ERROR: Modification failed due to order or position being close to market

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Morning

I'm traying to publish my EA, and after local testing, i don't find any error.

But when i update to market, verification process say:


test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) 2020.05.05 10:06:00 failed modify #6 sell 0.3 EURUSD sl: 1.09088, tp: 1.08857 -> sl: 1.09075, tp: 1.08857 [Modification failed due to order or position being close to market] strategy tester report 6 total trades


My EA checks all market recommendations as pending orders, incorrect volumes, minimus stops a Takeprofits.... So I have no idea because it doesn't work. Somebody can help me? some Ideas?

Thanks

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You can't move stops (or pending prices) closer to the market than the minimum: MODE_STOPLEVEL * _Point or SymbolInfoInteger(SYMBOL_TRADE_STOPS_LEVEL).
          Requirements and Limitations in Making Trades - Appendixes - MQL4 Tutorial

On some ECN type brokers the value might be zero (broker doesn't know.) Use a minimum of two (2) PIPs.

 
William Roeder:

You can't move stops (or pending prices) closer to the market than the minimum: MODE_STOPLEVEL * _Point or SymbolInfoInteger(SYMBOL_TRADE_STOPS_LEVEL).
          Requirements and Limitations in Making Trades - Appendixes - MQL4 Tutorial

On some ECN type brokers the value might be zero (broker doesn't know.) Use a minimum of two (2) PIPs.

Thanks for the answer.

I 've checked SYMBOL_TRADE_STOPS_LEVELS and SYMBOL_TRADE_FREEZE_LEVEL but something doesn't work.

i'am managing at same time take profit and stop loss, so maybe i did a mistake, but i cannot to find. I'am reviewing 

 
Jesus Victor Lerga Bezunartea: but something doesn't work.

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Thanks for your English corrections. 

Fortunetely, my great experience as programmer  is better than my English, and finaly i fixed it.

 
Jesus Victor Lerga Bezunartea:

Thanks for your English corrections. 

Fortunetely, my great experience as programmer  is better than my English, and finaly i fixed it.

Hi!

May you please share where the error was?


Regards,

Alex

 
Hello, how did you solve the error?
 
Andres Enrique Osterling Letts #: Hello, how did you solve the error?

Search the forum on how to handle Freeze Level and Stops Level, just as William pointed in his post :

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ERROR: Modification failed due to order or position being close to market

William Roeder, 2020.09.23 13:57

You can't move stops (or pending prices) closer to the market than the minimum: MODE_STOPLEVEL * _Point or SymbolInfoInteger(SYMBOL_TRADE_STOPS_LEVEL).
          Requirements and Limitations in Making Trades - Appendixes - MQL4 Tutorial

On some ECN type brokers the value might be zero (broker doesn't know.) Use a minimum of two (2) PIPs.


 
Jesus Victor Lerga Bezunartea #:

Thanks for your English corrections. 

Fortunetely, my great experience as programmer  is better than my English, and finaly i fixed it.

how did you fix this error?

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