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EA and ticks

  • #1
  • First Post: Dec 3, 2008 10:04am Dec 3, 2008 10:04am
we all know that an EA only works if it gets a tick refresh. My question is how do we overcome this ?

Reason being, i have an EA attached to a chart but it will place upto 52 trades on other currency pairs. But the EA stops if the chart it is attached too doesnt get a new tick.

It must be possible surely ?

Thanks in advance.
  • #2
  • Dec 3, 2008 11:17am Dec 3, 2008 11:17am
I don't really understand what you are trying to overcome.

If no price action, we don't need any EA. EA will work when price change, very reasonable to understand.

Maybe I don't understand your question.
If everyone believes it, it will work.
  • #3
  • Dec 3, 2008 11:23am Dec 3, 2008 11:23am
Quoting mt41969
we all know that an EA only works if it gets a tick refresh. My question is how do we overcome this ?

Reason being, i have an EA attached to a chart but it will place upto 52 trades on other currency pairs. But the EA stops if the chart it is attached too doesnt get a new tick.

It must be possible surely ?

Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure if I understand your question fully. The EA needs to wait for a tick in order for it to come back into the start() function. But there are possible ways of making it stay in the start() function for a long time, but most likely you'll get a stock overflow. I've tried and tested some of my codes and I made it so that it never came out of the start function(). Everything was happening so fast so you would need to use a lot of Sleep() functions or else you would not have the OrderSend() function working.

Just my 2 cents.
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  • #4
  • Dec 3, 2008 11:24am Dec 3, 2008 11:24am
Its a well known problem.

I place my EA on EURUSD. But it will place upto 52 other currency pair trades. Now say EURUSD doesnt get a tick update, basically the EA stops. So, say i have 27 other open trades with a profit of > 100 or a loss of < -100. They wont get closed until EURUSD gets a tick movement.

EAs stop if no tick movement.
Scripts work without a tick movement.

So, one idea i have is to make the EA a script whith a while-loop.

Hope the above explains the problemo
  • #5
  • Last Post: Dec 3, 2008 11:34am Dec 3, 2008 11:34am
Quoting mt41969
Its a well known problem.

I place my EA on EURUSD. But it will place upto 52 other currency pair trades. Now say EURUSD doesnt get a tick update, basically the EA stops. So, say i have 27 other open trades with a profit of > 100 or a loss of < -100. They wont get closed until EURUSD gets a tick movement.

EAs stop if no tick movement.
Scripts work without a tick movement.

So, one idea i have is to make the EA a script whith a while-loop.

Hope the above explains the problemo
I think I understand what you are saying now.
To solve that problem, than just make a functin that closes are trades when +100 or -100. It should close each trade without having to wait a tick from that trade's pair. But still, maybe I don't understand your question.
Try it out. Do the script idea with a while loop. Have fun.
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