The week started out great and then all of a sudden, on Wednesday, Oct 21st at 13:00 EST, a mysterious technical glitch with my broker created some major spikes in 6 of the 10 pairs as you can see below:
Pairs affected: audusd, eurjpy, eurusd, gbpaud, gbpchf & gbpusd. These caused both my trending and ranging platform accounts to go to negative balances, so I had to restart with fresh accounts. But before I could do that, I needed to correct the situation because the MAs were, of course, all mixed up because of the erroneous data.
So if this ever happens to you, simply reload each pairs’s historic data (Tools menu, then History Center, then select pair) and close and reload MT4. If that doesn’t correct all pairs, then go to the 1H data and simply delete the hour with the erroneous data and things should get back to normal.
As you can see below, we’ve got 4 new fresh trades (the gbp family) all taken on Friday and all positive:
