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Hi there everyone,
I hope someone can help me out here. I'm new to Molanis and have no coding knowledge so please forgive any dumb mistakes or omissions. I tried starting with a simple EA, a bounce off an ATR line but something is quite wrong. If the conditions for a buy signal are met then the EA triggers a buy at market order from the account...great!! ...but if the conditions are met for a Sell order nothing happens and I can't figure out what the problem is. I've tried numerous indicators with different names but each has exactly the same parameters and exactly the same output on the chart but the problem is always the same. I've split the .mol file into 2 parts (buy & sell as attached), both files compile properly as an EA and attach to the chart properly but a sell deal is never done in backtesting or in "live" demo testing. Any ideas anyone and please remember coding is a foreign language to me.

Thanks

Chris

Hi cj

Your lot size is set to 0 in the sell block.

Please validate your diagram each time before you write the MT4 code to it. It will show you these errors.

Cheers,

Sorry I must have attached the CSELL.mol before I had validated the diagram and generated the code. This particular diagram was one I created to display things as simply as I could....anyway I changed the Lot amount and re generated the code. Unfortunately the same result, not 1 sell trade in a 2 month period backtest on 5 pip range bars while the CBUY ea did
76 trades. I really can't understand why this is happening, in order to post this support request I created the CBUY.mol first then validated it , generated the code and got the EA which I then backtested and everything worked fine. So to create the CSELL.mol all I did was edit the price data (High to Low etc.) of the CBUY.mol without touching the other side of the Trading Rule Editor and save the file as CSELL.mol. I then validated the diagram and generated the code to create the EA so far no problem but in the backtest no deals at all even though I can see where the conditions were met.
I've attached the source code for the indicator (altough as I said in previous message I have tried this with 3 or 4 indicators of different names but which do exactly the same thing, all with the same reesult) and the .mol files but I have the wrong version of Molanis to get the source code for the EA's sorry.
I am at my wits end as to why I can't get such a simple stategy to work properly so I really hope you can help.

Thanks

Chris

The reason is this:

only change the < to > etc.
do not change the low symbol to high symbol, etc. Leave this part alone.

go back and delete the CSELL.mol, then open the BSELL.mol and then go save as and re-create the CSELL.mol.

Once you have re-created the CSELL.mol, only change the direction symbols, nothing else. Then save it, validate it, create Mt4 code and re-try it

Cheers,

Thanks very much for your advice but unfortunately that didn't work.

By a process of elimination I have found where things go wrong but I have no idea why or how to fix it.

The attached mol file and EA are designed to trigger trades when price violates an atr stop line but then closes back on the original side i.e candle high above the line but close below the line should trigger sell trade and opposite for a buy, but only the buy signals are triggering trades. I'll attach a screenshot in next post immediately after this.


There are only 4 trading blocks used in the diagram. On the sell side, "candle high above indicator line" and "candle close below indicator line". On the buy side "candle low below indicator line" and "candle close above indicator line". The blocks on the buy side work perfectly well together. On the sell side if you use either of the blocks individually in the diagram (with either 1 or both of the buy blocks) the EA works. However if you then add the other sell block (which is the whole point of the sell side) the EA stops producing sell trades.

This is starting to do my head in. Any ideas please?

This is a screenshot of the problem


Thanks

Chris

You have an error in the way you use the custom indicator.It has two signals 0 and 1. From the indicator's code:
SetIndexBuffer(0,UpBuffer1);
SetIndexBuffer(1,DnBuffer1);
So up signal is mode 0, and down signal is code 1. Change your ea to use both mode 0 (up), and mode 1 (down)

That's terrific guys thanks very much, just changed the mode in the diagram and all working wonderfully.

Thanks again

Chris