The EA I wrote runs well in the Tester and opens and closes transactions as required. However, when I use it on forward data by attaching it to a EURUSD graph and enable trading etc etc it never opens any trades. Anyone know what the reason is for that. Is there any function call necessary to switch on live trading?
By that I dont mean clicking the live trading box in the ea setup, I mean something you have to call in adition in your MT ea program.

Thanks

whateveryouwant: it's hard to discover the problem whithout the code. It could be 20 reasons.

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Do you enable live trading in the common tab? Do you have smiley face on the top right corner? Do you have error message in your "journal" or "experts" tab?

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Take these 2 lines of code


double MA_1 (int i = 0){return(iMA(NULL,0,MA1,MA1_SHIFT,MA1_MODE, MA1_PRICE,i));}
double MA_2 (int i = 0){return(iMA(NULL,0,MA2,MA2_SHIFT,MA2_MODE, MA2_PRICE,i));}

and these conditions

if(Ma1 > Ma2) SetCandleColor(1,i);

else if(Ma1 < Ma2) SetCandleColor(2,i);

and rewrite them into your EA with the same inputs from the candle indicator and either paste in the MA extern functions from the candle indicator or hard code them straight into these lines of code.


double Ma1 = iMA(NULL,0,MA1,MA1_SHIFT,MA1_MODE, MA1_PRICE,0);
double Ma2 = iMA(NULL,0,MA2,MA2_SHIFT,MA2_MODE, MA2_PRICE,0);


if(Ma1 > Ma2) BUY
if(Ma1 < Ma2) SELL

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Yes I havd live trading enabled and allows DLL calls etc as required for all EA's to trade live. That is why I stated that that section is set up correctly.
However my EA runs in the tester and is very good, but I must be missing some function call; that enables trading that has nothing to do with the EA setup from Metatrader interface.
Is there any Function call in the code preamble necessary to enable live trading?
It is really weird... it works in the tester but not in Live trading and yes I have a smiley face.

If you don't have error messages in "journal" and "expert" tabs, then all indicators/files called by the EA are loaded correctly and nothing is wrong.

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Thank you ever so kindly! You made my week!!

Is there anyway to stop trading for a certain amount of time after a trade has been closed?

I have a problem with this EA. It does close a position when a candle closes, and does not close when to 2 Ma's cross with each other. For example if i have a long candle when two MA's cross, i loose some pips because it closes position later than two MA's cross each other. Maybe someone can solve this ?
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Closer on mas.mq4 |
//| Shingami |
//| Forex Trading Software: Forex Trading Platform MetaTrader 4 |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Shinigami© 2007"
#property link "Shini1984@gmail.com"
#define ORDER_ID 2016
extern int MA1.period =0;
extern int MA1.shift=0;
extern int MA1.method=0;
extern int MA1.price=0;
extern int MA2.period=0;
extern int MA2.shift=0;
extern int MA2.method=0;
extern int MA2.price=0;


int start()
{
if(CheckMACross()==1)
CloseOrders();
return(0);
}


int CheckMACross()
{
if(iMA(Symbol(),0,MA1.period,MA1.shift,MA1.method, MA1.price,2)<iMA(Symbol(),0,MA2.period, MA2.shift,MA2.method,MA2.price,2))
{
if(iMA(Symbol(),0,MA1.period,MA1.shift,MA1.method, MA1.price,1)>=iMA(Symbol(),0,MA2.period,MA2.shift, MA2.method,MA2.price,1))
return(1);
}
else if(iMA(Symbol(),0,MA1.period ,MA1.shift,MA1.method,MA1.price,2)>iMA(Symbol(),0, MA2.period,MA2.shift,MA2.method,MA2.price,2))
{
if(iMA(Symbol(),0,MA1.period,MA1.shift,MA1.method, MA1.price,1)<=iMA(Symbol(),0,MA2.period,MA2.shift, MA2.method, MA2.price,1))
return(1);
}
else return(0);
}


int CloseOrders()
{
for(int i=0;i<OrdersTotal();i++)
{
OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES);
//if(OrderMagicNumber()!=MagicNumber)
//continue;
if(OrderSymbol()!=Symbol())
continue;
if(OrderType()==OP_BUY)
OrderClose(OrderTicket(),OrderLots(),Bid,3);
if(OrderType()==OP_SELL)
OrderClose(OrderTicket(),OrderLots(),Ask,3);
}
return(0);
}

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Friends,

I have been learning to code MQL4 on the past few weeks, it's not easy I thought, but it's really worth to try ( hopefully will paid off soon )

Right now, I am stuck on coding for openning position of multiple currencies, since sendorder() function only knows symbol() for the running chart.
Please someone give me some sample on how to code that subject.

The Idea of my EA is to open position of several pairs on particular time ( ie. EURUSD, USDJPY at 4AM ).

Thanks before.