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Re: [amibroker] Re: A simple system - why doesn't a trade show up?



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It just reduces the size of the current entry to fit the amount of
cash available

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On 24/03/2008, droskill <droskill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually, what does this option really do (it's not detailed in the
>  docs)?  I'm guessing it allows resizes the other positions to allow
>  the cash for all the positions?
>
>
>  --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Graham <kavemanperth@xxx> wrote:
>  >
>
> > You are using positionsize = 25% of equity, then you could get a
>  > situation where the available cash is less than 25% of equity
>  > You can switch on allowshrinking, if you want smaller trade sizes
>  > SetOption( "AllowPositionShrinking", 1 );
>  >
>  > --
>  > Cheers
>  > Graham Kav
>  > AFL Writing Service
>  > http://www.aflwriting.com
>  >
>  >
>
> > On 23/03/2008, droskill <droskill@xxx> wrote:
>  > > Hey all, was just playing around with a stupid idea - coded it up and
>  > >  ran it against a watch list that contained: SPY, QQQQ, EEM, IEF.
>  > >
>  > >  Here's what I don't get - if you run this against those
>  instruments (I
>  > >  use TC2007 for data), and then I select to show the actual trades for
>  > >  the instrument IEF, I can see a trade where the cross happened - yet
>  > >  this trade doesn't show up on the list, and there are definitely open
>  > >  position slots (obviously if I have 4 positions and only 4 equities).
>  > >
>  > >  Anyone got any idea what's going on here?
>  > >
>  > >  Thanks!
>  > >
>  > >  /d/
>  > >
>  > >  Here's the system (trading LONG only):
>  > >  ----------------------------
>  > >  PosQty = 4; // You can define here how many open positions you want
>  > >  SetOption("MaxOpenPositions", PosQty );
>  > >  PositionSize = -100/PosQty;
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  MA1 = MA(C,200);
>  > >  MA2 = MA(MA1,50);
>  > >
>  > >  Buy = Cross(MA1,MA2) OR MA1 > MA2;
>  > >  Sell = Cross(MA2,MA1) OR MA1 < MA2;
>  > >
>  > >  Short = Sell;
>  > >  Cover = Buy;
>  > >
>  > >  PositionScore = ROC (C, 50);
>  > >
>  > >
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