Triggering trade in ETH on daily bar.

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Triggering trade in ETH on daily bar.

Postby simpsongc » 24 Oct 2014

I am trying to trigger a Market Order trade using Daily charts that generate the order when the daily bar closes.

MC is sending the order to IB but because it is after RTH the order is getting held by IB.

I have the "Use outside RTH tag for orders" checked in the Broker profile but the order never gets sent to IB with this option active. I looking for any options to get this to work.

Here is my code for testing purposes......

[IntrabarOrderGeneration = False]

inputs: Length( 1 ) ;

condition1 = Close > Open ;
condition2 = Close < Open ;

if condition1 then
Buy ( "GCS Test LE" ) 100 shares this bar on close ;

if condition2 then
Sell ( "GCS Test SE" ) 100 shares this bar on close ;

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Re: Triggering trade in ETH on daily bar.

Postby JoshM » 25 Oct 2014

I am trying to trigger a Market Order trade using Daily charts that generate the order when the daily bar closes. (...)

I looking for any options to get this to work.
Instead of submitting the trade exactly on the close of the daily bar, you could also submit your order a few minutes prior. If you have a longer-term trading strategy, the impact this has on the entry price is negligible and the benefit is that the odds are much higher that your order will be executed.

For example:

Code: Select all

[IntrabarOrderGeneration = true];

Inputs:
PreClosingTime(1725),
ClosingTime(1730);

Variables:
myEnterLongCondition(false);

myEnterLongCondition = Close > Open;

// Only submit market orders in the few minutes before the close
if (MarketPosition(0) = 0) and
(Time >= PreClosingTime) and (Time <= ClosingTime) then begin

Buy ("GCS Test LE") 100 shares this bar on close;

end;

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Re: Triggering trade in ETH on daily bar.

Postby simpsongc » 25 Oct 2014

Many thanks JoshM,

I will try your suggestion.


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