Hi autofx,glad to see you are still with us. I analize this weeks trades on my live account and summarize it as follows:
Winning trades : 262
losing trades : 90
Canceled orders: 665
This is the problem with the
EA as you mentioned earlier that it generates a lot of orders and
pending orders. If I will trade this method manually I will definitely not leave the pending orders which is not used I will cancel them. This is my suggestion and how I will trade it manually.
Set up the first initial six orders. when the market move lets say down set the 0 line buy pending order and add the rest of the opposite orders every time it
trigger the next level on the sell side. if it move now to the buy side of the 0-line and trigger the first level, set the 0-line sell pending order but not the rest. only place the rest of the orders if the market cross the 0-line to the sell side and delete all the other orders on the buy side which was not trigger.
What the EA must do is to keep track off the pending orders which it is suppose the place on the opposite side and only place them when it cross the 0-line in that direction and cancel the orders which the market did not triggered on the side it left.
Now for a better way to stop the ea when there is to much open trades.If you just stop the EA two things can happen. The market will move to the side with the most open trades and you win or it can move to the side with less open trades. The ratio between the two side will be 1 : 2 ( not sure it might be bigger) and you will lose with the ratio between the open sell and buy trades.
I think it will be better if you reached a point where the ea must stop to determine the total open orders and than balance them out buy placing the necessary pending orders so that if the market keep on ranging between the two sides and finally trigger the
take profit and stop on the one side the ratio between the two sides will be 1:1 between the open orders. You still have a 50% change that the market will move to the side that favors you before it trigger the pending orders but if not the damage is not that severe.
Just my 2 cents