nurettin: show the current market ask/bid prices, not the broker's one-click buy/sell prices.
| This are no differences. You only get brokers prices.. |
Yes, this is possible. Previously discussed here and here.
The broker that I am currently testing has wide spread in:
- New Order Window
- Quick Trade Panel
- Market Watch Panel
- SymbolInforTick()
- SymbolInfoDouble()
- Actual trades executed in Demo account (haven't tried Live with them)
And they have narrow spread in:
- The Charts
- Market Depth Panel
- Symbols/Ticks History
- CopyTicks() and CopyTicksRange()
Here is a code snippet to quickly eyeball if the difference between the wide spread and narrow spread is a constant (it isn't in my case):
void OnTick() { long digits = SymbolInfoInteger(_Symbol, SYMBOL_DIGITS); MqlTick last_tick = {}; SymbolInfoTick(_Symbol, last_tick); MqlTick ticks[]; datetime current_time = TimeCurrent(); ulong now = current_time * 1000; ulong earlier = now - 100000; int result = CopyTicksRange(_Symbol, ticks, COPY_TICKS_ALL, earlier, now); int ticks_count = ArraySize(ticks); Print("Bid is:"); Print(last_tick.bid + " in order window"); Print(ticks[ticks_count - 1].bid + " on the chart"); double diff = ticks[ticks_count - 1].bid - last_tick.bid; Print("Difference: " + DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(diff, digits), digits)); Print("Ask is:"); Print(last_tick.ask + " in order window"); Print(ticks[ticks_count - 1].ask + " on the chart"); diff = last_tick.ask - ticks[ticks_count - 1].ask; Print("Difference: " + DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(diff, digits), digits)); }

Chart shows different price than MQL
- 2013.04.03
- Ex Ovo Omnia
- www.mql5.com
When I work with Bid and Ask, I realized one (only one I know about) broker has different values for the chart and the MQL variables...

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Hi,
If I examine the prices on one-click buy/sell buttons, I see different numbers than the current tick price feed.
This is because I opened a particular account with fixed spread in order to make automation easier.
For a particular automated strategy, I need to use the one-click buy/sell prices provided by my broker, not the tick data.
How can I access those values from inside an expert advisor?
I tried Ask and Bid variables, but they show the current market ask/bid prices, not the broker's one-click buy/sell prices.