is there a way to get total shares of specified entry

horizon1231 · Postby **horizon1231** » 21 Jan 2015

for eg I have many entry signals in one strategy, and I want to get a entry ("buy name")' total entry shares ,
is there a way?

JoshM · Postby **JoshM** » 21 Jan 2015

Re: is there a way to get total shares of specified entry

for eg I have many entry signals in one strategy, and I want to get a entry ("buy name")' total entry shares ,is there a way?

This can be retrieved with the PosTradeSize() keyword.

If you want to work with the entry name as a workaroud, instead of the trade count number (that is needed for use with `PosTradeSize()`), see PosTradeEntryName().

horizon1231 · Postby **horizon1231** » 21 Jan 2015

Hi thanks for reply.
since the order is triggered by condition,so I dont know the order number ie pos TradeNumber.
I want to retrieve order size by entry name,something like PosTradeSize(PosAgo, entryname)

JoshM · Postby **JoshM** » 22 Jan 2015

since the order is triggered by condition,so I dont know the order number ie pos TradeNumber.
I want to retrieve order size by entry name,something like PosTradeSize(PosAgo, entryname)

I think you can combine `PosTradeSize()` with PosTradeCount() for that. Because `PosTradeCount()` returns how many trades (i.e., entries) there were into a specific position.

If you loop through all `PosTradeCount()` trades for a specific position, you can use the `PosTradeEntryName()` to check whether the different trades have the entry name you're looking for.

For example (untested, but to highlight the idea):

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Variables:

	entryNameLookingFor("ABCDEF"),

	currentEntryName(""),

	sharesOfSpecificEntry(0),

	x(0);

	

for x = 0 to PosTradeCount(1) {previous position} begin



	currentEntryName = PosTradeEntryName(1, x);

	

	if (currentEntryName = entryNameLookingFor) then begin

	

		sharesOfSpecificEntry = PosTradeSize(1, x);

		break;

	

	end;



end;



Print("There were ", sharesOfSpecificEntry,

	" shares in the entry with name ",

	entryNameLookingFor);