Is This My Holy Grail EA :D

Quoting gerrigirl

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Thank You Nanningbob for all the work you've done to try and get this ea just right. I was following this tread back in Jan, but got discouraged after the "death trade" killed my account. But now with your modifications and helpful hints and tips I have been making small profits.
I went live beginning of Sept with $500. Ending today with $957. For me $100 a week is my modest goal ...for now anyway. Once I reach it I turn the ea off for the week. I was getting greedy the first week and learned my lesson. I was up to $900 and wanted to get to $1000, It was Friday and all my trades were going the wrong way,but I wanted to get that last profit..... and by the time I turned the ea off I was left with $75 profit......
Now what I've been doing is taking my profits when I see them. If I am nearing 75-80 pips I will close the trade,I don't always wait for 100 pips. If I am 5 levels deep and have some small profit on that trade, I will close it. just to get out and start fresh. I have not been trading on rollover Wed US session. I try and turn ea off and restart it around Wed 9pm est. I do not let the ea run on its own ...I try to make sure I am near by to keep an eye on things. If I can't be there I will turn it off...and close the ea for the week before Friday's US session. Its just my comfort level....
Anyway, I hope this helps some, Nanningbob gave some great tips to help avoid the death trade and make some profits. I have found a way to use this ea and still stay within my comfort level, and you will too..You have to find what makes you comfortable, no set rules applies to everyone's style of trading you have to make your own...
Good Luck to all and Thanks again Nanningbob.

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Quoting dmitry_dos

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Hi Bob,

I don't think the EA likes me haha.

I did everything you said, saved the new file with the new parameters and did it over again just to make sure, also I clicked "compile". (The editor said "compiling" for over 20 minutes and I closed it after that, but saved the new file anyways).

I set "MaxTrades" to 1, and "Pips" to 1000, with the idea that it would take profit once every thousand pips, or in other words, once until i'm ready to switch the EA off for the day.

To test if it worked, I restarted Meta Trader, made sure the smiley was good, and set the Take Profit to 1 (for quick results). The EA still kept making trades on that pair every time it took 1 pip profit. It made about 6 trades back to back before I stopped it.

I don't know if I'm still doing something wrong. Even after going into the code and editing it from there, the MaxTrades and/or Pips doesn't work. I know you might be tired of me by now, but, if you have any more ideas, I would really appreciate them.

Thank you.

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Quoting dmitry_dos

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Hi Bob,

I don't think the EA likes me haha.

I did everything you said, saved the new file with the new parameters and did it over again just to make sure, also I clicked "compile". (The editor said "compiling" for over 20 minutes and I closed it after that, but saved the new file anyways).

I set "MaxTrades" to 1, and "Pips" to 1000, with the idea that it would take profit once every thousand pips, or in other words, once until i'm ready to switch the EA off for the day.

To test if it worked, I restarted Meta Trader, made sure the smiley was good, and set the Take Profit to 1 (for quick results). The EA still kept making trades on that pair every time it took 1 pip profit. It made about 6 trades back to back before I stopped it.

I don't know if I'm still doing something wrong. Even after going into the code and editing it from there, the MaxTrades and/or Pips doesn't work. I know you might be tired of me by now, but, if you have any more ideas, I would really appreciate them.

Thank you.

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Quoting Toothman

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Yes, all my pairs show a small m after them designating a mini account. To bring up all pairs available, right click anywhere in the Market Watch window on the platform then click on all pairs.

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Quoting nanningbob

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I reread your post and understand your question now. No the program will always reenter after closing a trade. It is also designed to start trading as soon as you turn it on. Max trade means how many levels or how many times it will reenter before it will stop reentering. If you set it at 1, it will enter one time, when it profits it will enter again one time. To make this a 1 basically makes it a typical EA based on the criteria of the daily trend. This EA is set up for martingale style trading and is not meant for what you are using it for. I have set this EA up to follow a certain philosophy and that is to trade a 3-400 pip range. Changing the EA to trade once and stop is a different philosophy of trading and this EA is not designed for that. You will need to write a new EA or find an old one to do that type of trading. There are people at FF who do that. Good luck.

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Quoting jhp2025

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I am a very new and still learning this mql writings.
Following to your thread, how can i make simple scripts that can do either buy with sellstop at the same time, or sell with buystop at the same time.
Still confusing with how to make it right.
I've made like the following text but it's not working, and please help me to solve it. It's only open one buy or sell, but the sellstop or buystop is not working.
Thanks.
Attached:

//+---- Open Buy Orders
int BuyOrdOpen() {
//+-----
if(GoAhead==true) {
int ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Au toLotsCalc(),Ask,6,Ask-stoploss*Point,Ask+TakeProfit*Point ,"BUY: "+Symbol()+" "+magic,magic,0,CLR_NONE);
OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELLSTOP,Auto LotsCalc()*1.5,Bid-stoploss*Point,6,Bid,Bid-TakeProfit*Point,"SELL: "+Symbol()+" "+magic,magic,0,CLR_NONE); }
if(ticket<1) {
int error=GetLastError();
Print("Error = ",ErrorDescription(error));
return; }
//+-----
return(0); }
//+---- Open Sell Orders
int SellOrdOpen() {
//+-----
if(GoAhead==true) {
int ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,A utoLotsCalc(),Bid,6,Bid+stoploss*Po int,Bid-TakeProfit*Point,EACode+" SELL: "+Symbol()+" "+magic,magic,CLR_NONE);
OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUYSTOP,AutoL otsCalc()*1.5,Ask+stoploss*Point,6, Ask,Ask+TakeProfit*Point,EACode+" BUY: "+Symbol()+" "+magic,magic,0,CLR_NONE); }
if(ticket<1) {
int error=GetLastError();
Print("Error = ",ErrorDescription(error));
return; }
//+-----
return(0); }

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Quoting Lincoln10

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I had similar issues with the EA's not working in MT4 platforms from Alpari and directly from Metaquotes (and yes I had the smiley faces and "live trading" activated within the options menu). My solution was I downloaded IBFX MT4 platform and now everything works fine. I have no idea why, but it does. I should also note that I never had this problem with NB's original modified Ea from several months back.

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Quoting desi

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Is closing all open positons one by one is the only way or we can actually close all open orders with one command on MT4 platform?
Thanks.

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Quoting nanningbob

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Put this close all in the script folder. Remember to turn the EA off first, then turn this program on from the script folder. It will close all orders from every currency.

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