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Limit order?

#1 Postby frenkrichmans » Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:14 am

Trying to set a pending sell limit order. This order appears in the terminal as pending. Moving ahead 1bar at a time, as soon as price hits my limit, the order disappears as though it was never placed. If I had entered with a market order though with the same stop loss and take profit levels the order is filled. What is happening?

Thanks for any input.

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Re: Limit order?

#2 Postby FX Helper » Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:02 am

Hello,

What symbol are you trying to place an order for?

If you place a pending orders but they don`t open then probably this occurs due to insufficient margin.
Please switch to “Journal” tab at the bottom of the Forex Tester program and you should see “insufficient margin” message there.
We recommend you to deposit more money during testing via Orders -> Deposit Money menu to solve this issue.

To see how much margin you need to place an order you can use this online calculator:
https://www.xm.com/forex-calculators/margin

Also you can change a lot size or leverage in the properties of this symbol, for example, decrease a value in the "Lot size" field by 10 or 100.
Or increase the "Leverage" option.
To change properties please open Data Center, select a necessary symbol, click “Change properties” button, change them and then create a new project and start a new test.

This will help to fix the issue.


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