exitshort versus buy 1 perpoint

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

  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

  

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

  exitshort 1 lot is the answer

  got there in the end

  hope i havent wasted anyone’s time

  

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

  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.

  

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

  Thank you!

   

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

  

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  06/10/2020 at 5:18 PM #135472
  GraHal

  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
  Rufus

  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

  

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  06/12/2020 at 9:48 AM #135683
  GraHal

  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
  Rufus

  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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