Looking when pending order is started and when tp/sl was triggered

[Martin Bittencourt]

Hi!

I'm developing an EA that works with pending orders. These pending orders get their stop loss and take profit at the start. I need to be able to know if the order has started and if either the stop loss or take profit have been triggered.

The first necessity is easy: I just call HistoryOrderSelect and with HistoryOrderGetInteger I check if the order has the state "ORDER_STATE_FILLED". But I'm having difficulty finding the proper way to do the second request. I know I can use PositionSelect if there is an ongoing operation, but I'd like to avoid such method due to future plans for the EA. I also know I can simply check, tick by tick if the current candle's high and low have crossed either the stop loss or take profit prices, but I'm not sure if that is a guaranteed solution, it looks processor expensive and truly isn't a case of "beautiful" code.

So is there another way of knowing if the operation is still open or if either stop loss or take profit have been triggered?

[Alain Verleyen]

See this topic and follow the links.

[Martin Bittencourt]

Hello Alain,

thanks you for your support.