Adding currency pair to EA

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I would be most grateful if someone can help me with my problem!

 

I currently have very similar EA's that work fine on 5 different instruments (mostly currency pairs) - but if and only if I have no current open positions.

 

I am a very beginner programmer and have adapted a program I obtained here to suit my needs.  As implied above, the issue I have is that my EA's all seem to work ok as long as I have no current positions opened - i.e. a new open position will not be placed by any EA on the 5 separate charts I have open if any open position is current on any of the 5.  I thought magicnumber would sort this out but it hasn't.

 

I now think it is related to the code below (in all 5 EA's) , specifically the orderstotal, if(total<1) part.  I was thinking if I could add some code that states AND INSTRUMENT IS xxxxxx then this might sort it out (given that the 5 EA's are all on different instruments).  Does anyone know if I am right and if so, how to do this?

 

  int cnt, ticket, total;
  
   total=OrdersTotal();
   if(total<1)
     {
      if(GetSignal()==1 && Time[shif]!= LastTime)
        {
         ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3,Bid-SL*Point,Ask+TP*Point,"",MagicNumber,0,Green);
         if(ticket>0)LastTime = Time[shif];
         return(0);  

 
Either by OrderSymbol() or by OrderMagicNumber().
 
Marco vd Heijden:
Either by OrderSymbol() or by OrderMagicNumber().

Thanks for the reply Marco.  Where would I add this in the program?  if(total< 1 and OrderMagicNumber()==MagicNumber) for example?  Would that work?

 

 

Edit:  Don't think it will because total trades <1 still applying

Edit, Edit : it's AND so maybe it will?  Please help!
 

inside of the OrderSelect() loop.

Then you can count orders for each symbol in stead of ordersTotal

 
Marco vd Heijden:

inside of the OrderSelect() loop.

Then you can count orders for each symbol in stead of ordersTotal

Thanks for your help!
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