EA won't place a trade - page 3

Ok well start wasn't working for me, as soon as I changed it to OnTick it worked..

But OnTick is an MQL5 function isn't it??

Event Handling Functions - MQL4 Documentation

Just to clear things up

Can you please show your code that works with OnTick that doesn't work with start()

void OnTick() 

   {
   double BSL     = NormalizeDouble((Bid - 400*Point),Digits);
   double BTP     = NormalizeDouble((Bid + 400*Point),Digits);
   double SSL     = NormalizeDouble((Ask + 400*Point),Digits);
   double STP     = NormalizeDouble((Ask - 400*Point),Digits);
   int    MinStop = MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_STOPLEVEL);
   
   if(MinStop > 400) {
      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");
      }
   }
}

That code works in start() as well with 625 and 914

Incidentally, so does your original code.

Weird okay.. I'll try it again. But thanks everyone for the help!!