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Hello,
After my close long hits it keeps trying to reopen new buy and then close long takes it out again. This happens over and over opening new closing etc. etc. It shouldn't open new position with a buy once the ta block logic has been met so why is this happening?
Thank you.

You have a simple >= condition in both BUY TA blocks. Without further restriction, every time this simple condition is true your EA enters a buy trade. Maybe try adding new TA's that say shift 2 < (was previously below) to better define your crossover.

Also, using shift 0 in a TA while using CompletedBars in the START icon may not be doing what you think. Shift 0 will evaluate your condition every tick, overriding CompletedBars. Use shift 1 to evaluate based on the last closed price bar if that's what you're after.

I'll try other options
thanks.

I was assuming that completed bars does just that. It should execute once bar is actually completed and not during the actual formation of the bar. It sounds like that is what tick by tick should do. So what is the real difference between completed and tick on the home screen then?
Thank you.

The ea will trade once a bar at the open (when the first tick of the new bar is received)
The issue is the logic, you have something like this:
if x then close
if y then open
which is evaluated once per bar in that sequence. Both conditions may overlap (both close and buy may be true at any given moment). You need to change the logic to avoid overlaps.

got it thanks much