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how do i make an ea trade once a day?

  • #1
  • First Post: Jan 14, 2007 12:44am Jan 14, 2007 12:44am
hi, im just starting out to develop some sample ea's and ran into a problem of how to make the ea trade once a day and thats all. im not really good with mq4 but i have basic knowledge of programing as i took visual basic about 2 years ago, which looks quite similar to mq4. im not sure how to implent the totalorders() command or the bartime() command, hopefully someone here knows!

TIA

G-dogg
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  • #2
  • Jan 14, 2007 10:26pm Jan 14, 2007 10:26pm
Create a static variable in start() that stores the datetime of the last trade. If last trade datetime is greater than iTime(NULL,PERIOD_D1,0), don't allow any trading.

I haven't tested this, but it should be pretty close.
  • #3
  • Last Post: Jan 16, 2007 6:36pm Jan 16, 2007 6:36pm
You should check for new bar. Its done some thing like that:
Inserted Code
bool NewBar()
{
   static datetime lastbar;
   datetime curbar = Time[0];
   if(lastbar!=curbar)
   {
      lastbar=curbar;
      return (true);
   }
   else
   {
      return(false);
   }
}

If you execute it in D1 chart then you shuold get true only once a day. If you want to execute some code (once a day) in smaller charts you shuold count how many NEWBARS you counted so far. For example if you run your EA in H4 chart it look some thing like this:

Inserted Code
if(NewBar()) i++;
if(i == 6) { Print("New day"); i = 0; }
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