Little code to implement my EA to open only an order daily on an asset

[Claudio Lasso]

Good morning,

i found a code to implement in my EA. My goal is simple: the EA must not opens more order if in the day there was an order on that asset or if an order in in progress.

EA: today 01 - March the EA opens an order on USDCHF...if it close it during the day no more orders must be opened.

Here is the code I found but it doens't work:-(

int TotalHistoryOrders() {

   int cnt = 0;

   int TotalOpenOrders = 0;

   cnt=OrdersHistoryTotal();

   if(cnt==0) {

      return(0);

   }

   else {

      for(;cnt>=0;cnt--) {

         RefreshRates();

         OrderSelect(cnt,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY);

         if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol()) {

            TotalOpenOrders++;

         }

      }

   }

   return(TotalOpenOrders);

}



int FoundRecentOpenedOrder(int TF) {

   int last_order_idx = (TotalHistoryOrders() - 1);

   OrderSelect(last_order_idx,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY);

   if (OrderOpenTime() >= iTime(Symbol(), TF, 1)) {

      return(TRUE);

   }

   return(FALSE);

}

[Andrey Barinov]

Claudio Lasso:

Good morning,

i found a code to implement in my EA. My goal is simple: the EA must not opens more order if in the day there was an order on that asset or if an order in in progress.

EA: today 01 - March the EA opens an order on USDCHF...if it close it during the day no more orders must be opened.

Here is the code I found but it doens't work:-(

The code you show is only partial. After you insert this code into your EA, you also need to "call" this methods and use the results in your EA logic / code.

Can not say more without seeing the entire thing.

[William Roeder]

1. Your code is looking at history - your variable should be called totalClosedOrders.
2. Using OrdersTotal (or OrdersHistoryTotal) directly and/or no Magic number filtering on your OrderSelect loop means your code is incompatible with every EA (including itself on other charts and manual trading.)
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