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Added topic Is ENUM_SYMBOL_TRADE_EXECUTION an optional parameter?
I have looked several EA example scripts that buy and sell and I do not see "ENUM_SYMBOL_TRADE_EXECUTION". Is this an optional parameter ? Thank you
Ralph Freshour
Added topic Example of a buy limit and a buy stop?
I've read about Buy Limits and Buy Stops but I'm having trouble putting that information into an example in my mind. Can someone give me an example of a Buy Limit order vs a Buy Stop order ? Thank you
Ralph Freshour
Added topic Is there a good detailed reference for stock trading volume?
I've been reading about stock volume but everything I've seen talks about it at a fairly high level. I read that we use Lots and that a lot represents 100 shares. If we specify a lot at 0.5 it means 50% of, or 50 shares in this case...and that's
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Added topic Need help understand stop loss and take profit
I've been reading about Stop Loss and Take Profits and at this point I'm a bit confused. Here is my current understanding: 1. If I'm selling a stock, I pay the bid price.     I need to set a stop loss amount that is lower than the bid
Ralph Freshour
Added topic MT5 enum Creation question
I'm just looking at an example Indicator code and saw this block: enum Creation   {    Call_iIchimoku,         // use iIchimoku    Call_IndicatorCreate    // use
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Added topic Trying to use InteractiveBrokers, can't connect
I have a trial/paper account with interactivebrokers. In MT5 what should I put in the Login field? The pw and server are straight forward but I can't put my IB username in the MT5 login because my IB username is a mix of alpha and digits. My demo
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Added topic Can someone explain Indicator/EA differences
So I read in basic terms that an Indicator shows you trends, MA's, etc. but that Indicator scripts do not (or maybe is was cannot) do trade.buy and trade.sell functions . You have to write an EA to do trades. My questions is really this: If I write
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Added topic trade.buy() method (Stocks)
What kind of data should I be putting in the trade.buy.volume property ? Is this the number of shares I wish to buy? In some of the MT5 code I see values like 0.10 but I don't know what that means. Thank you
Ralph Freshour
Added topic Cannot open a demo account in MT5
I have a free brokerage account with Interactive Brokers. I can log into my account on their website so my account is created and ready to play with (their free account is like a demo account ). However in MT5 I cannot open a demo account. The
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Added topic Newbie help understanding the platforms
I'm a newbie and am lost in regards to what platform I am using. I downloaded MT5 for windows. I see a login to trade account. What is this? I have an ig.com account but don't understand the difference between that and my windows MT5 software? Do I
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