EA that allows a certain amout of trades per symbol

Trading Systems Expert Advisors and Automated Trading
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Hi there,

Is there an EA that limits trades per symbol? Instead of editing the EA, I want to run another EA that can do this.
I want to set it so that another EA places a buy or sell per day per symbol.

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I have never seen or heard of an EA that does that. Most EAs have a max trades setting which applies to that particular EA. What you are asking for would be an overseer EA that controls whether another EA can open a trade. Thats pretty sophisticated as far as EAs go. Plus every EA you use would need to be modified.

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Thank you CodeMeister. So it would be better to modify the actual EA to do this? It currently opens two or three orders on some currency pairs. The only reason I went for an “overseer EA” is because I thought it would be easier to find than asking a coder to get involved. Unfortunately my little or no coding knowledge will not get me far with this.(it won’t even get me started) I know coders get a lot of requests to have their strategies developed into an EA, but could you please help me? or point me in the direction where I should ask for this?

It will be highly appreciated…

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The original coder is the best person to do this. I really dislike working with others’ code.

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I got this EA from the terminal’s EA code base. Thought of contacting him, can see his name and everything, but no email address or anything.

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Ok, with help, I figured it would be much easier to code the existing EA so it only opens 1 order per pair per day. At the moment it opens 2 or 3 trades per day, so after each order, I uncheck the “allow live trading” box on a pair once the first trade has opened, but it is tedious, and not being around the computer all day, it will open that unwanted second or third trade on a currency pair. Please help, all I can offer is this EA, which should be profitable once the 2nd/3rd trade per currency pair is eliminated. I emphasise that it should only open one trade per currency pair so it is not confused with one trade per day.
Please please please.

(I tried uploading the file here, but to no avail - will try later - or perhaps of someone willing to help has a better idea)