Setting multiple booleans from one function
You could either declare your variables globally so that they can be modified in a function or
pass the vaiables to the function by reference.
Exactly. This is what I'm doing in my codes.
As Watford said. Just declare the Boolian variables as global then at the first lines of your start function assign them to false, then let your void type functions
work as switches of false and true according to the logic you are implementing.
Hi - Keith, Osama - thanks for the replies
The booleans are declared globaly (and set to false).
What I want to do is after the if statement change two booleans rather than one - i.e. I want to flick two switches with one void type function.
But I'm now wondering if I'm being dumb....
If I call a second boolena after the ; will that work - i.e. something like
if(CloseOne<UpperSD2OneMin)
SellBand1Trigger = true;
SellBand2Trigger = true;
If I call a second boolena after the ; will that work - i.e. something like
Just use parentheses.
If you use global variables
bool BuyBand3Trigger =false;
void SellPullBand1Trigger()
{
double UpperSD2OneMin = iBands(Symbol(),0,20,2,0,0,1,1),
UpperSD2TwoMin = iBands(Symbol(),0,20,2,0,0,1,2);
double CloseOne = iClose(NULL,0,1),
HighTwo = iHigh(NULL,0,2);
if(HighTwo>UpperSD2TwoMin && CloseOne<UpperSD2OneMin)
{
SellBand1Trigger = true;
BuyBand3Trigger = false;
}
}
or if you pass by reference
{
double UpperSD2OneMin = iBands(Symbol(),0,20,2,0,0,1,1),
UpperSD2TwoMin = iBands(Symbol(),0,20,2,0,0,1,2);
double CloseOne = iClose(NULL,0,1),
HighTwo = iHigh(NULL,0,2);
if(HighTwo>UpperSD2TwoMin && CloseOne<UpperSD2OneMin)
{
Trigger1 = true;
Trigger2 = false;
}
}
honest_knave: Just use parentheses.
| They are not parentheses.
Choose your words better. |
Quite right. Sometimes native speakers are the sloppiest when it comes to grammar.
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I'm experimenting with using what I think of as 'triggers'. They are booleans that start at false and then are set to true when certain parameters happen (X line cross Y line etc). I can then get the EA to place an order when a number of the booleans are all true. The advantage is that it allows for those 'checks' to happen in different orders - which reduces the amount of coding needed in checking whether they have all occured.
Other checks (such as 'order has been placed', or 'time X has passed') can then set one or more of the booleans back to false.
Given that some checks could trigger a change in more than one boolean (i.e. a particular signal might change a buy order boolean to true and a sell order boolean to false), I'm wanting to be able to adjust multiple booleans within a function.
I've searched around both on here and on other forums - but I've not been able to find a way to do this (and I've tried various things in the code).
Does anybody know a way to do this?
A sample of the code (which checks for the highe and close pice of candles 2 and 1 being either side of an upper bollinger band) is
{
double UpperSD2OneMin = iBands(Symbol(),0,20,2,0,0,1,1);
double UpperSD2TwoMin = iBands(Symbol(),0,20,2,0,0,1,2);
double CloseOne = iClose(NULL,0,1);
double HighTwo = iHigh(NULL,0,2);
if(HighTwo>UpperSD2TwoMin)
if(CloseOne<UpperSD2OneMin)
SellBand1Trigger = true;
}
And an example of what I want to do as well might be to set 'buyband3trigger = false' at the same time.
Any help much appreciated