Take Profits That Survive a Stop-Loss Change

Here is a piece of MetaTrader behaviour that catches out almost everyone who automates trade management, including us.

When you modify an open position at the broker, you do not modify one field. You replace the whole set. Stop loss and take profit go up together, as a pair. Send a modification that names a stop and says nothing about the take profit, and the broker does exactly what you asked: it sets your stop, and it clears your target.

Nothing warns you. The position stays open. The stop is where you wanted it. The take profit is simply gone, and the trade now runs until it hits the stop or you notice.

Why this shows up everywhere in a copier

Think about how many separate things move a stop during the life of an automated trade. Breakeven fires when a target is reached. A follow-up message from the provider says "move SL to entry". You press Update SL on the dashboard yourself. Redistribution re-applies breakeven after shifting targets. Entry reconciliation squares the record against the broker after a fill.

Every one of those is a stop modification. Every one of them has to carry the take profit along with it or the target disappears.

We found six paths in the engine that were sending a stop without the target attached, and confirmed it on a live gold position. All six now preserve the take profit. If you have ever watched a trade sail past where TP2 should have been and wondered why nothing closed, this is a candidate explanation.

The lesson generalises past us, incidentally. If you are evaluating any copier, "does breakeven wipe my targets" is a better question than anything on the feature list, and it takes one gold trade to answer.

Orphaned fills

The second thing in this release is related in spirit. When a limit order converted into a market fill, the engine was not creating a position record for it. The broker had a real live position. The dashboard had nothing.

A position nobody is tracking gets no take-profit management, no stop management, no breakeven, and does not appear in your profit and loss. It sits there. Across the fleet this reached about 29,000 orphaned orders on 3,500 trades belonging to 36 traders, and those records have been rebuilt.

Settings that refuse an impossible combination

Third: the settings screens now block combinations that cannot work, instead of accepting them and leaving the engine to cope.

Set breakeven to trigger from TP4 on a channel where you only ever get three targets, and you now get an inline error and no save. Put your targets in the wrong order and the same thing happens. Previously the interface took it and you found out later, in a trade.

Everything else

The trade log gained selectable columns, with presets for capital and risk, for execution, or for everything, plus planned and realised R and how many layers filled.

Any signal whose symbol is not mapped to your broker now raises a warning wherever you would see it, each one linking straight to the fix, and there is a dedicated notification for an untradable symbol rather than an opaque failed trade.

Entry Zone Expansion widens the far edge of a zone so deep-retracement orders have somewhere to fill.

Explore channel stats now show profit factor, win rate and maximum drawdown instead of a raw dollar figure, which meant nothing without knowing the position size behind it. Drawdown is measured per trader and shown as a median, and hidden entirely below three qualifying traders, because a median of two people is not a median.

There is a risk-free badge on trades where every open position's stop sits at or past breakeven, and broker comment and ticket ID now appear on every order.

You can remove an unused add-on account slot yourself now, with the effective date on the dialog before you confirm.

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