Delettion of pending orders

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Hi!

Please advice on how to write  a function to delete a pending order if it has not been triggered for a specified number of  periods (candles).

Thanks.

[William Roeder]

1. OrderSelect loop
2. iBarShift( ... OrderOpenTime() )
3. OrderDelete(OrderTicket()
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[[Deleted]]

can you please give me an example of using iBarShift thanks.

[William Roeder]

int nBarsSinceOpen = iBarShift(NULL,0, OrderOpenTime()); // What that so hard? RTFM

[[Deleted]]

Does anybody know any other way of closing orders if there was no trigger after a specified number of bars? thank you.

[Tjipke de Vries]

t0mbfunk:
Does anybody know any other way of closing orders if there was no trigger after a specified number of bars? thank you.

1. OrderSelect loop
2. check if Time[specified number of bars] >  OrderOpenTime() selected pending 
3. OrderDelete(OrderTicket()
4. Loops and Closing or Deleting Orders - MQL4 forum

[[Deleted]]

Thank you deVries,I am almost there, now please answer me this:

Is this one the correct way to put it?

I've declared DelTimeInSec as an external int var..Please advice.     

              datetime OOpenTime = OrderOpenTime();

              if(Time[0] - OOpenTime > DelTimeInSec)

Here is the whole loop:

  for(int a=OrdersTotal()-1;a>=0;a--)
  {
    if(OrderSelect(a,SELECT_BY_TICKET)
      if(OrderMagicNumber()==MagicNumber)
        if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol())
          if(OrderType()==OP_SELLSTOP || OP_BUYSTOP)
            datetime OOpenTime = OrderOpenTime();
              if(Time[0] - OOpenTime > DelTimeInSec)

[Tjipke de Vries]

 if(OrderType()==OP_SELLSTOP || OP_BUYSTOP)

 that line is wrong written 

if(OrderType()==OP_SELLSTOP || OrderType()==OP_BUYSTOP)

 

if(OrderSelect(a,SELECT_BY_TICKET)

 SELECT_BY_TICKET ???   You didn't read  

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You asked Please advice on how to write  a function to delete a pending order if it has not been triggered for a specified number of  periods (candles).

So you can't use  DelTimeInSec because you don't know how many bars that will be

don't forget weekend 

[[Deleted]]

deVries:

 that line is wrong written 

 

 

You asked Please advice on how to write  a function to delete a pending order if it has not been triggered for a specified number of  periods (candles).

So you can't use  DelTimeInSec because you don't know how many bars that will be

don't forget weekend 

Here is what i've thought of, should work no?

  for(int a=OrdersTotal()-1;a>=0;a--)
  {
    if(OrderSelect(a,SELECT_BY_TICKET))
      if(OrderMagicNumber()==MagicNumber)
        if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol())
          if(OrderType()==OP_SELLSTOP || OrderType()==OP_BUYSTOP)
            datetime OOpenTime = OrderOpenTime();
            int nBarsSinceOpen = iBarShift(NULL,0,OOpenTime);
              if(nBarsSinceOpen >= 2 && (OrderType() == OP_SELLSTOP || OrderType() == OP_BUYSTOP))
                OrderDelete(OrderTicket(),CLR_NONE);
  }

[Tjipke de Vries]

if(OrderSelect(a,SELECT_BY_TICKET)

 SELECT_BY_TICKET ???   You didn't read  

1. Loops and Closing or Deleting Orders - MQL4 forum

2.  for(int a=OrdersTotal()-1;a>=0;a--)
     {
       if(OrderSelect(a,SELECT_BY_TICKET))

   Is 'a'   here your OrderTicketnumber  ????

select

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Selecting flags. It can be any of the following values: SELECT_BY_POS - index in the order pool, SELECT_BY_TICKET - index is order ticket.

[[Deleted]]

ok so it should be:

(OrderSelect(a,SELECT_BY_TICKET,MODE_TRADES))

Is there anything else I did wrong?