one signal one position

yes i have a very important question.i have three different rule to take a position.when all of rules occur i am taking position.

i want to take position when one signal occur.i do not want to take more than one position when all of rules are true in ea.

i mean if my there conditions are true i want ea take just one position when all of conditions are triggered.after this i want ea not to take position if there is no opposite signal.i want my ea wait.

how can i do this?how kind of control do i have to code in ea???
please help??

Do not set a flag in your code to indicate a trade is open. There are all kinds of external activities that may close your trade without the EA knowing. So what you have to do is use OrdersTotal(). But this would also count orders opened by other EAs, so it isn't enough. What is also necessary is to read every order and see if the order was from the EA.The chunk of code below should do it. You may want to add more conditions such as long/short order types. This should get you started.

int allOrders=OrdersTotal();

int totOpen = 0;

for(int pos=0;pos<allOrders;pos++)
{
if(OrderSelect(pos,SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES))
{
if (OrderMagicNumber()==MagicNumber) totOpen++;
}
}

thank you codemeister..

i coded like this but i could not manage that i want..

if(OrdersTotal()<1){

if(condition1){
bool condition1=true;
}
if(condition2){
bool condition2=true;
}
if(condition3){
bool condition3=true;
}

if(condition1==true && condition2==true && condition3){
order=SIGNAL_BUY;
condition1=false;
condition2=false;
condition3=false;
}
if(condition1==false||condition2==false||condition3){
condition1=false;
condition2=false;
condition3=false;
}
if(condition1==true){
if(condition1 controls){ //i write here if condition1 is false
condition1=false;
}}
//same condition2 and condition3

//and codes for "sell" my sell condition variable names are condition4 condition 5 and condition 6

if(OrdersTotal()==1){
if(Order==SIGNAL_BUY){

//sell controls

Order=SIGNAL_CLOSEBUY;
Order=SIGNAL_SELL;

conditions=false

if(Order==SIGNAL_SELL){

//same things.



yess.firstly my english is not very good
and i am very new at mql4 language.i know a bit c++.
i dont know when orderstotal define in coding an ea.i write this code but i
couldnot manage that i want.i will not use more than one ea.i will use just this ea.if i manage this i will add alert.
i dont know what ı should define at the begining lines of ea.
i am using ea generator.i only define indicator conditions.
i just want to backtest some kind of indicator combinations.it is very simple..

thank you very much..

First of all the code is unreadable. Please post in PHP tags. Plus I need to know what isn't working. I don't think its taking multiple trades, but can't be sure if you don't say exactly what the problem is.

this text document is my ea code please tell where is wrong??

this is my ea.please where the wrong is??

This looks good. You hape to add more conditions before firing the order!

Regards
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any different answer???

please help..

There isn't a chance I am going to wade through that much code to find a bug. Once you have it narrowed down to 5 or 10 lines I might be able to help. I have enough of my code to work on.

pfff..
is there any ea (with 5 or 10 lines) which is successful??

if there is an successful and 5 or 10 lines ea on this forum.please post it here..

this is not a complicated code.may be it is long but i defined lots of variables.for example i defined rsi(0) rsi(1)...rsi(9) i look back 8 or 10 bars from current bar.

however.is not there any experienced coder??

i asked very simple thing.how can i make ea to take position when a signal appears.one signal=one position..

I guess that you want an alternating trade? only sell after buy, and buy after sell?

Somewhere you must have a redundant loop in your program after the OrdersTotal() function. That's the way you usually get multiple out of control orders. Someone would have to see all of the code to figure it out. And I don't understand why you coded this the way you did. Why are you repeating the order conditions in your order trigger line?