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All EA's tp and sl are stuck on stoploss 10 and takeprofit 60, no matter what I set in the EA or the properties

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All EA's tp and sl are stuck on stoploss 10 and takeprofit 60, no matter what I set in the EA or the properties

I can changed the Expert properties via properties button and it's off by 10 pips every time ?

Seems like this occured when I downloaded the data in history center, however that may not be related at all.
I since deleted the .hst files and cannot get the EA's to set sl and tp

extern double TakeProfit=20.0;
extern double Lots=0.1;
extern double StopLoss=100.0;
extern int MagicNumber=12345;

Seems straight forward

And Setting orders pretty simple

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3*pips2points,Bid-StopLoss*pips2dbl,Bid+TakeProfit*pips2dbl,"Agent86",MagicNumber,0,Green);

?

Just when I think things are going so well LOL DARN THIS THING

Just before your OrderSend add a print statement . . . print all the relevant variables (and Bid and Ask) so you can see what is going on . . without info how can you hope to solve the problem ? When you have fixed the issue simply comment out the Print statement if you don't want to clutter the Journal and log . . . don't delete it, you might need it again.
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Hmm, Are you using any Templates with EA's already attached. I'm just guessing here.
Here is A code, but they are all doing this now for some reason

I'll add some print statements to see if I can find whats wrong, but this EA was working I haven't done anything to it I just used it for learning then once it was working I moved on to another EA to learn something new.

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                    Dirty_Rat.mq4 |
//|                               Agent86's Dirty Rat learning Trade |
//|                                    
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Agent86"

//---- input parameters
extern double    TakeProfit=300.0;
extern double    Lots=0.1;
extern double    StopLoss=20.0;
//++++ These are adjusted for 5 digit brokers.

int     pips2points;    // slippage  3 pips    3=points    30=points
double  pips2dbl;       // Stoploss 15 pips    0.0015      0.00150
int     Digits.pips;    // DoubleToStr(dbl/pips2dbl, Digits.pips)

    // OrderSend(... Slippage.Pips * pips2points, Bid - StopLossPips * pips2dbl
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert initialization function                                   |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
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
//---- 

//----
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert deinitialization function                                 |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int deinit()
  {
//---- 
   
//----
   return(0);
  }
   
    
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert start function                                            |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
  {
//---- 

   int ticket,i,total,result;  
     
   double   faster = iMACD(NULL,0,12,26,9,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_MAIN,1), //MODE_MAIN
            slower = iMACD(NULL,0,12,26,9,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_SIGNAL,1), //MODE_SIGNAL
            faster_2 = iMACD(NULL,PERIOD_H4,12,26,9,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_MAIN,1), //MODE_MAIN
            slower_2 = iMACD(NULL,PERIOD_H4,12,26,9,PRICE_CLOSE,MODE_SIGNAL,1); //MODE_SIGNAL

//I'm going to have to create some loop


   total  = OrdersTotal(); 
   if(total < 1)
      { //I'll change this later so it will work with other EA's and other symbols
      if(faster > slower)
         {
         ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3*pips2points,Bid-StopLoss*pips2dbl,Bid+TakeProfit*pips2dbl,"My EA",12345,0,Green);
         if(ticket > 0)
            {
            if(OrderSelect(ticket,SELECT_BY_TICKET,MODE_TRADES))Print("BUY order opened : ",OrderOpenPrice());
            }
      else Print("Error opening BUY order : ",GetLastError());
      return(0);
      }
         
      if(faster < slower)
      {
      ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Bid,3*pips2points,Ask+StopLoss*pips2dbl,Ask-TakeProfit*pips2dbl,"My EA",12345,0,Red);  
      if(ticket > 0)
         {
         if(OrderSelect(ticket,SELECT_BY_TICKET,MODE_TRADES))Print("SELL order opened : ",OrderOpenPrice());
         }
      else Print("Error opening SELL order : ",GetLastError());
      return(0);        
      }
     } 
          

for (i = total - 1; i >= 0; i--)
      { 
//many have recommmended deincriment due to error 4108, and increment may miss orders 
//deincrement had no effect with error 4108
//for(i = 0; i < OrdersTotal(); i++) //many say this will miss orders.
//anyhow moving on
      OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES); //I'll add return codes later, it opens trades currently
      if(OrderType() == OP_BUY && Symbol() == OrderSymbol())
      {
         if(faster < slower)
            {
            result = OrderClose( OrderTicket(), OrderLots(), Bid,3, White);
            if(result == false)
               {
                Print("Order", OrderTicket()," failed to close Error ",GetLastError());
                return(0);
               }
            }
      }         
       
      if(OrderType() == OP_SELL && Symbol() == OrderSymbol())
      {   
         if(faster > slower)
         {
            result = OrderClose(OrderTicket(), OrderLots(), Ask,3, White);
            if(result == false)
            {
               Print("Order", OrderTicket()," failed to close Error ", GetLastError());
               return(0);
            }   
         }    
      }
        
    }              
   return(0);
   }    

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
See stoploss = 20, but all stop losses are hitting at -30 and tp = 300 but hits at +290 for some reason I have no idea; and I didn't change anything that I can recall.

Even if I use the Expert Properties button to make changes no matter what I change it to it's off by 10

All EA's just started doing this even those that were working when I stopped using them for learning purposes.

sl and tp was the least of my learning problems, now all the sudden.

Back to the drawing board again.

Ok for kicks I changed the OrderSend from Bid,Ask,Ask to Bid,Bid Bid etc.

And this seems to have adjusted things properly however this should not be right ?

ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3*pips2points,Ask-StopLoss*pips2dbl,Ask+TakeProfit*pips2dbl,"My EA",12345,0,Green);

This gives me the -20 stop

But it should be ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3*pips2points,Bid-StopLoss*pips2dbl,Bid+TakeProfit*pips2dbl,"My EA",12345,0,Green);

But it only started doing this, just now.

Use to give me like -21.5 pips or so which is understandable because there is a difference in the Ask / Bid price, but 10 pips is way off ?

I did nothing, and came back from an event today and now all EA's back to normal trading as they should

Very strange, thanks all for the help and I will remember to first try and put in the print errors so I can see what is happening
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