Strategy Properties

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Strategy properties are separate from the individual signals' settings, affect all the signals applied to a chart, and regulate the actions of a group of signals as a whole.

Strategy properties include Costs/Capitalization, Maximum bars back, Position limits, and Trade size sections.


Setting Costs/Capitalization

Cost/Capitalization section includes Commission, Slippage, and Initial Capital and Interest Rate settings.

Strategy properties are set from the Properties tab of the Strategy Properties window:

  1. Open the Strategy Properties window.
    Opening Strategy Properties Window:
    To open the Strategy Properties window:
    1. Open the Format Objects window.

      To open the Format Objects window, right-click on an empty area of the chart and then click Format Signals.

      The Format Objects window can also be opened by one of the following methods:
        - Select Format in the main menu and click Signal.
        - Double-click any one of the signal's labels on the chart.
        - Position the mouse pointer over any one of the signal's labels on the chart; once the Pointer Pointer.png changes into a Hand Hand.png, right-click the label and then click Format Signals.

    2. Select the Signals tab.
    3. Click Properties to open the Strategy Properties window.
  2. Select the Properties tab.
  3. In the Costs/Capitalization section, in the Commission box, enter the commission;
    • Click per Trade to select commission per trade.
    • Click per Share/Contract to select commission per share/contract
  4. In the Slippage box, enter the slippage;
    • Click per Trade to select slippage per trade.
    • Click per Share/Contract to select slippage per share/contract
  5. In the Init Capital box, enter the Initial Capital, and in the Interest Rate box, enter the interest rate to be used in the performance ratio calculations.