script to close at 1 pip

Hmm.. Well you have to check to see if the order is a buy or sell. If it is a buy, you need to check of the Ask - OrderOpenPrice = 1, and if so, close it. If it is a sell, you need to see if the OrderOpenPrice - Bid = 1 and if so close it.

BUT, I will add that most MT4 based dealers won't like this behavior. I can't think of a one that wouldn't count this as scalping and subsequently demand that you stop doing it. May sound unfair, I know, but think of it like card counting at a casino. There is nothing "ethically" wrong with card counting, but a casino will ban you from playing there if you do it. Most MT4 brokers don't like scalping (for various reasons that can be debated ad infinitum), and they will likely decline to take your trades after a while if you do it regularly. Think of it as the rules of the house that you've chosen to play in. :)

This of course is doesn't apply to an order that is open for several minutes/hours/days and is then closed with 1 pip in profit. It only applies to opening an order and closing it "almost" immediately with a small number of pips. If you want further explanation, ask your broker to explain the rules of their trading: How long does a trade have to be open before you can close it without being flagged? If you close an order before that time, how many pips in profit must it be to avoid being flagged? etc.

Anyway, good luck. Hope this helps..

-CS

many thanks fot the pointers. i'm an ignorant newbie now. i'll have to learn about the seriousness of scalping offence and learn about my dealer's trading rules. could you by any chance write out a simple full script for this purpose and that i can compensate you or so. thanks.

I have a broker with an institutional price feed that i negotiated for personal use.  Perhaps we should talk about this.  I'm looking for a good scalper that grabs one pip per trade.  I  have 1 pip spreads on EUR and JPY.  Many times the spreads are 0.

Would you write me to forexzap AT gmail DOT com please, I am interested too.

wonderful, jeff. pls email me - azman818@streamyx.com

Well, I can give you the way that we do it right now. Basically, it is just a variable so you can set it from 0-100000 if you wanted to. If you want just one pip, just put it as 1. (which will be the first pip of profit it would close, while zero will close right when it breaks even).

If you opened the trades manually, and just had this attached to the chart, it would just close it at 1pip profit. If you or Jwanson start making some good easy money with this, let me know. :-P I could use some of that myself.


//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| 1-PipScalper. mq4 |
//| AsmoCon |
//| |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert variables |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

extern int TrailingStopShortScalp = 1;
extern int TrailingStopLongScalp = 1;

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert start function |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
{
//----
// check for short break scalp

if((OrderOpenPrice()-Ask)>(Point*TrailingStopShortScalp))
{
if(OrderStopLoss()>OrderOpenPrice())
{
OrderModify(OrderTicket(), OrderOpenPrice(), OrderOpenPrice(), OrderTakeProfit(), 0, Red);
return(0);
}
}

// check for long break scalp
if(Bid-OrderOpenPrice()>Point*TrailingStopLongScalp)
{
if(OrderStopLoss()<OrderOpenPrice())
{
OrderModify(OrderTicket(), OrderOpenPrice(), OrderOpenPrice(), OrderTakeProfit(), 0, Green);
return(0);
}
}
//----
return(0);
}
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

wonderful, wonderful. thank you asmocon. this mql is alien to me, but your script looks neat and straight to the point. you will definitely hear from me  when i start to make some real money.

Hmm; how does that EA make profit? Won't it just modify an order so that the stoploss equals open price? Where's the 1-pip profit made?

extern int TrailingStopShortScalp = 1;
extern int TrailingStopLongScalp = 1;

And then - Point*TrailingStopShortScalp

--Basically that part makes it close after 1pip of postive movement. So, if you manually open a trade and say there is a -2 pip spread on the trade. So, you open it and it is opened at 1.8888. Since that is -2 already, when it becomes 1.8891, which is just positive +1 pip profit, it will close. Of the code said:

extern int TrailingStopShortScalp = 0;
extern int TrailingStopLongScalp = 0;

It would close it right when it hit the break-even, which would be 1.8890. Hope that makes sense.

If this doesn't work for some reason, let me know. Like if you want to just try it and watch it (manually close it if it doesn't automatically do it).  Enjoy.

I don't know if I've done this correctly. I've saved as script and tried to execute when my one pip is up. The journal recorded "loaded successfully" and then "removed" the very same instant but trade did not close. I've then saved as EA and "attach to chart" and journal records successful load but still NO close. pls tell where I've gone wrong.