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Odd issue getting an open position's Open price

I've had some code that has been working fine on a demo account ever since I wrote it 9 months ago. Using MT5. I recently moved to a funded account (live) and have run into issues. Here a snippet of my original code where I located the issue is occurring, that was working fine on demo okay. I'll

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SendNotification in MT5

Hi I have my ow EA that uses the SendNotification function to send me messages that I want to receive, using MT5. I receive these okay. However, I also receive messages about trade transactions, which I do not want to receive (too many, too frequent etc) I seem to remember back in MT4 you could

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Partially closing losing positions

Hi I think I've misunderstood how partial closing works. I was hoping to use it to reduce losses on losing positions. Say I have a buy position open with a TP and SL set, I've bought 100 lots. The position starts to go bad and approaches my stop loss. Before it hits the stop loss, my EA uses the

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slow Server execution and open price vs take profits - what happens?

Hi I've a bit of hypothetical situation that Id like put out there as I do not know the answer. The broker I am using for my MT4/EA activities is a tad slow at execution sometimes, and you end up with a order open price a few points out of what you expect (slippage). I get that, that's part of doing

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iHighest strange result, cant figure out

Can anyone see a problem with this snippet: I first try to determine which bar the trade opened on, then using the result of that I want to use iHighest to locate the highest bar since (and including) the trade opened. But I get a strange result...Let's assume the trade opened on bar 0 (the current

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trailing stop loss calculation question - on bar close price or calc and set in real time?

Hi I'm coding up some trailing stop loss functionality for my EA. I was wondering what people's thoughts/opinions are with regards to using Moving averages as basis for stop loss, or something like ATR? But my main question is, assuming I use a moving average, would it be better to recalculate and

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Checking whether a order/position has a stoploss set

Hi Is there a way to determine whether a current/open position has an S/L set? e.g. true, false, and then extract what value is set? I cant figure out a way to do it. thanks ian

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Quick question about MT4 terminal

Hi In the Account History tab in MT4 terminal client, there is an stop loss (S/L) column, where this field has a number and is shaded red does that mean the position was closed by Stop Loss? I think it does. thanks

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MACD, again

Hi again, OK, still having problems on something that should be a piece of cake. please see attached screenshot for a start. All I'm trying to do is code a simple EA to go long on macd cross over and go short when it crosses over the other way. But I seem to be having some really silly trades

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if check on negative MACD histogram

Hi All Ignore whether this check is actually a valid way to go short :-) Can any one spot what's up with this code, I cant figure it out: if(dbMACDDivergence_Bar1 <= dbDivergenceShortSetting) { //short conditions met } Where dbDivergenceShortSetting is set to -0.3 the aim of the check is to