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Order Entry, Target, Trailing Stop, and Exit

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 DrRon 
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Hello fellow coders,

I consider myself to be a moderate Easy Language coder.

I have coded for a Strategy that if its conditions are met, I can then place an order (long or short depends on the direction that has been determined) with an entry, a target, and a trailing stop at the opening of the new bar.

However, there is a caveat. If the order is not filled within the next 2 bars, then I want the order to cancel. Also, if the order is filled and the target or the stop is not filled within the next 4 bars, then I want to exit the trade at market.

I also want the trailing stop to trail after it has moved into the profitable territory a bit, so that at minimum it makes a 1-tick profit and continues trailing as certain percentages of profit has reached.

Thank you

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Hi DrRon,

you can store the bar number when you send the orders and then cancel the orders after X bars. As a hint, the order will be cancelled when a condition for the order is not present anymore.
The same can be done for exiting the trade at market. Store the bar number of your entry and after Y bars send a market order to close your position.

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Hello fellow coders,

I consider myself to be a moderate Easy Language coder.

I have coded for a Strategy that if its conditions are met, I can then place an order (long or short depends on the direction that has been determined) with an entry, a target, and a trailing stop at the opening of the new bar.

However, there is a caveat. If the order is not filled within the next 2 bars, then I want the order to cancel. Also, if the order is filled and the target or the stop is not filled within the next 4 bars, then I want to exit the trade at market.

I also want the trailing stop to trail after it has moved into the profitable territory a bit, so that at minimum it makes a 1-tick profit and continues trailing as certain percentages of profit has reached.

Thank you


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 DrRon 
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Thank you ABCTG. However, would you in fact show me the code the way you would write it please?

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By the way, for closing a position you can also use PosTradeEntryBar(), which you then only need to subtract from the current bar number ( Symbol_CurrentBar).


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Thank you ABCTG. However, would you in fact show me the code the way you would write it please?

Can you share your code (attempt) till now? That way we can give more focused feedback and then you'll learn the most, as opposed to being given a copy/paste solution.

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I agree with Jura, posting your code attempt and using feedback to improve it will in the end help you much more in climbing the next step up from being a "moderate Easy Language coder".

PosTradeEntryBar will only work in Multicharts though, for Tradestation you'd have to use OOEL and this requires a bit more advanced skills. You can however use BarsSinceEntry() and it should work fine when not dealing with multi leg entries.

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By the way, for closing a position you can also use PosTradeEntryBar(), which you then only need to subtract from the current bar number ( Symbol_CurrentBar).


Can you share your code (attempt) till now? That way we can give more focused feedback and then you'll learn the most, as opposed to being given a copy/paste solution.


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PosTradeEntryBar will only work in Multicharts though, for Tradestation you'd have to use OOEL and this requires a bit more advanced skills. You can however use BarsSinceEntry() and it should work fine when not dealing with multi leg entries.

Oops. Good catch.

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I agree with Jura, posting your code attempt and using feedback to improve it will in the end help you much more in climbing the next step up from being a "moderate Easy Language coder".

PosTradeEntryBar will only work in Multicharts though, for Tradestation you'd have to use OOEL and this requires a bit more advanced skills. You can however use BarsSinceEntry() and it should work fine when not dealing with multi leg entries.

Regards,
ABCTG

Thank you ABCTG & Jura. I wrote some simple code to get the order execution portion of the coding running correctly. Here is how far I've gotten so far and I haven't been successful at the order execution portion of the coding yet! I haven't even gotten into canceling an order yet either.

 
Code
Inputs:
Numb_Shares(10), //[DisplayName="Number of Shares",ToolTip="Enter the number of shares per trade."],
Min_Range(1), //[DisplayName="Minimum Range",ToolTip="Minimum range to trade."],
Max_Range(10), //[DisplayName="Maximum Range",ToolTip="Maximum range to trade."],
Bullish(1), //[DisplayName="Bullish Trades",ToolTip="Do you want to take bullish trades?(0=No/1=Yes)"],
Bearish(1), //[DisplayName="Bearish Trades",ToolTip="Do you want to take bearish trades?(0=No/1=Yes)"],
x(.2); //[DisplayName="Threshold",ToolTip="What threshold do wish to trade with?"],
Variables:
Bull(False),
Bear(False),
BuyTarget(0),
SellTarget(0),
BuyStop(0),
SellStop(0);
If BarStatus(1)=2 And Range>=Min_Range And Range<=Max_Range Then
	Begin
	Bull=Open<Close;
	Bear=Open>Close;
	If MarketPosition(0)=0 Then
		Begin
		If Bullish=1 And Bull
		Then
			Begin
			Buy Numb_Shares Shares Next Bar At High Stop;
			BuyTarget=High+(Range*x);
			BuyStop=Low+(Range*x);
			SetProfitTarget(BuyTarget);
			SetStopLoss(BuyStop);
			Print(File("c:\testOrderExe.txt"),Date,Time,Close,"Bullish",High,BuyTarget,BuyStop);
			End
		Else
		If Bearish=1 And Bear
		Then
			Begin
			Sell Short Numb_Shares Shares Next Bar At Low Stop;
			SellTarget=Low-(Range*x);
			SellStop=High-(Range*x);
			SetProfitTarget(SellTarget);
			SetStopLoss(SellStop);
			Print(File("c:\testOrderExe.txt"),Date,Time,Close,"Bearish",Low,SellTarget,SellStop);
			End;
		End;
	End;

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DrRon,

you place your stop and target reserved words inside conditional checks. This means these will only be active when the conditions are true, too. Whenever your conditions are false you'd be left without a stop and target.

Please elaborate what the exact issues are that you are seeing with your code.

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Thank you ABCTG & Jura. I wrote some simple code to get the order execution portion of the coding running correctly. Here is how far I've gotten so far and I haven't been successful at the order execution portion of the coding yet! I haven't even gotten into canceling an order yet either.

 
Code
Inputs:
Numb_Shares(10), //[DisplayName="Number of Shares",ToolTip="Enter the number of shares per trade."],
Min_Range(1), //[DisplayName="Minimum Range",ToolTip="Minimum range to trade."],
Max_Range(10), //[DisplayName="Maximum Range",ToolTip="Maximum range to trade."],
Bullish(1), //[DisplayName="Bullish Trades",ToolTip="Do you want to take bullish trades?(0=No/1=Yes)"],
Bearish(1), //[DisplayName="Bearish Trades",ToolTip="Do you want to take bearish trades?(0=No/1=Yes)"],
x(.2); //[DisplayName="Threshold",ToolTip="What threshold do wish to trade with?"],
Variables:
Bull(False),
Bear(False),
BuyTarget(0),
SellTarget(0),
BuyStop(0),
SellStop(0);
If BarStatus(1)=2 And Range>=Min_Range And Range<=Max_Range Then
	Begin
	Bull=Open<Close;
	Bear=Open>Close;
	If MarketPosition(0)=0 Then
		Begin
		If Bullish=1 And Bull
		Then
			Begin
			Buy Numb_Shares Shares Next Bar At High Stop;
			BuyTarget=High+(Range*x);
			BuyStop=Low+(Range*x);
			SetProfitTarget(BuyTarget);
			SetStopLoss(BuyStop);
			Print(File("c:\testOrderExe.txt"),Date,Time,Close,"Bullish",High,BuyTarget,BuyStop);
			End
		Else
		If Bearish=1 And Bear
		Then
			Begin
			Sell Short Numb_Shares Shares Next Bar At Low Stop;
			SellTarget=Low-(Range*x);
			SellStop=High-(Range*x);
			SetProfitTarget(SellTarget);
			SetStopLoss(SellStop);
			Print(File("c:\testOrderExe.txt"),Date,Time,Close,"Bearish",Low,SellTarget,SellStop);
			End;
		End;
	End;


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DrRon,

you place your stop and target reserved words inside conditional checks. This means these will only be active when the conditions are true, too. Whenever your conditions are false you'd be left without a stop and target.

Please elaborate what the exact issues are that you are seeing with your code.

Regards,
ABCTG

Thank you ABCTG. I cleaned up my code a bit more as shown below:

 
Code
If BarStatus(1)=2 And Range>=Min_Range And Range<=Max_Range Then
	Begin
	Bull=Open<Close;
	Bear=Open>Close;
	If MarketPosition(0)=0 Then
		Begin
		If Bullish=1 And Bull
		Then
			Begin
			Buy Numb_Shares Shares Next Bar At High Stop;
			SetStopShare;
			BuyTarget=(Range*x);
			BuyStop=Range-(Range*x);
			SetProfitTarget(BuyTarget);
			SetStopLoss(BuyStop);
			Print(File("c:\testOrderExe.txt"),Date,Time,Close,"Bullish",High,BuyTarget,BuyStop);
			End
		Else
		If Bearish=1 And Bear
		Then
			Begin
			SellShort Numb_Shares Shares Next Bar At Low Stop;
			SetStopShare;
			SellTarget=(Range*x);
			SellStop=Range-(Range*x);
			SetProfitTarget(SellTarget);
			SetStopLoss(SellStop);
			Print(File("c:\testOrderExe.txt"),Date,Time,Close,"Bearish",Low,SellTarget,SellStop);
			End;
		End;
	End;
I want to be able to enter a trade when the conditions, noted above, are met and at the same time, my target and stop are set once and only once until the trade is complete. Ultimately, also, if my order is not filled, I also want to be able to cancel that order, if the price goes past the Stop first before coming back to fill me!

Right now, what happens is that only two trades are taken place a few bars apart. No further trades before or after these two trades take place, even though the conditions are appropriate for more order entries.

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