Money Management – help needed

• 04/17/2016 at 1:55 PM #5516
  David

  Hi – I’m new to PRT and the forum – so I hope someone can help clarify things for me:

  I wish to set the contract size by using the following formula:

  Contracts = (0.002 x Equity)  / (ATR[100] x PointValue)

  lotsize = (0.002 * 10000) / ((AverageTrueRange[100](close)) * Pointvalue)

  1	lotsize = (0.002 * 10000) / ((AverageTrueRange[100](close))  * Pointvalue)

  (I know that you can’t call equity – that is fine).

  The problem is that I get some weird results in backtesting & I think it’s due to the contracts. However, I am not sure if it’s to do with the base currency needing converting or PointValue being incorrect. How can I get a print to output on PRT & where would I find that?

  I wish to trade on many different types of markets.

  Any advice gratefully received.

  David

  

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  04/17/2016 at 7:16 PM #5529
  Nicolas

  Hi David, if you wish to print out information on ProBacktest, you can use the GRAPH instruction : http://www.prorealcode.com/documentation/graph/

  I also made a short blog article on this, here : http://www.prorealcode.com/blog/debugging-probuilder-graph-instruction/

  You’ll find it easy now to debug your code in ProBacktest, hopefully. 🙂

  

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  04/18/2016 at 2:36 PM #5590
  David

  Thank you so much Nicolas. That really is useful.

  I wonder if you can help with the code of another money management technique? I am looking to code the turtles risk management model.

  How would I standardise the dollar per point code on a range of markets to risk 1% on each trade for a range of markets using this formula:

  Units = 1% Account Value / ATR x Dollars per Point

  Here is my first attempt

  SLbuy = (TRADEPRICE(1) - (AverageTrueRange[20](close))) lotsizebuy = (0.01 * 10000) / (((AverageTrueRange[20](close)) * (SLbuy)) )

  1 2	SLbuy = (TRADEPRICE(1) - (AverageTrueRange[20](close))) lotsizebuy = (0.01 * 10000) / (((AverageTrueRange[20](close)) * (SLbuy)) )

  

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  04/18/2016 at 4:38 PM #5593
  Nicolas

  You want to risk 1% of what? Of your account balance? = 10.000GBP in your example?

  

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  04/18/2016 at 4:44 PM #5594
  David

  Yes that’s right £10000 in the example is the account balance…

  (It should be £ not dollars in the formula Units = 1% Account Value / ATR x £ per Point)

  

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  04/19/2016 at 10:02 AM #5634
  David

  So the question is how do you get £ per point?

  

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  04/19/2016 at 11:52 AM #5640
  Nicolas

  You can get the value of a point with : POINTVALUE

  Value in €/$ of one pip (or one point) in the currency of the instrument. PipValue=PointValue.

  

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