[amibroker] Re: How to send a Trailing stop order to IB with amibroker

["Barry Scarborough" <razzbarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are a couple of ways to do this. 

1. Send and order. In your code monitor for the fill. Then get the 
the fill price. Then send a trailing order 15% above or below the 
fill price, i.e. stop price = trade price * 1.15 for short positions 
or trade price * 0.85 for long positions. 

2. Send a bracket order with the buy or sell order as a SPT order 
with the stop price and then send a bracket trail with the stop set 
15% away from the buy STP price as above for long or short positions.

I put some code in the AFL library. Search the AFL lib using Author 
Barry and look at the manual bracket order code to see how to 
structure a bracket order. 

I also put an auto trading program in the AFL library called 
AutoTrader Basic Flow. If you want to modify AutoTrader code to 
either have it get the trade price and send another order as a trail 
or use brackets have a go.

Have fun,
Barry

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "guhu0434" <g.h.h@xxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Guys,
> 
> I have too a question concerning the IB plugin.
> 
> I want to send a trailing stop order with for an example of 15%.
> 
> I read the documentation at http://www.amibroker.com/at/.
> 
> There I saw the possibility to creat a order of type "TRAIL", but I 
do 
> not see the chance to pass the "15%" as a parameter. StopPrice will 
> only take a real number.
> 
> How can I achieve it?
> 
> Any help is appreciated
> 
> GuHu
>



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