displaying total trade count and total profit within a running EA

There is no such built-in functions, you need to code it. What have you tried ?

Show us your OrderSelect loop where you count trades and sum profit.

i started working with mt4 with only a half year of programming knowledge from highschool over ten years ago.

 

this may be beyond me then. i cant code from scratch yet. im more or less, breaking down several other examples to see how things function

and then editing them to get what i want and referencing the mql4 dictionary 

 

i figured this would be a worthy feature and many would throw it in their programs to illustrate progress.

 

Backtesting displays all of this in the report tab, i figured these would be built-in

 

summing profits....i wouldnt even know where to start...

 

as for reporting trade count ive been trying to report OrdersTotal()

   for(cnt=0;cnt<OrdersTotal();cnt++)
   {
      OrderSelect(cnt,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES);
      if(OrderType()<=OP_SELL &&
         OrderSymbol()==Symbol() &&
         OrderMagicNumber()==MagicNumber) total++;
   }
   return(total);
}

 

 

i guess i wrongly assumed everyone would want this feature in their EA so i thought there be a plethora of examples to illustrate 

Symbol Doesn't equal Ordersymbol when another currency is added to another seperate chart . - MQL4 forum

double ProfitAll(){
   int err=0;
   double profit=0;
   
   for(int i=OrdersTotal()-1; i >= 0; i--){
      if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)){
            if(OrderMagicNumber()== magic)
                profit+=OrderProfit()+OrderCommission();
      }
      else
      {
         Print("Failed to Select Order.");
         err = GetLastError();
         Print("Encountered an error while seleting order ,error number "+(string)err+" "+ErrorDescription(err));
      }
   }
   return profit;
}

int totalOpenOrders(){
  int total=0;
  int type;
  for(int i=OrdersTotal()-1; i >= 0; i--){
      if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)){
         if(OrderMagicNumber()== magic){
            type=OrderType();
            if(type == OP_BUY || type == OP_SELL)
               total++;
         }
      }
           else Print("Failed to select order",GetLastError());
  }
  return total;
}

For this to work you would probably have to make your magic number dependent on your chart symbol and timeframe.

For example something like this:

int generateMagic(){
   string mySymbol=StringSubstr(_Symbol,0,6);
   int pairNumber=0;
   int GeneratedNumber=0;
        if(mySymbol == "AUDCAD")    pairNumber=1;
   else if(mySymbol == "AUDCHF")    pairNumber=2;
   else if(mySymbol == "AUDJPY")    pairNumber=3;
   else if(mySymbol == "AUDNZD")    pairNumber=4;
   else if(mySymbol == "AUDUSD")    pairNumber=5;
   else if(mySymbol == "EURAUD")    pairNumber=9;
   else if(mySymbol == "EURCAD")    pairNumber=10;
   else if(mySymbol == "EURCHF")    pairNumber=11;
   else if(mySymbol == "EURUSD")    pairNumber=15;
   else if(mySymbol == "GBPAUD")    pairNumber=16;
   else if(mySymbol == "GBPCAD")    pairNumber=17;
   else if(mySymbol == "GBPCHF")    pairNumber=18;
   else if(mySymbol == "GBPJPY")    pairNumber=19;
   else if(mySymbol == "USDJPY")    pairNumber=28;
   else                             pairNumber=29;
   
   GeneratedNumber=MagicSeed+(pairNumber*100)*Period();
   return(GeneratedNumber);
  }

  Just add the pairs you want to trade. (and their correct name for your broker)

  This method might not be bulletproof but it works for me.