EA for buying and selling at the same time?

Quoting Wallboroff

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The hardest battles are fought in mind!

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Quoting hayseed

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hey wallboroff....



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so politicians would be examples of those that have lost the battle.....

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couple thoughts reguarding ea's that buy/sell at a particular time....

1. orders can be reopened if the targets are hit during the 'minute' unless some additional code excludes it....

2. ea's are tick dependent...... if the time chosen is a extremely slow period, no ticks might hit during the minute.... if this is a possibility, rather that using minute == 0
it's best to say minute <= 1 ..... this...

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Quoting Wallboroff

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thanks hayseed,

i got a question though, what do i have to type in for hours and minutes?

for example 14:00, how should i type that info into the ea?

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extern int    hour            =      10;
extern int    minute          =      20;
extern int    ProfitTarget    =      100;
extern int    Stoploss        =      100;

extern double Lots            =      0.01;

extern double FixedLots       =      0.0; 

extern double Risk            =      0.02;

extern int    Slippage        =      3;


extern int    MagicNumber     =      120000;


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int start()
  {
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    if(hour == TimeHour(TimeCurrent()) && minute == TimeMinute(TimeCurrent()))
    {
    if(CountOrders(MagicNumber,OP_BUY)  == 0)
    {                                            
    OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY, Lots,Ask,Slippage,Ask-Stoploss*Point,Ask+ProfitTarget*Point,hour +":" + minute+ " buy",MagicNumber,0,Blue);
    }
    
    if(CountOrders(MagicNumber,OP_SELL) == 0)
    {                                          
    OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Bid,Slippage,Bid+Stoploss*Point,Bid-ProfitTarget*Point,hour +":" + minute+  " sell",MagicNumber,0,Red);
    }
    }
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   return(0);
  }
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int CountOrders(int MagicNumber,int type) 
{  
   int count = 0; 
   int cnt;  
   for(cnt = 0 ; cnt < OrdersTotal() ; cnt++)   
   {      
      OrderSelect(cnt, SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES);  
   
      if (OrderMagicNumber()!=MagicNumber || OrderType() != type || OrderSymbol() != Symbol()) continue;     
      count++;    
   }
   return (count);
}

 
double CalculateLotSize()
{
    if(FixedLots > 0.0)
        return (FixedLots);

    double pipValue = MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_TICKVALUE);
    double lots = (AccountFreeMargin() * Risk / ((Stoploss * pipValue) + Slippage + 2))/10;
    
    double lotStep = MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_LOTSTEP);
    int digits = 0;
    if(lotStep <= 0.01)
        digits = 2;
    else if(lotStep <= 0.1)
        digits = 1;
    lots = NormalizeDouble(lots, digits);
      
      double minLots = MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_MINLOT);
      if(lots < minLots)
          lots = minLots;
      
      double maxLots = MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_MAXLOT);
      if(lots > maxLots)
          lots = maxLots;
      
      return (lots);
}
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Quoting hayseed

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hey wallboroff.... added the code you suggested above....

it's not the commonly used method of optimizing the lot size......

actually, your version might be better....h

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