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An EA that has stopped executing trades is every automated trader's anxiety — and in most cases the cause is one of a handful of common, easily-fixed issues rather than a fundamental problem with the strategy. The first step is to stay calm and work through the diagnostic checklist systematically before making any parameter changes or reinstalling the EA.

The MT5 Journal tab is your primary diagnostic tool. Every action, error, and trade attempt the EA makes is logged here with timestamps. When the EA is working normally, you see regular entries. When execution has stopped, you will either see an error message explaining why (insufficient margin, off quotes, trade context busy) or a suspicious silence — no entries at all — which indicates the EA is not running at all, usually due to AutoTrading being disabled or VPS connection loss.

For traders running Goldie Sniper EA PRO or any other Pro-Scalper EA, the most important monitoring check during the London and New York sessions is a quick look at the Journal to confirm recent entries. If you see active journal entries during a session, the EA is running. If the last journal entry is more than 30 minutes old during a normally active session period, investigate immediately — session opportunities may be missed while the EA sits idle.