Hi RJo,RJo wrote:trader689 was having a boatload of issues running v1z on a hotforex account. There were no changes between v1z and v2a regarding Digits or IsTradingAllowed() in the source code, so I can only ASS-U-ME that the hotforex issue persists. trader689 mentioned switching dealers in an effort to cure the problem.
I can vouch for Cowboy IBFX-US and FinFX-Finland. Others have done well with Cowboy IBFX-AU... and one of the Alpari dealers a while back.
Edit: I'm only beginning to venture into the world of Empty4 trading thread structure. There is some reading at http://forum.mql4.com/22585 and if you dare to read on, see http://forum.mql4.com/20802. The posts are dated 2009, but the info remains relevant--particularly the last post in this latter link. Note that The8_EA already contains the proposed IsTradingAllowed() code, hence the error notification and the retries. Unfortunately, this cannot solve any trade server issues that may exist.
Even more mind numbing... there is a CPU related post at http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/31425 ... es-threads and it suggests that the local machine running Empty4 could be responsible. If this is the case, my Intel i3 Core processor, 64 bit Windows 7, 4GB RAM, has handled 28 The8_EA's on 28 charts without issue.
Should a veteran coder capable of reading my mishmash code drop by, I would welcome any specific suggestions on improving efficiency.
I had this same issue about "Trade not allowed" in testing The9-EA this week and after doing a bit of reading on how mql4 works fixed it with a little hack to the code. Basically I use the Semaphore functionality of the GlobalVariable functions to synchronize each Chart EA to the Client Trading thread, and Call RefreshRates() when each EA wakes up. You can see more about it here http://articles.mql4.com/141. Using the IsTradingAllowed() can still get switched out since it's not atomic. Now serializing all the EA's is not the efficient method, I should really only wrap the trading functions, but I figured being on the H1 timeframe, it's unlikely the 26 EA's won't finish executing before the next hourly period. Lazy but it works
I no longer get the "Trade not allowed" messages even on all 26 Charts running at once. Happy to post the code in The9EA thread if you like. The same logic can be applied to any EA, although some thought would need to be done on timeframes less than 5mins. Higher timeframes than 5mins should be fine though.
I should mention my testing is on Cowboy Go Markets.
Peter
