V11 Partial close of orders

• 07/01/2020 at 1:01 PM #137910
  rburger

  Hi, I think partial closing a position in V11 is still not possible. Is this true or do I make a mistake?

  I want for instance buy 2 contracts and exit 1 very quickly bring the stoploss to break even and let the other contact run.

  If it is really not there, when can it be expected?

  Regards, Ronald

   

  

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  07/01/2020 at 1:08 PM #137913
  GraHal

  It is there as a capability in the Platform, but IG don’t allow us to use it!

  

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  07/01/2020 at 1:14 PM #137915
  rburger

  Hi GraHal, I would already be very happy if I can use it in backtesting on my paper trading account from IB. But that does also not seem to work.

  Do you know if that is correct?

   

  

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  07/01/2020 at 1:22 PM #137916
  GraHal

  Oh so with IB … you can do backtesting of strategy that you want to trade manual … is that correct?

  As we are informed that with IB you cannot do Auto-trading … is that correct?

  

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  07/01/2020 at 1:25 PM #137917
  GraHal

  We can do partial closures on our Demo Accounts on backtest and forward test, but not on Real Live.

   

  

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  07/01/2020 at 1:32 PM #137921
  rburger

  Thank you for your answers, and very strange it did not work for me. But now I test again…. off course it works.

   

   

  

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  07/01/2020 at 1:59 PM #137924
  Nicolas

  GraHal is right, it is possible in any but not yet in live trading.

  Automated trading with Interactive Broker (IB) should be available in a near future as I heard.

  

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  07/01/2020 at 2:02 PM #137925
  rburger

  Hi Nicolas, that is very good to hear. Thank you.

  

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  07/02/2020 at 8:16 AM #138047
  schizz

  Interesting news that automated trading should be available with IB soon. Presumably that will be with v.11?

  I suspect that if IB start offering A.T. on v.11 PRT traders will start leaving IG, and IG will then miraculously integrate v.11 with their platform.

  

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  05/06/2021 at 1:32 PM #168940
  Lavallette

  Hello,

  Could somebody advice what is the latest status on partial position closing?

  Several topics have been opened over time on this subject and situation is not very clear to me.

  From what I understood it is working with PRT v11 in backtest using code like the one described on

  https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/bollinger-band-coding-help-please/#post-80959

  or

  https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/code-for-partial-close/

  or

  https://www.prorealcode.com/blog/learning/partial-closure-positions-price-retracing-complete-function/

   

  But as of May 2021 is it working with PRT v11 PRO-ORDER (i.e. live trading) with IG and maybe IB?

  Thanks in advance.

  

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  05/06/2021 at 1:58 PM #168941
  robertogozzi

  Currently Autotrading is only available through IG.

  Partial closing of positions is available with v11.

  To close the whole position you simply use SELL and EXITSHORT with no LotSize (at Market, Stop or Limit). To close it partially you just need to add the quantity you want to close):

  Sell 1 contract at MARKET Exitshort 0.6 contract at MyExitPrice LIMIT Exitshort 1.5 contract at MyExitPrice STOP

  1 2 3

  Sell        1 contract at MARKET Exitshort 0.6 contract at MyExitPrice LIMIT Exitshort 1.5 contract at MyExitPrice STOP

  Beware no to leave open a quantity less than the minimum required by the broker.

   

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  10/13/2021 at 6:40 PM #179627
  Reddington

  Ciao robertogozzi,

  Thanks for great input.

  How to make the code only exit half the position once, as i coded now, i exits half and then 1 minute later exit another half which i would like to keep as a runner. My current code:

  SHL = ((Positionprice+(Mystop*2)))
  SellHalfL = (Close > SHL)

  SHS = ((Positionprice+(Mystop*2)))
  SellHalfS = (Close > SHL)

  IF LONGONMARKET THEN
  IF ExitL THEN
  SELL AT MARKET
  elsif SellHalfL THEN
  SELL ClQ CONTRACTS AT MARKET
  elsif StopL THEN
  SELL Positionsize CONTRACTS AT MARKET
  endif
  endif

  IF SHORTONMARKET THEN
  IF ExitS THEN
  EXITSHORT AT MARKET
  elsif SellHalfS THEN
  EXITSHORT Clq CONTRACTS AT MARKET
  elsif StopS THEN
  EXITSHORT Positionsize CONTRACTS AT MARKET
  endif
  endif

   

  Br Anders

   

  

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  10/14/2021 at 11:26 AM #179666
  robertogozzi

  Try replacing these two lines as follows:

  elsif SellHalfL AND abs(CountOfPosition) = PositionSize THEN elsif SellHalfS AND abs(CountOfPosition) = PositionSize THEN

  1 2	elsif SellHalfL AND abs(CountOfPosition) = PositionSize THEN elsif SellHalfS AND abs(CountOfPosition) = PositionSize THEN

  they should work, unless there is something affecting Positionsize elsewhere in your code.

  

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