My strategy opens the additional position, so I have more than one position opened simultaneously. Unfortunately, I don't know how to prevent the strategy from opening the additional position. The logic of the strategy is as follows: a position is opened after one green/red candle if two previous candles, pointing at the same direction, were not higher than 50 pips, or if two previous candles were different, i. e. one red candle and one green candle (in this case a position is being opened at the direction of the last candle). I created a strategy like this and I did not want to change the very logic of the strategy. Unfortunately, my strategy opens an additional position after two candles pointing at the same direction (see attachment).

Please, help me to set up my Strategy the right way. Thank You in advance.

hi man
if you want your strategy open only one position when the condition is true use this block
i hope i understand well your quistion

Hi rossi7700,

Thank you for your answer. It's not the thing I need. I am already using the block, proposed by you, in my strategy. Unfortunately, it does not help. I need something else, its definitely. Anyway, thanks for the answer.

Kind regards,
kostakis

You can use Open Positions.Positions Amount in Position Info folder variable.
So check if Open Positions.Positions Amount is 0 then you should open new position.

Dear Gorazd_Jernejc,

I am already using this block. Unfortunately, it does not help to limit the number of open positions to 1 position. You can be assured of that if you took my strategy (attached) and would test it on Historical Tester.
Thank you for your answer and I am waiting for other suggestions.

Hi,
Thank you so much for your help. Now it works perfectly. It was a really great solution.
Could you, please, help me with one more thing? This is an idea based on a counter with a loop, without the loop viewer block itself (see attachment). The system checks the MACD histo every 1 h and after 2 hours, if it stays below or above zero level, it gives you an alert (signal). The problem is that it gives you a signal every 2 hours but I need to have just one signal after 2 hours. In the other words I don't need to receive the signals after 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours etc. Unfortunately, I don't know how to eliminate the ensuing signals (4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours etc.).
Please, help me to resolve the problem. I greatly appreciate your help in this matter. Thank you in advance.

Hi...
My solution isn't ideal (not 100%) because you are using Multiple Action component, so this is your bad program design. There is still a theoretical possibility to heppend double order at the some time. And my solution doesn't handle all needed ThereadEvents.


Just create new custom boolean variable named, let say AlertSignal and set the default value to false.
When you get an alert signal first check the state of AlertSignal variable if it is false do alert and set AlertSignal variable to true, if it false then skip alert.

Thank you so much for your prompt answer. I tried to do that. Unfortunately, I am not a programmer and I failed. Could you please do that for me in the strategy attached?
Thank you in advance.

Hi

I have been having this problem or similar I guess and had extensive discussions with support team. It seems that testing/running systems on live data feed through VJF or compiling them and running them in JForex platform ""LOCALLY" causes this issue. I am not too sure as why this happens.

Try to run your system on JForex platform on "REMOTE RUN" I am pretty sure that will resolve your issue.

Here is the link to my thread regarding this issue might be helpful. Let me know how it works out for you.
https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english ... 46&t=52820
Cheers

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your answer. However, Gorazd_Jernejc already helped me with this issue. You can find his solution of this problem above. Again, thank you for your help.

Hi,

You were absolutely right my friend. I ran my strategy on JForex platform using "REMOTE RUN" and everything was ok. It opens just 1 trade simultaneously. It means that Open Positions.Positions Amount block works properly. The question is why it does not work on "LOCAL RUN". I applied with this question to support team before, unfortunately I got no answer. If to be precise, my question was, why my strategy opened multiple positions in spite the Open Positions.Positions Amount block was implemented. Unfortunately, the issue was not explained to me.
It would be interesting to find out how it works on real account. If you have any experience in that please, share it with me.
Thank you again my friend.