Same problem here. It has never been so bad during the whole last year as in the last few weeks. Sometimes it takes up to 5 minutes (!) until an order is accepted, a market order is filled or a stop is modified. The submitt button will be greyed out ...

Oanda 3 days bad connection

The problem with the magic number collisions should be solved now. Update the EA and common_functions. I have rewritten makeMagicNumber() and now it should be pretty safe. Don't update if you have a pyramid running! Wait until it is closed, because ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

i can't understand why metaquotes did not simply make some updates to the server software so that pending stops would scale out or close the oldest trade and then apply the same logic to stoplosses. This would have eliminated almost the entire ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

then x has not the value false. Simply Print(x) before the if() and you will see. And with with boolean values you should use one of the following if constructs (the 3rd and the 4th are shorthands for the first two) if (x == true) if (x == false) if ...

BuyStop SellStop Order error, please help!

hmm... from the overwhelming amount of responses to this posting I conclude that almost nobody uses US based MT4 brokers anymore. I was thinking about implementing a complicated FIFO workaround for FIFO brokers and re-arrange the ordering of all ...

what happens with stoplosses at FIFO brokers?

I have sucessfully tested it with IamFX ECN and currently running it with PFGBest ECN without problems, FXCM and MB-Trading is installed here but not yet tested. But I will have to check whether they gave me European demos or US demos.

Snowballs and the anti-grid

The no-hedging does not necessarily conflict with the bidirectional mode. There is always only one trading direction open at the same time, pending sells below the center line will not be triggered when price is above this line and trading long and ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

this is not the reason. There must be an error in your calculations or the program logic. Keep debugging until you find it. Print out every variable at every step and also put messages like Print("inside the second if") Print("inside the order ...

BuyStop SellStop Order error, please help!

Wow! This is... (I don't have the appropriate word for this) I would expect the Broker to throw an error message (130 invalid stops) or something like that and simply refuse to accept the orders if the placement of the stops would violate the rules. ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

I need it to be the same everytime the EA is started, so i can change timeframe, recompile or even remove the EA or close the chart and it won't disturb a running pyramid in any way. All my EAs are built this way. It will find its own orders and ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

This one is more sophisticated. I'll use this in the next version if i don't have a better idea until tomorrow: int makeMagicNumber2(string key){ int i; int high, low; int h = 0x00000000; for (i=0; i<StringLen(key); i++){ // rotate left 5 bits high ...

Snowballs and the anti-grid

OOPS? this is of course unacceptable! I will try to reproduce this. Maybe I should really use a proper hash function.

Snowballs and the anti-grid

I have some troubles reading your code It hurts the eyes and the brain having to look at unformatted code. Even the most beautiful looking and well structured code turns into a complete mess if you post it in variable font size and without ...

Trying to make an EA but I'm having some trouble

You can write portable desktop applications in Python, so my choice would by Python. The next best choice would be Java, because if you later want to convert it into something like C++ you should have witten the prototype in a statically typed ...

PHP JAVA or maybe another??

it is either 4 or 5, not 5 or 6. the digits behind the decimal point are counted. Is it possible that you are backtesting with downloaded 5 digit data while your broker only is 4 digit? do the following: for all prices given to the OrderSend ...

BuyStop SellStop Order error, please help!

You cannot change it. Neither OrderClose() nor OrderModify() allow you to change the comment of an existing order. The second posting in this thread must be some strange kind of joke. This will of course not work.

OrderComment() Question

Since when has the resolution of the monitor or the size of the window any influence on the trading? I thought you wanted to calculate the strength of trends and the "angle" of moving averages? These pixel angles of your moving averages change ...

help on - Objprop_xdistance=0?

Actually i am right and you are wrong. Which is not surprising. Price and Time don't change when the chart is zoomed. I have never seen that one could change the price of a security or increase the strength of a trend by simply zooming the chart. If ...

help on - Objprop_xdistance=0?

Pixel coordinates are not absolute, they change and depend on how the chart is scaled. Price and time are absolute. There are no angles in the chart, I have stated this now often enough, there is no room for any dispute here, it is simply an ...

help on - Objprop_xdistance=0?