Stop Loss after 4 days

• 08/23/2016 at 8:18 PM #12143
  michi2410

  hello,

  at the moment iam developing a new stategy and i need your coding support.

  i’m looking for the code snippet to define that my long position should sell after 4 days.
  i only can found thinks like sell after x pipes or soething like this, but i only need the command to sell my long position after 4 days

  greetings

  

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  08/23/2016 at 9:32 PM #12148
  Nicolas

  If you are trading on a daily timeframe, you can test if the actual trade has 4 bars elapsed since its inception. You should look at TRADEINDEX in the documentation.

  

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  08/24/2016 at 6:51 PM #12175
  michi2410

  Hi Nicolas,

  thank you very much!

  IF LONGONMARKET AND (BarIndex – TradeIndex) >= 4 THEN
  SELL AT MARKET
  ENDIF

  

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