How to - EA end itself

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I'm working with an EA for testing a series of functions, but I only want it to work one trade with each execution right now. How would I have the ea automatically end itself? I tried calling deinit() from start, but that didn't work. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Nick

[Glaswegian]

bool Stop = false;
 
int start()
{
    if (Stop)
        return (0);
 
    OrderSend(...);
    if (IsTesting())
    {
        Stop = true;
        return(0);
    )
}

Flag Stop prevents any further execution even though the tester doesn't stop and continues idling.

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Irtron:

bool Stop = false;
 
int start()
{
    if (Stop)
        return (0);
 
    OrderSend(...);
    if (IsTesting())
    {
        Stop = true;
        return(0);
    )
}

Flag Stop prevents any further execution even though the tester doesn't stop and continues idling.

Thanks.  I've should've realized it was that simple.

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This approach does not remove the EA from the chart, though. Is there a way to do that...and force the deinit() function to run?

[Edi Dimitrovski]

If you want to unload, than script is better, but it has to be loop with Sleep(xx_seconds*1000) between cycles of functions until order is sent, than should break the loop in function.

how would look like:

extern int sleep_seconds = 5;
int start() 
 {
  orderTicket=-1;
  while(orderTicket<0) // loop function until order is filed
   {
    // performing check functions and Order
    Sleep(sleep_seconds*1000); // pause the script to avoid 100% cpu occupancy
   }
  return(0);
 }

[wucunhua]

thank u very much