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



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Thank you Barry, I will have a look.

As I understand, i cannot send the order directly, since it is 
impossible to send a trail order with %.

With regards, GuHu


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Barry Scarborough" <razzbarry@xxx> 
wrote:
>
> 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@> 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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