Invalid price in Strategy Analyzer

[xsgex]

I run an EA through the Strategy Analyzer and I keep getting this error:

failed buy stop 1.00 EURUSD at 1.18958 tp: 1.18988 [Invalid price]

The Ask at this moment is 1.18970, and the Bid is 1.18938

Is there a minimum distance required to place orders? I don't understand why this BuyStop keeps getting rejected.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Doerk Hilger]

You try to place a buy stop below the Ask, that wont work. A buy order below the ask is a buy limit.

[William Roeder]

1. You can't move stops (or set pending prices) closer to the market than the minimum (MODE_STOPLEVEL * _Point.)
             Requirements and Limitations in Making Trades - Appendixes - MQL4&Tutorial
   For a buy stop the market is the Ask.

2. The price must be normalized to tick size

   Print out your values to the precision you want. Do NOT use NormalizeDouble, EVER. For ANY Reason. It's a kludge, don't use it. It's use is always wrong

   • SL/TP (stops) need to be normalized to tick size (not Point.) (On 5Digit Broker Stops are only allowed to be placed on full pip values. How to find out in mql? - MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - MQL4 programming forum) and abide by the limits Requirements and Limitations in Making Trades - Appendixes - MQL4 Tutorial and that requires understanding floating point equality Can price != price ? - MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - MQL4 programming forum
   • Open price for pending orders need to be adjusted. On Currencies, Point == TickSize, so you will get the same answer, but it won't work on Metals. So do it right: Trailing Bar Entry EA - MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - MQL4 programming forum or Bid/Ask: (No Need) to use NormalizeDouble in OrderSend - MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - MQL4 programming forum
   • Lot size must also be adjusted to a multiple of LotStep and check against min and max. If that is not a power of 1/10 then NormalizeDouble is wrong. Do it right.