Account Balance at midnight

[chrisbenjy]

I am developing an EA which I would like to stop when it reaches a profit of 2% in a day.

 

Previously I just declared a variable called AccBalance and then set it to AccountBalance() in the initialization function and then do the multiplication to create the balance that the EA will stop at. However, a limitation of this method is that if I have to restart the EA, change a variable, etc, then the EA the 2% target will restart, even if I have made 1.5% that day already.

 

Therefore, I was wondering if there is a way to find out the account balance history, e.g. midnight last night.

 

I have an idea of how to do it, which is quite complex. It would be to make a while loop when selecting trades. While the date of the trade is the current date, subtract the profit from the trade from AccountBalance().

 

This is quite complex and I was wondering whether there is a preset function in the MQL library which does this?

Edited June 19, 2010 by chrisbenjy

[hein123]

This EA sound interesting, would you share it once finished.

I am not able to help you yet as I am just learning MQL currently

[soundfx]

Why not store the midnight account balance as a global variable?

 

GlobalVariableSet and GlobalVariableGet are the functions to use.

[iwjw]

deleted... Edited July 4, 2010 by iwjw