Simple Event for Position Open, Modify, Close?

[andrewfblake]

Hi all,

Hoping you can help a newbie out here!

I'm trying to get some basic events fired off to a DLL I'm building for when a Position is Opened, Closed, and Modified, but its all pretty foreign to me, and it seems as though there isn't an 'easy' way to do it!

From what i'm reading, I _think_ need to use the TradeTransaction() event, and then check the action codes for for the Orders/Deals and somehow piece all of those together to assume my position? But when running some tests, the TradeTransaction runs off a lot of low level commands which I think i need to piece together to assume my position?

I've found some script to get all current positions, and thought maybe I just check the current positions every Tick, but thats not too elegant! 

Just wondering if i'm on the right track here before I waste days on end and half a head of hair! Or if anyone has come across a nice snippet of code that does this? Like the CTrade set of scripts?

Thanking you for any nuggets of wisdom here..

Cheers,

Andrew

[William Roeder]

Why complicate your EA? DLLs can not trade, they can't be used on most VPSs. Why write in two languages. Just learn the language.

[andrewfblake]

William Roeder:
Why complicate your EA? DLLs can not trade, they can't be used on most VPSs. Why write in two languages. Just learn the language.

Couldn't agree more.. I am learning the language, but for speed, and for code re-use, i'm using a DLL as I use the same functions for cTrader... 

So for now, i'm trying to learn how to get the basic current status of positions for the DLL, and over time, as I become more confident, will move into this. Last thing I want to do is have the complication of DLLs, it does make things a messier... agreed.

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated! .. No biggie though, will figure it out at some stage!