234,0,Blue);


does not work


I changed it to:


ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3,0,0,"",1234,0,Blue);
OrderModify(ticket,OrderOpenPrice(),dStopLoss,dTakeProfit,0,Purple);


but trading closed as I was about to test it.


Go figure.


Neil

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There are some brokers that don't allow opening a trade at "Market" with SL and TP.

I know of FXCM and MB-Trading.

What you did will solve the problem.

 
TuTBaluT wrote >>

There are some brokers that don't allow opening a trade at "Market" with SL and TP.

I know of FXCM and MB-Trading.

What you did will solve the problem.

what the hell it is ?

i find out those broker who do not limit the distance between sl / tp and market price,

they can not place sl,tp at the moment of opening trade ~ ~

i use 2 hours to find out the reason why the ea didn't trade at live, but tester mode do

it should be the internal problem of mt4 when place sl/tp at opening an order

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kelly:

what the hell it is ?

i find out those broker who do not limit the distance between sl / tp and market price,

they can not place sl,tp at the moment of opening trade ~ ~

i use 2 hours to find out the reason why the ea didn't trade at live, but tester mode do

it should be the internal problem of mt4 when place sl/tp at opening an order

It is not a problem with the MT4.

It is a limitation by the broker.

Take a look at the attached PDF.

 

Thanks Kelly but I do not see any attached file.