EA doesn't trade during a bar only on opening

Hi,

I have created an EA based on a Pivot Reversal strategy.
It has 4 rules before the EA needs to open a trade:
1: I'm looking at the bar 1 until 9 if this is all good I set a variable on true.
2: The lower low or highest high of a bar will be saved in a variable.
3: When this is done the EA needs to open a SHORT or a LONG when the current price has crossed the variable saved in rule 2.
4: Reset the variables

Now comes the problem until rule 2 everything goes fine, but when the EA wants to open a trade it opens the trade at the opening of a new bar. But at that point the price never crossed the lowest low or highest high that is been saved at rule 2.

I hope somebody can help me with this.

Took a quick look and noticed that in your GetIndicatorSignals you first check NewBar function. You won't generate any signal until the opening of a new bar.

Lux

Well I first want to check the last 9 bars, if all those 9 bars are conform the rules I put the variable piviot_low_hit on true and set the lower low price on bar 5 in the variable price_low_5.
Then I leave the NewBar() function.
And I wait until the current price crossed the price and is lower then the variable price_low_5, if this happens I open a SHORT.

I'm trying to program the strategy they are discussing here between 4:50 until 13:25.

I have my EA almost working but I don't get something.
I want to check the realprice with a price that I have saved in a variable.
The variable is called price_low_5 and is a static double.

But when I do this:
It doesn't open a SELL trade someone here knows why?

If I change
to
It will open a SELL trade but this isn't what I want. Because this calculates the spread and doesn't show the realprice.

Hi!
Try to print out the values to your monitor, as objects. Its help to find the problemes.
Possible something wrong with the values.
Good luck with it!

My advice is. don't use static variables in MQL. It is both redundant and buggy. doesn't work as it's supposed to.

just declare the variable at the top of your codes (make sure it is outside of functions) and all functions in your EA will be able to access it.

I didn't look at your codes but you can try removing the "static" keyword first and see if it solves your problem.

regards,
Zen

I have it working now, thanks for the help.