Can we close orders or position without #include <trade/trade.mqh> ?

[Young Ho Seo]

Just curious if there a neat way of closing order without using CTrade in trade.mqh file in MT5.

 Just miss simple standalone "OrderClose" function in MT4.

[Alain Verleyen]

FinanceEngineer:

Just curious if there a neat way of closing order without using CTrade in trade.mqh file in MT5.

 Just miss simple standalone "OrderClose" function in MT4.

"closing order", do you mean a pending order or a position ?

[Simon Gniadkowski]

angevoyageur:
"closing order", do you mean a pending order or a position ?

Must be a position otherwise he/she would have said "miss OrderDelete()" . . .  just send an equivalent order of the same size as you want to close but in the opposite direction, so to close a Buy open a Sell.

[Alain Verleyen]

RaptorUK:
Must be a position otherwise he/she would have said "miss OrderDelete()" . . .  just send an equivalent order of the same size as you want to close but in the opposite direction, so to close a Buy open a Sell.

You are right.

To answer the OP, you can use MqlTradeRequest as you have done here to modify your sl/tp. CTrade class is only a wrapper class using MqlTradeRequest internally.

[Young Ho Seo]

angevoyageur:

You are right.

To answer the OP, you can use MqlTradeRequest as you have done here to modify your sl/tp. CTrade class is only a wrapper class using MqlTradeRequest internally.

Sorry for confusion I would like to close positions not a pending orders. Thanks for clarification. Yes I thought about using MqlTradeRequest method.

Then I checked Trade Operation Type and I can't find any actions related to Closing positions.

These are all trade actions I can find from MQL references and am I looking at wrong place? :

 

Identifier	Description
TRADE_ACTION_DEAL	Place a trade order for an immediate execution with the specified parameters (market order)
TRADE_ACTION_PENDING	Place a trade order for the execution under specified conditions (pending order)
TRADE_ACTION_SLTP	Modify Stop Loss and Take Profit values of an opened position
TRADE_ACTION_MODIFY	Modify the parameters of the order placed previously
TRADE_ACTION_REMOVE	Delete the pending order placed previously

[Simon Gniadkowski]

FinanceEngineer:

Sorry for confusion I would like to close positions not a pending orders. Thanks for clarification. Yes I thought about using MqlTradeRequest method.

Then I checked Trade Operation Type and I can't find any actions related to Closing positions.

These are all trade actions I can find from MQL references and am I looking at wrong place? :

RaptorUK:
 . . .  just send an equivalent order of the same size as you want to close but in the opposite direction, so to close a Buy open a Sell.

[Alain Verleyen]

FinanceEngineer:

Sorry for confusion I would like to close positions not a pending orders. Thanks for clarification. Yes I thought about using MqlTradeRequest method.

Then I checked Trade Operation Type and I can't find any actions related to Closing positions.

These are all trade actions I can find from MQL references and am I looking at wrong place? :

 

Identifier	Description
TRADE_ACTION_DEAL	Place a trade order for an immediate execution with the specified parameters (market order)

Yes, as RaptorUK wrote, you have to send a request (ACTION_DEAL) for an order, in the opposite direction with same volume.

Order management is very different in mql5 relative to mql4 : read this article

[Young Ho Seo]

RaptorUK:

Thanks

[Young Ho Seo]

angevoyageur:

Yes, as RaptorUK wrote, you have to send a request (ACTION_DEAL) for an order, in the opposite direction with same volume.

Order management is very different in mql5 relative to mql4 : read this article

Thanks

[emerson2102]

Alain Verleyen:

Yes, as RaptorUK wrote, you have to send a request (ACTION_DEAL) for an order, in the opposite direction with same volume.

Order management is very different in mql5 relative to mql4 : read this article

Why is it not possible to close positions with TRADE_ACTION_PENDING ? This removes the possibility for creating manual stop losses and take profits.