Messed up entries for EA, need help

Hi,

Me again
I'm trying to better myself at coding MQL4 so I figured writing EAs would best help me practice so I coded an Inside Bar EA (no strategy just for learning) and I'm having problems with entries.
I reviewed my code several times but I'm still missing something, some entries are according to rules and some are way off and I can't figure out why.

Rule are:
Once IB has been found, note the IBHigh and IBLow, if the next bar opened between IBHigh and IBLow and closed above IBHigh, buy, the opposite for sell.
Retain IBLow and IBHigh in case there is a reversal, SL is either amount of money lost or close above the IBHigh for sells and opposite for buys.
Some orders are being opened for sells as if they were buys and vice versa but not all the time.
Maybe it's related to me not clearing the IBLow and IBHigh between IBs? But I want to save them in case of a reversal.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks.

Hello again,

This is the latest version of the EA, I cleaned it up a bit so now the entries and exits are sort of working, still not completely what I want and I have no idea how to solve it or spell it out in MQL4.

I'm using three bars for the IB and the entry bar.
If BarHigh2<BarHigh3 and BarLow2>BarLow3, we have an IB.
If BarOpen1>IBBarLow and BarOpen1<IBBarHigh and BarClose1>IBBarHigh we buy and if BarClose1<IBBarLow we sell

Still, some of the entries are opposite to the rules and also, the exits don't seem to be kicking in.

Exits are if BarClose1<IBBarLow for buys and BarClose1>IBBarHigh for sells, what I'm getting is sometimes right but most of the time, I have both buys and sells that are not closed when they should.


I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here but I've been reading the code so much that I can't step back and debug it properly so any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.


TIA.

Went back to this code as it bothered me, not having it perform as it should so after a very strained reading I got this


Which should have been

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