Frown Face Instead of Smiley Face After Attach

Issue

After attaching to chart the EA is not managing trades, a frown face appears in the top right corner of the chart.


Frown face

EA's common parameters might be not enabled

The Allow live trading, Allow DLL imports and Allow import of external experts might be not enabled

Procedure

Press F7 key and verify that the Allow live trading, Allow DLL imports and Allow import of external experts are checked in the EA property dialog.

Property window, common tab

Autotrading is disabled

The AutoTrading might be disabled

Procedure

Verify that the toolbar button AutoTrading is pressed.
Toolbar button when Expert Advisors disabled:
Autotrading disabled
Click to enable:
Autotrading enabled