exitshort versus buy 1 perpoint

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  • 06/10/2020 at 3:58 PM #135457 quote
    Rufus
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    Junior

    Hi,
    Slightly embarrassed to ask this as it must be something really simple, but in a test system I am struggling to go from a position of say -2 lots to -1.. the backtest goes straight to flat from -2 if i use ‘exitshort’ and it goes to long 1 from -2 if i use ‘buy 1 share’ or ‘buy 1 perpoint’…. is there another command I should be using? The obverse for longs works fine, where I use ‘sell 1 perpoint’..

    Thanks for any guidance,

    R

    06/10/2020 at 4:08 PM #135459 quote
    Rufus
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    Junior

    exitshort 1 lot is the answer

    got there in the end

    hope i havent wasted anyone’s time

    06/10/2020 at 4:38 PM #135467 quote
    GraHal
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    Master

    Not at all and never be afraid to ask … you are among friends here!

    You may wish to know that partial closures are not allowed by IG on AutoTrading and so your exitshort 1 lot could not be started on ProOrder.

    ExitShort at Market is good, but ExitShort x lots at Market / Y stop etc is bad and is disallowed.

    06/10/2020 at 5:05 PM #135470 quote
    Rufus
    Participant
    Junior

    Thank you!

     

    i did not know that re IG. Why on earth can one not scale out of shorts?

    06/10/2020 at 5:18 PM #135472 quote
    GraHal
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    Master
    We can when manual trading but not when Auto-trading.

    Ours is not  to reason why, but to do and die! 🙂

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    06/11/2020 at 9:55 AM #135554 quote
    Rufus
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    Junior
    I have to say that I find this incredible, that the fantastic suite of tools that comes with an active IG account does not include the ability to scale out of short positions with auto-trader
    06/12/2020 at 9:48 AM #135683 quote
    GraHal
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    Master
    rufus.round wrote:
    this incredible, that the fantastic suite of tool
    It’s not the fantastic PRT that won’t allow partial closures … it’s our broker IG!
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    06/12/2020 at 10:15 AM #135690 quote
    Rufus
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    Junior
    Yes I had assumed that it was IG. Seems to be nothing PRT won’t tackle… I have raise a help desk query with IG – no joy yet.
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exitshort versus buy 1 perpoint


ProOrder: Automated Strategies & Backtesting

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Started: 06/10/2020
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