Please explain what could be wrong with this function? - VPS for Forex - General

Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.23 16:36 #1

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How can we communicate if there is an erroneous response first and then we ignore it. Application 2016.06.22 08:06, #1499568

Maybe something the community can explain?

Here is part of the EA code. Inside void OnTick().

   bool openNew, newDay, newHour;

    if((int)mqlDateTime.hour == startHour) // startHour = 0 Это условие выполнено.
     {
      newDay = newBar.IsNewBar(_Symbol, PERIOD_D1, oldDay); // 
   if(newDay)
    Print("***** newDay ", newDay, " mqlDateTime.hour ", mqlDateTime.hour); // Судя по распечатке newDay = true
       newHour = newBar.IsNewBar(_Symbol, PERIOD_H1, oldHour);
    if(newHour)
     Print("***** newHour ", newHour); // Судя по распечатке newHour = true
        if(newDay && newHour) // A ЭТО УСЛОВИЕ НЕ ВЫПОЛНЕНО НЕСМОТРЯ НА ПРЕДЫДУЩИЕ РАСПЕЧАТКИ.
         {
          openNew = openNew_or_No();
           Print("***** openNew ", openNew, " ***** PositionsTotal ", PositionsTotal()); // Эта распечатка отсутствует
            if(openNew || PositionsTotal() == 0)
             
              // Продолжение кода...
              // На несоответствие количества открывающих и закрывающих фигурных скобок прошу не обращать внимания.

This is the contents of the "Experts" tab.

2016.06.22 00:00:44.531 Toad Green (EURUSD,M15) ***** newHour true
2016.06.22 00:00:44.331 Toad Green (USDJPY,M15) ***** newHour true
2016.06.22 00:00:18.361 Toad Green (EURUSD,M15) ***** newDay true mqlDateTime.hour 0
2016.06.22 00:00:12.770 Toad Green (USDJPY,M15) ***** newDay true mqlDateTime.hour 0

First lines of logfile from 21.06 where it is clearly seen that the above code worked fine.

GM      0       00:00:30.116    Trades  '3265046': instant buy 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13188 tp: 1.13388 (deviation: 55)
NK      0       00:00:30.246    Trades  '3265046': accepted instant buy 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13188 tp: 1.13388 (deviation: 55)
IE      0       00:00:30.246    Trades  '3265046': deal #73303810 buy 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13188 done (based on order #87892298)
KI      0       00:00:30.246    Trades  '3265046': order #87892298 buy 0.01 / 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13188 done in 130 ms
ON      0       00:00:30.256    Trades  '3265046': instant sell 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13093 tp: 1.12893 (deviation: 55)
LQ      0       00:00:30.366    Trades  '3265046': accepted instant sell 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13093 tp: 1.12893 (deviation: 55)
HG      0       00:00:30.376    Trades  '3265046': deal #73303813 sell 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13093 done (based on order #87892301)
RK      0       00:00:30.376    Trades  '3265046': order #87892301 sell 0.01 / 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13093 done in 120 ms
MJ      0       00:00:30.376    Trades  '3265046': modify #87608748 sell 0.01 EURUSD sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12031 -> sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12462
GK      0       00:00:30.476    Trades  '3265046': accepted modify #87608748 sell 0.01 EURUSD sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12031 -> sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12462
OK      0       00:00:30.486    Trades  '3265046': modify #87608748 sell 0.01 EURUSD -> sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12462 done in 107 ms
OH      0       00:00:30.486    Trades  '3265046': modify #87892301 sell 0.01 EURUSD sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12893 -> sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12462
GJ      0       00:00:30.586    Trades  '3265046': accepted modify #87892301 sell 0.01 EURUSD sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12893 -> sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12462
KI      0       00:00:30.596    Trades  '3265046': modify #87892301 sell 0.01 EURUSD -> sl: 0.00000, tp: 1.12462 done in 109 ms
EN      0       04:20:25.608    Trades  '3265046': deal #73317674 sell 0.01 EURUSD at 1.13388 done (based on order #87906853)

The EA rests until the beginning of the next day.

Last 2 lines of log file from 21.06

OD      0       23:09:20.196    Network '3265046': scanning network for access points
NR      0       23:09:33.496    Network '3265046': scanning network finished

and beginning of log from 22.06

PM      1       02:13:39.422    Network '3265046': connection to MetaQuotes-Demo lost
GF      2       02:13:39.582    MQL5.community  authorization failed
DO      2       02:13:39.682    MQL5.community  authorization failed
IP      2       02:13:40.052    MQL5.community  authorization failed
PK      0       02:13:43.252    Network '3265046': authorized on MetaQuotes-Demo through Access Point RU Moscow (ping: 117.48 ms)
DI      0       02:13:43.252    Network '3265046': previous successful authorization performed from 31.173.80.184 on 2016.06.21 14:55:11

Support Team 2016.06.22 08:36

If you have both NewDay and NewHour printed simultaneously, they should be next to each other in the logs. With the same time

And in your logs they are not only from different EAs (EURUSD and USDJPY) but from different times

And the application has been closed...

Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.22 11:25

Sorry for the inconvenience, I wasn't paying attention to the time. But!!! Then why at appearance of the first bar of the new day, it-also the first bar of the new hour and the new minute the same function returns someone true to someone false and when it wants can return all correctly?

Please explain what can be wrong in this function?

/*****************Определение появления нового бара******************/
class cNewBar
{
   public:
bool IsNewBar(string symbol, ENUM_TIMEFRAMES timeframe, datetime & m_tOld)
 {
  datetime tNew = (datetime)SeriesInfoInteger(symbol, timeframe, SERIES_LASTBAR_DATE);
   if(tNew > m_tOld)
    {
     m_tOld = tNew;
     return(true);
    }
   return(false);
 }
};
/********************************************************************/

Why is it that everything was working fine for many weeks and all of a sudden it went wrong?

I KINDLY ASK YOU TO REFRAIN FROM EVALUATING THE USE OF SUCH A CLASS.

Support Team 2016.06.22 11:31

This function cannot be used repeatedly because of

m_tOld = tNew;

Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.23 10:17

Something I didn't immediately understand yesterday... After all, the variable m_tOld is passed to the variable by reference, which is declared at the level of global variables and should not affect the multiple call if different variables are passed to the function by reference. Isn't it so? First of all, why is it working correctly in Tester and Debug, and then it's not working on demo account.

Support Team 2016.06.23 10:24

What about this check?

   if(tNew > m_tOld)

Support Team 2016.06.23 10:24

Call your function 2 times in a row. If on the first call it returns true, on the next call it will return false, even though you call it on the same tick

Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.23 10:36

Well it is called. All required code I provided. Why it does not prevent in tester and debug, and in demo as you want? That's what I cannot understand. Well, if in the tester such a problem would occasionally occur, we could and should look for new ways, but there are no problems in the tester...

All the same, I have not saved an EA using the same function on mql4, but there were no problems. This problem has only appeared with mql5.

Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.23 10:41

So? So the test... Because before the check, variable tNew is assigned a value and it is compared to the variable passed by reference, not to m_tOld variable itself. And it, this m_tOld can have the value of time of the previous bar of the specified period, or 01.01.1970 if it is the first call. And only on the next tick for each period the values of the same bar will be compared.

Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.23 10:57

Note, different variables and different periods are passed to the function

      newDay = newBar.IsNewBar(_Symbol, PERIOD_D1, oldDay);
   

       newHour = newBar.IsNewBar(_Symbol, PERIOD_H1, oldHour);

AND ALL... After that I am completely ignored. Thanks for the prompt reply without delay, but I have not received any intelligible answer. If there's a bug in mql5, you can just write, "We're trying to fix it, so just wait...". But in this case, you are simply ignoring the problem.

A similar function in mql4 defined time change as a multiple of 15 seconds, and in mql5 this problem suddenly appeared...

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Dmitry Fedoseev 2016.06.23 17:53 #2

This is what improperly organised observation means when conducting an experiment.

Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.23 17:59 #3

Dimitri, has it started again? Maybe it is easier to answer the question "Why did the 21.06.2016 warrants open without problems, but 22.06.2016 suddenly the wrong surveillance organisation" or some other problem...

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Vladimir Karputov 2016.06.23 18:05 #4

Alexey Viktorov:
...

To answer that, you need a code. You have snippets of code. Make the minimum code so that anyone could run this code in his/her own place.

It would be also good to print in the code the values of variables - at the input to the function and at the output from the function.

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Dmitry Fedoseev 2016.06.23 18:17 #5

Alexey Viktorov:
Dimitri, has it started again? Maybe it is easier to answer the question "Why on 21.06.2016 the warrants opened without any problems, but on 22.06.2016 suddenly the wrong surveillance organisation" or some other problem...

If I just answer straightforwardly and as it is, I will probably get banned for it.

Alexander Bereznyak 2016.06.23 18:23 #6

Dmitry Fedoseev:
If I answer simply and straightforwardly, I'll probably get banned for it.

permanently...

Dmitry Fedoseev 2016.06.23 18:39 #7

Alexander Bereznyak:
forever...

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Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.23 18:41 #8

Karputov Vladimir:

To answer that, you need a code. You have snippets of code. Make the minimum code - so that anyone could run this code on their own.

It would be good to print the values of variables in the code - at the input to the function and at the output from the function.

No problem.

But note that there were no problems and suddenly... why? Apart from code snippets there are logs which show that on 21.06.2016 and before that it worked as it should be for weeks, but then on 22.06.2016 problems suddenly appeared. Before writing to SD, I repeatedly ran in tester, debugged on history and no problems were found.

That's why I doubt the usefulness of posting the code. It's just for fun.

#property strict

datetime oldDay, oldHour;
MqlDateTime mqlDateTime;
/*******************Expert initialization function*******************/
int OnInit()
{
   return(INIT_SUCCEEDED);
}/*******************************************************************/

/************************Expert tick function************************/
void OnTick()
{
  bool newDay, newHour;
   TimeToStruct(TimeCurrent(), mqlDateTime);
    if((int)mqlDateTime.hour == 0)
     {
      newDay = IsNewBar(_Symbol, PERIOD_D1, oldDay); // Обратите внимание на то, что это отдельная переменная передаваемая в функцию по ссылке
   if(newDay)
    Print("***** newDay ", newDay, " mqlDateTime.hour ", mqlDateTime.hour); // Судя по распечатке newDay = true
       newHour = IsNewBar(_Symbol, PERIOD_H1, oldHour); // А это совсем другая переменная
    if(newHour)
     Print("***** newHour ", newHour); // Судя по распечатке newHour = true
        if(newDay && newHour) // A ЭТО УСЛОВИЕ НЕ ВЫПОЛНЕНО НЕСМОТРЯ НА ПРЕДЫДУЩИЕ РАСПЕЧАТКИ.
         {
          Print("Ордер должен откыться. ");
         }
     }
}/*******************************************************************/

/*****************Определение появления нового бара******************/
bool IsNewBar(string symbol, ENUM_TIMEFRAMES timeframe, datetime &m_tOld)
 {
  datetime tNew = (datetime)SeriesInfoInteger(symbol, timeframe, SERIES_LASTBAR_DATE);
   if(tNew > m_tOld)
    {
     m_tOld = tNew;
     return(true);
    }
   return(false);
 }
/********************************************************************/

/******************Expert deinitialization function******************/
void OnDeinit(const int reason)
{
 Comment("");
}/*******************************************************************/

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Vladimir Karputov 2016.06.23 18:42 #9

Since the author isn't willing, I'll try it:

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                   test_1Vc2f.mq5 |
//|                              Copyright © 2016, Vladimir Karputov |
//|                                           http://wmua.ru/slesar/ |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Copyright © 2016, Vladimir Karputov"
#property link      "http://wmua.ru/slesar/"
#property version   "1.00"
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert initialization function                                   |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int OnInit()
  {
//---

//---
   return(INIT_SUCCEEDED);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert deinitialization function                                 |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnDeinit(const int reason)
  {
//---

  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert tick function                                             |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnTick()
  {
//---
   bool openNew,newDay,newHour;
//---
   newDay=IsNewBar(_Symbol,PERIOD_D1,oldDay); // 
   if(newDay)
      Print("***** newDay ",newDay," mqlDateTime.hour ",mqlDateTime.hour); // Судя по распечатке newDay = true
   newHour=IsNewBar(_Symbol,PERIOD_H1,oldHour);
   if(newHour)
      Print("***** newHour ",newHour); // Судя по распечатке newDay = true
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                                  |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
bool IsNewBar(string symbol,ENUM_TIMEFRAMES timeframe,datetime &m_tOld)
  {
   datetime tNew=(datetime)SeriesInfoInteger(symbol,timeframe,SERIES_LASTBAR_DATE);
   if(tNew>m_tOld)
     {
      Print("in: m_tOld = ",m_tOld);
      m_tOld=tNew;
      Print("out: m_tOld = ",m_tOld);
      return(true);
     }
   return(false);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

What remains to be decided is the structure"mqlDateTime" and where to declare the variables "oldDay" and "oldHour"...

Alexey Viktorov 2016.06.23 18:44 #10

Karputov Vladimir:

Since the author is unwilling, I'll try:

What remains to be decided is the structure"mqlDateTime" and where to declare the variables "oldDay" and "oldHour"...

All the answers are in the post above.