Special request: Can someone make a Cornflower EA for us?

Yes, Alpari is now working! That apparently was the problem. I changed the number of points of the stop loss from 15 points to 150 points and the target from 30 points to 300 points. A few minutes later a trade was triggered on the gbp/usd.

The Interbank account is now working again. I don't know why it had stopped working for those 14+ hours. But overnight while I was sleeping it had taken 7 trades. However, I still don't think it is taking all the trades that it is suppose to. For example, a couple of hours ago a trade triggered on the gbp/usd. HOWEVER, the previous 7 consecutive candles had touched the trigger ema (I have the 8 ema as the trigger) but for some reason it did not trigger a trade on any of those candles. On the 8th candle it finally triggered. All the ema's were lined up perfectly for a trade and none of those previous 7 candles triggered anything. It's strange how sometimes the EA will trigger a trade and sometimes it will go for a long time without triggering any trades.

Anyway, thank you for solving the problem with my Alpari account.

I made it so that it only can take one long trade and one short trade at a time. You said you use it on multiple timeframes wich is something i didnt even consider when i wrote the EA.

The problem is probably that if a Long (for example) is already open and the same EA running on another chart detects another long to be made it wont open it because there already is a long opened..

If i have time later i'll make so that one single EA on one single chart may be able to open one independent order for each selected pair.

I bet that explains why it does not take all trades. It makes sense. In the trades that it has managed to take, it has had several winning trades. I am optimistic it will work well.

I have one more question: I had seen on a EA a few weeks ago in which it had a setting for a person to set the time they want to trade. For example: if they wanted to trade between the hours of 10:00 to 23:00, then all they had to do was input those numbers in the “Trade Time” section of the EA input box. I don’t know if you can do this or if it is difficult, but if this can be done then I can set it to trade only the London session and the U.S. session. I can then avoid the Asian session and any other sessions because they tend to be choppy and range bound. This could avoid a lot of losing trades.

I hope I'm not asking too much. I'm just trying to get the EA working the best it can be. Either way, I really apprectiate your time and patience in helping to get this EA going. I look forward to the new EA made for use with multiple charts.


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I modified the EA, i added a few user defined variables..the following are the old ones:

stoploss = insert number of points
target = insert number of points
timeframe = insert minutes...example if u want to test on 4 hour candles you will insert a value of 240..
lots = number of lots
bar = insert what bar u want the EMA to use as the last value..example for last candle you will insert a value of 0 for the last closed 1 and for the ones before 2-3-4-5 and so on.
ema_trigger = insert the period of the EMA you want to use as the trigger..default is 12 as you said, but if u want u can test with other EMA periods...

Those are the new:

MA_method = insert a value from 1 to 4, defines wich kind of MA is to be used, you find the appropriate numbers here: http://docs.mql4.com/constants/movings
start_at = insert time it should start trading, from 0 to 23
stop_at = insert time it should stop trading, from 0 to 23
magic_number = this defines the magic number for each EA..if you use the same EA on different charts you should put a different 5 digit number for each EA...however i dont think this function works yet, please test it out and tell me if it DOES open independent orders on multiple charts..however i'm afraid it doesn't right now.

Thanks Postrock! I replied more in detail at the Cornflower Thread.


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