Prompted by a query, I thought I'd post a useful little utility that I have used for ages which emails the status of the account every hour. After lengthy deliberation I decided to call it .... EmailStatus. With only a small modification it could be used to log the status to a file, and the time interval could be changed also.
Treat it as an indicator, and store it accordingly. The indicator approach to running scripts is useful because they are reloaded when the terminal is restarted, whereas scripts are not.
Here's a view of what comes in the email
Margin 999
Free margin 9999
Open profit 99
Open orders
Open time local Type Lots Symbol Price S/L T/P Now Profit Comment
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1 Dec 21:49:04 Sell 0.10 EURUSD 1.3098 1.3401 0.0000 1.3121 -26 xxxxx
Pending orders
Open time local Type Lots Symbol Price S/L T/P Now Comment
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Treat it as an indicator, and store it accordingly. The indicator approach to running scripts is useful because they are reloaded when the terminal is restarted, whereas scripts are not.
Here's a view of what comes in the email
Balance 9999
Equity 9999Margin 999
Free margin 9999
Open profit 99
Open orders
Open time local Type Lots Symbol Price S/L T/P Now Profit Comment
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 Dec 21:49:04 Sell 0.10 EURUSD 1.3098 1.3401 0.0000 1.3121 -26 xxxxx
Pending orders
Open time local Type Lots Symbol Price S/L T/P Now Comment
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
