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Re: FileAppend - generates many duplicate entries -???



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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Ian MacAuslan wrote:

> I've written a simple piece of code to just copy out to a disk file the 
> P&L of a trade whenever a trade is closed out.  It appears there is a 
> bug somewhere--or perhaps I'm not doing something quite right.  Executed 
> on the bar immediately following a position being closed out, It should 
> write out simply the symbolname and the P&L of that last 
> trade...Instead, I get many duplicate lines, though not apparently any 
> particular number of duplicates.  
> 
> Here is the code, which I paste into the bottom my strategy--any 
> strategy, take one of the canned ones from TradeStation:
> =====
> vars: MP(0), plstring("");
> 
> MP = MarketPosition;
> 
> if MP = 0 and MP[1] <> 0 then begin
>    plstring = GetSymbolName + ", " + PositonProfit(1) + NewLine;
>    FileAppend("c:\mytrades.txt", plstring);
> end;
> =====

take off the 'update on every tick' property