Thanks Grant & JCL for the feedback, much appreciated.
The main reason for using MT4 vs MT5 are the different timeframes outside of the 1H and 4H which MT5 offer; they work better as triggers under certain conditions/indicators and from a semi automated/discretionary trading perspective one needs the 'visual confirmation' on a similar timeframe as your code to know that things are going according to plan.
I see there are ways to implement alternative timeframes in MT4, don't know how successful they are; will look into it and if OK will then rather use MT4.
JCL if I understand you correctly a 'for(closed_trades) loop or for that matter no existing Zorro conditional code will work without having received the external trigger of a manually closed trade from MT5?
Look forward to having the functionality in MT5.
Thanks again..