Pending Order Setup Calculator
Check Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy Stop or Sell Stop entry placement against manually entered Bid, Ask and stop-level points, then inspect protective-price ordering and distances.
Enter the pending-order setup
Use one consistent price snapshot and copy the point size and stop-level points from the exact broker symbol. Stop-limit orders are deliberately excluded.
Pending-order check
MT Setup Audit 1.0.0.
| Check | Entered or derived value | Status | Explanation |
|---|
How pending prices are checked
Sell Limit: Entry above entered Bid
Buy Stop: Entry above entered Ask
Sell Stop: Entry below entered Bid
Entry distance = |Entry − Applicable quote| ÷ Pip or point size
Buy setups require Stop Loss below entry and Take Profit above entry. Sell setups reverse those protective-price relationships.
An entered stop level of zero remains unconfirmed because MQL4 documents that zero can also represent a dynamic server-side restriction.
Worked example from the audited fixture
With EURUSD Bid 1.0850, Ask 1.0852, point size 0.00001 and pip size 0.0001, a Buy Limit at 1.0830 sits 220 points or 22 pips below the applicable Ask. A Stop Loss at 1.0800 is 30 pips below entry, while a Take Profit at 1.0890 is 60 pips above entry, producing a gross target-to-stop ratio of 2.00. The entered spread is 2 pips.
How to interpret the result
The price side, a 50-point entered minimum distance and both protective-price relationships pass this example. That confirms only a consistent snapshot and ordering calculation; prices can move, restrictions can be dynamic, and only the broker server can accept or reject the actual request.
Assumptions and limits
- Only Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy Stop and Sell Stop are supported.
- MT5 Buy Stop Limit and Sell Stop Limit require a second stop-limit price and are excluded.
- Bid, Ask, point size, pip size and stop-level points are manually entered snapshots.
- Stop Loss and Take Profit may be left blank, but the corresponding checks remain unconfirmed.
- No digits normalization, freeze level, order-mode flag, margin, filling, expiration or server response is checked.
Frequently asked questions
- Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy Stop and Sell Stop are supported because both MT4 and MT5 expose those common types.
- MT5 stop-limit orders require an activation price and a second limit-order price. Hiding that extra field would make the common setup model misleading.
- Buy Limit and Buy Stop compare the entered pending price with the entered Ask.
- Sell Limit and Sell Stop compare the entered pending price with the entered Bid.
- It is the manually entered minimum point distance from the symbol specification. The page compares it with the pending-entry distance only.
- MQL4 documents that zero can mean no static restriction or a dynamic server-side rule, so the browser cannot confirm acceptance.
- The platform request can use zero values, but leaving either blank means this page cannot check its ordering or derive the complete reward/risk ratio.
- No. It performs browser-side arithmetic and never calls OrderCheck or OrderSend.
Sources and methodology
- MQL5 Reference — Order Types — Official limit, stop and stop-limit pending-order definitions.
- MQL5 Reference — MqlTradeRequest — Official pending price, Stop Loss, Take Profit, stop-limit and type fields.
- MQL4 Reference — OrderSend — Official pending-price and MODE_STOPLEVEL constraints, including the dynamic-zero caveat.
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