Signal not copying full lots

[Forexmadesimple]

Hi, I subscribe to signal and my account balance is greater than the signal provider's, yet my acount did not copy the full lot last night. It copied less than one third.  Does this have anything the do with the setting: "Use no more than __% of deposit (95% maximum)" which was set at 30%. I thought this was to cap the margin usage if multiple trades were opened by the signal provider and and not the lot size of the 1st trade. Please advise. 

[Eleni Anna Branou]

Forexmadesimple:
Hi, I subscribe to signal and my account balance is greater than the signal provider's, yet my acount did not copy the full lot last night. It copied less than one third.  Does this have anything the do with the setting: "Use no more than __% of deposit (95% maximum)" which was set at 30%. I thought this was to cap the margin usage if multiple trades were opened by the signal provider and and not the lot size of the 1st trade. Please advise. 

Of course, if you want to use the full amount of your account in signal copying, you should adjust this setting to 95%.

[Sergey Golubev]

Read this smalll thread https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/11714 with the explanation.

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Different Standard Lot Size between subscriber broker and signal broker

Alain Verleyen, 2014.02.15 10:18

About rounding of ratio, please read the Frequently Asked Questions about the Signals service point 15. How the lot size itself is rounded I am not sure, in your example (10% applied to 0.20 lot) it seems you are right. Can you provide more details ?

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Can you change the ratio in which a signal is subscribed to?

Alain Verleyen, 2014.02.04 13:31

You have only 2 ways to act on the calculated ratio :

• Increase "% of deposit used" in Signals settings.
• Add more capital to your account.
  

[Sergey Golubev]

You can calculate your lot size using the following example (from General information on Trading Signals for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 article):

Let's consider a specific example of using the volumes management system:

1. Provider: balance 15 000 USD, leverage 1:100
2. Subscriber1: balance 40 000 EUR, leverage 1:200, deposit load percentage 50%
   
3. Subscriber2: balance 5 000 EUR, leverage 1:50, deposit load percentage 35%
4. EURUSD exchange rate = 1.2700
   

Calculation of Provider's and Subscriber's position volumes ratio:

1. Balances ratio considering specified part of the deposit in percentage terms:
   Subscriber1: (40 000 * 0,5) / 15 000 = 1,3333 (133.33%)
   Subscriber2: (5 000 * 0,35) / 15 000 = 0,1166 (11.66%)
   
2. After considering the leverages:
   Subscriber1: the leverage of Subscriber1 (1:200) is greater than Provider's one (1:100), thus correction on leverages is not performed
   Subscriber2: 0,1166 * (50 / 100) = 0,0583 (5.83%)
3. After considering currency rates of the deposits at the moment of calculation:
   Subscriber1: 1,3333 * 1,2700 = 1,6933 (169.33%)
   Subscriber2: 0,0583 * 1,2700 = 0,0741 (7.41%)
4. Total percentage value after the rounding (performed using a multistep algorithm):
   Subscriber1: 160% or 1.6 ratio
   Subscriber2: 7% or 0.07 ratio

Thus under the given conditions, Provider's deal with volume of 1 lot will be copied: 

- to Subscriber1 account in amount of 160% -  volume of 1.6 lots

- to Subscriber2 account in amount of 7% -  volume of 0.07 lots

[Forexmadesimple]

Eleni Anna Branou:

Of course, if you want to use the full amount of your account in signal copying, you should adjust this setting to 95%.

Eleni Anna Branou:

Of course, if you want to use the full amount of your account in signal copying, you should adjust this setting to 95%.

Thank you