It just happened again

After first trade was executed, In the second trade (same bar open) I received this message which says [too many requests]

2018.08.02 17:59:55.966    '80039634': order sell 0.01 USDJPY opening at 111.563 sl: 111.958 tp: 110.968 failed [Too many requests]

Any idea how to fix that?

Hey GD - Yogi is a scammer and not trying to help you , sorry bro. (Popov - pls delete that guy)

It seems your EA tried to execute too many trades or at once - I imagine this could be an issue with a porfolio EA , but I dont use them myself.  Popov or Sleytus could probably give you some insights.

Did it happen in a fast moving market or new event that could have triggered multiple systems simultaneously?

The fix would be to put a slight delay - or to run an order handling system (i.e send order, wait till fill, resend if not filled - before the next trade gets filled).

2018.08.03 16:59:59.167    '80039634': order buy 0.01 USDJPY opening at 111.867 sl: 111.406 tp: 112.086 failed [Too many requests]

Problem is repeated.

I think Popov's approach gives a real observaton of situation on brokers way of win money from idiots.

BUT in this life nobody can be perfect!

Even with simple EAs, my broker cannot accept orders between 2 secs
It is great!
So if you have to exit, you cannot
If you have to entry you cannot.
Just play demo!!! With Demo you can win. with Live account you cannot.
I love it!!!!

In Demo you win in Live you cannot! Lovely.

With EA Studio I win in Live account but not so much I should do.

I used

#define TRADE_RETRY_COUNT 10
#define TRADE_RETRY_WAIT  10000

nothing...

I think a test script can be important

Hello GD,

I'm wondering whether the error message is caused by too many orders per **tick**, rather than per bar.  I think it is reasonable that MT4 would limit the number of trades per tick since, after all, it was never designed for portfolio EAs running in a single chart.

Are you using a portfolio EA created by Portfolio Maker and using OnTick?  The reason I ask is I recall seeing errors like that in the past, which is one of the reasons why I preferred using OnTimer.

In a different thread I recently wrote about OnTimer versus OnTick.

I created and ran a porfolio EA to test your issue on my real account (XM Micro) and got neither problem or error message on the journal tab.

Here's the sample trades :

The last four trades are closed manually.

The EA will open two buy and two sell orders in the same bar, and it'll close all orders on the next bar opening.

I didn't modify the codes at all.

Sorry -- there were a number of messages to look through and I didn't pay close attention.

EA Studio uses OnTick -- so, my question still remains.  Is it possible that multiple requests are being issued within the same tick?

You can see that at 03:34:58:552 there is the initial sell request, and at 03:34:58:663 it was opened successfully.  But then, at exactly the same time -- i.e. at 03:34:58:663 -- a new buy request was issued.

I'm looking at the time stamps and it appears that multiple requests occur at the same time (or within 200 mSec).

Perhaps I am mistaken about the time stamps, but it looks to me like the strategy is trying to sell and then buy within the same tick.

I do not think this is the reason. My Demo account is also Instant order.

My broker said to me that only after 2 secs it can receive a new order.

So I used TRADE_RETRY_WAIT=2010 against of 100 (you have in your mq4 file)
But it has not effect in time.
It looks like this parameter is not used in execution of trades in Live account.

In the past I used FSB Pro and sidekick. There was also problem even by using onTimer.
Like timing is not important.

Popov any comment?

Dear Sleytus

What I believe is that the problem is with my broker and possibly Sidekick had not any problem as I believed. Even with Sidekick the 20 secs frequency FSBPro/onTimer selection did not work well in Portfolio EA for FSBPro!!!
I lost 10,000 yen because of this situation. With Demo was fine but in LIVE NOT as trades did not enter or exit at the correct bar and after wait for new signals... This is a very serious problem.

I will add that for your information

In what I was informed from my broker no trade can be taken in 2 secs after first trade even for different charts with different currencies and  running EAs.

I will check it on Monday with Yonkuro's EA and I will present results here. Actually I will verify it. I checked History list and no trade at same time even for different currencies. I use only M30.

I start to believe that some functions of MT4 do not work for some brokers.  I think a new software to check quality of broker is a good idea everybody to have.

Hi Sleytus

Finally my broker had the problem. So i changed broker and now portfolio expert Yonkuro's looks to work great in Live Microaccount!!! I will test also my portfolio EAs made by EA studio and FSBpro.

In new broker I plan to have a micro account live and a normal account live.
If SideKick does not care on name of currency but only on name of Magic number then I will have a lot of job...
The bad thing is that to use 0.01 lots in micro gives win in yen without decimals. So i am not sure on coditions used by sidekick

Possibly it is a problem. I am not sure.

Steve you are right! The Portfolio Expert calculates the signals from all strategies at once. It sends all signals one by one. It waits one signal to complete and receive response and in case of success it proceeds with the rest. However, there is no a delay between the received response and the next signal. it was never an issue before.
If this become a problem we may add a delay between the signals. On the other hand, 2 secs are too much.