Coding Questins

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stearno

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11 years ago #110895

Few questions I have come across:

1. I want to enter when MA is acting as support. So I want to buy when a bullish candle formation occurs within x number of pips of the MA. How can I code this in EA Wizard? I htought about "Close" < MA+ConverttoRealPips(parameter that is 5), but I was did not know if this was correct. Here is the code I have so far:

2. I want to limit trading by a start time and an end time. Am I doing it correctly?

Paremeters:

Code:

3. I noticed on the example EA's that the code always included "Is Bar Open is True". Does this need to be in every EA – it is what starts the logic pattern?

Thank you, Mark!

-Stearno

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Mark Fric

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11 years ago #120905

1. I want to enter when MA is acting as support. So I want to buy when a bullish candle formation occurs within x number of pips of the MA. How can I code this in EA Wizard? I htought about “Close” < MA+ConverttoRealPips(parameter that is 5), but I was did not know if this was correct. Here is the code I have so far:

the condition [b]Close < MA+ConverttoRealPips(5)[/b] will be true if Close price is lower than value of MA + 5 pips, it is probably what you want to achieve.

2. I want to limit trading by a start time and an end time. Am I doing it correctly?

no, you have two mistakes there:
– the time parameters cannot be given as a string – like 08:00. You have to split them to hour and minute (or only use hour part if minute will be always 0).
So your parameters shoudl be:
StartTime1 int 8
EndTime1 int 16
StartTime2 int 14
EndTime2 int 17

– then in the condition you can either use Hour[0] > StartTime1
or if you want to use Time[0] then youhave to use function GetTime() on the other side of comparison, like
Time[0] > GetTime(StartTime1, 0, 0)
and
Time[0] < GetTime(EndTime1, 0, 0)

3. I noticed on the example EA’s that the code always included “Is Bar Open is True”. Does this need to be in every EA – it is what starts the logic pattern?

yes, every EA contains preparation for the use of this variable, but it is not used unless you use it inn your trading rule.

Mark
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11 years ago #120910

Thanks, Mark! On, the limitation of trading by hour: if I say 6 in the StartTime1 field and say >, then that means it would start trading at 7. So if I want it to start at trading at 0600, then I should use >=, correct?

Lastly, do I use 6 or 06? It appears by your answer above, I use 6 but wanted to be sure.

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11 years ago #120918

Thanks, Mark! On, the limitation of trading by hour: if I say 6 in the StartTime1 field and say >, then that means it would start trading at 7. So if I want it to start at trading at 0600, then I should use >=, correct?

Lastly, do I use 6 or 06? It appears by your answer above, I use 6 but wanted to be sure.

yes, if you want to start at 6 you should use Hour[0] >= 6

You should use 6, it is a number, not text

Mark

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11 years ago #120925

Thanks, Mark.

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