[quote] chairman posted: Trading EURUSD and suffering from the nasty short position - I've just watched TomsEA add a lot to the long basket when the market paused on the way down, then 13 minutes and 1/10th of a pip later add a boatload more lots to the short basket. Ummmmmmm ........ [/quote] For yourself and others, I would suggest you watch what happens to the take profit point on your trades when this happens. The EA trades ranges in price and it's not hard to predict likely trades when you keep an eye on it for a while with ranges in mind. Actually, it's kinda neat just to watch......

Hmm...well thank you for the idea tradingshed. I tried it after looking at the log file you sent me and the updater did seem to run though it didn't update much of anything. On the plus side, my email and password started working again...so I guess that issue got resolved by ghosts in the machine or some such thing. Since it's the weekend, I decided to just remove Tom's EA and installed the new version available via the member's area. Since the issue is fixed now, I just hope that some disruptive action isn't taken on the back end to mess with my authorization credentials.

Decided to wait for the weekend here to update...seems that may have been a mistake. Updater has malfunctioned and support is a Monday to Friday type of deal it seems. Even if I decide not to update right now, I also seem to now lack the ability to authenticate as the authentication software tells me I have an invalid email address or password. The second issue is likely the result of changing from the monthly payment schedule to paying for the EA outright but bottom line is that I just can not run the EA and markets open now seems too close for comfort even though they only just shut yeste......

Terrible. Logs should be regularly deleted, operating system should be updated and restarted regularly. You don't have to update your MT4 build (I personally operate a rather old build) but your operating system should be properly maintained along with your EAs.

I`m confused because I`m over trading an account that I use to test EAs. It is only $3,000 in size and I`m trading 4 pairs on risk level 1. The vendor recommends that to be trading at this level, an account be at least $6,500 in size. I experienced draw down on this account of up to something like 20% in open trades. How is it that the account I'm over trading is experiencing such little draw down in comparison to fughe's tests? On risk level 2 on all four pairs, I assume I would have experienced up to 40% but I thought I was over trading the EA as it is already. I am getting very very s......