help to find a script

I hope its ok opening a post for this. Can anyone point me in the direction of and EA that simply opens a buy position at the end of a bar if the bar finished high and a low position if the bar closed down?

The closet I can get is the attached script - but it doesn't work??

Cheers

A script will only execute once unless you put it in an infinite loop. You would be better off writing an EA for this that operates on the appearance of a new bar.

I don't want to write the whole thing for you but a couple of things.

OrdersTotal() returns total number of orders. E.g. 4. They are indexed from zero however (i.e. 0,1,2,3,4) so your loop should be for( q=0;q<OrdersTotal()-1;q++)

Then you check if the orders selected is a pending order - if so you then exit the program. "return" exits the function you are currently in. In this case, start().

Earlier in the program you define C and O as below:

double C =iClose(NULL,NULL,0);
double O =iOpen(NULL,NULL,0);

Then (if by chance you script reaches here)
if ( O > C ) {
OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lot,Ask,0,0,0,NULL,0,iTime( Symbol(), PERIOD_H4, 0 ) + 86400);
}

Think carefully about what parameters you have passed to the OrderSend function there. E.g. You send an expiration date for a market order


From the manual - (Highlight a function in metaeditor and hit F1 to read an explanation of it)

And about your conditional statement.

What you are saying is "if the open price of the current bar is greater than the current price of the current bar, send a buy order" - Is this really what you mean?

If i understand you correctly what you want my version is:
bar close is actually open of the next bar. Whenever a bar is in development,
it has high, low, open and close.
You may try this way:

static int TotalBars;
if(...your condition...&& TotalBars < Bars)
OrderSend(Symbol(),...
TotalBars = Bars;

This will give you the end of the current completed bar.