fmuir wrote:@ Wiggy1965,
How many symbols were you attempting to trade at the time that you had multiples trades of GBPUSD open? Is your broker an ECN?

My broker is an ECN. I had multiple trades of the same symbol open at the same time today. However, I was experimenting and had manufactured a trade. The fact that I had multiple trades open, on a demo account, surprised me. But, since I was experimenting, I didn't think too much about it. The reason might or might not be the same.

Regards,
-Frank

Wiggy1965 wrote: ...
These are the pairs i have configured....

GBPJPY,EURAUD,GBPUSD,EURJPY,AUDJPY,USDJPY,EURUSD,AUDNZD,NZDUSD,AUDUSD,EURGBP

I believe my broker is ECN....i think i mentioned in an earlier post that the broker is GFT....
...

fmuir wrote:@ SteveHopwood,
The following code was extracted from the SendSingleTrade function of BBBE v1j:


//Make sure the trade has appeared in the platform's history to avoid duplicate trades.
//My mod of Matt's code attempts to overcome the bastard crim's attempts to overcome Matt's code.
bool TradeReturnedFromCriminal = false;
while (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal)
{
TradeReturnedFromCriminal = O_R_CheckForHistory(ticket);
if (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal)
{
Alert(symbol, " sent trade not in your trade history yet. Turn of this ea NOW.");
}//if (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal)
}//while (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal)

//Got this far, so trade send succeeded
return(true);

}//End bool SendSingleTrade(int type, string comment, double lotsize, double price, double stop, double take)


If this code failed, wouldn't it allow multiple trades of the same symbol? If it allows multiple trades (because of failure), then different brokers might influence how the multiple trades are handled?

Just a thought!

Regards,
-Frank

fmuir wrote:@ SteveHopwood,
The following code was extracted from the SendSingleTrade function of BBBE v1j:


//Make sure the trade has appeared in the platform's history to avoid duplicate trades.
//My mod of Matt's code attempts to overcome the bastard crim's attempts to overcome Matt's code.
bool TradeReturnedFromCriminal = false;
while (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal)
{
TradeReturnedFromCriminal = O_R_CheckForHistory(ticket);
if (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal)
{
Alert(symbol, " sent trade not in your trade history yet. Turn of this ea NOW.");
}//if (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal)
}//while (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal)

//Got this far, so trade send succeeded
return(true);

}//End bool SendSingleTrade(int type, string comment, double lotsize, double price, double stop, double take)


If this code failed, wouldn't it allow multiple trades of the same symbol? If it allows multiple trades (because of failure), then different brokers might influence how the multiple trades are handled?

Just a thought!

Regards,
-Frank

McNish wrote: ... Why reset the boolean value once it is already calculated in the TradeDirectionBySwap section? Will it not override the swap conditions already calculated? ...

McNish wrote: ... SL of 20 is too tight ...

SteveHopwood wrote:

fmuir wrote: ... If this code failed, wouldn't it allow multiple trades of the same symbol? If it allows multiple trades (because of failure), then different brokers might influence how the multiple trades are handled?

Just a thought!

Regards,
-Frank

I had a look frank, and no. The point of the while (!TradeReturnedFromCriminal){} snippet is to drive the user nuts with repeated alerts to attract the user's attention, because it will not stop calling the O_R_CheckForHistory(ticket); function.

Extra layers of security never do any harm, so I will add to this. I will add code to suspend trading but allow management should some strange concatenation of events cause this to fail. Can't see how, and Matt is an exceptionally clever programmer with levels of understanding way, way beyond mine but hey, I can add an extra layer so why not?