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08-08-2008, 05:47 PM
i understand the idea of opening multiple trades and setting the buy/sell stops on them. What I'm trying to get my head around is how do the trades turn a profit if they are closing as soon as they hit the buy/sell stop price?
e.g. Using today as my example. Loaded the ea onto the GBPUSD M15 chart. It straight away opened about 6 six trades setting the prices.
07:59 BUY STOP 1.9312 S/L 1.9247 T/P 1.9351
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08:11 it hit the 1.9312 price, and closed the trade. My account history showing the closed trade, but with 0 profit because it didn't have a chance to hit the T/P figure before closing.
All subsequent trades for today have followed the same pattern. All hitting the quoted price and closing before hitting the T/P figure.
How to hit the T/P figure on the open trades is what I'm confused about.
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