Negative Stop Loss - what happens?

MQL Language
#1

What happens if I use a negative SL at PositionOpen? (the order is sent anyway? It goes with a zero SL?)

#2

There is no such thing as a negative or zero stop loss. You either have a SL some pips away from your opening position or you don’t.

The SL level is always lower from the opening price if its a buy position or higher if its a sell position

#3

Hi, Thanks for the reply

I mean while coding.

What happens if an error occurs and the value of “Stop Loss price” is a negative number?

For example SL = price - 10*ATR . And I am not checking if 10 times ATR is bigger then price

#4

Why do not you check it out in the code? For example this is code for negative SL

CTrade Trade;

ENUM_ORDER_TYPE otype = ORDER_TYPE_BUY_LIMIT;
double price = SymbolInfoDouble(_Symbol, SYMBOL_ASK) - 0.02;
if(Trade.OrderOpen(_Symbol, otype, Lot, 0, price, -0.22, 0, ORDER_TIME_SPECIFIED, TimeCurrent() + 3*60, "TestSpeed"))

and result

2017.02.07 15:19:27.207 TestSpeedTradeFunctions (EURUSD,M15) CTrade::OrderSend: buy limit 0.10 EURUSD at 1.04804 sl: -0.22000 [invalid stops]

2017.02.07 15:19:27.206 Trades ‘912389’: failed buy limit 0.10 EURUSD at 1.04804 sl: -0.22000 [Invalid stops]

#5

Thank you for the help

Actually this problem is not accruing. But it is possible

Now I know I should check it