scartree wrote:At the risk of incurring the wrath of a cranky muso, I am posting to seek help. I have been running Sym for a couple of days and have had 3 successful trades. Using small lot sizes (.01) in a demo account with an ECN (Alpari UK) I have now received the following message twice: "Stop Loss modification failed with Error 130: invalid stops."
I have tried to identify error 130 (have seen a posting on this somewhere but cannot find it. Google is of no help - for once!). I think I have followed the advice on settings so I am at a loss to know why I am getting this message and wondered if some kind soul would enlighten me some.
Thanks
(I am in a crouch position ready to duck if I have incurred the wrath of our fearless leader for asking a nubie question! Steve, when you take aim with your poisoned barb, remember that I have a precarious hold on the upside down part of the world which might affect your aim!!)
Karl
Hi Karl,
i also tend to get some of these errors, but i think a good explanation is in Steve's latest User guide posted in post 1. check your settings against any of the Zeljko reasons, or if any setting in other EA's are clashing with your 'max trades' in another.
Max spread setting, your trade balance under forex kiwi.
there is a multitude of settings and are necessary for trading various currencies that trend differently to each other.
studying this will give you a much better idea, but i can promise you, ive read it many times, and i still make a mistake.
taking toooo many charts will complicate matters, and i try to use more than one computer myself.
remember, this is an EA that you will make fit for yourself, for what you trade (currency, metals, stocks etc..)and how you like to trade, even the hours that you want to trade. some criminals change spreads at different times, Steve and his 'team' are handing us the tools for us to 'mould' an EA for the way we want to trade. we can share our results and see which is better, to get to an optimum setting. hell, Steve has even posted his shell ea so we can try to piece together our own, it's all there and available to download.
it is vital to continue the work as best we can by making adjustments, and let the pro's answer us, as you just asked. they are far more experienced than me, but i'm trying to pick up from the guides and forum whats going on and how i can make a particular ea kick ass.
unfortunately, all those settings are necessary and you can't just plop one on a chart and ihink it'll print money. Tweak it, play around, days and weeks will pass, but it only gets better with each trade that you follow and start to understand where an ea is making a mistake. thats when you go back to the guide and the ea settings, or even the Empty4 settings for that matter.
there are many ea's out there, but Steve's are by far the best you can get, including the one's you pay big $$$ for. you hardly have any choice to change any of their settings and if they lose, oh well, nothing you can do unless they update them for you, which i don't think i know of one, and i've bought a few in the beginning.i have faith in this one right now, although i'm also trying to get some results from Steve's other ea's like big bob, spider , ahh there are so many.
what you will find is that all of them work off the basics in the manual, and once you understand one of them, the rest will be soo easy to understand and 're-programme' from the available settings that Steve discusses and explains in the guide. you'll also follow the other ea's threads with a much clearer understanding of all the terms.
Hope this helps and that i was'nt off the mark!
regards
george
that i might have messed up somewhere. i never interfered and let the EA make all the decisions. i just closed the last open positions before posting.
i forgot to remove the original, this is now standard for the EA so please change it. thanks.