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EA places too many orders at a time

  • #1
  • First Post: May 1, 2018 9:46am May 1, 2018 9:46am
I revisited an older idea i had and was searching the net for inspiration on how to limit the amount of buy and sell orders in a range... I couldn't find anything like that.
Sort of like this... BUY here, if there are any BUY orders here or +-300pips already DONT buy anything yet.
Any ideas???
  • #2
  • May 2, 2018 12:44am May 2, 2018 12:44am
Straight forward:
1.Count your pips, if x reached, do or do not do whatever..
2.Check all order open prices, if within defined range, do or do not do whatever..
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  • #3
  • May 2, 2018 4:40am May 2, 2018 4:40am
Well it's all just an experiment off curiosity, "here" can be anywhere.
My first thought was to just check the area around Ask+-300 pips if there was a buy order or not, if not, but...
I used a for loop to circle through orders
But it seems like the program eventually finds an irrelevant order outside the Ask+-300 range and allows the new order over and over, hehe
Seems logical now, but I need to figure out how my thinking is wrong.

The basic idea is just, buy and sell, close in profit and open new order in the same direction as the closed order was.
This means that after a while the program will push the buy orders to the top of a range and the sell orders to the bottom.
So I wanted to add a reverse order as well, not too close to each other.
  • #4
  • May 2, 2018 1:03pm May 2, 2018 1:03pm
Quoting markuslig
I used a for loop to circle through orders But it seems like the program eventually finds an irrelevant order outside the Ask+-300 range and allows the new order over and over
Code could look like so:
Inserted Code
#property strict
bool maytrade = true;
double where = Ask;
double upperlimit = 3000*_Point, lowerlimit = 3000*_Point; // assuming 5|3 digits
for(int i = 0; i < OrdersTotal(); i++)
{
    if(OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS))
    {
        double oop = OrderOpenPrice();
        if(oop <= (where + upperlimit) && oop >= (where - lowerlimit))
        { maytrade = false; break; }
    }
}
if(maytrade)
{
    // do something here:
}
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  • #5
  • Last Post: May 3, 2018 4:07am May 3, 2018 4:07am
Aha! that's a little different. Thanks I think I know how to make this work properly now. I'll give it a go in the weekend
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