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Hi you all,

My EA works best when I increment the lots by 0.1 after each order. I want to send it to the Championship, so I came up with a formula to stop the lots at 5.

I am new to Mql4, there may be a better way, but this is all I can think off. The following code works fine with the strategy tester, but I have noticed that when I start the EA on the demo account, the lots does not increment and each order open with 0.4 lots.

input parameters

extern double Lots=0.3;

..................

{
Lots = Lots + 0.1;
if(Lots>4.9)
Lots=5;
ticketNum=OrderSend(Symbol( ), OP_BUY,Lots, Ask,2,0,0, "lou",1964, 0, Blue);
}

I have modified the above code with the code below. Now it works fine on demo, but when I use the strategy tester, it works fine the first time but the other times, it starts the lots where it left off ( example:it starts with 0.4, 0.5, etc.. but if it stops at 3.6, the next time I start the tester my lots will starts at 3.7).

input parameters

extern double Lots=0.3;

..................

{
Lots = OrderLots( ) + 0.1;
if(Lots>4.9)
Lots=5;
ticketNum=OrderSend(Symbol( ), OP_BUY,Lots, Ask,2,0,0, "lou",1964, 0, Blue);
}

Can anybody help?

Thank you

1. You could use a variable to retain the last lots SaveLots=Lots; // this comes after OrderSend;

and

Lots=SaveLots+0.1; //before ordersend

2. You could do similar, with a global variable

Lots=GlobalVariableGet("SaveLots")+0.1;

...

GlobalVariableSet("SaveLots",Lots) ; // after ordersend

however, you have to make sure SaveLots is being set at 0, if not already existing (check with GlobalVariableCheck())

3. Most complicated and safe, use a function that works for sure

double GetLastOrderLots()

  {

   double lotsize=0.00;

   int maxtime=-1;

   int ntrades=OrdersTotal();

   if (ntrades!=0)

     {

       for (int i=ntrades-1;i>=0;i--)

           {

             if (OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)==True)

               {

                 if (OrderOpenTime()>maxtime)

                   {

                     maxtime=OrderOpenTime();

                     lotsize=OrderLots();

                   }

               }

            }

       }

   return(lotsize);

}