Need Help..EA's don't work

I've got two PA/TP EA's that are in my Experts folder but when I add them to a chart they don't work, They are shown up in the right hand corner of the chart with a little "X" after them and even though I check "Allow Live Trading", that check disappears when I open the dialog box again.

Perhaps they won't work on a demo account?

I'm sure I am doing something wrong.........can anyone help?

Thanks in advance..................Lew

Look at the top of the terminal.

Note the Expert Advisors button. Is it red? Make it green

Thanks Ron and yes the EA button is now green and the smiley face is there but I don't know what to do next to get the EA to do it's thing. I've attached it so you can see what I'm dealing with.

Please forgive my ignorance but I've never run one of these things before.

Thanks for your assistance.

Lew

That there is a trade manager.

This EA will manage trades that you open.

Place it on the chart. Make sure the smiley face is there, and open a trade. (DO THIS ON DEMO). No SL and No TP. Watch what happens.

Have you tried this? I tried it and can't get it to work either, on both a live and Demo account. Is it supposed to do something "after" you open a trade or, will it allow you to modify any preexisting trades?

Never-mind, the trades I just opened modified themselves after one or two ticks. I also had a couple of other standing trades but, they weren't modified. So, I guess that answers my questions.

Oh, and by "smiley," after referring to the two circles in the upper right-hand corner (where the inside circle is open) that tells you the EA active? If not, there is no "smiley" showing up, and all I see is these two circles and the EA title.

Thanks.

Thanks Ron. I've got it now.

Appreciate your help.

ecTrade, can you post a screenshot?

Yes...



The arrow in the upper right shows the two circles and the EA title. The arrow at the bottom left shows the trade that was placed (and modified).

On second thought, maybe it is a smilie in the upper right? My resolution is set so high (plus it's only a 17 inch screen) that it's too hard to tell. To me, like I say, it looks like a circle within a circle.

You dont see the smiley face? Its all the way over... head, 2 eyes and a big ol' grin... it turns to a frown if "Live trading" is not enabled and an x if EA is turned off.

Okay, so when you disable it it turns into a frown? Got it! Really, if someone hadn't mentioned it, I would never have noticed.

Hey Ronald R: sorry to bother you again but the EA I posted seems to be set up for 4 digit brokers; i.e., it sets a SL for 1 pip instead of 10 and a TP of 2.1 pips instead of 21. Also, I am really not sure how this darn thing works. I put it on my chart with no SL or TP. placed an order and it appears that nothing happens.

Can you assist?

Perhaps in the Editor I can change the SL to 210 and the TP to 100??

Many thanks again.

Lew

try changing the values to 1000 and 2000

My suspicion is that your stoploss and takeprofit levels are too tight. Look in the Journal and the experts tab to see if there are attempts.

For the record, I didn't write this EA. I just quickly looked through the code.

If you're trading from a mini or micro account, I'm guessing it might do this. The example I gave above was a standard demo account and it worked just fine. However, when I switch over to my live account, which is a mini account through InterbankFX, everything is off by a factor of ten, and needs to be compensated for. With IBFX it's done automatically, so long as you add the lowercase "m" at the end of each trading symbol. For example, the EURUSD would be "EURUSDm." If you don't do this the EA won't work. I don't know how the other brokers handle this, but I suspect an adjustment needs to be made somewhere.

Hi i am finding the same on activtrades live everyting increase by factor of 10
is there a fix
thanks