Trailing stoploss mq5

External question — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: David Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76855677 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Ive been working on setting a trailing stop 10pips above the current price and it doesnt seem to be working i want it to firstly update after 15pips to 5pips above entry then scaling up void ApplyTrailingStop(string symbol, int magicNumber, double stopLoss) { static int digits = (int)SymbolInfoInteger(symbol, SYMBOL_DIGITS); // trailing from close prices double buyStopLoss = NormalizeDouble(SymbolInfoDouble(symbol, SYMBOL_BID)-stopLoss, digits); double sellStopLoss = NormalizeDouble(SymbolInfoDouble(symbol, SYMBOL_ASK)+stopLoss, digits); int count=PositionsTotal(); for (int i=count-1; i>=0; i--) { ulong ticket = PositionGetTicket(i); if (ticket>0) { if (PositionGetString(POSITION_SYMBOL)==symbol && PositionGetInteger(POSITION_MAGIC)==InpMagicnumber) { if(PositionGetInteger(POSITION_TYPE)==POSITION_TYPE_BUY && buyStopLoss>PositionGetDouble(POSITION_PRICE_OPEN) && (PositionGetDouble(POSITION_SL)==0 || buyStopLoss>PositionGetDouble(POSITION_SL))) { trade.PositionModify(ticket, buyStopLoss, PositionGetDouble(POSITION_TP)); } else if(PositionGetInteger(POSITION_TYPE)==POSITION_TYPE_SELL && sellStopLoss<PositionGetDouble(POSITION_PRICE_OPEN) && (PositionGetDouble(POSITION_SL)==0 || sellStopLoss<PositionGetDouble(POSITION_SL))) { trade.PositionModify(ticket, sellStopLoss, PositionGetDouble(POSITION_TP)); } } } } }

External answer — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: Mark SdS Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/76872757 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. If I would face this kind of problem, I would focus on one side (e.g. BUY) and break up that if statement by printing out the expected result for each step. So: ` if(PositionGetInteger(POSITION_TYPE)==POSITION_TYPE_BUY) Print("We have a BUY position"`); And: if(Buy Stop Loss>PositionGetDouble(POSITION_SL)) PrintFormat("buyStopLoss %g > PositionGetDouble(POSITION_SL) %g",buyStopLoss,PositionGetDouble(POSITION_SL))); And so on.