Mt5 - Problems with trailing stop
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 3:05 am
Tested on various symbols including EURUSD.
Oanda demo account.
When I set a regular stop, when it's hit it simply works.
But when using a trailing stop of various widths (0, 5, 10, 180) most of the time it doesn't work.
I'm not talking about a little slippage but being pas the stop for hours, and hundreds of points.
More basic than a stop it doesn't get, but still I have no clue how to get it to work. Not that it's rocket science because it's just selecting from a list.
BTW when I set the trailing stop there's no indication that it's actually set. Not visible in the trading panel.
Oanda demo account.
When I set a regular stop, when it's hit it simply works.
But when using a trailing stop of various widths (0, 5, 10, 180) most of the time it doesn't work.
I'm not talking about a little slippage but being pas the stop for hours, and hundreds of points.
More basic than a stop it doesn't get, but still I have no clue how to get it to work. Not that it's rocket science because it's just selecting from a list.
BTW when I set the trailing stop there's no indication that it's actually set. Not visible in the trading panel.