My EA has stopped working

[tiluwa]

Hi All,

My EA has stopped working... just froze but, before that I was getting error 4109 failing to place order. Then after troubleshooting it was able to only place one order and froze till now.

Is this a common behavior?

Or is the market closed already?

I need help, I am brand new into this.

Thanks

[Sergey Golubev]

Forex market is closed during the weekend.

[William Roeder]

tiluwa:

My EA has stopped working... just froze but, before that I was getting error 4109 failing to place order.

Or is the market closed already?

1. 4109 has two meanings

   Constant	Code	Description
   ERR_CHART_WRONG_PROPERTY	4109	Wrong chart property ID

   
             Constants, Enumerations and Structures / Codes of Errors and Warnings / Runtime Errors - Reference on algorithmic/automated trading language for MetaTrader 5

   Code	ID	Description
   4109	ERR_TRADE_NOT_ALLOWED	Trade is not allowed. Enable checkbox "Allow live trading" in the Expert Advisor properties

   
             Runtime Errors - Codes of Errors and Warnings - Constants, Enumerations and Structures - MQL4 Reference

2. • FX opens 5pm ET Sunday and ends 5pm ET Friday. Some brokers start after (6pm is common/end before (up to 15 minutes) due to low volatility.
               Checking for Market Closed - Expert Advisors and MQL5 programming forum Trading - MQL5 programming forum
     Swap is computed 5pm ET. No swap if no open orders at that time.

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   • Brokers use a variety of timezones. Their local time (with or without DST,) GMT/UTC, GMT+2, NY+7.

     Only with NY+7 does the broker's 00:00 equals 5pm ET and the start of a daily bar (and H4) is the start of a new FX day.

     GMT brokers, means there is a 1 or 2 hour D1/H4 bar on Sunday (depending on NY DST,) and a short Friday bar.

     GMT+2 is close but doesn't adjust for NY DST.

     EET is closer except when their DST doesn't match NY's. Last Sunday of March and 1:00 on the last Sunday of October vs second Sunday in March and return at 2:00 a.m. EDT to 1:00 a.m. EST on the first Sunday in November.

   • Non-NY+7, means the chart daily bar overlaps the start, and converting broker time to NY time requires broker to GMT to NY timezone conversions.

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   • If you search the web you will find differing answers. Those are all wrong (half the year) because they do not take DST into account (or that it changed in 2007 [important when testing history.])

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   • Then there are H4 candles that start on odd hours.
               Why My XAUUSD 4H candles start with 1 hour shift? - Currency Pairs - General - MQL5 programming forum