VoochVooch 2005.07.15 11:07 

I started fooling around with this code tonight in an effort to reduce mutliple orders going through at the same time when backtesting and to fix the problem where it keeps ordering stuff at an old price and selling at a newer price.

This seems to do a good job slowing down the order flow and is meant to fix/hack the problem I'm having here: "Backtesting problems with 4-hour charts" .

The bad thing is there's a performance hit from using this.

The good thing is that it might give me more accurate results when backtesting.

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// DO NOT PLACE AN ORDER IF WE JUST CLOSED AN ORDER WITHIN Period() MINUTES AGO
datetime orderclosetime;
int TheHistoryTotal=HistoryTotal();
string rightnow;
int rightnow2;
int difference;
for(cnt=0;cnt<TheHistoryTotal;cnt++) {
    if(cnt!=0) {
        if(OrderSelect(cnt,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY)==true)
        {
            orderclosetime=OrderCloseTime();
            rightnow=Year()+"-"+Month()+"-"+Day()+" "+Hour()+":"+Minute()+":"+Seconds();            
            rightnow2=StrToTime(rightnow);
            difference=rightnow2-orderclosetime;
            if(Period()*60>difference) {
                openbuyorders=99999;
                opensellorders=99999;
            }
        }
    }
}
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if (openbuyorders<1 && opensellorders<1) {
//  code to calculate stuff and buy/sell stuff
}