EA is using 100% CPU in MetaTrader 4

if ( isHigherThan(TimeCurrent() - last_time_sr, 840) ) 
{ 
   kill_ea = true; 
   Alert(Symbol()," finish");
   return; 
}

datetime last_time_sr = TimeCurrent();

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if ( isHigherThan(TimeCurrent() - last_time_sr, 840) )

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datetime last_time_sr = TimeCurrent();

in the beginning of every function.

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I imagine it must be because it doesn't get out a loop for some reason. So I put this code in every loop, so that the EA finishes forcefully if it's on a loop for more than 14 minutes:

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if ( isHigherThan(TimeCurrent() - last_time_sr, 840) ) 
{ 
   kill_ea = true; 
   Alert(Symbol()," finish");
   return; 
}

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datetime last_time_sr = TimeCurrent();

in the beginning of every function. If kill_ea is true, start will always return 0 in the beginning.

What's possibly wrong with the EA to...

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I found that the problem was using the EA on a specific pair. Once I removed it from that pair, the problem was gone. This isn't the first time that it happens, what's wrong with that pair to make the EA go crazy?

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There is nothing wrong with a pair, the problem is your code.

Asking questions without providing information is like asking the following question:
"Hello Jasus, do you know what the unknown man in that unknown country said to the other
unknown woman at midnight ? "

Now try to answer that question correctly if you can.

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I can't give any more information, unless you want me to post a code with 2k+ lines here... You may not know the answer, but there may be people who had this problem before and they may know what's the problem.

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If an EA doesn´t find the way out of a loop, the condition for leaving the loop is not met.
If you debug, you have to know the values of the variables to find the reason.
7bit has published a nice debug method which is better than the Print statement of mql.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=245303

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The condition must be met, maybe it gets stuck in other thing. I'm kind of lost, because what variables do I need to look for? Besides, there's a strange thing. If I put the EA running in 20 pairs for example, 1 by 1, this problem doesn't appear. But if I start Metatrader with the EA already in those 20 pairs, it goes to 100% CPU usage until I close MT.

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