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  • #41
  • Edited Sep 6, 2011 1:10am Sep 5, 2011 3:39am | Edited Sep 6, 2011 1:10am
Quoting nubcake
come on man!

... so then you just check OrderOpenTime()!!!!! pump the relevant ticket data that meets the specific chart criteria (currency, timeframe), then just bubble-sort the array data per the OrderOpenTime()!

now you have orders that match the following required criteria...

the currency pair
the timeframe
and you have these listed in your array in the order that they are opened.

none of this requires you having these hand-made tables of different magic numbers for different pairs and timeframes and whatever other nonsensical thing...
OMG ...can you NOT READ! i said the stuff i first added at the start of this thread would work ONLY if i wanted 1 trade per pair per time frame!

What i am trying to do is to GET THE EA TO MANAGE! the trade and not confuse orders from the same pair and time frame, but since there are people like you around that dont take the time to read before they open there fricking mouth....i was under the impression that i would need a different magic number for each trade/time frame/pair to get my EA to manage the SL,TP,TSL...etc properly!

Thanks for making it easy to put another person in the ignore bin...

And you are really making things so much harder on your self trying to add all them lines of code when 2 simple lines would work!
Inserted Code
 #define EAName " EXPERT ADVISOR BLAH BLAH BLAH"
Inserted Code
if (OrderType() <= OP_SELL && OrderSymbol() == Symbol() && OrderComment() == EAName)


Get it now "smart guy"?
  • #42
  • Sep 6, 2011 12:52pm Sep 6, 2011 12:52pm
things are getting hot... No I didnot read all the post too, but if you or any one else are useing the ticket number as your magic be advised that the ticket number can change if you use CloseBy or do a partial close. If you use the ticket number it will referance a closed position.

but who cares right...

Keit

by the way "Can you NOT READ!" is a negitive, "Can you READ!" is a positive.

Quoting Dredding82
OMG ...can you NOT READ! i said the stuff i first added at the start of this thread would work ONLY if i wanted 1 trade per pair per time frame!

What i am trying to do is to GET THE EA TO MANAGE! the trade and not confuse orders from the same pair and time frame, but since there are people like you around that dont take the time to read before they open there fricking mouth....i was under the impression that i would need a different magic number for each trade/time frame/pair to get my EA to manage the SL,TP,TSL...etc properly!

Thanks for making...
Trader Keit ... Methods Of A Dirt Road Mad Man....
  • #43
  • Sep 6, 2011 1:02pm Sep 6, 2011 1:02pm
Quoting CockeyedCowboy
things are getting hot... No I didnot read all the post too, but if you or any one else are useing the ticket number as your magic be advised that the ticket number can change if you use CloseBy or do a partial close. If you use the ticket number it will referance a closed position.

but who cares right...

Keit

by the way "Can you NOT READ!" is a negitive, "Can you READ!" is a positive.
Well if the ticket number changes because your EA is doing its job...and the EA would now be looking for the new ticket number....seems like it would do what it was ment to do, would it not?
  • #44
  • Sep 6, 2011 2:31pm Sep 6, 2011 2:31pm
Quoting Dredding82
Well if the ticket number changes because your EA is doing its job...and the EA would now be looking for the new ticket number....seems like it would do what it was ment to do, would it not?

only if you have your ea search for new ticket. Which if your haveing a problem with magic numbers then finding the new ticket will give you real test of your abilities.


keit
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  • #45
  • Sep 6, 2011 2:33pm Sep 6, 2011 2:33pm
Quoting CockeyedCowboy
only if you have your ea search for new ticket. Which if your haveing a problem with magic numbers then finding the new ticket will give you real test of your abilities.


keit
Was not having a problem with the magic number, I kept reading and hearing that i needed to have a special magic number for each trade on each TF and each symbol for how i had the money management coded in the EA.
  • #46
  • Sep 6, 2011 2:42pm Sep 6, 2011 2:42pm
you dont need any magic numbers that is totally optional information. It depends if you want to track your orders/performance were you should ID all your trades so all the information canbe corodinated with each order.

Keit


Quoting Dredding82
Was not having a problem with the magic number, I kept reading and hearing that i needed to have a special magic number for each trade on each TF and each symbol for how i had the money management coded in the EA.
Trader Keit ... Methods Of A Dirt Road Mad Man....
  • #47
  • Last Post: Sep 6, 2011 5:17pm Sep 6, 2011 5:17pm
There seems to be a lot of confusion about Magic numbers and their purpose . .

If you only ever run a single EA on one pair on one TimeFrame and do not run any manual trades at the same time . . . . then you don't need a magic number, why ? because all trades placed on the terminal will be from the one solitary EA running.

or . . .

If you have multiple EAs and place orders and then forget about them leaving them to hit SL or TP and you never ever want to know any info about them for MM or any other purpose . . then you don't need to use a Magic number.

or . . . .

If you run one EA on multiple pairs, always on H1 . . never any other TF . . and you don't place any manual trades and don't need any Order info after placing the trades . . then you don't need a Magic number.

But, if you are trying to code in a sensible way and make your code a little more versatile and adaptable, and you might run different EAs on the same Terminal, and they might be on different TimeFrames and you need to keep track of profit and loss or equity at risk for MM purposes . . . then you need to use Magic numbers.

Your Magic number needs to tell you info that you can't get from the Order record/history . . . what info is that ? the EA that placed the trade and the Timeframe it was placed on, everything else, Order type, Ticket No. Symbol, Open price, TP, SL can be pulled from the order history.
20 pips a day isn't too much to ask . . .
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