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EA activates order but no stop set for first few bars

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IvanD1983

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6 years ago #117624

Hi Tomas,

 

A strange situation happened today. My EA Wizard EA entered a market order as expected, but the stop loss order was not set until 1-2 bars later. I was lucky to be monitoring the trade LIVE and realize. What can be done to give some extra order to the EA to make sure stop is always in place? If a glitch like this ever happens, I cannot afford to run a trade without stop. I think there should be some feature in Wizard that can tell the EA to check that the stop was set or else close the position for example?

 

Thanks in advance.

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tomas262

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6 years ago #144648

Hello,

 

what type of broker do you use? You can also send EA to [email protected] for check.

 

Bear in mind you can always have TWO types stop losses being run at once. One fixed order and one strategy rule created to monitor open loss for exit when open trade loss is < $ SL pre-defined.

 

So in case the SL order is not placed for some reason you are still protected 

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IvanD1983

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6 years ago #144653

The stop has been working in all entries, except one, which have caused a bit of unrest and thus my question…

 

My broker is a true ECN. 

 

Note, the strategy is traded on a range bar chart in MT4. 

 

I will try the idea you provide for now. 

 

Thanks Tomas. 

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