I am creating a strategy in FT2 and have a question regarding orders.
How can I determine if an order has been closed due to hitting its stoploss?
I tried using the OrderSelect function expecting it to return FALSE if the order in question has already been closed. However it returns TRUE regardless.
The command I used was:
OrderSelect(OrderHandle, SELECT_BY_TICKET, MODE_TRADES)
I assumed once the order hit the S/L and was closed (and hence moved to the History tab of the terminal), that the function would no longer be able to select the order in question and return FALSE. However as I said it always returns TRUE.
In testing I also used the OrderTicket() function and it returns the ticket number regardless of whether the order is still open or not.
The help file seems to say that the OrderSelect MODE_TRADES option limits the order search to the open and pending trades so why is it picking up closed trades (from Trade History)?
Am I missing something here?
Your help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Steve
UPDATE: I just found the OrderClosed() function which has solved my initial problem (Completely missed it in the help file on last search
). However, I still don't understand why the above OrderSelect function returns TRUE for a closed order when MODE_TRADES is used. Should this not limit the search to those orders that are still open or pending? Thanks.