if using ATR threshold, EA wont enter buy/sell position

[Skritney]

Hi folks!

As a newbie I ran through the code from this awesome article https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/100

After adding some mods I came to a problem on which I can't find a solution.

My modification to the code was: Instead of using ADX volatility line with a threshold Adx_Min, I used ATR as a volatility indicator and set a threshold as certain position for ATR's line (a condition when ATR crosses certain level).

When debugging I normally received true/false out of my conditions, but when testing the EA in Strategy Tester, it does not ever enter buy/sell position!

Any ideas what to do? I would appreciate some help!

Thanx

[Alain Verleyen]

skritney:
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Any ideas what to do? I would appreciate some help!

Thanx

Show your code.

[Jose]

skritney:

Hi folks!

As a newbie I ran through the code from this awesome article https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/100

After adding some mods I came to a problem on which I can't find a solution.

My modification to the code was: Instead of using ADX volatility line with a threshold Adx_Min, I used ATR as a volatility indicator and set a threshold as certain position for ATR's line (a condition when ATR crosses certain level).

When debugging I normally received true/false out of my conditions, but when testing the EA in Strategy Tester, it does not ever enter buy/sell position!

Any ideas what to do? I would appreciate some help!

Thanx

Actually, if I got your explanation right, I think I tested something like that a while ago and it worked (and by that I mean that it did open orders), so as angevoyageur said, it must be probably some coding issue and it would be nice to see the code to help you out

[Skritney]

Okay these things are strange:

after changing file name of EA, the Strategy Tester finally started entering buy/sell positions! Dunno why??

Still some errors occur during the trade

2013.10.15 19:22:59    Trades    '1522606': failed instant sell 0.10 EURUSD at 1.34935 sl: 1.34635 tp: 1.35935 (deviation: 100) [Invalid stops]

and

The SELL order request could not be completed - error:4756!

Any ideas why? Thank you!

[Alain Verleyen]

skritney:

Okay these things are strange:

after changing file name of EA, the Strategy Tester finally started entering buy/sell positions! Dunno why??

Still some errors occur during the trade

2013.10.15 19:22:59    Trades    '1522606': failed instant sell 0.10 EURUSD at 1.34935 sl: 1.34635 tp: 1.35935 (deviation: 100) [Invalid stops]

and

The SELL order request could not be completed - error:4756!

Any ideas why? Thank you!

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