Market Position - flat, short or long

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Hello,

I am trying to establish the code for Market Position if flat, short or long could anyone help me in this?

How would you workout if the Market Position is flat, short or long - what calls can be made? would it be Order....

Thanks in advance.

Peter.

[William Roeder]

Count how many of each type you have

int nBuys = 0, nSells = 0;
for(int iPos = OrdersTotal()-1; iPos >= 0; iPos--) if(
   OrderSelect(iPos, SELECT_BY_POS)
&& OrderMagicNumber() == magic.number  
&& OrderSymbol()      == symbol.chart){
   if(OrderType() == OP_BUY)  nBuys++;
   if(OrderType() == OP_SELL) nSells++;
}
bool isFlat = nBuys == 0 && nSells == 0;

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WHRoeder:
Count how many of each type you have

Thanks for your help - not sure what magic.number and symbol.chart would be defined as?

[MisterDog]

I had questions about the magic number when I first started as well. There's nothing magic about the magic number. I use my birthdate. 

This article will explain, https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1359 

[William Roeder]

And I use the date when starting to code a new EA - 20130429