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Email Alert EA - when trade closes

  • #1
  • First Post: Mar 4, 2009 8:57pm Mar 4, 2009 8:57pm
I'm looking for a simple EA that will send out an email anytime a trade is closed. If anyone has an EA like this or knows where to get it, please post it.

I'm sure an EA like this is out there, but I cannot find it for the life of me. Thanks!
  • #2
  • Mar 4, 2009 9:03pm Mar 4, 2009 9:03pm
If you are already using an EA, then you can use the SendMail function inside of your closetrade code
  • #3
  • Mar 4, 2009 9:18pm Mar 4, 2009 9:18pm
I generally don't use EA's to do trades. I just wanted an EA that will tell me when a trade is closed (regardless of hitting its T/P or S/L). Also, the EA should tell me what price it closed at and how much profit or loss was taken.

I'm sure an EA like this has to be floating around somewhere, I figured I'd ask on the forums before writing up one myself.
  • #4
  • Mar 4, 2009 9:34pm Mar 4, 2009 9:34pm
SendMail is a function... maybe use a script that closes the order and sends that information.... I think they are functions that came with the Metatrader... I haven't gotten into this yet... I am learning by asking the various phases that I need help with in developing my EA since I am new to Forex and the C++ style syntax

it seems like it would only involve 2 or 3 lines

One to close the order and store the info and one to send the email with that information
  • #5
  • Mar 4, 2009 9:45pm Mar 4, 2009 9:45pm
The EA that I’m looking for will have nothing to do with closing an order. It just sends out the email once the order has been closed by the MT4 platform.

I usually set a S/L and a T/P on the orders I place so this EA I'm looking for will only be used to send out information to an email address of my designation. Nothing more nothing less.
  • #6
  • Mar 5, 2009 5:01pm Mar 5, 2009 5:01pm
I found some code on another forex websites forums. It is pretty much exactly what I’m looking for, however the code doesn’t quite work. When a trade is closed out, the EA sends out an email which says:

EURUSD OpenTime: 1970.01.01 00:00 Close Time: 1970.01.01 00:00 Order Type BUY Open 0.0000 Close 0.0000 Profit (0.0000)

As you can see it contains no information about the order, however it does successfully send out the email once the trade has been closed. I have attached a copy of the code I found, if someone could just take a look at it and let me know where its messing up it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

PHP Code
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                               MailAlert TEST.mq4 |
//|                                                      Nicholishen |
//|                                                                  |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Nicholishen"
#property link      ""
int k;
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert initialization function                                   |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int init()
  {
for(int i=0;i<1000;i++){
      if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY)){
         if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol()  ){
            k++;
         }
      }else{
         break;
      }  
   }
   Comment("Init() Trades Count = ",k);
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert deinitialization function                                 |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int deinit()
  {
//----
 
//----
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert start function                                            |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
  {
//----
int f =0;
   for(int i=0;i<10000;i++){
      if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY)){
         if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol() /*&& OrderMagicNumber()==MAGICMA && OrderComment() ==Cmt(Period())*/ ){
            f++;
 
         }
      }else{
         break;
      }  
   }
   Comment(" Trades in History ",f," Init cnt ",k  );
   if(k < f){
      string ordertyp;
 
      OrderSelect(f,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY);
      if(OrderType()==0)ordertyp="BUY";
      if(OrderType()==1)ordertyp="SELL";
     // SendMail("HI","HI");
      SendMail("CLOSED TRADE","  "+Symbol()+"    OpenTime: "+TimeToStr(OrderOpenTime())+"   Close Time: "+TimeToStr(OrderCloseTime())+"                     "+
      "Order Type "+ordertyp+"   Open "+DoubleToStr(OrderOpenPrice(),4)+"   Close "+DoubleToStr(OrderClosePrice(),4)+"  Profit ("+DoubleToStr(OrderProfit(),4)+")" );
      k++;
   }
 return;
} 
 
//----
 
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
  • #7
  • Last Post: Mar 5, 2009 11:35pm Mar 5, 2009 11:35pm
Looks, like it is missing a paramater in this formula

string TimeToStr( datetime value, int mode=TIME_DATE|TIME_MINUTES)Converts value containing time in seconds that has passed since January 1, 1970, into a string of "yyyy.mm.dd hh:mi" format. Parameters:
value - Positive amount of seconds that have passed since 00:00, January 1, 1970. mode - Optional data output mode can be one or combination of:
TIME_DATE gets result as "yyyy.mm.dd",
TIME_MINUTES gets result as "hh:mi",
TIME_SECONDS gets result as "hh:mi:ss". Sample:
string var1=TimeToStr(TimeCurrent(),TIME_DATE|TIME_SECONDS);
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