if positionprofit > 1% of trade value?

November 22nd, 2012, 08:21 PM

Hi - I'm a little bit stuck here.
I have absolute values in my code such as:
if positionprofit > 1000 and...
however, when I run this code on something like pesos or yen I believe it is calculating positionprofit in that currency. So the code will execute when it shouldn't.

How would I make this relative? example:
"if positionprofit > (1% of trade value)"...

Thanks in advance.

November 22nd, 2012, 08:38 PM

Sorry - that question was in reference to Multicharts

November 23rd, 2012, 01:49 PM

Relatively new to MC myself so don't know most of the in's and out's but one way to convert to percent might be

Value1 = PositionProfit / (AvgEntryPrice * CurrentContracts) * 100;

assuming PositionProfit and AvgEntryPrice are reported in the same currency :-/

November 23rd, 2012, 04:30 PM

That looks like a good solution. I've improvised myself and used:

if positionprofit > InitialCapital*.01 - however, I need to ensure that initialcapital is in the currency that profits are reported in - so I may be trading size 100k but if I'm trading yen then I set the initialcapital @ 8,300,000... this seems* to work... not a great solution though...

Thanks for your thoughts.

if positionprofit > 1% of trade value?

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if positionprofit > 1% of trade value?