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How to enter long buy on a bar immediately before it closes.

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bmtfken
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Yes, but that is the whole thing I am trying to avoid.

I want to buy in the middle of the GREEN candle in my pic. (Middle of the day in this case)
Not at the close of the current green candle.
Not at the end of the day.

I understand that EasyLanguage can't calculate until AFTER the clsoe of the candle for its data calculations.
That's why I wondered if using multiples data sets (data1,data2,etc) was optimal in this situation.

Perhaps a data1 = close of 10min
data2 = high of daily[1]

if data1 > data2 then buy this bar at market on a very small interval chart, 1 tick ? 1 min?



kevinkdog View Post
If he wanted to use IBOG, I think he could do this on the green bar (please correct me if I am wrong):

INTRABARORDERGENERATION=TRUE;
If close>high[1] then buy this bar at market; //you might have to use "high" instead of "close"


But, you cannot backtest with this setup, where you can with the other approach.



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It's fine to use "close" in your example as in realtime with IOG this will be the last tick that came in (i.e. on the tick that prints the high the close should have the same value).

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You need to modify Kevin's example to
 
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[INTRABARORDERGENERATION=TRUE]
If close>high[1] then buy next bar at market;
When using intrabar order generation "next bar" means the next tick. If you use this bar Close, then you'd only see the order at the end of the bar.

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bmtfken View Post
Yes, but that is the whole thing I am trying to avoid.

I want to buy in the middle of the GREEN candle in my pic. (Middle of the day in this case)
Not at the close of the current green candle.
Not at the end of the day.

I understand that EasyLanguage can't calculate until AFTER the clsoe of the candle for its data calculations.
That's why I wondered if using multiples data sets (data1,data2,etc) was optimal in this situation.

Perhaps a data1 = close of 10min
data2 = high of daily[1]

if data1 > data2 then buy this bar at market on a very small interval chart, 1 tick ? 1 min?


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bmtfken View Post
Yes, but that is the whole thing I am trying to avoid.

I want to buy in the middle of the GREEN candle in my pic. (Middle of the day in this case)
Not at the close of the current green candle.
Not at the end of the day.

I understand that EasyLanguage can't calculate until AFTER the clsoe of the candle for its data calculations.
That's why I wondered if using multiples data sets (data1,data2,etc) was optimal in this situation.

Perhaps a data1 = close of 10min
data2 = high of daily[1]

if data1 > data2 then buy this bar at market on a very small interval chart, 1 tick ? 1 min?



Maybe I don;t get exactly what you want to do. Why won't this work, if entered on the red bar before the green bar?:

buy next bar at high stop;

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I will test and get back with you.

Thank you!

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bmtfken
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Ok, that makes sense to me.
But how would you do that on a running basis for the chart?

[intrabarordergeneration = true];
If high of next bar > high[1] then buy next bar at market; or buy at market stop;

Does not work.
El errors out to :
Error 1; Description: 'Next Bar' can only be applied to 'OPEN', 'DATE' and 'TIME'






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Basically, what Kevin said. You need to do 2 things:

1. Use IntraBarOrderGeneration=True in your code.
2. You need a stop order to be placed when the current bar closes.

So, lets assume the current bar range high is 1960 and you want to buy 1 tick above this high on the next bar (assuming 1 tick=0.25), you need to place a buy stop order at 1960.25 using this kind of syntax when the current bar closes.

 
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Buy next bar at 1960.25 stop;
By doing so, as soon as the current bar closes, you will see a buy stop market order is placed at 1 tick above the high and if the next bar gets to this high, it should get filled.


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Repeat of my first post in the thread. That's all you need, based on what you described. Don't mess with IntraBarOrderGeneration (leave it false):


In your picture, on the red bar shown, you'd have the code:

buy next bar at high stop;



That will send an order, good for the entire next bar (the green bar where you want to enter).

So, your logic has to be setup so you know at the close of the red bar, what your plan is for the next (green) bar.

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bmtfken View Post
Ok, that makes sense to me.
But how would you do that on a running basis for the chart?

[intrabarordergeneration = true];
If high of next bar > high[1] then buy next bar at market; or buy at market stop;

Does not work.
El errors out to :
Error 1; Description: 'Next Bar' can only be applied to 'OPEN', 'DATE' and 'TIME'

@bmtfken, what @kevinkdog is saying is all you need. It will work on a running basis. In real-time, if you place a stop order using the syntax "buy next bar at high stop;", then you will see a stop market order being placed at the high of the current bar as soon as the current bar closes and the next bar opens. Now if price makes it to that high, your order will be filled otherwise it wont. As an example, you can take a look at one of the canned strategies in TS called the Keltner Channel LE:

 
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{ The IntrabarOrderGeneration attribute is set to false in this strategy because
strategy calculations depend on end-of-bar prices.  Specifically, an "Average True
Range" is calculated.  Calculation of Average True Range depends on end-of-bar high,
low, and closing prices. }

[IntrabarOrderGeneration = false]
inputs:  Price( Close ), Length( 20 ), NumATRs( 1.5 ) ;
variables:  Avg( 0 ), Shift( 0 ), UpperBand( 0 ), Setup( false ), CrossingHigh( 0 ) ;

Avg = AverageFC( Price, Length ) ;
Shift = NumATRs * AvgTrueRange( Length ) ;
UpperBand = Avg + Shift ;

if CurrentBar > 1 and Price crosses over UpperBand then
{ CB > 1 check used to avoid spurious cross confirmation at CB = 1 }
	begin
	SetUp = true ;
	CrossingHigh = High ;
	end 
else if Setup and ( Price < Avg or High >= CrossingHigh + 1 point ) then
	Setup = false ;
	{ the High >= condition being true indicates that a buy must already have been 
	  triggered at this bar so this setup has been used up and needs to be negated; 
	  an example of a persisitent setup with an indefinite stop/limit trigger - setup 
	  has to be negated after entry confirmed; also see Pivot Reversal LE/SE and 
	  PercentR LE/SE }

if Setup then 
	Buy ( "KltChLE" ) next bar at CrossingHigh + 1 point stop ;


{ ** Copyright (c) 2001 - 2010 TradeStation Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. ** 
  ** TradeStation reserves the right to modify or overwrite this strategy component 
     with each release. ** }

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YES !, that worked with the other logic required for the entry.
buy next bar at high stop;

I will work out my trailing stops.

Thanks gents.

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What happens if there is a gap? The next bar opens above the current high?

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What happens if there is a gap? The next bar opens above the current high?



If you have the statement:

buy next bar at high stop;


Here's what I expect: If next bar opens above the previous high, the stop is triggered, and a market order should be immediately sent, filling it at opening price. That is how backtest engine should fill it. In reality, there will be slippage on the fill.

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