General Question, please help!
Can u post the account's report?
(go to 'Account History' tab, right-click and choose 'save as report').
| Account: 16854 | Name: william huston | Currency: USD | 2010 December 22, 08:04 | ||||||||||
| Closed Transactions: | |||||||||||||
| Ticket | Open Time | Type | Size | Item | Price | S / L | T / P | Close Time | Price | Commission | Taxes | Swap | Profit |
| 3187778 | 2010.12.13 20:27 | balance | Deposit | 50 000.00 | |||||||||
| 3218229 | 2010.12.17 10:43 | sell | 1.00 | eurusd | 1.31446 | 1.31440 | 0.00000 | 2010.12.20 17:24 | 1.31229 | -8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 217.00 |
| 3218357 | 2010.12.17 10:46 | buy | 1.00 | eurusd | 1.31486 | 0.00000 | 0.00000 | 2010.12.20 21:02 | 1.31861 | -8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 375.00 |
| 3218733 | 2010.12.17 11:00 | sell | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.31489 | 1.32064 | 1.30984 | 2010.12.20 10:41 | 1.30984 | -64.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4 040.00 |
| 3224329 | 2010.12.20 17:54 | sell | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.31216 | 0.00000 | 0.00000 | 2010.12.20 19:00 | 1.31188 | -64.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 224.00 |
| 3224439 | 2010.12.20 18:38 | sell | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.31252 | 1.40000 | 1.29946 | 2010.12.20 18:59 | 1.31176 | -64.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 608.00 |
| 3225170 | 2010.12.21 01:08 | buy | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.31722 | 1.25939 | 1.37000 | 2010.12.21 08:25 | 1.31831 | -64.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 872.00 |
| 3226279 | 2010.12.21 08:23 | sell | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.31730 | 1.31888 | 1.31631 | 2010.12.21 08:26 | 1.31888 | -64.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -1 264.00 |
| 3226297 | 2010.12.21 08:27 | buy | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.31818 | 1.30953 | 1.32435 | 2010.12.21 09:43 | 1.31430 | -64.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -3 104.00 |
| 3226334 | 2010.12.21 09:12 | buy | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.31641 | 0.00000 | 1.31700 | 2010.12.22 04:51 | 1.31700 | -64.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 472.00 |
| 3226338 | 2010.12.21 08:46 | sell | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.31690 | 0.00000 | 1.31640 | 2010.12.21 09:12 | 1.31640 | -64.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 400.00 |
| -528.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2 840.00 | ||||||||||
| Closed P/L: | 2 312.00 | ||||||||||||
| Open Trades: | |||||||||||||
| Ticket | Open Time | Type | Size | Item | Price | S / L | T / P | Price | Commission | Taxes | Swap | Profit | |
| 3224459 | 2010.12.20 18:47 | buy | 1.00 | usdjpy | 83.782 | 82.280 | 84.525 | 83.591 | -8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -228.49 | |
| -8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -228.49 | ||||||||||
| Floating P/L: | -236.49 | ||||||||||||
| Working Orders: | |||||||||||||
| Ticket | Open Time | Type | Size | Item | Price | S / L | T / P | Market Price | |||||
| 3225171 | 2010.12.21 01:09 | buy limit | 8.00 | eurusd | 1.25939 | 1.20105 | 1.31714 | 1.31234 | |||||
| 3225120 | 2010.12.21 00:37 | buy limit | 8.00 | usdjpy | 80.216 | 0.000 | 81.000 | 83.594 | resistance | ||||
| Summary: | |||||||||||||
| Deposit/Withdrawal: | 50 000.00 | Credit Facility: | 0.00 | ||||||||||
| Closed Trade P/L: | 2 312.00 | Floating P/L: | -236.49 | Margin: | 2 000.00 | ||||||||
| Balance: | 52 312.00 | Equity: | 52 075.51 | Free Margin: | 50 075.51 | ||||||||
it seems to me that your EA close the trade
EA being expert advisor? I need to read up on how that works, i didnt realize that was possible.
Thanks for the help so fast, I'll keep learning the software so everything makes sense.
During the day, my P&L was negative -7000ish, but the bad EUR/USD trade i had placed, did not close. It was my hope that I would be able to just wait for it to turn around and take small gains in between.
When i woke up this morning, the trade was closed out at -3000.
My question is, why did the trade close? If i had set a stop (which im not sure if i did because i have not fully learned the software and cant tell based on the history exactly what i did), wouldnt it have closed well before it reached -7000? and if i did not, what other mechanism caused it to close without my telling it to manually?
I too have been having an issue lately on some demo accounts where my EURUSD positions just seem to randomly close at prices that are not related to the stoploss in any way. When it happens there is always these weird comments that overwrite the existing order comments (the entire 31 character field gets over-written with some broker comment).
It has only been demo accounts so no real harm done, but it has trashed the utility of a few outstanding forward tests because these falsly closed orders have little to do with the statistics of the EA itself.
I'll have to see if I can dig up that broker comment that gets added...
I too have been having an issue lately on some demo accounts where my EURUSD positions just seem to randomly close at prices that are not related to the stoploss in any way. When it happens there is always these weird comments that overwrite the existing order comments (the entire 31 character field gets over-written with some broker comment).
It has only been demo accounts so no real harm done, but it has trashed the utility of a few outstanding forward tests because these falsly closed orders have little to do with the statistics of the EA itself.
I'll have to see if I can dig up that broker comment that gets added...
a small difference, mr. Myopia is talking on a real account
i'm sorry, i thought it's a real one
My question is, why did the trade close?
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I have a question about S/L .
I placed a trade yesterday to buy the EUR/USD and was incorrect in my decision.
During the day, my P&L was negative -7000ish, but the bad EUR/USD trade i had placed, did not close. It was my hope that I would be able to just wait for it to turn around and take small gains in between.
When i woke up this morning, the trade was closed out at -3000.
My question is, why did the trade close? If i had set a stop (which im not sure if i did because i have not fully learned the software and cant tell based on the history exactly what i did), wouldnt it have closed well before it reached -7000? and if i did not, what other mechanism caused it to close without my telling it to manually?
Thanks for the help folks =)