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  • #1
  • First Post: Edited Nov 27, 2015 2:55pm Nov 26, 2015 9:31am | Edited Nov 27, 2015 2:55pm
At the moment i am running an EA that is used for opening orders when price is hitting horizontal lines. I have multiple horizontal lines plotted on my chart that each act as either a limit or stop order, but without ticket number until price touches the specific line. Therefore i am not able to use codes that remove pending orders (neither can i modify or delete these horizontal lines because they are plotted on a chart that is running a different EA).

To make myself more clear, what i am looking for is a bit of code that closes down MT4 (or shuts downs all EA's currently running), when an open order got closed by either take profit, stoploss, or other/manual. Is this possible within MT4? Thanks.
  • #2
  • Nov 27, 2015 6:13am Nov 27, 2015 6:13am
I found an EA that shuts down MT4 when certain criteria are met so it is possible it seems. Criteria here is when current floating loss or profit is met MT4 will shut down. Its an .ex file so unfortunately cannot paste the code here. Another solution would be to disable autotrading within MT4 but i doubt coding this is possible without creating some additional .dll files...
  • #3
  • Nov 27, 2015 7:23am Nov 27, 2015 7:23am
Quoting Robertk
I found an EA that shuts down MT4 when certain criteria are met so it is possible it seems. Criteria here is when current floating loss or profit is met MT4 will shut down. Its an .ex file so unfortunately cannot paste the code here. Another solution would be to disable autotrading within MT4 but i doubt coding this is possible without creating some additional .dll files...
Robert-
I don't fully understand what you are tying to but take a look through this site.
https://www.mql5.com/en/code/mt4/libraries
  • #4
  • Nov 27, 2015 2:48pm Nov 27, 2015 2:48pm
Thanks for your suggestion Cyber. Attached is an EA that has been made with an external source which i cannot mention in here because of that being seen as potential commercial intensions. Anyway, below EA is coded to terminate itself after a trade is closed (tp/sl/manual). Now instead of terminating itself, i hope to edit the code in such a way that it terminates the whole mt4 platform. Despite below EA including mass amounts of additional information i hope some coders in here are able to find what code lines are relevant for termination of the EA, to then replace it with termination of the MT4 platform instead.

On a sidenote i tried notifications send to my mobile phone when triggers take place, to then remotely shutdown my whole notebook/pc from phone. While this might work its way too stressful and i cannot keep track of my mobile phone 24/7.
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File Type: mq4 Terminate_EA_after_tradeclose.mq4   168 KB | 802 downloads
  • #5
  • Nov 28, 2015 2:39am Nov 28, 2015 2:39am
Hmm.. I dont know how toshut down MT4 from Ea itself. EAs ar not for this kind of work.
I dont understand why you need this action, but I see 2 options:
1. You can stop all EAs , which are able to process tje flag value, fired in one of them.
But EAs from other designer will not recognize flag.
But, I dont sure, that your approach accepts different EAs?
2. You need external tool (C++) program to stop MT4's process after setting flag inside EA.

Quoting Robertk
Thanks for your suggestion Cyber. Attached is an EA that has been made with an external source which i cannot mention in here because of that being seen as potential commercial intensions. Anyway, below EA is coded to terminate itself after a trade is closed (tp/sl/manual). Now instead of terminating itself, i hope to edit the code in such a way that it terminates the whole mt4 platform. Despite below EA including mass amounts of additional information i hope some coders in here are able to find what code lines are relevant for termination of the...
  • #6
  • Nov 28, 2015 4:37am Nov 28, 2015 4:37am
Quoting Robertk
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http://docs.mql4.com/common/terminalclose

or http://docs.mql4.com/common/expertremove.

The problem with this is that you have to call it on every chart an EA is attached to.
  • #7
  • Nov 28, 2015 5:26am Nov 28, 2015 5:26am
Quoting hanzov
Hmm.. I dont know how toshut down MT4 from Ea itself. EAs ar not for this kind of work. I dont understand why you need this action, but I see 2 options: 1. You can stop all EAs , which are able to process tje flag value, fired in one of them. But EAs from other designer will not recognize flag. But, I dont sure, that your approach accepts different EAs? 2. You need external tool (C++) program to stop MT4's process after setting flag inside EA. {quote}
1,2: Unfortunately the other EA is from another designer that only distributed its compiled .ex format so not able to add/edit flags to it. Thanks anyway!

Quoting Kilian19
{quote} http://docs.mql4.com/common/terminalclose or http://docs.mql4.com/common/expertremove. The problem with this is that you have to call it on every chart an EA is attached to.
I will try to experiment some with terminalclose this weekend. The expertremove will not work i'm affraid considering the multiple EA's from different distributors on each chart (they all need to close at once). I wish they could communicate with eachother in some way. I know this can be done with the trading terminal(grouping trades etc), but the problem is that my trades arent in existence (they are just horizontal lines).
  • #8
  • Nov 28, 2015 6:13am Nov 28, 2015 6:13am
Ok created an alternative solution for this by using the WebRequest() function. Request will be send to a website that opens a script which will shutdown my notebook/pc. Everything seems to work so far but will have to wait for market to open in order to see if it works on ticks.
  • #9
  • Nov 28, 2015 6:24am Nov 28, 2015 6:24am
Quoting Robertk
Ok created an alternative solution for this by using the WebRequest() function. Request will be send to a website that opens a script which will shutdown my notebook/pc. Everything seems to work so far but will have to wait for market to open in order to see if it works on ticks.
Isn't this a bit too much of an overkill? You could also iterate over every chart and change the symbol/time frame back and forth and ea trading will be disabled if set correctly.
  • #10
  • Nov 28, 2015 6:38am Nov 28, 2015 6:38am
Quoting Kilian19
{quote} Isn't this a bit too much of an overkill? You could also iterate over every chart and change the symbol/time frame back and forth and ea trading will be disabled if set correctly.
Really? I thought that only worked for charts that have the same EA attached. If it works on charts controlled by a different EA then thats a nice solution Kilian.
  • #11
  • Nov 28, 2015 6:53am Nov 28, 2015 6:53am
Quoting Robertk
{quote} Really? I thought that only worked for charts that have the same EA attached. If it works on charts controlled by a different EA then thats a nice solution Kilian.
You are able to feetch the ChartID of every chart opened and the function http://docs.mql4.com/chart_operation...etsymbolperiod takes the id as parameter so you are likely able to manipulate every charts you want to. You have to see if the ea gets disabled as I have not tried it out but it's the behavior I would expect.

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The symbol/period change leads to the re-initialization of the Expert Advisor, attached to a chart. Re-initialization is not performed on offline charts, they're only refreshed (the same as when clicking Refresh in the terminal).

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  • #12
  • Nov 28, 2015 7:20am Nov 28, 2015 7:20am
Quoting Kilian19
{quote} You are able to feetch the ChartID of every chart opened and the function http://docs.mql4.com/chart_operation...etsymbolperiod takes the id as parameter so you are likely able to manipulate every charts you want to. You have to see if the ea gets disabled as I have not tried it out but it's the behavior I would expect. Note The symbol/period change leads to the re-initialization of the Expert Advisor, attached to a chart. Re-initialization is not performed on offline charts, they're only refreshed (the same as when clicking...
Danke schön, got to go now but will make sure to look at it tomorrow.
  • #13
  • Nov 29, 2015 1:14am Nov 29, 2015 1:14am
You should be able to modify this script code to shut down the MT4 AutoTrading button. This is the same as using Ctrl/E to shut down auto trading.
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File Type: mq4 shutdown.mq4   < 1 KB | 586 downloads
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  • #14
  • Dec 1, 2015 2:37pm Dec 1, 2015 2:37pm
Quoting Robertk
{quote} 1,2: Unfortunately the other EA is from another designer that only distributed its compiled .ex format so not able to add/edit flags to it. Thanks anyway! {quote} I will try to experiment some with terminalclose this weekend. The expertremove will not work i'm affraid considering the multiple EA's from different distributors on each chart (they all need to close at once). I wish they could communicate with eachother in some way. I know this can be done with the trading terminal(grouping trades etc), but the problem is that my trades arent...
I told you about other designs..
But how you are ready to treat orders opened by other EAs?
If you close MT4 , it is not correct in relation to these orders. They are still alive and without any management could produce significant losses.
  • #15
  • Dec 1, 2015 3:01pm Dec 1, 2015 3:01pm
Quoting hanzov
{quote} I told you about other designs.. But how you are ready to treat orders opened by other EAs? If you close MT4 , it is not correct in relation to these orders. They are still alive and without any management could produce significant losses.
The problem has already been fixed Hanzov . All EA's have magic number 0 and there is only one EA managing the opening of orders. When MT4 is closed nothing can be opened, nor are any trades running at that time. Current code checks first if there are any open trades. If not it closes down the platform. Everything working fine so far.
  • #16
  • Dec 2, 2015 9:18am Dec 2, 2015 9:18am
Quoting Robertk
{quote} The problem has already been fixed Hanzov . All EA's have magic number 0 and there is only one EA managing the opening of orders. When MT4 is closed nothing can be opened, nor are any trades running at that time. Current code checks first if there are any open trades. If not it closes down the platform. Everything working fine so far.
Very nice! But.. why you need EAs not opening orders??
  • #17
  • Nov 20, 2017 7:37am Nov 20, 2017 7:37am
Among Trailing Equity EA's, as per my experience, Equity Sentry is the best one.

 

  1. Account equity drops to a certain level (money/percentage/pips)
  2. Account equity reaches a certain level (money/percentage/pips)
  3. Open trades (floating loss/profit) reaches certain level

It will close all running EA's and will shutdown your MT4 terminal (best in case you are copying signals from other traders)

EA can perform several actions on Trigger:

  1. Close open trades
  2. Delete pending orders
  3. Disable Autotrading on MT4 terminal, which makes all EA‘s to stop any operations or simply prevent them from opening, modifying or closing any trades on the account. EA disables Autotrading in a very simple manner by clicking the „Autotrading“ button pro grammatically in the top MT4 toolbar.
  4. Close MT4 terminal completely.

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File Type: zip Equity Sentry 1.4.zip   202 KB | 518 downloads
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  • #18
  • Last Post: Dec 1, 2017 4:58am Dec 1, 2017 4:58am
Can it close the order at a certain equity value?

I tested a lot of combinations can not find the clue

Equity Sentry 1.4 seems to count only OPEN TRADES. ??

E.g

I have equity $1000 , I want it close all trades &EA at equity $1200

I try to set EquityProfitMoney $200 or EqutiyProfitPercent 20

I am a lot of small orders profit-taking many small orders accumulated

but it only noticed OPEN TRADES

It seems to pay attention only to whether the ONLINE ORDERS has $200

not calculate from $1000 to $1200
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