Anyone else have issues with your EA opening multiple trades?

I use an EA to take all my trades. I have Oanda as my MT4 broker. My EA enters a trade when it crosses a moving average (on the 4 hr chart). However, instead of just opening one trade as it should, it will sometimes instead open multiple trades on one candle. And when it opens multiple trades, it almost always happens on a large candle. It tends to open the multiple trades at various times throughout that 4 hr candle (not all at once). I have had it open as many as 7 additional trades on one candle.

Does anyone else here use an EA in that this situation also has happened to you on the MT4 platform? Why does it do this? What can be done about it?

This isn't necessary a platform issue. This may be due to the coding allowing such behavior.

Hi FerruFx. Thank you for your response. I have sent an email to Oanda about my situation with multiple trades. I suspect it might be due to the connectivity of the platform. Sometimes it disconnects and reconnects. I think this might be causing the multiple trades. However, you may be right when you say it could be an issue with the coding.

If I find out it is not a platform issue, then my question to you is: Do you still create EA's for your clients? If you do, can I contact you for a price quote to create this EA for me? (That is IF I find out it is not a platform issue causing the problem).

Yes. That's my full time job ...

you should make sure that the ea only works once per candle and/or check if there are already trades open.