when or if... possible ?

got a problem with an EA which I actually don't know if its possible to solve (or there may be a work around)

EA places pending trades at certain levels when a condition is met but the situation is this, I might be watching a chart, EA disabled because my sentiment is not good. Conditions is true but my sentiment isn't that good so i hold back.

I need the loo (or coffee etc) so turn my EA on, BUT it won't work (trade) until a new condition is met which isn't what i want., I want it to look at what the condition is now and act accordingly.

The question is, is it possible to turn an EA on and it can look back and work out what the condition is realtime or does it work going forward accumulating data, in which case is it possible to make it accumulate previous data.

I use pending orders at levels that are triggered as live to trade when a MA crosses it (up or down)

In my mind I think (assumed) it was possible but I'm being told otherwise, I can see why it might not be possible.

This has only cropped up in live (demo) testing as the visual backtests didn't turn on and off throughout the day (its got time parameters so they kick in and out but as its running over a time period it has the data it wants. I can't just change the time as it resets the EA, like reloading it, so it has no history.

Any thoughts appreciated, I've wondered if there is a passive global variable that just stops trades being sent (I use pending) without resetting EA (parameters affect it like allow live trade etc) or it can be placing trades but they are not sent, until a gate is opened.. if you get my jist.
So placed but not sent, like keep banging a door until its opened.

I thought about lower time frames but its too erratic, shifting MAs.

Really stuck with this one.

PG

Yes you hit the nail on the head ... the best way to achive what you want to do is to use a global variable to enable you to toggle between an active 'place orders' mode and a dormant 'remember orders' mode

You'll need to code a way to store the pending order details that would have been placed (if active) which can be achieved using 1 or more arrays to store :

Pair
type of order
open price
SL
TP

and add code (sections of) to :

A) Check if global variable denotes mode is active or not

B) if mode is active and orders have been saved then place them
( ie orders were saved whilst dormant and we have now gone active)

C) Alter the section that places the orders, and have it place orders if in active mode or save the order details into the array(s) when its in dormant mode.

that's a hot answer and good for me to hear.

but how do you then enable (make it live when I go for my coffee etc) or tun it off (like suspend live trading) without interrupting the EA setup or does this get taken care of,
i.e how do you activate the "toggle" without resetting it all.

or can I now just hit "enable" button and it works from its data stored, miserable face, smiley face etc

thanks, I really needed someone with some good MQ knowledge on this one.

Kev

No you make sure the EA is running (smiley face) always.

Then you open the Global Variables window (F3)

Manually change the value of the variable that the EA has created and is checking.

use any values you like E.G.

0 means dormant state
1 means active state