Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2
Guys, this is probably a silly question, but is anyone else getting the message ".....................waiting for the first tick"? My bot has been showing this for the last couple of hours despite the ticks nicely ticking over. I have tried closing the platform and re-downloading the ea.
Am I missing something obvious here, or is TOB not wanting to get out of bed this morning after the crazy week last week?
TOB has frozen when you loaded it and is not running. This happens sometimes and I have no idea why. Computers have to do a lot and sometimes a piece of software simply seizes up.
This has nothing to do with recent code changes.
Ok thanks Steve. It's wierd though as I've loaded the updated bot on a second totally different computer, and a different broker - with the same freeze. Yet the Old Beast Temporary works happily on both computers.
I tried saving the new version under a different name and loading that, without success. I then added the new code from the recent filter changes to the temporary ea, but that caused it to have the same problem.
Guess it's my unlucky day! I bow to your better knowledge and head to bed.
A bit of a faff, but sometimes the only thing that works.
fltr is even worse - often freezes the entire platform.
Ok I have sorted it.
In case it happens to anyone else... I actually had to fully delete the EA and re-download it, rather than simply re-downloading it and saving it over itself.
I have learnt something today.
I sometimes find that a new version freezes my trading computer. I code on one machine, upload the update, go to the machine that runs TOB and download the update from FF.
The mt4 platform version is usually different to the one I am using for coding. Occasionally, the only way to make the bot run is:
[list][*]close down the platform.[*]go to the Experts folder and delete the .ex4 file[*]rename the .mq4 file so I do not lose it - I add an extra 4 to the end[*]re-run the platform. TOB has disappeared.[*]go back and delete the extra 4 from...
Hi, Steve
Last night, TOB on AUDUSD opened two AUDUSD sell STOP orders which are just 2 pips from each other, and the EA not try to delete one of them but trying to delete the EURUSD open order (of course it failed with error message), I rerun the TOB on AUDUSD, the same thing happened.
I seems it messed a bit with the ticket number or sth. else( not sure).
I have to manully delete the two AUDusd orders and rerun TOB, to get it right.
if you check your positions or other people may have the same bebavior.
at least it happens on all my two...
Hello Steve,
problem "....waiting for the first tick" is caused by forexkiwi filter when no trade is open so AccountMargin is zero - this line "if (AccountMargin() == 0) return;//No margin used, so filter is not needed".
I hope better:...
bool CleanUp()
{
bool success = true, result = true;
int cc;
//Delete duplicate pending trades
if (PendingTrades > 1)
{
bool PrimaryFound;
for (cc = OrdersTotal() - 1; cc >= 0; cc--)
{
if (!OrderSelect(cc, SELECT_BY_POS) ) continue;
if (OrderSymbol() == Symbol() && (OrderType() == OP_BUYSTOP || OrderType() == OP_SELLSTOP))
{
if (!PrimaryFound)
{
PrimaryFound = true;
[color=Red]//cc--; Original code. Instead of this, should be
continue;
//if (!OrderSelect(cc, SELECT_BY_POS) ) continue;[/color]
}//if (!PrimaryFound)
if (PrimaryFound)
{
result = OrderDelete(OrderTicket() );
Sleep(1000);
if (result)
{
cc++;
PendingTrades--;
if (PendingTrades == 1) break;
}//if (result)
if (!result) return(false);
}//if (PrimaryFound)
}//if (OrderSymbol() == Symbol() )
}//for (cc = orderstotal() - 1; cc >= 0; cc--)
}//if (PendingTrades > 1)
return(success);
}//End bool CleanUp()