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2 EAs running on separate charts-multiple small dollar losses in under 1 minute.

This is what happened to me recently. I was running 2 EA's on separate charts and within a time span of 1 minute the EA's lost over $1000. The losses were small ranging from $1.25 to $2.50 each. When I backtested each EA independently they showed overall winning behavior with high profit factors >10

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MT5 EA ExpertMAMA.mq5

Hello, I am running this ExpertMAMA and it is showing small but generally consistent profits. It is a quite complex code but has been around at least since 2011. The issue I am having is that every now and then it shows a large loss and when I review the code I could not figure out how to implement

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Changing stoploss!?

Hello any help with the below would be appreciated... At the bottom of the image the trades are shown. The last trades are a buy in at 2865 with a S/L at 2860.75. The buy in is closed with a sell out at 2862.25. Question, why doesn't the sell out wait until the price drops to 2860.75? Why does the

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Simple code is not executing trades on crossing of exponential moving averages

Hello all, I have a very simple code that uses exponential moving averages at 2 lengths. When the shorter length crosses above the other then a long position is taken. Sometimes it works. That is ,when there is an obvious crossing I can see on the chart a long position is taken but at other obvious

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Turning off an EA remotely or from a separate computer or mobile phone

Sometimes I run EA's from my home computer but when I am away from home I may want to let the EA run or deactivate it. Does anyone know how I could do this

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Backtesting vs Real Life

Has anyone done any comparisons between actual performance and backtesting results for any number of EA's? Or, do you know of any reports that summarize this for several EA's? I realize there are significant differences between the two and just wanted to know ON AVERAGE how well the two compare. And

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EA will not enter or exit based on MA comparisons. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi I have what I thought was a simple routine but it has some issues. #property copyright "Copyright 2019" #property link "" // libraries included for coding routines #include <Trade\Trade.mqh> //#include <MovingAverages.mqh> #include <initmql4.mqh> input double lowend = 0.25 ; input double

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Market entry at price above candlestick high

if ( iLow ( Symbol (),Aggregation, 1 )>iMA_( Symbol (), Aggregation, 15 , 0 , MODE_LWMA , PRICE_CLOSE , 1 )) if ( iLow ( Symbol (),Aggregation, 2 )>iMA_( Symbol (), Aggregation, 15 , 0 , MODE_LWMA , PRICE_CLOSE , 2 )) if ( iLow ( Symbol (),Aggregation, 3 )>iMA_( Symbol (), Aggregation

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How to run two EA's at the same time without them conflicting?

Hi, I am running two (or more) EA's on separate charts with different magic numbers. I found that the first EA has its position closed based on the logic in the second EA. How do I get them to run 100% independently. Just for example (without attaching the long code). EA1 closes position based on

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How to modify entries in the Strategy testing environment (e.g. Commissions)

Does anyone know how to change the commission value in the strategy testing environment