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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: jack zaner [mailto:jz@xxxxxxxxx] 
Gesendet: Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:40 AM
An: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx; Alex Matulich
Betreff: Re: Position Sizing

Alex:  Wouldn't "current equity" also be more accurate if OpenPositionProfit
was also added in?  As I understand it, NetProfit includes only closed
positions.  Also, Pablo, remember that TS cannot track portfolios.  Thus
total account equity won't be calculated for multi- futures accounts.
Regards,  Jack.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Matulich" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: Position Sizing


> Pablo wrote:
> >I'm trying to code the following:
> >"Size position so that risk to protective stop = 10% of current equity"
>
> I don't know how you would size a position so that the stop is 10%
> of your equity.  You can size a position relative to equity, or size
> your stop relative to equity, but not both.
>
> Equity is simply startquity + NetProfit, where startequity is your
> own value and NetProfit is Tradestation's internal number.  A 10%
> stop based on current equity would be
>  0.1 * (startequity + NetProfit).
>
> A position size that's 10% of your equity is
>  IntPortion((startequity + NetProfit) * 0.1 / margin + 0.5)
>
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