@roar said in Time as a variable:

@goatan
Working with minutes and hours is really frustrating, I have found it better to count the bars:

@l-andorrà said in Time as a variable:

I agree. Counting bars on the appropriate chart is much easier than catching a 'standard' time variable.

Thank you both this gives me something to look into and i have never noticed the modify variable block before.

@roar Thank you, that was exactly what i needed and has helped me understand using the variable a little more. Thank you thotheothers that helped also.

Thanks that has helped clear things up.

Hi,

Change of question as I think I am dealing with objects.

When I attach the ea that is looking for certain object condition of an indicator I also need the indicator attached to the chart? Is this testable in mt5 or do jsut need to make an indicator version i.e arrows instead of buying and attach it to a live chart and see what happnes?

I am tryign to to test an ea on more than one symbol. I have copied the logic and changed the specific symbol and it runs when there is onyl one symbol i get an infinte sleep loop. Any ideas on why.

@roar Thank you, that was exactly what i needed and has helped me understand using the variable a little more. Thank you thotheothers that helped also.

I havefound a script that i can potentially use with some modification -the script simply outputs the swap value for long and short and colours the object green if its positive and red if negative. - the problem is it is a script i dont think i can import it as an indicator. Is there any way of converting this script.

Thanks but i think that is for the swap on an open trade. I need to now to the swap rate before the trade is opened.

Does anyone know how to use swap rate as a condition to open a trade i.e open trade if swap rate is positive and ither condition are meet. I have founbd this thread https://fxdreema.com/forum/topic/7233/find-swap-rates-before-order-opened which has some custoe code that might well no what i want but i don't actually know how to use it.

@roar said in Time as a variable:

@goatan
Working with minutes and hours is really frustrating, I have found it better to count the bars:

@l-andorrà said in Time as a variable:

I agree. Counting bars on the appropriate chart is much easier than catching a 'standard' time variable.

Thank you both this gives me something to look into and i have never noticed the modify variable block before.

Hi i am looking to use time as a variable so that when the ea first loads it places the current time in a variable. Then a bucket of closed postions would use the variable as its start time. Once a certain amount of profit is hit on closed and current postions then all trades are closed and a block is run that will update the time variable. I'm not sure if this is actually possible. using the buckets ok but controlling what tiem period the one looking at closed postions is proving impossible for me.

What I am looking to do is have an EA that checks all closed an open profit. Once it has hit a certain level it closes all positions then starts calculating the open or closed profit from the time it closed all positions. I am sure I did this previously with chart objects, buckets and then redrawing the object. But cannot remember at all how I did it.