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💰 Calculate Price from Points Offset

Helper method: calculates price from current market price with points offset. Handles BUY (Ask) vs SELL (Bid) automatically.

API Information:

  • Sugar method: MT5Sugar.priceFromOffsetPoints(String symbol, boolean isBuy, double pointsOffset)
  • Returns: double - Calculated price
  • Formula:
  • BUY: Ask + (pointsOffset × point)
  • SELL: Bid + (pointsOffset × point)

🔽 Input

Parameter Type Required Description
symbol String ✅ Symbol name
isBuy boolean ✅ true=use Ask, false=use Bid
pointsOffset double ✅ Points offset (positive or negative)

⬆️ Output

Returns: double - Calculated price

🔗 Usage Example

String symbol = "EURUSD";

// BUY: 50 points above Ask
double buyPrice = sugar.priceFromOffsetPoints(symbol, true, 50);

// SELL: 50 points below Bid
double sellPrice = sugar.priceFromOffsetPoints(symbol, false, -50);

System.out.printf("BUY entry 50p above: %.5f%n", buyPrice);
System.out.printf("SELL entry 50p below: %.5f%n", sellPrice);

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