How to set conditions on closing trades

[Breeeeen]

Hi everyone,

How would someone set up a situation where the EA does the following?

1. Count the total dollar value of all profitable trades
2. Close all profitable trades
3. Start closing losing trades (biggest loss first) until the amount closed in losses equals the profits
4. Skip any trades where it would make the total losses closed to be greater than profit closed

To use an example, let's say I have 3 winning trades and 4 losing trades:

Winning trades
Trade 1 buy profit $5
Trade 2 sell profit $8
Trade 3 buy profit $12

Losing trades
Trade 4 buy loss $6
Trade 5 sell loss $7
Trade 6 buy loss $8
Trade 7 buy loss $9

Desired outcome: close trades 1-3 (total closed profit of $25) and then close trade 7, then trade 6, skipping trade 5 (since this would make the losses go over the profit) but closing trade 4 (total closed losses of $23)?

I tried a proof of concept but it failed to do what I wanted it to (it closed everything):
https://fxdreema.com/shared/XVQAQMwSb
(This is in MT5)

[l'andorrà]

@breeeeen Are those profit/loss limits supposed to be applied at the same time? I mean, should any trade be closed before those +25 -23 figures are reached?

[Breeeeen]

Hi @l-andorrà, sorry the +25 and -23 were just examples, it should be any number as long as profits are equal to or greater than the losses.

[l'andorrà]

@breeeeen Then you will definitely need a loop to search for that. Certaily not an easy one. Is that amount of money supposed to be customizable as an input parameter? I mean, would you select for example 15, so that when profit is +1+ be closed if losses now are -15? And then change that value?

[Breeeeen]

@l-andorrà no that money doesn't need to be customizable, just as long as profits is greater or equal to losses, whatever their values.
I tried a loop condition, what changes would you make to this example? https://fxdreema.com/shared/XVQAQMwSb (this is in MT5)