EA Help Needed - Closing Existing Orders

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Hi..

I have been working with an indicator and was able to create an EA that opens an order based on the indicator which says "Buy" or "Sell".

I am not a programmer and was quite happy to see the EA place the order.

I can not however figure out how to close the order..

The EA is set for 25pip target & a 25pip stop loss. The target and stop loss works fine... I want the order to run until it either reaches profit, gets stopped out OR the indicator shows the opposite sign...

For example if I have a buy in place and am 6 pips in profit, I want to close the existing buy with the 6 pips if the indicator produces a "Sell" sign..

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 
SuzanneFX:
Hi..

I have been working with an indicator and was able to create an EA that opens an order based on the indicator which says "Buy" or "Sell".

I am not a programmer and was quite happy to see the EA place the order.

I can not however figure out how to close the order..

The EA is set for 25pip target & a 25pip stop loss. The target and stop loss works fine... I want the order to run until it either reaches profit, gets stopped out OR the indicator shows the opposite sign...

For example if I have a buy in place and am 6 pips in profit, I want to close the existing buy with the 6 pips if the indicator produces a "Sell" sign..

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hello,

here is a piece of code you may use which will close all open orders:

//----------------------- CLOSE ORDER FUNCTION

//----------------------- SOURCE: FIREDAVE

void subCloseOrder()

{

int

cnt,

total = 0,

ticket = 0,

err = 0,

c = 0;

total = OrdersTotal();

for(cnt=total-1;cnt>=0;cnt--)

{

OrderSelect(cnt, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES);

if(OrderSymbol()==Symbol() &&

OrderMagicNumber()==MagicNumber)

{

switch(OrderType())

{

case OP_BUY :

for(c=0;c<10;c++)

{

ticket=OrderClose(OrderTicket(),OrderLots(),Bid,3,Violet);

err=GetLastError();

if(err==0)

{

if(ticket>0) break;

}

else

{

if(err==0 || err==4 || err==136 || err==137 || err==138 || err==146) //Busy errors

{

Sleep(5000);

continue;

}

else //normal error

{

if(ticket>0) break;

}

}

}

break;

case OP_SELL :

for(c=0;c<10;c++)

{

ticket=OrderClose(OrderTicket(),OrderLots(),Ask,3,Violet);

err=GetLastError();

if(err==0)

{

if(ticket>0) break;

}

else

{

if(err==0 || err==4 || err==136 || err==137 || err==138 || err==146) //Busy errors

{

Sleep(5000);

continue;

}

else //normal error

{

if(ticket>0) break;

}

}

}

break;

case OP_BUYLIMIT :

case OP_BUYSTOP :

case OP_SELLLIMIT:

case OP_SELLSTOP :

OrderDelete(OrderTicket());

}

}

}

}

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