Increase position size after certain number of trades

• 06/21/2018 at 12:54 PM #73908
  Nicolas

  This is a workaround I’m now used to because of many debugs sessions.. but preloading bars could also possibly be necessary in some cases, like calling long periods indicators.

  

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  06/21/2018 at 12:57 PM #73912
  theLeprechaun

  I tried on the live demo and I got an error because of the defparam preloadbars=0 – it is on the first attachment.

  After, I tested the same strategy with 3 variations: first with defparam preloadbars=0, second with defparam preloadbars=100 and third with defparam preloadbars=2000.

  The results are in the second attachment and are strange.

  Now, with defparam preloadbars=0 is missing from time to time the correct trading size – from size 2 goes to size 5 and sometimes it does one trade at a certain size, sometimes 2 trades.

  And the same is with defparam preloadbars=100.

   

  

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  06/21/2018 at 1:09 PM #73915
  theLeprechaun

  I now tried with DEFPARAM CumulateOrders = true, and it has traded with the correct size. However, it is not possible to do live trading this way. Maybe there is a way to limit the number of Cumulate Orders to 1 or 2? Maybe it could work?

  

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  06/21/2018 at 2:12 PM #73933
  Vonasi

  You must have changed something else because I can set this code running in my live demo:

  // Definition of code parameters DEFPARAM CumulateOrders = False // Cumulating positions deactivated DEFPARAM preloadbars = 0 // Prevents the system from creating new orders to enter the market or increase position size before the specified time noEntryBeforeTime = 080000 timeEnterBefore = time >= noEntryBeforeTime // Prevents the system from placing new orders to enter the market or increase position size after the specified time noEntryAfterTime = 190000 timeEnterAfter = time < noEntryAfterTime // Prevents the system from placing new orders on specified days of the week daysForbiddenEntry = OpenDayOfWeek = 6 OR OpenDayOfWeek = 0 Once PositionSize = 1 IF tradecount = 5 then positionSize = positionsize + 1 tradecount = 0 endif // Conditions to enter long positions indicator1 = Average[5](close) indicator2 = Average[20](close) c1 = (indicator1 CROSSES OVER indicator2) IF Not OnMarket and c1 AND timeEnterBefore AND timeEnterAfter AND not daysForbiddenEntry THEN BUY positionsize PERPOINT AT MARKET tradecount = tradecount + 1 ENDIF // Stops and targets SET STOP pLOSS 15 SET TARGET pPROFIT 30

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  // Definition of code parameters DEFPARAM CumulateOrders = False // Cumulating positions deactivated DEFPARAM preloadbars = 0 // Prevents the system from creating new orders to enter the market or increase position size before the specified time noEntryBeforeTime = 080000 timeEnterBefore = time >= noEntryBeforeTime // Prevents the system from placing new orders to enter the market or increase position size after the specified time noEntryAfterTime = 190000 timeEnterAfter = time < noEntryAfterTime // Prevents the system from placing new orders on specified days of the week daysForbiddenEntry = OpenDayOfWeek = 6 OR OpenDayOfWeek = 0 Once PositionSize = 1 IF tradecount = 5 then positionSize = positionsize + 1 tradecount = 0 endif // Conditions to enter long positions indicator1 = Average[5](close) indicator2 = Average[20](close) c1 = (indicator1 CROSSES OVER indicator2) IF Not OnMarket and c1 AND timeEnterBefore AND timeEnterAfter AND not daysForbiddenEntry THEN BUY positionsize PERPOINT AT MARKET tradecount = tradecount + 1 ENDIF // Stops and targets SET STOP pLOSS 15 SET TARGET pPROFIT 30

   

  

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