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Making sure only one trade is open?

  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 11, 2009 10:43am Jul 11, 2009 10:43am
Hi everybody, having a slight problem with an EA I'm working on. I need it to only have one trade open at any time. It works fine in strategy tester however on live trading it's opening multiple trades at the same time

Basically just have this code at the start of the start() function
Inserted Code
   // check for open tickets
   if(OrderSelect(ticket,SELECT_BY_TICKET,MODE_TRADES)){
      if(OrderCloseTime()==0){
         return(0);
      }
   }
"ticket" is a global variable.
  • #2
  • Jul 11, 2009 11:01am Jul 11, 2009 11:01am
Just cycle through all the orders.

Inserted Code
Total = OrdersTotal()
TradeCount = 0;

for (int i = 1; i < Total; i++)
    {
OrderSelect(i, BY_POS, MORE_TRADES) {
    if(OrderMagicNumber == [Put the magic number here] && (OrderType() == OP_BUY || OrderType() == OP_SELL) [put any other parameters here] )TradeCount++;
     }
    }

//in your order open code...

if(TradeCount == 0) Ordersend()...
That way, the EA can recover even if it has been reset.
  • #3
  • Last Post: Jul 11, 2009 11:13am Jul 11, 2009 11:13am
Cheers, Ron I'll try that
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