OrderSend not working?

[MrChuckW]

        if(SARCurrent > Ask) {ticket =OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Bid,3,0,  "SAR Sell",MagicNumber,0,Red);           send.text.3();}

 

why would this execute the    send.text.3();    subroutine, but not open an order?

The Journal shows nothing except the mail: text being sent. 

[William Roeder]

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[Simon Gniadkowski]

mrchuckw:

        if(SARCurrent > Ask) {ticket =OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Bid,3,0,  "SAR Sell",MagicNumber,0,Red);           send.text.3();}

 

why would this execute the    send.text.3();    subroutine, but not open an order?

The Journal shows nothing except the mail: text being sent. 

Read the documentation for OrderSend() and call the function with the correct parameters  . . .  

 

you have

Parameter	Your Value
symbol	Symbol()
cmd	OP_SELL
volume	Lots
price	Bid
slippage	3
stoploss	0
takeprofit	"SAR Sell"
comment	MagicNumber
magic	0
expiration	Red
arrow-color

 

Do you see the problem ? 

[MrChuckW]

WHRoeder:
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thanks... after the researching and testing on my own, it turned out to have a wrong parameter count.   

But the compiler didn't tell me that, and the Journal didn't tell me that...  

It was a real head scratcher.