How to manage positions openned manually using EA

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#1

Hi, if I remove the magic number in the EA settings will the EA manage a trade I take manuell?

#2

The magic number of a manually-placed trade is 0.

So, depending on how your EA is coded, you could set the magic number setting to 0 and it would manage your manual trades.

#3

if you want EA to control manual trade just filter order using symbol() and ordetype()

#4

That means it would control manual trades and any others by any other EA, not good.

Using OrdersTotal directly and/or no Magic number filtering on your OrderSelect loop means your code is incompatible with every EA (including itself on other charts and manual trading.)

#5

Hello bstaddart0.

If you want to open trades manually and then manage them by EA then set Magic number = 0.

If EA doesn’t look for other orders attributes like an Order comments or Symbol name then it will “think” that it is his trades.

Original code

extern int Magic=0;

Modified code:

int Magic=0;
#6

Thanks all for the help

#7

Good luck and huge profits!