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[amibroker] Re: Position Opened When No Funds Available



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Trading Reference Links

Read the notes provided for ActiveStops and see if you recognized your strategy.

http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?id=20

You may find that changing the setting (from AA window) for 

ActivateStopsImmediately will fix your problem.

Mike

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Brandon_Ridenour" <brandon_ridenour@xxx> wrote:
>
> 
> By the way, i have trade delays for Buy and Short set to 1, meaning it buys on the morning after the signal is generated.  I just need it to use the available balance from either the day the signal was generated, or at the exact market open.  It seems to be calculating available funds/balance based on the close of the next day.
> 
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Brandon_Ridenour" <brandon_ridenour@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a system that opens positions only at the market open of a trading day.  At market open, it should calculate the position size based on the funds currently available at that time.
> > 
> > Today there was a signal at market open but no funds available.  Later during the day, a trailing stop was hit on one of my open positions, causing that position to be closed.
> > 
> > Tonight when I updated all quotes and ran the backtest, Amibroker shows the position from market open being opened, even there are no funds available.  I can only assume that it believes funds were available because of the position which was exited later in the day.
> > 
> > Obviously, the system should not be able to use funds which have not actually come available yet.  How can I ensure that it will only open positions if the funds are available at market open?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Brandon
> >
>




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