Thread: Possible to trade different currency than the one EA is attached to?
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Old 06-05-2006, 12:46 PM
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Arrow Trading is permitted for the symbol under test only
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Originally Posted by timbo
Hey CG..... I just found your article on Hedging which helped with my original question(and helped me understand the code snippets below), but when I try to backtest your Hedging.mq4 EA I get an error message saying "invalid price for OrderSend function" when it tries to place the USDCHF order. Do you know why this is happening?
It's a limitation in MT BackTesting:

Trading is permitted for the symbol under test only, no portfolio testing Attempts to trade using another symbol will return error

Please review this article:
http://articles.mql4.com/72


So, this kind of program have to forward tesing only!
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