About trailing stop - page 2

[PipSlayer42]

Learner21:

Nice. Looks good to me everything but 

when I run this code

 it says Error = 4753 which means position not found.

When I use

 it still gives the same error. 

I tried the Print statement that you added in, and for some reason it returns the error when it is placed where you have it in the code when the code itself otherwise works, but it is in the true statement, so when it's executed, it might be trying to find an error because it has been called to do so, but i don't know for sure. However, put the Print statement by itself like this

if(PositionSelect(Symbol())==false)
  Print(" Position select = ", GetLastError());

 That way it only looks for an error if the position couldn't be selected. This worked for me when i tried it. Something else you should have for the code is an if statement like this

if(PositionsTotal()>0)
 {
  //trailingstop code goes here
 }

 The statement makes sure that there are positions to be selected before the code is run. I hope all of this helps.

[Tonny Obare]

if(PositionsTotal()>0){

for(int b=0;b<=PositionsTotal();b++){
  if(PositionSelect(Symbol())==true && PositionGetInteger(POSITION_TYPE)==POSITION_TYPE_SELL)
   {
  Print(" Position select = ", GetLastError());
   }
}

}

Hey how comes my code is not coloured ???

[Ivan]

Press SRC button and insert code. It makes it colored.

[Ivan]

Looks like working.

Thanks you, guys, for your kind help. 

[ekren Clausewitz]

Hello,

How to use this code for stocks?  I saw all trail stop ea includes NomalizeDouble. For stocks, price close is integer and for example price step is 25. Close like 1000 1025 1050 1075.

thanks.

[William Roeder]

ekren Clausewitz: I saw all trail stop ea includes NomalizeDouble.

Do NOT use NormalizeDouble, EVER. For ANY Reason. It's a kludge, don't use it. It's use is always wrong SL/TP (stops) need to be normalized to tick size (not Point.) (On 5Digit Broker Stops are only allowed to be placed on full pip values. How to find out in mql? - MQL4 forum) and abide by the limits Requirements and Limitations in Making Trades - Appendixes - MQL4 Tutorial and that requires understanding floating point equality Can price != price ? - MQL4 forum Open price for pending orders need to be adjusted. On Currencies, Point == TickSize, so you will get the same answer, but it won't work on Metals. So do it right: Trailing Bar Entry EA - MQL4 forum or Bid/Ask: (No Need) to use NormalizeDouble in OrderSend - MQL4 forum Lot size must also be adjusted to a multiple of LotStep and check against min and max. If that is not a power of 1/10 then NormalizeDouble is wrong. Do it right.