Order, profit and stop loss triggered wrong

• 10/26/2018 at 6:42 PM #83575
  Hiraokii

  Hi brothers, I want to ask another thing, I searched in fóruns already and I didn’t read anything to help me solve my problem.
  I have a code simple like this one, but when I run the backtest, the buy entry is always at the close of the previous bar level and not at the high level. And the stop is the same thing, it didn’t stop at the low of the previous bar and close at the low of the actual. Thanks

  If not longonmarket and close>=high[1] then Buy 1 lot at high[1] limit Set target profit range[1] Set stop loss low[1] Endif If longonmarket (barindex-tradeindex=2) then Sell at market Endif

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  If not longonmarket and close>=high[1] then Buy 1 lot at high[1] limit Set target profit range[1] Set stop loss low[1] Endif If longonmarket (barindex-tradeindex=2) then Sell at market Endif

  

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  10/26/2018 at 8:21 PM #83576
  Vonasi

  Your buy at a limit (better) price should work as you describe – are you allowing for spread?

  SET TARGET and SET STOP expects a distance and not a level or price so your SET TARGET should work (use SET TARGET pPROFIT to look for it in pips) but your SET STOP is unlikely to ever be hit.

  You have a typo in line 6 as an AND is missing.

  An image would help to show where you think a trade is being opened or closed incorrectly.

   

   

  

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  10/27/2018 at 5:18 AM #83581
  Hiraokii

  Thanks brother, I am starting to understand better now.

  But I didn’t understand the spread thing, ig spread is 0,3 so it’s 0.003 right?
  In this picture it’s buying on the close of the candle and not at the higher. And it’s not stopping.

  

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  10/27/2018 at 6:07 AM #83583
  Vonasi

  In the image it does exactly what you have coded.

  

  

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  10/27/2018 at 7:15 AM #83592
  Hiraokii

  I tough that the spinning top was the high[1] now my brain is bugging…

  

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  10/27/2018 at 7:51 AM #83593
  robertogozzi

  0,3 spread is 0.00003 (three tenths of a pip), not 0.003!

  Set stop loss low[1] is WRONG, as Vonasi pointed out. It requires a difference in price (such as CLOSE – LOW[1]), not a price. Dax is quoting about 11,200, so it would be 11,200-PIP stop loss and will never get hit (your account would be wiped out long before that).

  

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  10/27/2018 at 8:38 AM #83598
  Hiraokii

  Thanks guys, sorry for those beginners questions.
  I fixed the sell entry but the stop is not changing, no idea how to set the stop to stop at the high of the same candle that the entry was done.

  

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  10/27/2018 at 9:08 AM #83602
  robertogozzi

  Set Stop Loss (high - close)

  1	Set Stop Loss (high - close)

   

  

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  10/28/2018 at 4:28 AM #83628
  Hiraokii

  Thanks guys really 🙂

  

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