CCI Bounce Trend Strategy

I am having some trouble getting over some final hurdles with the EA I amalgamated. Since I have some experience with VB and C I do have a good understanding about the code here though still not understanding some issues.

The strategy idea is to wait for a crossover of the CCI at the 100 || 0 || -100 levels in specific directions then a trade is activated.

The code seems to work in MT4 backtesting program though using it in a live window is different...nothing happens. I considered if the conversion from four to five digit pricing was the issue though think I have that covered. If I could get some help understanding where I went wrong it would be much appreciated.

I can then move on to figuring out how to get the trailing stop loss to work. If you want to help me with that too or point to a resource, well I think you would be just that more awesome.

I see you have a few prints in there. Is anything coming out the journal or experts tabs?

Since there isn't a real debugger unfortunately you'll have to resort to putting print statements in strategic places to trace your code.

Instead of using print, which is slow, I use 7bit's method found in this thread:
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=245303

Yes.

I am getting information logged in the journal indicating BUY and SELL trades entered though nothing else at the moment.

I will incorporate your suggestion and see where that takes me. Thanks...

Which broker you with?

ECN brokers won't let you enter a SL and TP at the same time as an OrderSend. You have to do the OrderSend first with SL and TP set to 0, wait for the order to fill, then attach the SL and TP with an OrderModify.

A number of brokers like IBFX have switched to this ECN-style order handling even though they're not ECNs.

I am in fact working with IBFX.

The base code I have in the EA is based on an EA they had in their EA library.

I had a number of EAs stop working due to this issue. Here's the official word from IBFX on how to fix it:

http://www.ibfx.com/Corporate/post/2...rder-FAQs.aspx

One other thing I just realized about the logic is I am looking for a visual crossover of one of the levels. While watching the ticks go by I found if at any point the CCI is crossed then the condition is met for a trade entry. Its not really what I wanted and considered I would have to look at the CCI value the moment the candle was closed not during.

I am guessing I would need an aggregate/averaged value where the CCI of the just closed candle is indeed greater than -100 and the aggregate/average value of CCI is less than -100.

Has anyone ever considered this previously or is there somehow to look at this in an algorithm based on data from the array?