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How can you limit the number of orders in each bar?

  • #1
  • First Post: Jan 13, 2008 4:19pm Jan 13, 2008 4:19pm
Hi,

I´m coding my system,and I´m having some problems trying to limit the number of open orders for each bar. In my system, the decision is made in the opening of a new bar, and if the conditions aren´t perfect, the EA should only reanalyse in the opening of next bar.

I´ve tryed Volume[0] > 10, but sometimes it opens 2 orders because the EA runs a second time before Volume [0]>10 and sometimes it doesn´t open any order because the Volume goes past 10 very quickly.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,

J Fonseca
  • #2
  • Jan 13, 2008 5:01pm Jan 13, 2008 5:01pm
Quoting JFonseca
Hi,

I´m coding my system,and I´m having some problems trying to limit the number of open orders for each bar. In my system, the decision is made in the opening of a new bar, and if the conditions aren´t perfect, the EA should only reanalyse in the opening of next bar.

I´ve tryed Volume[0] > 10, but sometimes it opens 2 orders because the EA runs a second time before Volume [0]>10 and sometimes it doesn´t open any order because the Volume goes past 10 very quickly.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,

J Fonseca
hi
use


if (XY != Time[0])
{
open order.....
....
XY=Time[0];
}
OldSchool
  • #3
  • Jan 14, 2008 11:33am Jan 14, 2008 11:33am
Hi,

I have already tried that with Open[0] and with Time[0] and none worked. I found out that when the EA returns to the beggining, it forgets the XY value.

I did this:

datetime XY;
Print ("before if XY = ", XY)
if (XY != Time[0])
{
Execute program
}
XY = Time [0];
Print ("End of program XY = ", XY)
return (0);
}

What´s wrong with this? How can I fix it?

Thanks,

J Fonseca
  • #4
  • Jan 14, 2008 11:55am Jan 14, 2008 11:55am
Hi,

I already found out what the problem was. I declared a local variable, and should have declared a global variable.

J Fonseca
  • #5
  • Last Post: Jan 14, 2008 12:03pm Jan 14, 2008 12:03pm
Quoting JFonseca
Hi,

I already found out what the problem was. I declared a local variable, and should have declared a global variable.

J Fonseca
Good catch, was about to say that. Of course, don't forget to set a mechanism in there to clear the global variable at the start of every bar so that the system can reset.
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