Hi, I have created two different strategies for one particular instrument. I have each strategy on separate chart windows. I would like to autotrade both strategies simultaneously, but I only want one position at a time. That is, if one strategy has triggered a buy-signal and has bought, I do not wa...

I am autotrading index futures from the futures charts now and that works fine.
Is it also possible to autotrade the same futures from the index chart?
And if so, how?

Erik, With intrabarorder generation on, "this bar on close" will fire immediately and not really wait for the bar to close. Not for me. In my backtest all exits are wrongly taken at the close of the bar. Not where my optimimized profit target is. My code starts with: [IntrabarOrderGeneration = true]...

OK, thanks
Then I have to find a way to set the profit target in percent without using the Setprofit function. Anyone who knows how, in conjunction with Intrabar order generation and Bar Magnifier?

Erik Pepping,

I am doing it on EUR.USD forex. I have tried without decimals, 1 and 2 percent, which is approx the same profit target I know gives good result if I set the profits in points.

But with percent, entry and exit is taken at the same level each time. So backtested profit is 0.

Strange.

I use IntrabarOrderGeneration and Bar Magnifier in my strategy, and use Setprofittarget(amount); Setstoploss(amount); for exit. And that works when amount is set in points. But I want to set the exits in percent of entryprice. I have tried: Input: Percent(1); Var: Profit(0); Profit = entryprice*Perc...

Andrew,
Thank you very much for the email, I dont have time for the moment to work with the code, but I will next week.

Regards
Orjan

Andrew,

I have sent the files now

Regards
Orjan

- "If the stop loss is filled, then the only reason why the profit target is not filled at the same bar is that price never reached the profit target, or it reaches the stop loss first." Yes. But in no trade at all in my backtest is profit filled in the entry bar. Despite the profit target price is ...

Andrew, Yes, you understood my entry strategy. And the entry works now, thank you. But I want to exit the trade in the same bar as I enter. The reason why I use "next bar" in the code is that I thought that "next bar" in conjunction with Bar Magnifier means next bar in the lower resolution (higher r...

Thanks Andrew, I did as you said and only one entry was plotted in the chart (2011-02-22) and I got this message in Output: ==================== The date is 2015-01-19, time is 17:00:00, bar # is 1315.00, current bar open is 1.16, current bar high is 1.16, current bar low is 1.16, current bar close ...

When previous days low has been taken out, I want to go long within the same bar directly after the price goes above the previous days high. But my code buys, wrongly, at the high of the current bar. See pic, blue arrow. I use Intrabar Order Generation and Bar Magnifier (1 second) because enter and ...