Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone knew for certain or can provide any insight. Variable spread brokers will change the spread in times of high volatility to protect their profits; my question is, do they push Bid and Ask apart, or do they only make Ask higher? My reasoning was, if they manipulated
Hi guys, I'm just wondering if there's a way to do something like a fill-or-kill with two pending orders - so that if one couldn't be filled, the other wouldn't either? I suspect not. In that case, is there a way to bias the likelihood of two pending orders being filled in my favour? There is a buy
Hi guys, I'm having real trouble with the strategy tester - as far as I can tell it only takes the spread value at the beginning of testing and just uses that throughout. So if the spread is varying from the broker between 1-2 pips constantly (as it seems to be doing for me with oanda) my test
Hi guys, I'm trying to calculate my Preliminary Profit Factor for my EA, but I think I must be going wrong somewhere, because its coming out at less than 1.0, but the EA is profitable. My formula is: PPF = (winning_percentage / (100 - winning_percentage )) * (reward / risk) Now, I've just set
Hi guys, I'm taking part in one of the jobs listed in the jobs section - I went to check the job spec this morning and found it linked to a text file containing: "Worst website ever Worst website ever" repeated over and over. Is this just a bug or something more sinister? Job is here
I'm trying to produce a break-even EA strategy which places pairs of opposing buy/sell limit orders with equally spaced s/l and t/p limits. 100% of the trades made in back-testing are loss trades and I'm finding it very hard to explain why. Here is an example
Hi guys, The Open, Close arrays defined here: https://docs.mql4.com/predefined/variables/open Are they actual prices trades were completed at, or simply the best ask for that bar at open and close? Cheers, Paul