Breakeven Stop
Definition
A break-even price is the amount of money, or change in value for which an asset must be sold to cover the costs of acquiring and owning it. It can also refer to the amount of money for which a product or service must be sold to cover the costs of manufacturing or providing it.
The BreakEven Stop strategy uses the PowerLanguage keyword SetBreakEven to place an order to exit all shares or contracts in all positions once a specified profit floor has been reached. The profit floor can be set on a total position basis, or on one contract/one share basis. The profit target amount is determined by the FloorAmt input. When the profit exceeds the breakeven profit floor, a stop exit order is generated at the average entry price of the position. The stop orders are stop market orders. If the price falls back to the entry price, a market order is generated and sent into the market. Breakeven Stop can be used to close both long and short positions.
The BreakEven Stop strategy only takes effect once a certain level of profit is reached, so it is possible that in a given position, it may never take effect.
Default Inputs
PositionBasis sets whether the breakeven floor is calculated on a position or per share basis, false by default. To calculate profit per position, enter true.
FloorAmt sets the profit amount (in USD) that must be exceeded before the breakeven stop is activated.
