Comments on: OrderSend Error 130 — What to Do?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:00:19 +0000

Please let us know if you find the solution.

By: Nadine

Nadine — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:15:53 +0000

The conditions were just met, but the EA did not execute. Same error 130. I’m going to try a different approach. That’s for your assistance.

By: Nadine

Nadine — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:32:32 +0000

Thanks. I will try that.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:24:22 +0000

If you are sure that other EA are setting SL & TP in OrderSend() and don’t get OrderSend error 130 on this same account, then my only suggestion to you would be to apply NormalizeDouble() to your stop-loss and take-profit levels. E.g.:

OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,CurrPrice,3,NormalizeDouble(CurrPrice+sLoss, Digits), NormalizeDouble(CurrPrice-tProf, Digits),"MA cross SELL",MAGICMA,0,Red);

By: Nadine

Nadine — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:16:01 +0000

Not sure what an ECN account is, but I know for market order, it’s not possible to set SL/TP on opening, but I have other EAs that work fine doing that.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:04:37 +0000

If you are trading on ECN account, you can’t set SL or TP on position opening, you have to do it after the order is executed.

By: Nadine

Nadine — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:26:38 +0000

I have an EA with SL set to 650 (65 pips) and TP set to 800 (80 pips) but am still getting error 130 on execution. It works fine in Strategy Tester. The log file is as follows:

9:00:10 MACross GBPUSDm,H1: Alert: MA crossover -> SELL GBPUSDm
09:00:10 MACross GBPUSDm,H1: MA crossover: Error opening SELL order : 130
09:00:10 MACross GBPUSDm,H1: Bid: 1.558 SL: 1.5645 TP: 1.55

The code for this is:

      if ( CurrPrice  SELL " + Symbol());
         res=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,CurrPrice,3,CurrPrice+sLoss, CurrPrice-tProf,"MA cross SELL",MAGICMA,0,Red);
           if ( res < 0 ) {Print("MA crossover:  Error opening SELL order : ",GetLastError());
                               Print("Bid: ", Bid, " SL: ", CurrPrice+sLoss, " TP: ", CurrPrice-tProf); }
      }

Do you have any ideas on how to resolve this?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:55:08 +0000

Did you try the proposed solution? Does your broker allows setting SL and TP on positions in the open order?

By: juan david

juan david — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:56:53 +0000

im having the same problem with phoenix ( downloaded form here) and im running default settings with the recommended pairs.

i have a 1000 demo account.

thanks in advance

By: admin

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:24:41 +0000

And how did you do it?