how to set breakeven to price of entry

• 10/02/2024 at 1:47 PM #238407
  Vicke1990

  Hi,

  I want to write a code so that the breakeven is equal to the price the position was bought for. The system buys 2 contracts initially and sells one after X number of pips, I want the breakeven of the second contract to be set at the entryprice + 2 pips so the 2nd contract can follow a trailing stop instead.
  

  When I try with:
  

  if size = 1 then breakevenLevel = entryPrice + PointsToKeep * pipsize Pvalue = breakevenLevel + 2 * pipsize

  1 2	if size = 1 then breakevenLevel = entryPrice + PointsToKeep * pipsize Pvalue = breakevenLevel + 2 * pipsize

  It sells the 2nd contract based on where to first sell of the 1st contract took place. I want it to be based on the initial postion instead.

  I´ve also tried with tradeprice (1) instead of  entryprice  but that seems to refer to the previous latest trade of selling 1 contract instead of the initial price when I bought the position.

  anyone have any idea on how I can solve this?

  With kind regards, Victor

   

   

   

  

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  10/02/2024 at 3:23 PM #238410
  robertogozzi

  First you have to store the Entry Price on the first entry bar (which is when it’s OnMarket, but it wasn’t the prior bar).

  Then SET the stop whenever you have reduced the position size:

  IF OnMarket AND Not OnMarket[1] THEN EntryLevel = Tradeprice BreakEvenLevel = EntryLevel + (PointsToKeep * pipsize) ENDIF IF abs(CountOfPosition) < abs(CountOfPosition)[1] then SET STOP PRICE BreakEvenLevel ENDIF

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  IF OnMarket AND Not OnMarket[1] THEN    EntryLevel     = Tradeprice    BreakEvenLevel = EntryLevel + (PointsToKeep * pipsize) ENDIF IF abs(CountOfPosition) < abs(CountOfPosition)[1] then    SET STOP PRICE BreakEvenLevel ENDIF

   

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