EA opening system

[etrader58]

I have a problem with EA.

When I manually close a trade opened by EA, EA will open another trade since the signal is still in the same direction.

How can I lead EA to open only one trade after each signal change ?

[Jimmy]

Depends on what you want exactly. In general your EA has to keep track what kind of a trade last time it opened.

int lastTrade = -1;
 
...
    // signal decides it is to BUY, then:
    if( lastTrade != OP_BUY ) {
        // do send the buy order
        lastTrade = OP_BUY;
    }
 
...
   // signal decides it is to SELL, then:
   if( lastTrade != OP_SELL ) {
       // do send the sell order
       lastTrade = OP_SELL;
   }

[etrader58]

To clarify the case, I am talking about ASCTrend EA with the following script for buy and sell:

 
if (!ExistPositions()){//2
  if (PS){//3
  OpenSell();
  return(0);
  }//3   
  if (PB){//3
  OpenBuy();
  return(0);
  }//3   
 }//2
 
 if (ExistPositions()){//2
  if(OrderType()==OP_BUY){//3
   if(EnableCloseByASCTrend){//4
    if (PS){//5
    CloseBuy();
    return(0);
    }//5
   }//4
  }//3 
  if(OrderType()==OP_SELL){//3
   if(EnableCloseByASCTrend){//4
    if (PB){//5
    CloseSell();
    return(0);
    }//5
   }//4
  }//3