Close below 50% of the total bar

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  • 11/04/2019 at 10:33 AM #112008 quote
    wizzan123
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    Hello!

     

    I was wondering how to code a condition for short: I want the the close to be in the bottom 50% of the total bars range.

    Any ideas?

    Regards

    11/04/2019 at 10:57 AM #112021 quote
    robertogozzi
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    There you go:

    IF close <= (high - (range / 2)) THEN
   SELLSHORT AT MARKET
ENDIF
    11/04/2019 at 1:09 PM #112032 quote
    wizzan123
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    Thank you Robert!

    11/06/2019 at 12:24 PM #112266 quote
    Wilko
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    Interesting how one differs from the other. The result is the same but I would write that code snippet this way:

    IF close <= low + Range * 0.5 THEN
   SELLSHORT AT MARKET
ENDIF

    If I want to only sell short if it is in the bottom 10% I merely replace 0.5 with 0.1. This makes it very easy to run optimizations and find out if there is different edge in different percentages.

    I’m not saying that one is better than the other, just that there are more ways than one to skin a cat.

     

    /F

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Close below 50% of the total bar


ProOrder: Automated Strategies & Backtesting

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