MT5 error 10013: Invalid request
Zero the request before filling it (MqlTradeRequest req = {}), set every field the action needs, and run OrderCheck() first: it returns its own retcode and a…
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The number after retcode= in MT5's Experts or Journal tab. 41 codes, as MQL5's reference words them.
What MQL5 says
10013TRADE_RETCODE_INVALID- Invalid request
From MQL5's table of trade server return codes, read 22 October 2026. An Expert Advisor finds it in MqlTradeResult.retcode; the Experts and Journal tabs print it.
What causes it
A field of the trade request is wrong or missing for the action it asks for: a structure that was never zeroed, an action without the position ticket it needs, a type that does not fit the action.
The fix in MQL5
Zero the request before filling it (MqlTradeRequest req = {}), set every field the action needs, and run OrderCheck() first: it returns its own retcode and a comment that names the problem.
void MoveStops(const ulong ticket, const double sl, const double tp)
{
MqlTradeRequest req; // never zeroed: the other fields hold leftovers
MqlTradeResult res;
req.action = TRADE_ACTION_SLTP;
req.symbol = _Symbol;
req.sl = sl;
req.tp = tp; // and no position ticket
if(!OrderSend(req, res))
Print("OrderSend failed: ", res.retcode);
}void MoveStops(const ulong ticket, const double sl, const double tp)
{
MqlTradeRequest req = {};
MqlTradeResult res = {};
MqlTradeCheckResult check = {};
req.action = TRADE_ACTION_SLTP;
req.position = ticket; // which position to change
req.symbol = _Symbol;
req.sl = sl;
req.tp = tp;
if(!OrderCheck(req, check))
{
PrintFormat("OrderCheck: %u %s", check.retcode, check.comment);
return;
}
if(!OrderSend(req, res))
Print("OrderSend failed: ", res.retcode, " ", res.comment);
}Both compile in MetaEditor 5 with no errors or warnings. Adapt them to your EA; they were not run against a trade server.
Other MT5 errors
- MT5 error 10004: Requote
- MT5 error 10006: Request rejected
- MT5 retcode 10009: Request completed
- MT5 error 10014: Invalid volume in the request
- MT5 error 10015: Invalid price in the request
- MT5 error 10016: Invalid stops in the request
- MT5 error 10017: Trade is disabled
- MT5 error 10018: Market is closed
- MT5 error 10019: There is not enough money to complete the request
- MT5 error 10021: There are no quotes to process the request
- MT5 error 10022: Invalid order expiration date in the request
- MT5 error 10026: Autotrading disabled by server
- MT5 error 10027: Autotrading disabled by client terminal
- MT5 error 10030: Invalid order filling type
- MT5 error 10031: No connection with the trade server
- MT5 error 10044: The request is rejected, because the "Only position closing is allowed" rule is set for the symbol
- MT5 error 10046: The request is rejected, because the "Opposite positions on a single symbol are disabled" rule is set for the trading account.
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