Posts made by jstap

This will show you how to achieve, not perfect but it will show you what to do: https://fxdreema.com/shared/fBzpVR1Zc

And don't re-produce threads, when someone sees them they will be answered.

I will add to this.

1. What is placing trades?
2. Why 3 if trade blocks?
3. price will very rarely == a specific number, because you are expecting a tick to arrive at that particular microsecond.

Do you mean open or closed? Either way, use modify variables to set a variable to 0- pink for each trade-formula to add positions, at required time save the result where you want it.

I have never used trail by price level, only ever used with pips.

Without a no trade block it was placing hundreds of trades, I am not sure what is happening with trail, but if you change the trail to a fixed 10 pips, it trails as expected:

From the look of your pictures, it looks like it would work, but is hard to tell without a shared link.

Add a shared link so what is happening can be looked at. Attached is how I get the ATR pips, this does work in breakeven/trail blocks, hope this helps.: https://fxdreema.com/shared/7e69K3wjd

If you connect the 2 bucket blocks, and then select the bucket in the comment using the relevant colour, you will get the value.

I cant help then, sometimes things don't work as expected.

When you backtest this on your platform do you get these errors?

There is a limit of 200 trades on MT4:

From ChatGPT
In MetaTrader 4, error 148 typically indicates "too many open orders" or "order send error." This error occurs when you attempt to open a new trade, but the platform's maximum allowed number of open trades has been reached.

To resolve this error, you can:

1. Close some existing trades manually to free up space for new trades.
2. Modify your trading strategy to limit the number of simultaneous open trades.
3. Check for any pending orders that may have failed to execute and resolve them.
4. Consider optimizing your EA or trading approach to avoid exceeding the platform's limitations.

It's important to note that error 148 can also occur due to other reasons, such as connectivity issues with your broker or insufficient account funds. Therefore, it's essential to review your trading conditions and account status to determine the specific cause of the error.

I do not know if on chart happens every tick, or just when something happens, but for live it uses fewer resources. I use those blocks there just so I can create on tick, then just copy them onto on chart, the mouse clicked logic is already in meta button logic.

There are various ways, there is a block called consecutive losses, try and use a loop https://fxdreema.com/shared/21tZfhREc :

I use this: https://fxdreema.com/shared/7XOt8jGxc Doesn't detect and react to news, but if you set in at the start of the week it prevents trade around news.

Things have been wrong which is why I tend to use TimeCurrent(), put these 2 times into a comment so you can see what is being compared. I think the problem is that candle time is every x minutes 1, 5, 15, 30 etc, so the current time will rarely match.

In this case, the magic number will be used to differentiate between EAs, so technically if they both have the same magic number they should interact with each other.

This project will step a line on MT5 backtest so you can move SL or TP, the principle is the same on MT4, and it eliminates the mouse clicked on object so you can use backtest and live: https://fxdreema.com/shared/wqmrHi9wc

This is how to convert ATR into pips (ATR is a price fraction), replace ATR with your variable and you should get the pips.: https://fxdreema.com/shared/BzQ9qPRve