Monitors

Monitors can be used to monitor different changes on Mt4 structs.

MtMonitorBase

This is the base class for monitoring extensions. If inherited MtMonitorBase needs an instance of MtApiClient and IMonitorTrigger.

SyncTrigger (which can be set in the constructor or as Property) can be used to define whether the trigger should be started and stopped as well if Start() or Stop() will be called on an instance of a child class of MtMonitorBase. Keep in mind: If an IMonitorTrigger will be used for several monitors, SyncTrigger set to true would cause that all monitors related to this trigger would stop:

var fooTrigger = new FooTrigger();
var fooMonitor = new FooMonitor(apiClient, fooTrigger, true);
var barMonitor = new FooMonitor(apiClient, fooTrigger, false);

fooTrigger.Start();
barMonitor.Start();
fooMonitor.Start();

fooMonitor.Stop(); //Because of SyncTrigger = true in the constructor of FooMonitor, fooTrigger.Stop() were triggered as well. Therefore barMonitor will not get any further triggers.

IMonitorTrigger

An IMonitorTrigger is for defining when the monitor should check whether his conditions are met for invoking his event.

There are already two IMonitorTriggers which can be used:

NewBarTrigger

Triggers when a new bar starts

TimeElapsedTrigger

Triggers when a defined time elapsed

Default monitors:

There are already two different monitors defined. You can extend them or define new ones by inheriting from MtMonitorBase.

TradeMonitor

Can be used to get updates on new opened trades or closed trades.

ModifiedOrdersMonitor

Can be used to get updates on modified trades (takeprofit, stoploss, operation).

OrderModifiedTypes defines which modifications should be monitored:

1. None would cause no monitoring. But please use Start() and Stop() instead.
2. TakeProfit would cause observing whether the TakeProfit were changed.
3. StopLoss would cause observing whether the StopLoss were changed.
4. Operation would cause observing trades which changed from a stop / limit order to an open order.
5. All would cause observing all above defined.

Because OrderModifiedTypes is defined with the Flag-Attribute, you can combine the above monitoring types with a pipe: OrderModifiedTypes.TakeProfit | OrderModifiedTypes.StopLoss.

Example

var orderModifyMonitor = new ModifiedOrdersMonitor(
    _apiClient,
    new MtApi.Monitors.Triggers.TimeElapsedTrigger(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)),
    OrderModifiedTypes.All,
    true
);
orderModifyMonitor.OrdersModified += OrderModifyMonitor_OrdersModified;
orderModifyMonitor.Start();

private void OrderModifyMonitor_OrdersModified(object sender, ModifiedOrdersEventArgs e)
{
    //Receives the event
}