Help ! tradesize in sellshort for oanda not big enough.

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Erik Pepping
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Help ! tradesize in sellshort for oanda not big enough.

Postby Erik Pepping » 30 Sep 2015

When i try to programmatically :
sellshort ("L_S_SZ") ToInvest contracts next bar at market;

and toinvest is bigger then 65000 then 65000 is being bought. It seems to be an integer.

But in currencies at oanda, this is money, not number of contracts......

What can i do. Now it is unusable. I can not even buy 1 lot size, which is normally 100.000
Urgent support requested. !

khalaad
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Re: Help ! tradesize in sellshort for oanda not big enough.

Postby khalaad » 01 Oct 2015

When i try to programmatically :
sellshort ("L_S_SZ") ToInvest contracts next bar at market;

and toinvest is bigger then 65000 then 65000 is being bought. It seems to be an integer.

But in currencies at oanda, this is money, not number of contracts......

What can i do. Now it is unusable. I can not even buy 1 lot size, which is normally 100.000
Urgent support requested. !
Erik,

I am not quite certain I fully understand what you have said, but here is my two cents worth per the best of my understanding.

There is no reason why one cannot trade any number of units/contracts within the exchange-set limit. Please go to Strategy Properties and change the 'Maximum shares/contracts per position'; then, as long as your 'Fixed Shares/Contracts' are less than the aforementioned maximum you should have no problem. Please see the attached MultiCharts_tradeanynumber

By the way, OANDA fxTrade trades in Units rather than Contracts; these units are not really money as exposure per unit differs for different pairs. And when it comes to OANDA trading via MultiCharts, 1=1/100,000 Standard FX Contract; 100,000=1 Standard FX Contract! Please see the attached fxTrade_units+exposure and MultiCharts-fxTrade.
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