I like René, although the Balke lends to Hungarian “Kétbalkezes”, which means two left handed, and so it tickles a bit.

He was blaming the slippage for his stop out.

This is what auto trading enthusiasts don’t appreciate well enough. The slippage does not go up to 36 pips. The spread does. The slippage actually pretty consistent at 3 points.

In fact, you yourself allow for 3-points slippage when posting the order, otherwise there would be no fill. In bold.

  int ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,1,price,3,stoploss,takeprofit,"My order",16384,0,clrGreen);

slippage
[in]  Maximum price slippage for buy or sell orders.
 

What you need to concentrate on is the spr in the picture (made with my Broker Auditor), the spread. When the market becomes thin (liquidity withdrawn), the base spread widens and this gets exaggerated by the person at the broker cranking up the multiplier.
The largest print I have seen with my broker was 34 pips, but it often hits 20 pips in pre-market as well as at the server midnight into the early hours, which is already a 200x multiplier cosidering that the raw spread is usually 1 or 2 points, not pips. This is the one element that can kill any auto trading routine, since you would have to have a stop loss, and if you are still in the trade during the expansion, you can get knocked out for a maximum volunteered loss.

My answer is multiple layers of protection and no stop losses, but I will expand on this matter later.

Now, I am not competing and would never consider a scammer “founded account” third party demo crap, my daily gain was 4.45% (versus his auto result of 3.2%) trading manually the same event with the one and only instrument I am interested in.

As it turns out, the “you can only buy at the ask, but can only sell at the bid” concept is too difficult for him. Well, I tried.