"IF" statement formatting in MT4

A quick question regarding formatting of similar "if" statements. Are these both the same? Are both acceptable?


if ((OrderMagicNumber() == Trade24S) && (OrderSymbol() == Symbol())) TotalCount++;
if ((OrderMagicNumber() == Trade24S) && (OrderSymbol() == Symbol())) CountShort++;
if ((OrderMagicNumber() == Trade24S) && (OrderSymbol() == Symbol())) Count24++;
if ((OrderMagicNumber() == Trade24S) && (OrderSymbol() == Symbol())) Count24S++;


ALTERNATIVE:

if ((OrderMagicNumber() == Trade24S) && (OrderSymbol() == Symbol())) {TotalCount++;CountShort++;Count24++;Count24S++;}

The alternative does the same job ...

But what is your purpose of counting 4 times and store 4 different variables with the same result ?

Thank you. Good question. I suppose I don't need all of them at once, but sometimes when testing different systems, I use 2 or more counts, for example, right now I'm working on an idea that trades up to 24 Longs and Shorts (total 48) open trades at any given time and I don't want multiple trades on similar signals being executed, or the total trades to exceed X number of positions. For my own EA testing, I'm trying to use parts that I can port to any other EAs that I test via copy and paste and just work on the entry/exit algos instead of always trying to code around lot sizes or position quantity. Once an EA is ready for live, then I may go back and delete sections of repetitive code that does nothing, but lately I tend to put in redundant lines as back up. Reason for all this on the counts, is that I once programmed and traded a real money EA that was *supposed to* have 30 max open positions both long and short, and it worked well for a couple of days until one day I woke up to find 150 open positions, somewhere my *count* was off, and a potentially profitable week ended up with minus equity thanks to my horrible programming, extra slippage paid on 120 extra unwanted positions and a totally blown EA and account. Just trying implement ways to prevent major coding and logic errors I have made in the past, even though it may be more than needed. Thank you for your replies.

Just as an example, the counts in the example above could be different for each case...

TotalCount could be 48
CountShort could be 24
Count24 could be 2
Count24S could be 1

I would not want any of the max integers to go above, but in a fully maxed out trading scenario, I would want the counts to be 48/24/2/1 respectively and would want to know exactly what was open at any given time.