Stop Loss Not Showing Up After Order Entry
I figured I would add a little more to this with a screenshot in case it helps anyone else or helps anyone respond and help me out with this issue. As you can see in the screenshot there is a stop loss included with the CTrade object and the order worked as I test for an open order and print to the journal log if there is. Also in the journal the order confirmation shows the correct stop loss but when I try to retrieve it from the server it comes back as 0.0. I am wondering if maybe it is something buggy on the test server? I cant think of any way it can immediately lose the sl within a millisceond before it runs the very next line of code.
Again any help will be appreciated and I will post updates if I solve it
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Hi Everyone,
This is my first post, except for some code I posted to help someone determine if the market is open. So I guess I mean this is my first new topic post. I am trying to code a trailing stoploss and got hung up for a few hours on something that should be pretty simple for me (I have been a software dev for 20 years but this is my first attempt at MQL5). I found some very strange behavior and was wondering if anyone else has noticed it. At the moment I just have an ontick event calling my function if PositionTotal()>0 and in my function I am just trying to print the current stop loss to a log because I wanted to see what was going wrong. I noticed that the order is placed correctly with the correct stop loss but the log entry is showing 0.0. I used two different methods to try and get my current stop loss PositionGetDouble(POSITION_SL) and creating a CPositionInfo object calling the cpo.StopLoss() and they are both giving the same result which is zero. The odd thing is after a couple hours it started showing up. Here is a small snippet of the output from the journal log:
2021.09.30 16:36:51 Current SL: 0.00000000
2021.09.30 18:53:10 Current SL: 87.61800000
Obviously there are 100's more entries than this but I posted these because this is the last "0" entry before the "87.61" entry. As you can see it was hours later. I have a couple questions about this. The first is if there are any ideas why this is happening? The only thing I can think of is if your broker doesnt allow you to have a stop loss until after you have been in the trade a certain amount of time (which I know there are brokers that do this), but this never happens when I set a stop loss manually on my account. Also why did the ontick event not fire for 2 hours to at least keep printing that the value is zero?
I ran it a couple more times and got different stop times which leads me to believe this isnt the event not firing but rather the tester app just stops printing these entries after a time (when it decides it is overloaded perhaps?)
2021.09.30 14:54:49 Current SL: 0.00000000
2021.09.30 14:54:50 Current SL: 0.00000000
2021.09.30 06:38:59 Current SL: 0.00000000
2021.09.30 18:06:56 Current SL: 87.61800000
The log entries arent that big of a deal as it is just for testing purposes but the fact that my sl isnt returning the actual order's sl for 6 hours is obviously annoying me. Here is the logs order entry confirmation with the entry time stamp:
2021.09.29 21:39:40 CTrade::OrderSend: instant buy 1.00 CADJPY at 87.868 sl: 87.618 [done at 87.868]
and the next tick log entry showing it as zero: 2021.09.29 21:39:40 Current SL: 0.00000000
and every tick after that until: 2021.09.30 18:06:56 Current SL: 87.61800000
Any ideas what is going on here? Thanks in advance