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Your anti-hedging attitude is quite understandable, but you have to know that some people are actually making money using hedges. It also gives them a Peace Of Mind knowing that the sudden market moves will not slaughter them.
Anyway my concern is once I read in one of your old posts that using the OrderComment() is dangerous as it is unreliable. I have used the OrderComment() as the identifier to separate my WHIPSAW orders and My TREND orders.
Can you please elaborate more on that topic?
It also gives them a Peace Of Mind knowing that the sudden market moves will not slaughter them.
Not having any open positions (instead of having 2 opposite positions) will give them much more 'piece of mind'... IMHO.
Anyway my concern is once I read in one of your old posts that using the OrderComment() is dangerous as it is unreliable. I have used the OrderComment() as the identifier to separate my WHIPSAW orders and My TREND orders.
Can you please elaborate more on that topic?
31 characters + zero terminator. Server can rewrite 6 last characters. ie safety length is 25
Unfortunately it's not officially documented and that answer is pretty old anyway. I have seen cases where MORE than 6 characters are overwritten (for example -> https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/124167). Different brokers use different comments and some don't use them at all; there is usually no documentation for this either (if u ask their tech support, they will likely not have a clue). Bottom line - it's unreliable. The better alternative is to use the magic number field.