order type integer?

[Eric]

hi, i want to check if order is sell orbuy type,and this require an integer...but wich one is buy and wich one the sell? cant find infoin help file...

i can not do this; if (OrderGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE)==ORDER_TYPE_BUY)??somebody can show mewhere i can find int value of a buy and sell order?

the only thing i can see is this...   https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/constants/tradingconstants/orderproperties#enum_order_type 

Identifier	Description
ORDER_TYPE_BUY	Market Buy order
ORDER_TYPE_SELL	Market Sell order
ORDER_TYPE_BUY_LIMIT	Buy Limit pending order
ORDER_TYPE_SELL_LIMIT	Sell Limit pending order
ORDER_TYPE_BUY_STOP	Buy Stop pending order
ORDER_TYPE_SELL_STOP	Sell Stop pending order
ORDER_TYPE_BUY_STOP_LIMIT	Upon reaching the order price, a pending Buy Limit order is places at the StopLimit price
ORDER_TYPE_SELL_STOP_LIMIT	Upon reaching the order price, a pending Sell Limit order is places at the StopLimit price

Identifier	Description
ORDER_TYPE_BUY	Market Buy order
ORDER_TYPE_SELL	Market Sell order
ORDER_TYPE_BUY_LIMIT	Buy Limit pending order
ORDER_TYPE_SELL_LIMIT	Sell Limit pending order
ORDER_TYPE_BUY_STOP	Buy Stop pending order
ORDER_TYPE_SELL_STOP	Sell Stop pending order
ORDER_TYPE_BUY_STOP_LIMIT	Upon reaching the order price, a pending Buy Limit order is places at the StopLimit price
ORDER_TYPE_SELL_STOP_LIMIT	Upon reaching the order price, a pending Sell Limit order is places at the StopLimit price

 thank you

[Rashid Umarov]

See function OrderGetInteger:

OrderGetInteger

Returns the requested order property, pre-selected using OrderGetTicket or OrderSelect. Order property must be of the datetime, int type. There are 2 variants of the function.

1. Immediately returns the property value.

long  OrderGetInteger(    ENUM_ORDER_PROPERTY  property_id        // Property identifier    );

2. Returns true or false depending on the success of the function. If successful, the value of the property is placed into a target variable passed by reference by the last parameter.

bool  OrderGetInteger(    ENUM_ORDER_PROPERTY  property_id,       // Property identifier    long&                long_var           // Here we accept the property value    );

Parameters

property_id

[in]  Identifier of the order property. The value can be one of the values of the ENUM_ORDER_PROPERTY_INTEGER enumeration.

long_var

[out]  Variable of the long type that accepts the value of the requested property.

Return Value

Value of the long type.

Where you can get order type:

ENUM_ORDER_PROPERTY_INTEGER

Identifier	Description	Type
ORDER_TIME_SETUP	Order setup time	datetime
ORDER_TYPE	Order type	ENUM_ORDER_TYPE
ORDER_STATE	Order state	ENUM_ORDER_STATE
ORDER_TIME_EXPIRATION	Order expiration time	datetime

[Wackena]

OrderSend() generates and Order > Order closes when Order becomes a Deal > Deal closes when Deal becomes the Position you see in Toolbox/Trade tab.

OrderGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE) is for pending orders. See OrderGetTicket() in MGL5 Reference Manual.

To find ORDER_TYPE of last OrderSend() call from EA or Manual Trade.

This following examples work for EA that opens 1 position at a time per Symbol(). When a position is open, then we want to find ORDER_TYPE of last Deal.  Because there is opposing ORDER_TYPE Deal to close existing open position, we then must look at 2 Deals back to get ORDER_TYPE.

   string LastOrderType;
   uint total=0;
   HistorySelect(0,TimeCurrent()); // Selects all closed Orders and Deals
   total=HistoryDealsTotal(); // Sets "total" to number of all closed Deals
         
   if( PositionSelect(_Symbol) )
      {
         HistoryDealGetTicket(total); // Select Ticket number of last closed Deal
         if( PositionsTotal() > 0 )
            {
               LastOrderType = HistoryDealGetInteger(total,ORDER_TYPE); // Selects ORDER_TYPE of last Deal in the opened position
            }
      }
         else LastOrderType = HistoryDealGetInteger(total-1,ORDER_TYPE); // Selects ORDER_TYPE of 2 Deals back in the last closed position

   Print("LastOrderType ",LastOrderType);

It would easier to used this to find ORDER_TYPE.  ORDER_TYPE remains the same until new opposing  position is opened.

  string LastOrderType;
  if( PositionSelect(_Symbol) )
    {
      if( PositionsTotal() > 0 )
        {
          LastOrderType = PositionGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE);
        }
    }
  Print("LastOrderType ",LastOrderType);

[Eric]

ok, i'll try to do it short and clear. I only want to check if a pending order is of buy type or sell type.

So when I get the INTeger of the order_type, I can not find to what INTeger to compare it to. For example:

 if (OrderGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE) == 1 )

or 

 if (OrderGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE) == -1 )

it can not be this:

 if (OrderGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE)=="ORDER_TYPE_BUY")  because "ORDER_TYPE_BUY" is a string...

but where can i find the integer value representing a buy and a sell for PENDING ORDER TYPE ?

 

Thank you for trying to explain rosh and wackena but i think you did not understand my question

[Eric]

ok i found the answer... by printing the value of an order type of a sell order i get integer 5 and for a buy order type i get integer 4 .. but i can not find somewhere in the help file these value and i had to check them ..  would be appreciated to have a table with the int value of a integer type

  so i have to write it like this

if (OrderGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE) == 5 )

 would be a sell pending order

 

 

if (OrderGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE) == 4 ) 

would be a buy pending order 

 

but for all property of int type i can not find any INTEGER value in the table ? do we have to check for all ? 

[ricar vidab]

 

if(OrderGetInteger(ORDER_TYPE) == ORDER_TYPE_SELL_LIMIT)   

               

the above worked just fine

i guess that, as a reserved word, there is no difference if you put the number or type the order type 

perhaps you have to make sure its really the type of order you send

regards

           

[William Roeder]

ricar: i guess that, as a reserved word, there is no difference if you put the number or type the order type

Don't hard code numbers; it's not an int; use the proper enumeration.