Thanks Orion, I found my error...I was trying to sell a negative number of shares. In case it's helpful to anyone, my code did this: rebalRounded was positive (to buy more shares) or negative (to sell some shares). I forgot to multiply it by -1 before the sell order. Sorry for bothering everyone and...

Hi, I'm trying to code a rebalance which requires selling a partial amount of my position sometimes. The number of shares I want to sell is in a variable called "rebalRounded" This order is never filled: Sell ("LX - rebal") rebalRounded contracts total from entry("LE") next bar at market; But it doe...

Thanks very much.

Interestingly, if you use:
it will show the final equity position even though it runs this on the first bar, which is why I was very confused.

Thanks for your help.

Hi, I’m attempting to write portfolio rebalancing code for a portfolio backtest. On the last bar of each month, I wish to evaluate the portfolio and rebalance based on some code I have written to determine what percentage of capital should be invested in each symbol. What I need is: 1) For each symb...

I'm interested in developing a PnF trading strategy. Does MC Powerlanguage have a way to determine the type of the current column? eg: if the current column is a down column, I want to put a buy order when a new up column is established. ie: if (currentcolumn is down) buy next bar at market. I've re...

Thanks. I will try PosTradeIsOpen.

I would like to add a variable to the Strategy Performance Report list of trades. It shows me the trade details, but I want to log the initial value of my stop loss as well. I have a variable in my code called iStop. Is there any way to add iStop to the Strategy Performance Report such that it is lo...