PositionsTotal() not OrdersTotal()

[Essam Daoud]

Hi

I want to loop over the open positions in my account and not the open orders. How is that done as

 OrdersTotal()

gives the total number of working orders plus the open positions.

Thanks

[Marco vd Heijden]

Depends on the language used, depends on type of account used.

You specified: None.

[Essam Daoud]

mql4. Live account.

[Marco vd Heijden]

Then it's

OrdersTotal();

[Essam Daoud]

that still does not answer the question on how to select open positions and not open orders

[William Roeder]

1. MT4 only has orders. It has no concept of positions.

2. Using OrdersTotal directly and/or no Magic number filtering on your OrderSelect loop means your code is incompatible with every EA (including itself on other charts and manual trading.)
             Symbol Doesn't equal Ordersymbol when another currency is added to another seperate chart . - MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - MQL4 programming forum
             MagicNumber: "Magic" Identifier of the Order - MQL4 Articles

[nicholish en]

I want to loop over the open positions in my account and not the open orders

for(int i=OrdersTotal()-1; i>=0; i--)
      if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS) && OrderType()<2)

[Essam Daoud]

nicholi shen:

sorry, that did not cut it either.

[Marco vd Heijden]

Show your code.

There is only one OrderSelect() and one OrdersTotal() in MQL4.

[Konstantin Nikitin]

In MQL4 only OrdersTotal

     for(int i=OrdersTotal()-1; i>=0; i--)
     {
        if(!OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS)) continue;
        if(OrderType() != ORDER_TYPE_BUY_LIMIT  && OrderType() != ORDER_TYPE_BUY_STOP &&
           OrderType() != ORDER_TYPE_SELL_LIMIT && OrderType() != ORDER_TYPE_SELL_STOP) continue;
        /* work */
     }

And check in search

[Keith Watford]

Konstantin Nikitin:
In MQL4 only OrdersTotal

   for(int i=OrdersTotal()-1; i>=0; i--)
     {
        if(!OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS)) continue;
        if(OrderType() != ORDER_TYPE_BUY_LIMIT  && OrderType() != ORDER_TYPE_BUY_STOP &&
           OrderType() != ORDER_TYPE_SELL_LIMIT && OrderType() != ORDER_TYPE_SELL_STOP) continue;
        /* work */
     }

And check in search

This will not execute

/*work*/

if the order is OP_BUY or OP_SELL

Is that what you intended?