is it possible to place fixed dollar amount of order?

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is it possible to place fixed dollar amount of order?

Postby justmake » 05 Jan 2011

From the example of EasyLanguage tutorial, if I want to place certain shares in a order"
I will write:

Buy 2 Shares Next Bar At Market;
(Buy 2 shares at Market price on open of next bar)

What if I am trying to place $1000 dollar fixed amount of money per trade.
How do I do it?

Buy $1000 Next Bar at Market; ?

Can anyone share how you do it?

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Re: is it possible to place fixed dollar amount of order?

Postby Dave Masalov » 11 Jan 2011

Dear justmake,

You can specify in the code only the number of contracts to buy. If you want to set dollars per trade value, you can do this in Strategy Properties --> Properties or you can calculate the number of contracts that should be bought for needed amount of money: i.e. divide the dollars per trade value by the current price in the code.

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Re: is it possible to place fixed dollar amount of order?

Postby Rommi » 13 Jan 2011

From the example of EasyLanguage tutorial, if I want to place certain shares in a order"
I will write:

Buy 2 Shares Next Bar At Market;
(Buy 2 shares at Market price on open of next bar)

What if I am trying to place $1000 dollar fixed amount of money per trade.
How do I do it?

Buy $1000 Next Bar at Market; ?

Can anyone share how you do it?
Hi,

You could try

Code: Select all

Inputs:Amount$(1000);
Vars:Amount(0);
Amount=Amount$/close;

Buy next bar Amount shares at Market;

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Re: is it possible to place fixed dollar amount of order?

Postby justmake » 16 Jan 2011

Thanks! that should work:)


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