EA won't place a trade - page 2

made errors in last comment so i deleted it and submitting a new one if you saw last one. Start function isn't supported in EA's by your version of MT4.

Try this:

void OnTick() {
   double BSL     = NormalizeDouble((Bid - 40*Point),Digits);
   double BTP     = NormalizeDouble((Bid + 40*Point),Digits);
   double SSL     = NormalizeDouble((Ask + 40*Point),Digits);
   double STP     = NormalizeDouble((Ask - 40*Point),Digits);
   int    MinStop = MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_STOPLEVEL);
   
   if(MinStop > 40) {
      Alert("Minimum stop distance allowed is: ",MinStop);
   }
   
   if (iMA(NULL, 0, 3, 0, MODE_EMA, 0, 1) > iMA(NULL, 0, 10, 0, MODE_EMA, 0, 1)) {
      int order = OrderSend(Symbol(), OP_BUY,1,Ask,10,BSL,BTP);
      if(order < 0) {
         Alert("trade not placed");
      }
   }
   Alert(GetLastError());
   
   if (iMA(NULL, 0, 3, 0, MODE_EMA, 0, 1) < iMA(NULL, 0, 10, 0, MODE_EMA, 0, 1)) {
      int order = OrderSend(Symbol(), OP_SELL,1,Bid,10,SSL,STP);
      if(order < 0) {
         Alert("trade not placed");
      }
   }
}

Then you cannot be running this EA. Make sure that the EA attached to the chart has exactly the same name as this EA. The Alerts are not dependant on any condition, so you should be getting alerts.

Please show your modified code

Note: You need to do something in your code so that it doesn't keep opening orders every tick while conditions are satisfied

Awesome! This works thanks!! But isn't OnTick() an MQL5 function?? Does this mean I am forced to use MQL5 with this build??

Thanks for the advice about the code keeping on opening orders. Will get there, for now just wanted to see this little bit of code work

Are you sure? Maybe I have missed an update. MT4 is 625 and Editor 914.

I didn't realise that the start function no longer worked and so one has to use onTick.

You don't have to use OnTick, it's not mandatory to use the new features. start() is running just fine.

Current build is 646 and ME 934.

Thank you,

I thought that fantomfx was wrong, but many people seem to have been updated to a later build, so I couldn't be sure.

So that brings me back to what I posted before.