How to store historic indicator values in an EA - page 2

[Mladen Rakic]

rookie_forawhile:
Thank you for answer mladen.

Hmm, but it doesn't seem to do what I want the program to do.

Like I said last time, I need the PreviousValue to equal CurrentValue only if there are no trades placed. If there is an active trade, I want PreviousValue not to equal currentvalue but equal the last currentvalue before the trade was placed (thats why we made previousvalue static, remember?).

CurrentValue=iCustom (blah,blah)

bool IsTrade=False;

static double PreviousValue=-1;

if(OrderType() <= OP_SELL && OrderSymbol() == Symbol())

{

IsTrade = True;

PreviousValue = CurrentValue;

} [/php]

This code seems to set previousvalue equal to current value only when there is a trade active. It is an opposite of what i am trying to achieve.

Thank you.

If you need to store value only if there is no trade active, why don't you count the number of currently opened orders for a magic number and symbol and assign a value to previous value only if that number of currently opened orders is 0?

Something like this :

[PHP] int count=0;

for (int i=OrdersTotal()-1; i>=0; i--)

{

if (!OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES) continue;

if (OrderSymbol() != Symbol()) continue;

if (OrderMagicNumber() != SomeMagicNumber) continue;

if (OrderType()==OP_BUY || OrderType()==OP_SELL)

count++;

}

if (count==0) PreviousValue = CurrentValue;

That way it will not depend on any variable and can easily be run from multiple terminals and multiple EA instances without a possibility of error

[rookie_forawhile]

Thanks a lot :-) works like a charm now :-) well, at least it does what its supposed to...