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firemyst
01 Mar 2025, 02:51
Two suggestions from me:
- Don't run the bot in the cloud. There's too many people having too many issues. Run it locally, especially if you're just testing and playing around.
- The obsolete issue. Ignore it. Compile it anyway without the protection type parameter. It'll still run. That's what I've done when editing code in Visual Studio. Spotware has yet to post documentation or respond to threads asking what the protection type parameter is, or does.
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firemyst
01 Mar 2025, 02:13
RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Help with error code
rohanlal019@gmail.com said:
firemyst said:
rohanlal019@gmail.com said:
I have found the problem. When entering a trade, cTrader is using a completely different asset's price to calculate unrealized PnL, triggering an immediate exit of the trade. i.e. I enter a long at a price point of 1.5 on NZDUSD and then it immediately exits at a 3000 pip loss because the asset ctrader is tracking for that trade is now EURNZD and EURNZD's price is currently .7.
There must be a bug in the new version of cTrader causing this to happen.
Wow. How did you figure this out?
Looking at the close and open prices in the trade history tab and the fact that the close price wasn't even a price that currency had been to before. But it was a price that one of my other Symbols in my cbot was at on that day the trade closed.
Good work on trying to track it down.
It wouldn't surprise me if there was yet another major bug in the cTrader - their quality control and testing has gone to crap. It's almost like they don't care or take pride in their product any more.
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firemyst
28 Feb 2025, 21:21
RE: RE: RE: Help with error code
rohanlal019@gmail.com said:
I have found the problem. When entering a trade, cTrader is using a completely different asset's price to calculate unrealized PnL, triggering an immediate exit of the trade. i.e. I enter a long at a price point of 1.5 on NZDUSD and then it immediately exits at a 3000 pip loss because the asset ctrader is tracking for that trade is now EURNZD and EURNZD's price is currently .7.
There must be a bug in the new version of cTrader causing this to happen.
Wow. How did you figure this out?
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firemyst
26 Feb 2025, 01:58
What does it print when you add the following lines before the ExecuteMarketOrder statement?
Print("TP {0} + ( {1} * {2} ) = {3} ", Symbol.Bid, TakeProfitInPips, Symbol.PipSize, Symbol.Bid + (TakeProfitInPips * Symbol.PipSize) )
Print("SL {0} - ( {1} * {2} ) = {3} ", Symbol.Bid, StopLossInPips, Symbol.PipSize, Symbol.Bid + (StopLossInPips * Symbol.PipSize) )
Then after the ExecuteMarketOrder statement, find the position and print the SL and TP values to confirm they've been set as expected.
Show us a screen capture showing the before and after values from the logging. Let's see what they say.
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firemyst
26 Feb 2025, 01:47
Why don't you post some code demonstrating the problem and perhaps someone can see what you're doing and what needs to be corrected?
In a nutshell, when the history loads, check if the earlier bar loaded is before a certain date/time. IF not, you need to call load more history again.
If you Google, you'll see there's been a few threads in the forums talking about this:
/forum/cbot-support/38020/
/forum/indicator-support/24356/
And this page will have info assisting on how to load more history:
https:// help . ctrader . com /ctrader-algo/references/EventArgs/BarsHistoryLoadedEventArgs/
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firemyst
26 Feb 2025, 01:25
RE: RE: Why is my cbot lagging a few candles than tradingview?
duynguyenhl.bio said:
firemyst said:
People can't make comparisons not knowing what the Trading View code is. For all we know, the C# code you have, while doing something, might not be 100% accurate with the Pine Code for the Trading View indicator.
I fixed it already. Btw, you can find the indicator add to chart on Trading View and click to Source code (nearby name of indicator) to knowing the code is.
- what was the issue?
- Nobody's going to want to hunt down a Trading View indicator, look at the code, and figure things out, especially if they only use cTrader. This is evidenced by the lack of response to this thread. General rule of thumb is when you need assistance, all the information should be supplied here – don't ask for help, and then expect people to go out searching for everything they need to help you.
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firemyst
25 Feb 2025, 00:04
You're falling into a trap a lot of people do when trying to load back tick data for Renko charts.
The trap is you're doing everything in the initialize method, instead of setting up your code to load asynchronously. The issue is, depending on how far back you load the data from, there could be an absolutely boat-load of data to download. For instance, if you do more than a week on the indices such as the DOW, DAX, or NAS, there's going to be hundreds of thousands of ticks.
And to compound the issue, if the server connection isn't the fastest, or you have slow internet, or something else, it will take a loooooooooooong time to download, hence the process being automatically terminated by cTrader for not responding.
So you need to start loading the back-tick data asynchronously and keep that going until all the tick data you want is loaded asychronously. Set a flag to indicate when it's done.
In the meantime, in the calculate method (on each incoming tick), check that the back data is fully loaded (eg, your flag) before you do anything else.
In regards to your commented code, I tried to make heads/tails out of it. In a nutshell, doing it asynchronously, you want to do something like this:
yourStructureForStoringTickdata.OpenTimes.Reverse().LastOrDefault() > _fromDateTime
{
yourStrutureForStoringTickData.LoadMoreHistoryAsync( … )
}
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firemyst
24 Feb 2025, 01:58
That's the way the MACD works. the Zero-line is the longer MA of the two MA's the MACD is monitoring. When it crosses the zero line, it means it's the faster ma is crossing the slower ma either up or down.
Two options:
- put the two MA's on your chart and watch them when they cross instead of using the MACD on the chart
- edit your code to add a predefined amount to all MACD values so it's displayed over the candles. So in the chart in your example, add 1.048 to all the values. The problem with this approach though is it'll have to be updated frequently as the chart changes (eg, it could be 1.052 tomorrow or 1.02 the day after, so probably best ot make it a parameter)
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firemyst
23 Feb 2025, 08:49
There is an indicator in the MT4 trading platform called i-exposure.
What is this i-exposure indicator known as on all other platforms?
It might not be known as anything because it might just be custom developed by someone for MT4.
If you learn how to use Google, you would see that Spotware has already provided you the code and step by step instructions on how to create your pivot points indicator:
https:// help . ctrader . com /ctrader-algo/articles/for-developers/how-to-create-pivot-point-and-fractal-indicators/#create-a-pivot-point-indicator
I have no idea why you're asking for the MACD Histogram indicator because it's already provided for in cTrader.
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firemyst
01 Mar 2025, 02:57
Would be nice if you post this in the suggestions forum where it belongs
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