Max position size

• 06/03/2018 at 12:12 PM #72107
  bezieh

  Hey!

  If i got defparam = false, and i got my bot to take a few trades in a row before selling, and i put the max position size to lets say 2, before i start the bot.

  after the bot bought 2, and it wants to buy again, does it shut down? or will it keep running, until the 1 or 2 is sold, to be able to buy again? 🙂

  

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  06/03/2018 at 1:50 PM #72116
  Despair

  Defparam = false will give you an error. I assume that you mean cumulate orders = false. If this is false your strategy will only buy 1 time (in one direction) as long as you don’t try to buy more than 2 contracts. The strategy will not stop but simply ignore all orders.

  

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  06/03/2018 at 7:22 PM #72137
  bezieh

  thanks for the reply, can i backtest with cumulate orders max 2 or 3 somehow? so i can see what to expect?

  because sometimes the strategy did 5 orders and gave a big drawdown, and i want it to take max 2 trades for example, and see it in backtest 🙂

  

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  06/03/2018 at 7:39 PM #72138
  Despair

  Sure, just set cumulateorders=true and then put an if condition in front of your order to only execute if countofposition<3 or what you desire.

  

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  06/03/2018 at 8:23 PM #72141
  bezieh

  i put “BUY if countofposition<3 and in backtest, it still buys more than 3 in a row, why?

  

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  06/03/2018 at 9:01 PM #72143
  Despair

  Impossible to say without seeing your code.

  

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  06/04/2018 at 9:09 AM #72164
  Despair

  I don’t know if you found your bug, but I remembered that countofposition will return a negative value for short positions. Having abs(countofposition<3) in the if-loop will fix this. Without this addition the strategy will accumulate short positions without stop.

  

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