Basic questions ...

cardio · #1 (**permalink**) 09-28-2005, 12:36 PM

Hi

I want to do the following in code

'Don't trade for 30 minutes since my last trade'
So if my indicators indicate that I should add to my current trade again then I place trade in the same direction only if 30minutes have past

I am doing the following - this code does work yet - it is just in design phase - I don't know how to add 30 minutes to my last order

This is for an EA only working on the current pair

int start()
{
int cnt, ticket, total, stop1;
static datetime lasttime

total=OrdersTotal();
for(cnt=0;cnt<total;cnt++)
{
OrderSelect(cnt, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES);

//Determine the time of the last OrderClose
if (OrderCloseTime > lasttime + 30)
{
lasttime = orderclosetime
}//if (OrderCloseTime)
}

Now I want to say
if (Curtime() > lasttime + 30 minutes)
{
Contiue trading
}

pls help

mbkennel · #2 (**permalink**) 09-30-2005, 06:05 AM

I think that looks fine, but in the check for the OrderCloseTime,
I don't see why you need the extra 30 minutes.

If the newest OrderCloseTime is more recent than the previous one, then it should be lasttime.

newdigital · #3 (**permalink**) 09-30-2005, 10:27 AM

if (Curtime() > lasttime + 30*60)

yaniv_av · #4 (**permalink**) 10-31-2005, 08:20 PM

Hi,
I'm new with MetaTrader and have a basic question:

I want to limit the open positions in my expert-advisor to only 1 position at a time - but I want that limitation per symbol, so if I'll run another expert-advisor on another symbol, It will open a new position on that symbol.
In another words, I want to be able to open 1 positions for all the symbols, but not more than 1 position for a symbol (And I'm talking about many expert-advisor on many symbols...)
How can I do It ?

I saw the "totaltrades" function, but from the documentation I understood that this function applys to the account and not for the current symbol,
so "if totaltrades=1 then exit;" will cause to 1 position at a time for all the symbols...

10X !

Alex.Piech.FinGeR · #5 (**permalink**) 11-01-2005, 01:23 PM

1 positions for all the symbols

Code:

int total=OrdersTotal();
  if(total<1)

{

.
.
.

}

newdigital · #6 (**permalink**) 11-01-2005, 01:43 PM

But one position for one symbol or for one chart opened?

yaniv_av · #7 (**permalink**) 11-03-2005, 12:29 AM

But if it can't be done, then 1 per symbol is also good...

Alex.Piech.FinGeR · #8 (**permalink**) 11-03-2005, 01:52 PM

1 per symbol

Code:

...

 for (int i=0; i<OrdersTotal(); i++) {
	if (OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES)) {
	  if (OrderSymbol()==Symbol()  ) 

return(0);


....

yaniv_av · #9 (**permalink**) 11-04-2005, 12:58 PM

10X alot !

yaniv_av · #10 (**permalink**) 11-05-2005, 04:30 PM

Can I do It also per chart ?
Because I have differents systems for differents time intervals charts ...