Help Retreiving Last Order/Position

Hi,

Can anyone help with a function question. As part of my buy and sell logics I want my EA to lookup the direction of the last order/position that was taken. The reason for this is that I never want my EA to open two or more consecutive orders in the same direction. So as part of my logic before my EA executes an order I want it to look at the direction of the last order it executed and make sure that order was going the opposite direction. So, as an example, if the entry for a buy order came up I would want the EA to check that the last order had been a sell.

My guess is that the code involves using the OrderSelect() and OrderType() functions and I have looked up how to use those functions. I know that to make it look at past orders I tell it to look up the history with MODE_HISTORY. My problem is I don't know how to tell the EA to look exactly at the last order executed and at no other order. Can any one help with that? If so, is there also a way to make sure the EA only looks at orders for a particular symbol that way I can run the EA on multiple charts?

Thanks to anyone that can help.

The latest entered position has the biggest OrderOpenTime() value.
On multiple charts apply
if (OrderSymbol() == Symbol())
filter in your OrderSelect loop.

Thanks for the quick reply. I really appreciate it. I get how to use the OrderSymbol() function but please forgive my ignorance. I looked up the OrderOpenTime() and I am afraid I don't understand how to tell the function to look for the biggest value. Would you mind clarifying how that function would work in this case?

How would you choose the biggest red apple in a basket of apples of different size and colour? Perhaps by picking the red apples and weighing them one by one and selecting the heaviest.

The same here. Compare the OrderOpenTime() of each order with appropriate symbol in the history and remember the ticket of the latest one.

This method is reliable but might have a considerable performance penalty that makes the testing and especially optimisation rather slow.

For testing purposes it would be enough just to store the ticket of the last entered position in a static variable.

Thank you for your help.