Hi,

look at this http://www.forex-tsd.com/4357-post6.html
and http://www.forex-tsd.com/6239-post9.html.

Igor

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Igorad, thank you very much, the Volty Channel Stop was excactly what I was looking for

I'm trying to learn about the mechanism of the LSMA_in_color indicator, which I found elsewhere on this forum. The following code sets the color of the indicator line segments based on the values in wt[]:
I added Print() functions so I could see what the actual values are in the three color conditions - red, yellow and blue. It seems that the yellow condition only occurs when wt[shift] == wt[shift+1], but for some reason when I run this the log shows that it never enters the yellow condition. Every log entry written is either red or blue. On the chart, there are clearly yellow conditions occurring - every time it changes from red to blue or blue to red it goes to yellow in between... Why isn't it printing the yellow conditions to the log?

Also, in looking at the log I see instances where wt[shift] is identical to wt[shift+1], but it prints as a red condition. How can this occur when the red condition requires that wt[shift+1] > wt[shift] ?

Any help would be appreciated

Yessiree, any help at all.....

im a real noob at code but looks like yellow is always on and either red or blue gets put on top of it or jsut replaces it unless its even in which case nothing gets drawn on top of yellow. as far as it still being red when they are even dunno

Is there a method in mql4 for checking whether the last trade resulted in profit or loss, after it's closed?

I'm trying OrderSelect() and OrderProfit() with the HistoryTotal() using an array.. but the OrderProfit seems to be referring to the 'open order' , so it's not giving me the results im wanting.

On average, my system has 5 consecutive wins, to 1 lose. What im wanting to do is, after a losing trade, i want to increase the number of lots used as the chances are the next trade after it will be a win.

I therefore need to check what the last closed trade resulted in, before modifying the number of lots.

Any help would be appreciated...

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fxdk,

to check the profit of the last closed order use this code:

int total = HistoryTotal();
OrderSelect(total-1,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY);
Alert(OrderProfit()); //This is the last closed order profit or loss

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I think this may be not always true. I had a discussion with Slawa about, and it seems that HISTORY, like TRADE, are not always sorted by date, and depends of the sort colonn you are using on the terminal tab. So it's more secure to scan all (!) History and compare closing dates; then remember the last one so the next time you don't need to scan the whole array.

very good idea!

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Hi

This is what I use - works well.

[CODE/]///////////
int i,orders;
//Determine if the last trade was a winner or losser
orders = HistoryTotal();
//Print("PP0: orders : ", orders);
for(i=orders-1;i>=0;i--)
{
if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY)==fals e)
{
Print("Error in history!");
break;
}

// if((OrderSymbol()!=Symbol()) || (OrderType()>OP_SELL) || (OrderMagicNumber() != MagicNum1)) continue;
//Print("PP11 Profit : ", OrderProfit());
if(OrderProfit()>0)
{
wl = -1;
break;
}
if(OrderProfit()<0)
{
wl = 1;
break;
}
}
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