Taking Profit on a portion of your trade in MT4

Hi guys and gals,

A newbie here. In Mt4.... say I place a trade with 3 lots and I reach a pre detremined profit target. How can I close out say 60% or 70% of the trade and let the the balance run.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers

Whenever you right click the position and click 'close trade', it automatically defaults to the number of lots in the position. But there is a drop-down box that allows you to change the number of lots you close...all the way down to just .1...so you can scale out of a position by closing only 1 lot or a fraction of 1 lot...

just right click on the profitable trade and then click close order. once the dialogue box opens, edit the lotsize (say for instance you used 3lots, and you want to close 2lots, the type 2 in the lotsize box) then click close order. i hope this helps. LOL