Discussion of article "A Virtual Order Manager to track orders within the position-centric MT5 environment"

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New article A Virtual Order Manager to track orders within the position-centric MT5 environment is published:

This class library can be added to an MT5 Expert Advisor to enable it to be written with an order-centric approach broadly similar to MT4, in comparison to the position-based approach of MT5. It does this by keeping track of virtual orders at the MT5 terminal, while maintaining a protective broker stop for each position for disaster protection.

Author: Paul

[investeo]

I have been waiting for that article, thanks.

[Eric]

Really nice article

Bravo 

[Sergey Pavlov]

Virtual orders are the best way to model MQL4 trading functions in the new MT5 terminal.
Thanks to the author for the idea and the article.

[Dezil]

Just the other day I thought that sooner or later one bright head will create such a library. Thank you very much - this is what I need and what stopped me at this stage from mastering version 5. In my case there is just the joint work of several experts on one tool

[Vasily]

badass

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What can I say, ours (ruskaphones) were only whining and crying on the forums that their favourite locs were being deprived. And here, the foreign-speaking part of the MT community has done it. A striking contrast, as it is not sad, in the approach to solving the problem.

[Wackena]

There seems to be a flaw with VOM.

I loaded the FraMA Cross EA VOM.mq5 EA to EURUSD H1 chart and manually opened a Sell order.  With the open sell order, there is no Comment() on chart. Pic attached.

/+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert tick function                                             |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnTick()
  {
// Need to include this line in all EAs using CVirtualOrderManager  
   VOM.OnTick();
   Comment(VOM.m_OpenOrders.SummaryList());

I also tested this Comment() in EA with 1 open sell order and Comment line on chart was "Open Orders = 0".

/+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert tick function                                             |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnTick()
  {
// Need to include this line in all EAs using CVirtualOrderManager  
   VOM.OnTick();
   Comment("Open Orders = ",VOM.OpenOrders());

[Paul]

wackena:

There seems to be a flaw with VOM.

I loaded the FraMA Cross EA VOM.mq5 EA to EURUSD H1 chart and manually opened a Sell order.  With the open sell order, there is no Comment() on chart. Pic attached.

I also tested this Comment() in EA with 1 open sell order and Comment line on chart was "Open Orders = 0".

 

That's correct, wackena.  What you have done is to go direct to the server to with a conventional order, so there is no virtual order open.  You would need to use the VirtualOrderManagerTester to issue a manual virtual order.

 I should have made it clear in the article that if a VOM EA is introduced on a particular symbol, then all other EAs trading that symbol must also be VOM-enabled.  This is because of the Disaster Protection SL code in the VOM.

 Paul 

[Paul]

Rosh писал(а) # :

Virtual Order Manager for managing orders in MetaTrader 5 terminal positions has been published:

Author: Paul

Thank you for your kind words and interest. I don't know how to write in Russian, but I hope Google translate accurately represent what I'm saying.

I think very highly of the Russian Metatrader community and hope that somehow we can work together to improve the PTO library. It will always be open source, non commercial, and I think it is important for its survival at least at first that when it is updated the code is not broken into multiple versions. I have no problems at all with it being used in commercial EAs.

Please leave comments and questions, either here on the English mql5 site or on the blog http://paulsfxrandomwalk.blogspot.com/, and I promise to spend time making V1.1, V1.2 even better.

Paul

[Yedelkin]

HideYourRichess:
What can I say, ours (ruskaphones) were only whining and crying on the forums that their favourite locs were being deprived. And here, the foreign-speaking part of the MT community has done it. A striking contrast, as it is not sad, in the approach to solving the problem.

There are enough whiners everywhere, regardless of language :) The rest of us work on the problems as much as we can and, as a result, we don't see any striking contrasts.

As for the authors who publish their developments - a huge respect and esteem!