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RaptorUK:

What value does IsTrade have when you declare it ? Either make this static or give it a global scope . . .


Tried making it global, then the EA placed only one trade throughout the entire backtest.

It's declared as false.

If I declare it before the initial for loop that has OrderSelect(), then assign a true value to it if it finds an order with the magic number, I end up with over 800 trades -
two extremes :)

 
gulzaar:

Tried making it global, then the EA placed only one trade throughout the entire backtest.

Yep, you need additional code to set it false . . when should it be false ? I presume when there are no orders placed ? so code a check that looks to see if there are any running trades . . if not set IsTrade = false;
 
RaptorUK:
Yep, you need additional code to set it false . . when should it be false ? I presume when there are no orders placed ? so code a check that looks to see if there are any running trades . . if not set IsTrade = false;

Okay, so figured out the problem - apparently, as soon a trade gets closed because of a stop loss getting kicked in, the EA immediately opens another trade - so instead of trades being opened at even times such as 1200, 1600, 2000(four hour candles, since that is the TF I am running the backtest on) trades are being opened in between as well, at odd times -

1 2010.09.15 04:00 buy 1 0.10 1.29648 1.28530 0.00000 0.00 10000.00 - this one is fine, opening at the start of a 4 hour candle
2 2010.09.16 01:35 modify 1 0.10 1.29648 1.30010 0.00000 0.00 10000.00 - this is also fine, the stop is moved up to the next low
3 2010.09.16 01:36 s/l 1 0.10 1.30010 1.30010 0.00000 36.75 10036.75 - this is fine too, the stop is kicked in and im out for a profit
4 2010.09.16 01:36 buy 2 0.10 1.30028 1.29540 0.00000 0.00 10036.75 - this is confusiing - its 1:36 am, and it takes a trade
5 2010.09.16 01:40 modify 2 0.10 1.30028 1.30010 0.00000 0.00 10036.75 - 4 minutes after the trade, the stop is moved up
6 2010.09.16 01:43 s/l 2 0.10 1.30010 1.30010 0.00000 -1.80 10034.95 - 3 minutes later, the stop-loss is kicked in
7 2010.09.16 01:43 buy 3 0.10 1.30038 1.29540 0.00000 0.00 10034.95 - new trade immediately(since conditions haven't changed on the H4)
8 2010.09.16 01:43 modify 3 0.10 1.30038 1.30010 0.00000 0.00 10034.95 - stop moved immediately
9 2010.09.16 01:43 s/l 3 0.10 1.30010 1.30010 0.00000 -2.80 10032.15 - stop loss

This is why there are over a thousand trades in 8 months, lol - any suggestions?

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