Live/Demo Trading: Error 130 invalid stops driving me insane

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When I trade by entering the stops manually and initially set the stop parameter in OrderSend to "0" the trade will go through - and that is pretty much the only time it will work (on MB Trading & IBFX). It also works when I backtest the EA in StrategyTester. Here is the code that sets the stops and enter the orders (the EA is run on daily charts and a typical stop loss value is about 65 pips).

double StopRange=iATR(NULL, 0, 10, 1)/2;

if (Point==0.01)

pipValue=2;
if (Point==0.001)
pipValue=3;
if(Point==0.0001)
pipValue=4;
if (Point==0.00001)
pipValue=5;

BuyStopLoss=NormalizeDouble(highest-StopRange,pipValue); //Highest and lowest will always be below (highest), & above (lowest) current market entry price.

SellStopLoss=NormalizeDouble(lowest+StopRange,pipValue);

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Bid,3,SellStopLoss,0,"RatReverseSell",RRSell,0,Red);



2010.08.16 15:17:18 RatReversal EURUSD,Daily: OrderSendSell failed with error # 130 SellStopLoss:1.2825 (well above market price - the print function only prints 4 places after the decimal place but I believe I put in 5 digits after) BuyStopLoss:1.2892




Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks,

 

 

 Try Normalize Bid.

//+----------Price_Buy Function
double Price_Buy(double Price_Buy){
Price_Buy=NormalizeDouble(Ask,Digits);
return(Price_Buy);}
//+----------Price_Sell Function
double Price_Sell(double Price_Sell){
Price_Sell=NormalizeDouble(Bid,Digits);
return(Price_Sell);}

OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Price_Sell,3,SellStopLoss,0,"RatReverseSell",RRSell,0,Red);
 

Add this string

 Print("bid - ",DoubleToString(Bid,5)," Ask - ",DoubleToString(Ask,5)," stop - ",DoubleToString(SellStopLoss,5));

after

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Bid,3,SellStopLoss,0,"RatReverseSell",RRSell,0,Red);

and show us what is in logs. 

 

You need to enter the stops via an OrderModify after the trade is completed. You cannot enter a stoploss or takeprofit with a market order at an ECN/STP broker. It will test correctly in the tester(which cannot tell the difference between market execution and instant execution) but will not work live/demo.

 

You never need to normalize Bid/Ask. You don't need to normalize the TP/SL, but they must be bigger than MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_STOPLEVEL)*Point from the orderClosePrice.

You do need to make stops via orderModify. You do need to adjust for 5 digit brokers, including slippage.

//++++ These are adjusted for 5 digit brokers.
double  pips2points,    // slippage  3 pips    3=points    30=points
        pips2dbl;       // Stoploss 15 pips    0.0015      0.00150
int     Digits.pips;    // DoubleToStr(dbl/pips2dbl, Digits.pips)
int init(){
    if (Digits == 5 || Digits == 3){    // Adjust for five (5) digit brokers.
                pips2dbl    = Point*10; pips2points = 10;   Digits.pips = 1;
    } else {    pips2dbl    = Point;    pips2points =  1;   Digits.pips = 0; }
    // OrderSend(... Slippage.Pips * pips2points, Bid - StopLossPips * pips2dbl
 

Hi WHRoeder,

I agree with you about the normalisation of Bid/Ask, but I was somewhat surprised at your statement that you do not need to normalise TP/SL values, since this is contrary to my information.

Given the fact that you clearly know your way around MQL4, this is causing me to question my understanding and information. Please could you expand on this or point me towards some reading material.

I was also quite interested to note that a normalisation problem will return ERROR 129 rather than ERROR 130.

 
Yeah i learn something here, maybe someone can explain why some of my error messages gets solved when i normalize bid and ask. I don't have a 5 digit broker and don't need to solve 3-5 digit issues at this moment. My slippage is 4 points, this is where I may have a mis understanding. I taught to play it save and add 1 more point to the default 3 point slippage. Even tho my broker is 4 digits, sometimes the print statement for bid/ask shows 1.543210 same with stops and tp. So I normalize every and anything I can normalize. Please explain so I can get a better understanding.
 

Seperating the The stop loss and Take Profit entries from the OrderSend and placing them into an OrderModify, following the OrderSend will resolve your issue. You will most likely want 1 code path for non ECN brokers and one code path for ECN brokers. This way, fast exexcution on non ECN and somewhat slower on ECN.

 
LEHayes:

Seperating the The stop loss and Take Profit entries from the OrderSend and placing them into an OrderModify, following the OrderSend will resolve your issue. You will most likely want 1 code path for non ECN brokers and one code path for ECN brokers. This way, fast exexcution on non ECN and somewhat slower on ECN.


thank you
 
I have zero normalize statements in my EA. works fine in the tester. I check 1) SL is at least stop level and 2) it is at least 1 point above the previous.
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