Hi Jim,

Hope you can help me out here.

I can't seem to figure out why the scheduled trades aren't kicking in.

I have attached a screenshot showing my brokers time, the time in GMT (+2 hours) and my settings.

You can't see it in the screenshot, but my PC's time was 12:34am at the time. 

There's nothing in the logs - so it's like it's just not matching up.

Look forward to your response - cheers,

     Ryan 

Hi Jim,

Would it be possible to set your script to just use the brokers server time and I'll schedule it accordingly by adjusting the clock on Forex Factory to the same as my brokers server? 

Thanks,
     Ryan 

Hi Jim,

just went to renew my JDTMT, had so much trouble cumbersome website of mql5 comminity. I had to end up depositing the 25 dollars on their market center with the hope that it will be used to renew the JDTMT. But not, I am looking at the account balance, and it says 25 dollars but when I click on renew, it takes me to paypal to pay another 25 dollars. I have sent a message to paypal and mql5 people. hope to have my JDTMT renewed. I dont know why this guys do not make the renewal automatic so people do not have to go through this or forget to renew.  

I am just today uploading version 5.92. Tallinex recently added some CFD's to their platforms. SPX500, AUS200, US30, GER30 and FRA40. I had to modify the program so that it would recognize these new intruments and be able to compute a unique number for each of them on each time frame. 

The "Excessive Spread Control" settings were to difficult to find in the settings so I have moved them up closer to the trade settings at the top. In addition to that I have made it an option that you can enable or disable completely. The default setting is disabled. When you load the EA and choose your settings, you can decide whether or not to enable it and how many pips of spread you are willing to take as well as how many times to try and place the trade.

With the new CFD's we now have instruments with only 1 decimal place instead of the typical 3 or 5 digit pairs. I had to modify the code in order to have it generate what a pip really is on these instruments. I think we are really going to enjoy the CFDs because it allows us to trade in very small quantities. 1 pip represents 1 penny on the SPX500. You can now trade with 40 pips stops and 80 pip take profits and only risk a 40 cent loss while learning to trade with real money! A full lot trade (1.00) is a dollar a pip whereas on the Eurusd it would be 10 dollars a pip.  Watch for the opportunity to upgrade when the new file is made available by metaquotes in your market tab.

PipPip...Jimdandy 

Hello helpful Metaquotes person, 

I have a question about putting a new product in the market.. I have created a tool for traders to use in the strategy tester ONLY. Here is a video about what I am creating..

https://youtu.be/omwnvsp56Tw

This is an Expert Advisor that is NOT meant for use on a live chart. It is strictly a learning tool to use in the tester.. It creates a 'real' trading environment that allows the student to trade in the tester as if on a live chart with the ability to open, close, move to b/e and place pending orders with the click of a button. I want to make this EA available for sale in the market. 

Here is my question. Normally when one is selling an EA, the prospective purchaser is allowed to download a 'demo' version of that EA to use in the tester to see if they would like to have it. Since this product is ONLY for use in the tester. I can NOT allow people to use my product for free forever through the market. Is there a way that I can choose to NOT allow a DEMO version of the EA or... allow a DEMO for a limited amount of days before purchase? 

Please let me know what my options are. Thank you..  

I just got stung on a trade I had set on a (SELL to Open)  GBP pair. With the elections, I know I should not have had the trade in place.

However, I have attached a picture of the incident. The blue dotted lines show a converted Fib spread showing the Stop_Loss, Entry & Take_Profit.

The trade was not open at the time of the drop. It can be seen the gap opened below the Take profit and then was immediately closed just below Take_profit, even though price did not reach up to this point, or my stop_Loss.

The explanation given was that the spread became so great that the trade was closed as it was. I'm not convinced it is not an issue that their software said I was below TP so close trader, even though in the red.

Anyhow, I thought this trade was contrary to the prevailing direction, and if opened would have offered some profit.

So coming back to you and your EA Trade management tool. Would your tool have given a profit, given the same pip spread between Entry, Stop Loss & Take Profit.

I'm guessing it would. My problem stated above was due to having SET the Stop_Loss (SL) & Take_Profit (TP) figures PRIOR to entering the trade. 

Would your management tool make NEW 'Stop_Loss & Take_Profit' figures based on when it entered the trade. Is that correct.

Another way of saying it is, with your Tool and a big gap (That keeps going in direction of gap), and for a Sell trade. Your Tool would enter trade, even though Entry is gaped passed indicated Entry. But then correctly set a Sell SL above the Entry point, and a Sell TP below the Entry Point, based on the PIPs prescribed within the tool. If this is correct, your tool would be safer to use around suspected gaping days than just using 'Stop Entries' on the MQ$ platform.

Any feedback appreciated.

Hi Jim I have been playing with your EA (jimdandy)in demo mode testing various things. I want to know if I

can run about 10 different settings using the same account and same pair at the same time.

 I can not see a magic number option in the settings.     Thanks.

The magic number is set according to the pair/timeframe combination. a 1m eurusd is a different magic than a 5m eurusd.

These are the pairs that it can recognize. 

  AUDCAD  AUDCHF  AUDJPY  AUDNZD  AUDUSD

  CADCHF  CADJPY  CHFJPY  EURAUD  EURCAD

  EURCHF  EURGBP  EURJPY  EURNZD  EURUSD

  GBPAUD  GBPCAD  GBPCHF  GBPJPY  GBPNZD

  GBPUSD  NZDCAD  NZDJPY  NZDCHF  NZDUSD

  USDCAD  USDCHF  USDJPY  XAGUSD  XAUUSD

  SPX500  AUS200  GER30  FRA40  US30  

So you can open a 1m,5m,15m,30m,60m,240,Daily,Weekly and monthly chart of the eurusd and they will each have a unique magic number.

As you drop the Ea on the chart it will show you in the journal the magic number generated for that chart. If you change timeframes it will show you the new number. 

If you change timeframes having opened a trade already it will warn you that you need to change back to that timeframe because you have just orphaned a trade.

Of course you can only run one pair at a time in tester :-(.

Pip Pip..

Hi Jim,

Does the EA implement trailing stop losses?

Pip Pip...

As shown in the tutorial videos. You can set a trailing stop for the first trade in a series. You can also set a breakeven move in case you dont want to trail but only to protect the position. There is also a candle trail that will trail so many pips below the candle you chose. You may want to go to this page. https://www.jimdandymql4courses.com/trade-management-tool-instructions/ and watch the videos and listen to the audio files for instructions.

I have added the option to choose your own magic number in version 5.99

Yes my software would have been much safer.

Will check the video again, thanks.

Hi Jim. As an avid coder myself, I can't tell you how much you've helped me with your wonderful videos and simple, easy-to-understand explanations along the way. I've been running the demo on the Trade Management Tool

and I absolutely love it. I did have just a couple of quick questions though because I really want to go ahead and buy it outright...

    1. The trading system I use depends a lot on price action on a given time frame that is very dynamic. It seldom relies on a static stoploss like 20 pips, 30 pips, etc so the the rules for my entry on the same pair and same time frame

    might tell me one day to use a 20 pip stop loss and the next day it may be a 30 pip stop loss. Is it possible when setting a pending order on the TMT to go ahead and set up the

    pending stoploss and pending take profit as well before the order takes place? This is normally what I do manually. I'll enter a pre-determined buy stop or sell stop entry, tell it where I want to take profit and where I want my stop loss to be

    and that information is always different. Basically, I plan the trade out fully before setting the order.

     2. If the answer to the first question is no, then is it possible to let my pending order using the TMT go ahead and take place and then move my stop loss and TP levels accordingly and have the TMT still track them, especially with the Reversal

         trade entry? Example...let's say I have the TMT set to 20 SL and 40 TP. But on this particular day, the trade is telling me that a 15 SL and a 30 TP are sufficient. But I don't want to have to go in each time and edit the settings

         on the EA for each individual order on that pair on the same time frame. So let's say the order goes ahead and triggers with the 20 and 40 that are already in the TMT. Once the trade is active, I manually drag my TP and SL lines

         to where I want them to be based on what the trade rules are telling me. Will the TMT still track the new SL position and do a Reverse if triggered or is it only looking to do a reversal at the original 40 pip SL?

Thanks again Jim for all of the wonderful things you do for us poor slobs out there that would be totally lost in the coding world without you.  :-)

why am I not able to download the demo,, plz help