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Your applystop line only has x in it, can you provide the line/s that define x
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:10:28 +0530, Ajay Joglekar
<technical.trader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to know about the behavior of the Applystop
> function as regards to trailing stop. Does trailing stop get activated
> only after some profit level is reached? This could be the only
> explanation of my trailing stop in the system not getting triggered
> even tho' it should have.
>
> From my understanding of trailing stop it should get activated as soon
> as the trade goes into even a miniscule profit.
>
> -Ajay
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ajay Joglekar <technical.trader@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:21:29 +0530
> Subject: Trailing stops not getting triggered in real trading
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hi all,
>
> I had this system which worked just fine in backtesting.Now sometime
> around this week I got a signal out of it and I traded it. Now as I
> expected it went into profit.Also I had set the trailing stop loss by
> using the ApplyStop function.Now the market went against my paper
> profits and so I took my profit but when I checked my system then it
> did not have the trailing stop triggered which i found funny when
> according to my logic it should have gotten triggered.
> This is my stop rule:
>
> ApplyStop(stopTypeTrailing,stopmodepercent,x,0,true,0);
>
> My trade timing entries are set to
> Buy and cover on high on no delay
> sell and short on low with no delay
>
> Some more details which can help someone diagnose the problem.
>
> Day1 : Entry Profit = 0
> Day2 : Profit = 2%
> Day3 : Profit = 1%
>
> Now I took the exit on day 3 assuming that I had actually had a 50%
> loss on my paper profit. And so the trailing would have been easily
> hit.
>
> Now either there is some setting I am missing or my understanding on
> trailing stops is flawed or AB has a bug.
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
>
> -Ajay
>
>
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> http://www.amibroker.com/
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