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It is a 's common situation when for a customer expects to expect an order to be generated and executed or vice versa , not be generated and not to be executed at a particular place on a chart. Adding A combination of the 2 following line under the same conditions right before the line, generating your buy/sell orders will methods should help you understand why an order was filled or not during auto trading. ==Order and Position Tracker== If an order was generated and sent from the script to understand at what particular bara broker plugin, when it is displayed in the Order and at what Position Tracker on the Orders tab. If an order is filled, you can see it's execution price is your order triggered in code:and details (see [[Order and Position Tracker|Orders Tab]]).

'''print("The date ==Monitoring from Script==This method is "extremely useful not only for backtesting, DateToString(DateToJulian(Date)), "since the Order and Position Tracker has nothing in common with the historical calculation process, but also for live auto trading because you can see the strategy logic printed out in real-time is ".Adding the following line under the same conditions right before the line, TimeToString(ELTimeToDateTime(Time)), "when generating your buy/sell orders, will help you to understand at what particular bar # is ", maxbarsback+currentbar-1, "when, market position on chart is", MarketPosition, ", market position and at broker is", MarketPosition_at_Broker, ", here a LIMIT/STOP what price your order to BUY/SELL is generated by triggered in the script at ", "100 price (example)");'''code:

<div style="background-color: #E5F6FF;">'''Example'''Var: ...<br>If condition1 = true and condition2 = false then begin<br>print("The date is ", DateToString(DateToJulian(Date)), ", time is ", TimeToStringScale(ELTimeToDateTime(Time)), ", bar # is ", maxbarsback+currentbar-1, ", market position on chart is", i_marketposition, ", market position at broker is", i_MarketPosition_at_Broker, ", here a LIMIT/STOP order to BUY/SELL is generated by the script at ", "100 price"0);<br>sellshort next bar at 100 limit;<br>end;</div>'''

<br>'''If MinMove < 10 then''' <br>'''Scale = 1;'''<br>'''If MinMove > 99 and MinMove < 1000 then''' <br>'''Scale = 2;'''<br>'''If MinMove > 999 and MinMove < 10000 then'''<br>'''Scale = 3;'''<br>'''If MinMove > 9999 and MinMove < 100000 then'''<br>'''Scale = 4;'''<br>'''If MinMove > 99999 and MinMove < 1000000 then'''<br>'''Scale = 5;'''<br><br>'''If Condition1 = true then begin'''<br> '''print( "======================", NewLine,'''<br> '''"The date is ", DateToString(DateToJulian(Date)), ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"time is ", TimeToString(ELTimeToDateTime(Time)), ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"bar # is ", maxbarsback+currentbar, ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"current bar open is ", open, ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"current bar high is ", high, ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"current bar low is ", low, ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"current bar close is ", close, ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"market position on chart is", MarketPosition, ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"market position at broker is", MarketPosition_at_Broker, ",", NewLine,'''<br> '''"Condition1 is true, so at close of this bar the limit order to buy at ", NumToStr(close,scale), " is generated by the script", NewLine, '''<br> '''"to be executed at bar # ", maxbarsback+currentbar+1);'''<br> '''Buy next bar at close limit;'''<br><br>'''end else begin<br> '''print( "======================", NewLine,<br> '''"The date is 03", DateToString(DateToJulian(Date)), ",", NewLine,<br> '''"time is ", TimeToString(ELTimeToDateTime(Time)), ",", NewLine,<br> '''"bar # is ", symbol_currentbar, ",", NewLine,<br> '''"current bar open is ", open, ",", NewLine,<br> '''"current bar high is ", high, ",", NewLine,<br> '''"current bar low is ", low, ",", NewLine,<br> '''"current bar close is ", close, ",", NewLine,<br> '''"market position on chart is", MarketPosition, ",", NewLine,<br> '''"market position at broker is", MarketPosition_at_Broker, ",", NewLine,<br> '''"Condition1 is false, so no order is generated.07");<br>'''end;'''<br><br>If the script is applied to your chart and it is opened in the PowerLanguage Editor, you will be able to see the following lines in the Output tab:<br><br>''======================<br>''The date is 10/8/2013,<br>''time is 4:00:00 PM,<br>''bar # is 995.00,<br>''current bar open is 865.32,<br>''current bar high is 865.98,<br>''current bar low is 851.63,<br>''current bar close is 853.67,<br>''market position on chart is 1.00,<br>''market position at broker is 0.00,<br>''Condition1 is false, so no order is generated.2012<br>''======================<br>''The date is 10/9/2013, <br>''time is 184:4500:00PM, <br>''bar # is 4362 996.00, <br>''current bar open is 856.28,<br>''current bar high is 862.65,<br>''current bar low is 842.98,<br>''current bar close is 855.86,<br>''market position on chart is 1.00, <br>''market position at broker is 10.00, here a LIMIT <br>''Condition1 is true, so at close of this bar the limit order to SELL buy at 855.9 is generated by the script at 100 price'<br>''to be executed at bar # 997.00<br>