Help with some logical progressions

Hey gang, got a bit of a puzzle that I need help solving. How do I set it up so that my EA will change the StopLoss of Order 2 & 3 to break even after Order 1 has hit T/P? I can get it to work with only two orders flowing, but I'm having problems getting it to work on both orders at the same time.

The second puzzler is how to get the EA to go back and place a Buy order after the Sell order has stopped out at SL? The way it's set up, it will keep itself from doing something stupid like opening order after order, but I can't get it to reverse on itself when needed.

And for the third act, how do I get the EA to run more than one set of trades in a day? I'm sure the answer to #2 is also my answer to #3, but any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello Jedi, to answer your 1st question, I think you can program your EA to keep monitoring the TP level. once price reaches that level, it's a trigger for your EA to start modifying SLs of your remaining two positions. I have a template for that.

int ModifyBE()
{
//----
int i,total;
double BE;
//----
total = OrdersTotal();
for(i=total;i>=0;i--){
if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)){
if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol() && OrderMagicNumber()==magic_base){
//---- set BreakEven for long positions
if(OrderType()==OP_BUY && OrderOpenPrice()<=(Bid-BreakEven*Point)
&& (OrderStopLoss()<OrderOpenPrice() || OrderStopLoss()==0.0)){
BE = NormalizeDouble(OrderOpenPrice(),precision);
OrderModify(OrderTicket(),0,BE,0,expiration,clr_modify);
}
//---- set BreakEven for short positions
if(OrderType()==OP_SELL && OrderOpenPrice()>=(Ask+BreakEven*Point)
&& (OrderStopLoss()>OrderOpenPrice() || OrderStopLoss()==0.0)){
BE = NormalizeDouble(OrderOpenPrice(),precision);
OrderModify(OrderTicket(),0,BE,0,expiration,clr_modify);
}
}
}
}
//----
return(0);
}

your 2nd question is a bit more complex. to prevent your EA from opening the same orders repeatedly, you need to have a few things ready. 1st, you define 4 variables of the boolean type. let's call them GoLongNow, GoShortNow, and ForbidLong, ForbidShort. then you must modify your EA so that every time it generates a long signal, it changes the value of the GoLongNow variable to True, and everytime it actually issues a long order, it modifies the ForbidLong variable to True. vice versa for GoShortNow and ForbiShort. the EA can the determine whether or not it's necessary to put more positions. below is a template that performs some of the above task.

int GetOpenSignal()
{
//---- check for long signal
if(MA1>MA2){
GoLongNow = True;
GoShortNow = False;
longEntry = NormalizeDouble(MA1+(Filter+Spread)*Point,precision);
}
//---- check for short signal
if(MA1<MA2){
GoLongNow = False;
GoShortNow = True;
shortEntry = NormalizeDouble(MA2-Filter*Point,precision);
}
//---- long signal
if(GoLongNow==True && ForbidLong==False){
//----
DeletePending();
//----
if(ExitNow==True) ClosePositions();
else ModifyShortSL(longEntry);
//---- send signal to go long
return(OP_BUYSTOP);
}
//---- short signal
if(GoShortNow==True && ForbidShort==False){
//----
DeletePending();
//----
if(ExitNow==True) ClosePositions();
else ModifyLongSL(shortEntry);
//---- send a signal to go short
return(OP_SELLSTOP);
}
//---- send signal to do nothing
return(-1);
}

??? I'm not sure I understand your 3rd question. I'm not a professional programmer. it just happens that one of my EAs does some of the things you asked.

I still can't get the EA to reset the StopLoss of orders 2 & 3 after Order 1 closes in profit. I can make it work if there's only two orders working, but that kind of neuters the system, so any help is still greatly appreciated.

Ok... there are many ways to do this, but I'm going to give you what I think is the easiest (not necessarily cleanest) way to accomplish what you're looking to do.

"How do I set it up so that my EA will change the StopLoss of Order 2 & 3 to break even after Order 1 has hit T/P?"
Keep track of the order ticket numbers in module level variables, check to see if order 1 has just closed, modify the other orders
"how to get the EA to go back and place a Buy order after the Sell order has stopped out at SL? The way it's set up, it will keep itself from doing something stupid like opening order after order, but I can't get it to reverse on itself when needed."
You can use this same sort of logic to enter a reverse position when a specific trade has exited at stoploss. This is pretty much the same code, with a check to see if the order exited at a loss (note, it doesn't check that order exited at stoploss value exactly, just that order exited at a loss).
"how do I get the EA to run more than one set of trades in a day? I'm sure the answer to #2 is also my answer to #3, but any help is greatly appreciated."
Not really sure what you're asking for here. There shouldn't be any artificial limit being placed on number of trades per day unless you've coded it that way.

Tesla, you sir, are a godsend. Thank you ever so much for the help. BlueFox, you too as well mate!

Alright, I'm stumped. No matter which way I try and slice it, it just doesn't seem to cut it. Here's the source-code for any of you who would like to a take a crack at it.

I'm not sure if bumping's allowed, but I'm gonna do it.

I'd love to help you, but I took a look at your code and it's going to take me way too long to figure it out. There aren't any comments, and everything is crammed together into the start function. It would take me more time to fix than it would to write from scratch, and I don't have time to do that either.

Again, my apologies.

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