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  1. #1
    Hate to mess up the forum with such a simple question but it's been some time since I used MT4 and that I keep getting this message everytime I want to put a pending order: Invalid S/L or T/P

    I know I place my stop and t/p on the correct side of the price. My situation was like that...

    I watched that the EURUSD in 1.2565 this morning. When it reached 1.2515, I desired a brief to be put (1 lot). My stop was place to 1.2600, and profit at 1.2450. That message kept popping up. Can there be a glitch in the system? Maybe I'm missing something?

    Thanks in advance for the help.

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  3. #3
    2 Attachment(s) Are you entering using a sell stop order? Sounds as if you are attempting to use a limit order. If the entry point is between current price and your goal use a stop order. If the current price is involving your entry point and your goal you use a limit order.

    Here are examples of stop and limit orders. . Apologies if I'm patronizing you in any way but I would bet a significant proportion of newcomers aren't aware of the difference and only get by using market orders.

    BTW not advoing these examples as egies, simply to distinguish between stop and limit orders.
    https://www.forexforum.co.za/trading...imeframes.html
    https://www.forexforum.co.za/trading...imeframes.html

  4. #4
    Gentlemen,

    Thank you for your responce. I am currently utilizing FXDD, and that I understand all of my orders included a take profit and stop loss at 50 pips away, so being close to the price really was not the matter.

    BirdT, I believe that was my problem nowadays. I'll trying using next time to SELL STOP. Thank you for clarifying and that I shall try it out on Monday.

    Have a great a weekend!

  5. #5
    I've had this issue believed sl or the tp was way over the minimum. Seems that if you place the pending order you can then change it after.

  6. #6
    I am about to kill myself, no matter how many pips I select I cant set any SL or TP. I can hang a pending order there, but I can not add any SL or TP, maybe not even a 300 pips SL. I have Alpari.

  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by ;
    I am about to kill myself, no matter how many pips I select I cant put any SL or TP. I can hang a pending order there, however, I can't add any SL or TP, not even a 300 pips SL. I have Alpari.
    Have you set the order? Or trying to place TP/SL to a new order?

  8. #8
    I did both putting the order, then changing and seeking to include SL and TP and it won't allow me. I tried 100 pips SL, it won't let me. I missed a signal, a reduction, but it is worse to skip a signal than to lose.

    That's amazing you answer years after the final of your articles here hehe

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    Quote Originally Posted by ;
    I did First putting the order, then modifying and seeking to include SL and TP also it will not allow me. I tried 100 pips SL, it will not let me. I missed a signal, a reduction, but it's worse to miss a signal than to lose.

    That's amazing you answer years after the final of your articles here hehe
    Not sure what the problem is then. I always seem to get a problem when I put an order I try to set the TP or SL from the order window. Just will not let me and says it is invalid. So today I set the order then modify it after.

    I'm with Alpari . however, it is not a problem unique to them. It was exactly the same with FXDD and FXCM so possibly a MT4 problem. I have altered PC and operating system because so it is not that.

    Maybe worth checking your templates, profiles and indiors in MT4 and doing a new install. Or install a new copy to a different folder title and try that. Failing that try calling Alpari. They are generally quite helpful but can be hard to get hold of at times.

  10. #10
    Ive only entered a pending order. I didn't change anything. Same entry priceexactly the same SL and TP and it worked... I do not understand what is the problem either. Plus it didn't work 5 minutes ago...

    Yes, hehe, Alapri doesn't have the chat service and one must wait quite a while to have a message back.

    Thank you for your aid.


    Do you by any chance understand how to control slippage in MT4? I guess this is the fact that blindsided by default, however I can not choose half of a pip, I can only choose one pip. Search function didn't help.

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