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EA Trailing Stop Question

  • #1
  • First Post: Apr 5, 2007 8:35am Apr 5, 2007 8:35am
I have a quick question regarding an EA that I'm running. Within the EA, I have a 35 pip trailing stop. My problem, is that if I open a position manually, the EA still forces the trailing stop on that manual position. I've designated my Magic Number, as well, but no luck. How can I have my EA running, without it affecting my manually established trades?

Any suggestions are appreciated.
  • #2
  • Apr 5, 2007 1:08pm Apr 5, 2007 1:08pm
Quoting AlphaPip
I have a quick question regarding an EA that I'm running. Within the EA, I have a 35 pip trailing stop. My problem, is that if I open a position manually, the EA still forces the trailing stop on that manual position. I've designated my Magic Number, as well, but no luck. How can I have my EA running, without it affecting my manually established trades?

Any suggestions are appreciated.
Figure out how to modify the EA so that it only trades with the orders it opens. If the EA modifiys all positions in your account regardless of how they were opened, then it is not written properly. It should only modify its own trades.

GirlFlyer
  • #3
  • Last Post: Apr 5, 2007 1:44pm Apr 5, 2007 1:44pm
yeah, GirlFlyer is right.
Probably the EA does not select its trades by magicNo.. Therefore you have to insert an if statement to check if the selected order is really one opened by the EA.
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