OrderCloseTime()

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I run an EA and sometimes need to Close an Order manually.

My EA immediately opens another Order, which i dont want.

Really, I need a time interval between closing one order and EA opening another. I was trying to use OrderCloseTime() to get last order close time, but either my code is incorrect or there is a bug in this MQ4 function.

OrderCloseTime() works only if there is significant time between ticks.

Anybody resolved similar problem or knows how to do it in MQ4?

Thanks,

euro

 

Have you tried using the Sleep() function?

void Sleep( int milliseconds)

The Sleep() function suspends execution of the current expert within the specified interval.

The Sleep() function cannot be called from custom indicators since they calculate in the interface thread and may not decelerate it.

The checking of the expert stop flag status every 0.1 second has been built into the function.

Parameters:

milliseconds - Sleeping interval in milliseconds.

Sample:

//---- wait for 10 seconds

Sleep(10000);

Hope this helps

 
wolfe:
Have you tried using the Sleep() function?

void Sleep( int milliseconds)

The Sleep() function suspends execution of the current expert within the specified interval.

The Sleep() function cannot be called from custom indicators since they calculate in the interface thread and may not decelerate it.

The checking of the expert stop flag status every 0.1 second has been built into the function.

Parameters:

milliseconds - Sleeping interval in milliseconds.

Sample:

//---- wait for 10 seconds

Sleep(10000);

Hope this helps

Thanks, wolfe.

I thought about it.

Ideally i dont want EA to suspend execution, just not to start new trades

euro

 

You can try this.

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// DO NOT PLACE AN ORDER IF WE JUST CLOSED

// AN ORDER WITHIN Period() MINUTES AGO

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

datetime orderclosetime;

string rightnow;

int rightnow2;

int TheHistoryTotal=HistoryTotal();

int difference;

int flag=0;

for(cnt=0;cnt<TheHistoryTotal;cnt++)

{

if(OrderSelect(cnt,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY)==true) //check history

{

if ( (OrderSymbol()==Symbol()) && (OrderMagicNumber() == MagicNumber) ) // only symbol and magic

{

orderclosetime=OrderCloseTime();

rightnow=Year()+"-"+Month()+"-"+Day()+" "+Hour()+":"+Minute()+":"+Seconds();

rightnow2=StrToTime(rightnow);

difference=rightnow2-orderclosetime;

if(Period()*60*2>difference)

{ // At least 2 periods away!

flag=1; // Throw a flag

break;

}

}

}

}

if(flag!=1)

{

Your code condition here

}

 

OrderCloseTime()

ejoi,

interesting code, thanks.

I managed to write a couple of lines of code that do the trick

If my EA is profitable you will have some royalties,

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