EA won't run with real money

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Hi,

I have built an EA from scratch and am running it on AUDUSD 30M.  

I have done lots of backtesting which is fine.

Then I ran the EA on two live demo accounts on VPS servers for 2 weeks and the results are good / in line with my expectations and the backtesting.

I decided to put real funds into one of these two brokers, and have setup and ran my EA in exactly the same way and with the same settings I have used for the last two weeks of live demo trading...but so far it isnt executing ...is there something I am missing an additional permission or the like? 

‌T‌he only slight difference I can see is that my demo accounts were $10USD deposits, whereas this real account is £10k GBP and the contract size is 10000 whereas the demo was 100000. I am using code to adjust for account balance currency and contract size so I can't see this would make a difference. 

if (IsSizingOnTrigger == true) {

      output = RiskPerTrade * 0.01 * AccountBalance() / (MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_LOTSIZE) * MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_TICKVALUE) * STOP * K * Point); // Sizing Algo based on account size

      output = output * YenAdjustment; // Adjust for Yen Pairs‌

      output = NormalizeDouble(output, 2); // Round to 2 decimal place

   return(output);‌

}‌

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Any help, comments or direction to resources would be greatly appreciated.

‌Tks.

 
  1. Don't paste code
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  2. Check your return codes and find out why. What are Function return values ? How do I use them ? - MQL4 forum and Common Errors in MQL4 Programs and How to Avoid Them - MQL4 Articles
    • You place the stop where it needs to be - where the reason for the trade is no longer valid. E.g. trading a support bounce the stop goes below the support.
    • Account Balance * percent/100 = RISK = OrderLots * (|OrderOpenPrice - OrderStopLoss| * DeltaPerLot + CommissionPerLot) (Note OOP-OSL includes the SPREAD, and DeltaPerLot is usually around $10/pip but it takes account of the exchange rates of the pair vs. your account currency.)
    • Do NOT use TickValue by itself - DeltaPerLot
    • You must normalize lots properly and check against min and max.
    • You must also check FreeMargin to avoid stop out
 
whroeder1:
  1. Please edit your post.
    For large amounts of code, attach it
  2. Check your return codes and find out why. What are Function return values ? How do I use them ? - MQL4 forum and Common Errors in MQL4 Programs and How to Avoid Them - MQL4 Articles
    • You place the stop where it needs to be - where the reason for the trade is no longer valid. E.g. trading a support bounce the stop goes below the support.
    • Account Balance * percent/100 = RISK = OrderLots * (|OrderOpenPrice - OrderStopLoss| * DeltaPerLot + CommissionPerLot) (Note OOP-OSL includes the SPREAD, and DeltaPerLot is usually around $10/pip but it takes account of the exchange rates of the pair vs. your account currency.)
    • Do NOT use TickValue by itself - DeltaPerLot
    • You must normalize lots properly and check against min and max.
    • You must also check FreeMargin to avoid stop out


Thanks for the reply, i have a function to return errors so i dont think its that, what i have noticed is my custom indicators aren't loading properly, whereas they are in the demos 

2017.03.08 17:59:54.569 cannot load 'C:\Users\robgr\AppData\......\Indicators\Stochastic.mq4' 
2017.03.08 17:59:54.568 cannot load 'C:\Users\robgr\AppData\.......\Indicators\Keltner_Channels.mq4' 

Why might that be? Hosting error?

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Rob Gregory:


Thanks for the reply, i have a function to return errors so i dont think its that, what i have noticed is my custom indicators aren't loading properly, whereas they are in the demos 

2017.03.08 17:59:54.569 cannot load 'C:\Users\robgr\AppData\......\Indicators\Stochastic.mq4' 
2017.03.08 17:59:54.568 cannot load 'C:\Users\robgr\AppData\.......\Indicators\Keltner_Channels.mq4' 

Why might that be? Hosting error?

‌


seems to work using
#property tester_indicator "Stochastic.ex4"
instead of 
#property tester_indicator "Stochastic.mt4"
strange how it worked for the demo, but anyway im live!
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