Invalid Stop

[Boob Wood]

This is my Code to Buy in my expert, On BCTUSD it gives back error message of invalid stops, Why?

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert DO_Buy function                                 |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void Do_Buy(double PriceForBuy){

   bool Buy_Opened=false;
   bool Sell_Opened=false;
   if(PositionSelect(_Symbol)==true){
      if(PositionGetInteger(POSITION_TYPE)==POSITION_TYPE_BUY) Buy_Opened=true;  //It is a Buy
   }
   if (Buy_Opened==true)return;
   
   double BuyStop,BuyTake;
   BuyStop=(PriceForBuy-STP);//STP is 3.0
   BuyTake=(PriceForBuy+TKP);//TKP is 2.0
   if(!trade.Buy(MyLot,_Symbol,PriceForBuy,BuyStop,BuyTake,"Buy By Expert"))Print("Buy() failed. Return code=",trade.ResultRetcode(),". Code description: ",trade.ResultRetcodeDescription());
   else  Print("Buy() executed . Return code=",trade.ResultRetcode()," (",trade.ResultRetcodeDescription(),")");
}


2020.05.10 12:38:34.137 CTrade::OrderSend: market buy 0.01 BTCUSD sl: 8895.645 tp: 8900.645 [invalid stops]
2020.05.10 12:38:34.836 Buy() failed. Return code=10016. Code description: invalid stops

[Boob Wood]

Boobwood:

This is my Code to Buy in my expert, On BCTUSD it gives back error message of invalid stops, Why?

When I changed STP to 30 And TKP to 20 It Works. Is there any Minimum Stop Loss and Take Profit?

[Paul Anscombe]

Boobwood:

When I changed STP to 30 And TKP to 20 It Works. Is there any Minimum Stop Loss and Take Profit?

every security (symbol) provided by a broker will have a specification setting out the valid parameters for trading including, min/max size, step in size, minimum SL and TP distances from current price - these will often be referred to as freeze level, stops level etc.  

right click the symbol in Market Watch and choose specification to see the values, you can also get them through MQL5  https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/marketinformation

[Boob Wood]

Paul Anscombe:

every security (symbol) provided by a broker will have a specification setting out the valid parameters for trading including, min/max size, step in size, minimum SL and TP distances from current price - these will often be referred to as freeze level, stops level etc.  

right click the symbol in Market Watch and choose specification to see the values, you can also get them through MQL5  https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/marketinformation

Thank you very much

I checked the specification, but there is not any information about Stop loss and take profit values, or I did not find it. 

[Paul Anscombe]

Boobwood:

Thank you very much

I checked the specification, but there is not any information about Stop loss and take profit values, or I did not find it. 

It’s the stops level. Which is showing 0  probably because it is dynamic and because the market is closed it currently is zero

[Boob Wood]

Boobwood:

Thank you very much

I checked the specification, but there is not any information about Stop loss and take profit values, or I did not find it. 

No t

Paul Anscombe:
It’s the stops level. Which is showing 0  probably because it is dynamic and because the market is closed it currently is zero

No the market is open.

if stop loss must be 0 then how I could a sell position with STP=30 and TKP=20 via my Expert?

[Paul Anscombe]

Boobwood:

No t

No the market is open.

if stop loss must be 0 then how I could a sell position with STP=30 and TKP=20 via my Expert?

Have you normalised the sl tp prices before you submit them?  I don’t see that in your code

And you can check current stop levels using MarketInfo

[Ahmet Metin Yilmaz]

Boobwood:

No t

No the market is open.

if stop loss must be 0 then how I could a sell position with STP=30 and TKP=20 via my Expert?

stoploss must be greater than stoplevel 

[Boob Wood]

Ahmet Metin Yilmaz:

stoploss must be greater than stoplevel 

stopllevel is 0 (in the symbol specification) o any value more than 0 is accepted. is n't it?

[Boob Wood]

Paul Anscombe:
Have you normalised the sl tp prices before you submit them?  I don’t see that in your code

And you can check current stop levels using MarketInfo

I did but nothing changed.

[Ahmet Metin Yilmaz]

Boobwood:

stopllevel is 0 (in the symbol specification) o any value more than 0 is accepted. is n't it?

yes

and it was for your question below

Boobwood:

if stop loss must be 0 then how I could a sell position with STP=30 and TKP=20 via my Expert?

STP=30 and TKP=20 both greater than zero " 0 ".