Very simple insert Magic Number request for my exit EA

I'm trying to add a magic number to my exit EA--no it does not open trades only exit. But the how to manual's I found online are not working for me. If anyone can take a look at this EA and add a magic number option, I would be grateful.

BTW, I use this EA as a great way to take partial profits, set stop to breakeven or exit full with pretty good success. One of the main problems I found in most take profit scenarios online is that they are not dynamic at all. This EA is my answer to that problem. However when I got someone to code it I had no idea what a magic number was. Now I realize how important it is if you trade multiple lots.

I have enclosed a screenshot to get a visual representation of what the EA does. I realize this won't make sense for most people. for for some it will. Hope you find it useful.

Surely if you open a trade manually the magic number is 0. If a different EA assigned a magic number then you need to look at that EA to determine what it is.

If you know the magic number assigned by a trade initiating Expert then this might work.

Surely if you open a trade manually the magic number is 0. If a different EA assigned a magic number then you need to look at that EA to determine what it is.

If you know the magic number assigned by a trade initiating Expert then this might work. (I'm not expert at coding).

There are other solutions too. There are several free TradeManagers that allow you to close orders, do partial closes, trailing stops etc. based on a choice of options like ID by Symbol, OrderComment, Magic Number. One that comes to mind is called Multi Purpose Trade Manager. If you Google this term, I'm sure you'll find it.

Cheers Newton. All I am looking for with the magic number is that I do not get trades closed which are not part of the EA.


All I needed was "&&" Elusive ampersands! Thanks again!

So the mod is as you wished for? I am surprised your friend had not done this from the outset.

Yeah, that's all I needed, many thanks. I am also surprised. He dropped off the face of the earth a few weeks after finishing the job.

I hope he did not charge you any $. That took all of about 1 minute to fix

He charged me for the exit function, which I asked him to do. It works well, except for the magic number issue. Sometimes it's very hard to find someone to work with who is both full of common sense and good at programming =) Yes, he should have included basic functionality--such as a magic number, but live and learn.

Thanks again.

Seems I spoke too soon. Now the EA doesn't close trades at all. Is there any way to adjust this EA so you can manually open trades and then have the EA track price, once it reaches its target (in this case, the touch of the opposite end of the keltner channel) it can perform one of the actions specified currently.

1)Exit the trade
2) Move the stop
3) Move the stop to break even and exit half the position.

It would seem this is not so difficult but for some reason it's not common at all in all the EAs I have seen so I'm not sure at all how to implement this.