Automatically marking profitable trades on the Chart

• 01/20/2017 at 10:51 AM #21814
  Midlanddave

  Hi everyone,

  Does anyone know how to display or highlight winning trades on the chart when we backtest a strategy? I know we can see the closed positions list which gives the % of winning or losing trades, but is there a way of marking those trades on the chart other than by doing so manually? The equity curve does help but it can be misleading when a trade goes into profit initially but then drops into a loss after.

  I’ve tried to make an indicator based on the equity curve and open positions, but alas my coding knowledge for indicators is virtually non-existant.

  Any ideas??

   

  Thanks!

  

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  01/20/2017 at 11:52 AM #21830
  Big Hug

  Hi – You should get icons on the chart showing Stop Loss.

   

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  01/20/2017 at 4:00 PM #21880
  Midlanddave

  Thanks that only seems to work if it hits a stop / limit rather than a particular profitable exit condition…..very curious!!

  

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  01/21/2017 at 3:26 PM #21959
  GraHal

  Hi Dave

  How about using the ‘GRAPH positionperf > 0.01’  then you would see gains of greater than 1% (or whatever you choose) marked up on the Chart.

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  01/22/2017 at 1:33 PM #22023
  Midlanddave

  That’s an interesting idea!!!! I’ll have to look at that.

  Thanks GraHal 😀

   

  

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