force buy/sell commands

• 02/13/2021 at 9:52 PM #161339
  kevin12345

  hi,

  when i have a short position active and the long conditions are met, it closes my short position and opens a long position. anyone know how to force the trade so that i have sell and long position active at the same time? and if not, how do i stop the long position from opening?

  thank you.

  

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  02/13/2021 at 10:19 PM #161345
  Vonasi

  Being both long and short in a strategy is not possible in ProOrder.

  It is better to create two strategies – one long only and one short only.

  Alternatively to stop a trade opening in the opposite direction use:

  if not shortonmarket and (your enter long conditions) then buy 1 contract at market endif if not longonmarket and (your enter short conditions) then sellshort 1 contract at market endif

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  if not shortonmarket and (your enter long conditions) then buy 1 contract at market endif   if not longonmarket and (your enter short conditions) then sellshort 1 contract at market endif

  

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  02/13/2021 at 10:20 PM #161346
  GraHal

  We can’t go Long and Short at the same time in the same strategy.

  how do i stop the long / short position from opening?
  Ty …

  If NotonMarket and Yourconditions Then

  (Mods – Insert Code buttons and all buttons missing? Weird??)

  

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  05/26/2021 at 5:57 PM #170539
  Gaby

  It is possible that the same strategy triggers a signal to go long & short at the same time (with different target profits and stop losses); that is working well during sideways periods.  Unfortunately the only solution as now is what Vonasi mentioned before: to break the strategy into two pieces and trading both separately with two accounts.

  Would it be possible to raise a request to the PRT development team to implement a force open instruction into the code for auto-trading? The functionality is already there, if you want to trade it manually… it is just not “callable” in the code.

  Thanks, Gaby

   

   

  

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  05/26/2021 at 8:07 PM #170551
  GraHal

  You can ask PRT directly on their webform below

  https://www.prorealtime.com/en/contact?

  I think you may find the restriction (no hedging in Pro-Order) is placed by IG.

  Let us know what PRT say please.

  

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  05/28/2021 at 7:55 AM #170654
  David

  The Force Open is there to stop you from closing existing open positions in the same instrument from another strategy or manual trade but not within a strategy.

  Within strategy hedging would be the best feature PRT could invest their time on but considering this is still not a feature after so many years – I’m very doubtful it will ever happen.

  

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