Need help! EA won't open any trades during Back testing!

[SaadUllah]

Hi There,

I am a novice in coding and Trading. I tried to build an EA with the little knowledge i have with the help of internet.

My concept is to open a Buy trade with following logic (If 2 Bull candles appeared followed by a bear candle --> Buy and reverse is true for Sell Order)

I tired to build the EA with this simple logic. The EA compiles with out any error or warning but when I Back tested it runs and complete the test but do not generate any trade!

I also tried attaching it to a chart and running it for a day but still no trade occurred! Would please take a look at the code below -

#property copyright "Copyright 2019, SAAD"
#property link      "SAAD"
#property version   "1.00"
#property strict

input double Lots          =0.1;
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert initialization function                                   |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int OnInit()
  {
//---
   Print("EA Loaded");
//---
   return(INIT_SUCCEEDED);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert deinitialization function                                 |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnDeinit(const int reason)
  {
//---
   Print("EA Loaded");   
  } 
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert tick function                                             |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnTick(void)
  {
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Variable Definition                                              |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
    
   double bid   =MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_BID); // Request for the value of Bid
   double ask   =MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_ASK); // Request for the value of Ask
   double point =MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_POINT);//Request for Point
   int    ticket;
   double c0c    = Close[0]; Print(c0c);
   double c0o    = Open[0]; Print(c0o);
   double c1c    = Close[1];
   double c1o    = Open[1];
   double c2o    = Open[2];
   double c2c    = Close[2];
   double c1L    = Low[1];
   double c1H    = High[1];       
   double closeBuyTrade   = c1L;
   double closeSellTrade  = c1H;   
   static int buySig = 0;
   static int sellSig = 0;
    
// Generate Buy Signal
         if (c2c<c2o && c1c>c1o && c0c>c0o){
                                       buySig = 1;
                                       } else {
                                                buySig = 0;
                                                return;}
// Generate Sell Signal
         if (c2c>c2o && c1c<c1o && c0c<c0o){
                                       sellSig = 1;
                                       } else {
                                                sellSig = 0;
                                                return;}
                  

 //--- check for long position (BUY) possibility
      if(c0c>c0o)
        {
         ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3,closeBuyTrade,closeBuyTrade,"renko sample",16384,0,Green);
         if(ticket>0)
           {
            if(OrderSelect(ticket,SELECT_BY_TICKET,MODE_TRADES))
               SendNotification(Symbol() + "BUY order opened : " + DoubleToString(OrderOpenPrice()));
           }
         else
            SendNotification("Error opening BUY order : " + DoubleToString(GetLastError()));
         return;
        }
 //--- check for Short position (SELL) possibility
      if(c0c<c0o)   
        {
         ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Ask,0,closeSellTrade,closeSellTrade,"renko sample",16384,0,Red);
         if(ticket>0)
           {
            if(OrderSelect(ticket,SELECT_BY_TICKET,MODE_TRADES))
               SendNotification(Symbol() + "Sell order opened : " + DoubleToString(OrderOpenPrice()));
           }
         else
            SendNotification("Error opening Sell order : " + DoubleToString(GetLastError()));
         return;
        }       
 
  }

 

[TheForexGuy]

Why don't you see the reason why the trade won't open.

         if(ticket>0)
           {
            if(OrderSelect(ticket,SELECT_BY_TICKET,MODE_TRADES))
               SendNotification(Symbol() + "BUY order opened : " + DoubleToString(OrderOpenPrice()));
           }
         else
            SendNotification("Error opening BUY order : " + DoubleToString(GetLastError()));
         return;
        }

You are using SendNotification for debugging? That's not going to work in the backtester.

Find out what the error response is...

ResetLastError();

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,3,closeBuyTrade,closeBuyTrade,"renko sample",16384,0,Green);

if( ticket <= 0 ) {
     printf("Ordersend BUY failed | Error code: %i ", GetLastError());
}