Does anyone have a simple script (not an EA) that will buy/sell orders
with a stop and a target profit input?

OR

The attached buy/sell scripts don't have a target profit
parameter. If someone could please add target profits to the attached scripts that would also work.

Either scenario would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Attached Files

	Buy.mq4 (1.4 KB, 132 views)
	Sell.mq4 (1.4 KB, 94 views)

Suppose you want to set the profit target to 30 pips, then do the following:

Look up this line in the buy routine,
ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,1.0,Ask,3,Ask-20*Point,0,"expert comment",255,0,CLR_NONE);

and make it look like this:

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,1.0,Ask,3,Ask-20*Point,Bid+30*Point,"expert comment",255,0,CLR_NONE);

Thanks. I'll try it out. Could you tell me what changes I would need to do the same for a sell order?

I think you owe it to yourself to study MQL if you are going to to use it. Otherwise depending on others is too dangerous.

Study the code I gave you and see WHAT changes and WHERE the changes I made. That should give you clues on what to change in the sell routine.

Good luck.

Thanks for the advice. I've been slowly learning the language through the mql course, but as i have no programming experience, it has been a slow process. Just wanted to get started trading in the meantime.

Okay, you should try to understand the code better. I think if you had spent some time, your definitely would have understood how the buy/sell ordersend functions work.

For the sell, assuming you want 30 pips of stop loss,

change

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,1.0,Bid,3,Bid+20 *Point,0,"expert comment",255,0,CLR_NONE);

to

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,1.0,Bid,3,Bid+20 *Point,Ask - 30*Point,"expert comment",255,0,CLR_NONE);

Edit:- I had an error that I corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.

I actually took a look at again before your last post and figured it out. But my changes look a bit different but it seems to work okay.

I had:

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,10.0,Bid,3,Bid+2 0*Point,Bid-30*Point,"expert comment",255,0,CLR_NONE);

Thanks again.

excite...

doesn't it feel good to figure it out yourself?

I did have an error in my code that I corrected.

Thanks.

Yeah. I'll look forward to the day when I can build an EA from scratch! Thanks.