Script for placing pending orders

[Sgt.Forex]

Hi,
does anyone of you have or know of a script that does the following:

For Buy pending:
When i drag it onto the chart, it will place a pending order X pips + Spread above LAST candles high?

For Sell panding:
The opposite...


Cheers
Philipp

[SteveHopwood]

Here you are Philipp.

CandleShift allows you to use the hi/lo of any candle you choose - defaults to the previous candle.

I knocked these together this morning, so sing out if anything is not quite right.

[Sgt.Forex]

Here you are Philipp.

CandleShift allows you to use the hi/lo of any candle you choose - defaults to the previous candle.

I knocked these together this morning, so sing out if anything is not quite right.

Wow, nice one Steve! Thank you very much!
I will report back.

Cheers

[Sgt.Forex]

Here is the report

I am getting an error message:

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2012.12.20 15:17:17	Philipp's Pending Sell Script XAUUSD.arm,H1: XAUUSD.arm Philipp's Pending Sell Script OP_SELLSTOP order send failed with error(4107): invalid price parameter for trade function

-> Buy pending worked on the same candle.

Cheers

[SteveHopwood]

Here is the report

I am getting an error message:

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2012.12.20 15:17:17	Philipp's Pending Sell Script XAUUSD.arm,H1: XAUUSD.arm Philipp's Pending Sell Script OP_SELLSTOP order send failed with error(4107): invalid price parameter for trade function

-> Buy pending worked on the same candle.

Cheers

Works fine here/ Make sure you are using it when it can work - can't send a sell stop if the market is already lower than the low of the previous candle.

[Sgt.Forex]

Hmm, ok i will retry. But the Price wasn`t lower, than the low of the previous candle.

Cheers

[Sgt.Forex]

Hmm, ok i will retry. But the Price wasn`t lower, than the low of the previous candle.

Cheers

Tried to use it on XAU/USD -> only the buystop worked.
Tried to use it on EUR/CHF -> both worked.
Maybe its a "Gold bug" ?

Cheers

[fx800]

Hi Steve,

I am confused. Why is double spread = Ask - Bid, and not double spread = (Ask - Bid) * factor in your script code ?

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//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| script program start function                                    |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
{
  
   RefreshRates();
   price = 0; stop = 0; take = 0;
   double spread = Ask - Bid;
  
   //Set up a dummy for functions that might not be called, so they do not disturb the punters.
   int x = 0;
   if (x > 0)
   {
      CloseEnough(0, 0);
   }//if (x == 0)
  
   price = High[CandleShift] + (AddToHighPips / factor) + (spread / factor);
   stop = CalculateStopLoss(OP_BUY);
   take = CalculateTakeProfit(OP_BUY);
   SendSingleTrade(OP_BUYSTOP, TradeComment, Lot, price, stop, take);

This will make the spread calculation in the price equals to (Ask - Bid)/factor instead of (Ask - Bid) which is already in the correct decimal.

Peter

[SteveHopwood]

Hi Steve,

I am confused. Why is double spread = Ask - Bid, and not double spread = (Ask - Bid) * factor in your script code ?

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//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| script program start function                                    |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
{
  
   RefreshRates();
   price = 0; stop = 0; take = 0;
   double spread = Ask - Bid;
  
   //Set up a dummy for functions that might not be called, so they do not disturb the punters.
   int x = 0;
   if (x > 0)
   {
      CloseEnough(0, 0);
   }//if (x == 0)
  
   price = High[CandleShift] + (AddToHighPips / factor) + (spread / factor);
   stop = CalculateStopLoss(OP_BUY);
   take = CalculateTakeProfit(OP_BUY);
   SendSingleTrade(OP_BUYSTOP, TradeComment, Lot, price, stop, take);

This will make the spread calculation in the price equals to (Ask - Bid)/factor instead of (Ask - Bid) which is already in the correct decimal.

Peter

Nice spot Peter. Thanks. I have a shell script that doesn't multiply the spread and I am so used to dividing it by factor when I use it, that I forgot.

I have updated the scripts in post 2.

[fx800]

The sell script is giving rise to error (4107) : invalid price parameter for trade function.

This may be caused by the sell script

price = xxx - SubtractFromLow - xxx, instead of price = xxx - SubtractFromLowPips - xxx,

because the code failed to make a call to extern int SubtractFromLowPips = xxx ?

A typo error ?

The buy script works just fine.

pete