Portfolio Trader - help me for this issue

December 23rd, 2015, 08:49 AM

Hi all,

regarding this portfolio trader signal:

Code

                            
VAR:FLAG(FALSE),seconds(0);

pmms_strategies_deny_entries_all;



seconds = CurrentTime_s-(CURRENTTIME*100);



IF seconds > 30 and seconds < 40 THEN FLAG = TRUE;



IF seconds > 5 and seconds < 20 AND  FLAG = TRUE THEN BEGIN

PRINT("hello!");

FLAG=FALSE;

END;

How many times do you expect to read "hello" every minutes ?
I can notice a big spam.

Regards
No Erocla

ABCTG · December 24th, 2015, 07:29 AM

No Erocla,

I don't think you can foresee how many prints you receive as this might depend on the underlying timeframe
and how often your code is executed. Besides you don't use intrabarpersist for a variable that you might try to change within a bar, which can give you an unexpected outcome, too.

Regards,

ABCTG

no erocla

Hi all,

regarding this portfolio trader signal:

Code

                            
VAR:FLAG(FALSE),seconds(0);

pmms_strategies_deny_entries_all;



seconds = CurrentTime_s-(CURRENTTIME*100);



IF seconds > 30 and seconds < 40 THEN FLAG = TRUE;



IF seconds > 5 and seconds < 20 AND  FLAG = TRUE THEN BEGIN

PRINT("hello!");

FLAG=FALSE;

END;

How many times do you expect to read "hello" every minutes ?
I can notice a big spam.

Regards
No Erocla

January 7th, 2016, 03:45 AM

Code

                            
IF seconds > 30 and seconds < 40 THEN FLAG = TRUE;



IF seconds > 5 and seconds < 20 AND  FLAG = TRUE THEN BEGIN



PRINT("hello!");



FLAG=FALSE;



END;

Dear ABCTG,

reading the code, i think that i 've to see printed "hello" just 1 time per minute, it seems logical or i maybe i forgot something else.

Thank you for help
No Erocla

Jura · January 9th, 2016, 02:31 AM

no erocla

reading the code, i think that i 've to see printed "hello" just 1 time per minute, it seems logical or i maybe i forgot something else.

ABCTG

I don't think you can foresee how many prints you receive as this might depend on the underlying timeframe and how often your code is executed.

As ABCTG already said, this depends on how often your script calculates. 1 time per minute sounds quite reasonable given your conditions, especially when you're not trading a super-liquid market.

You might want to add the RecalcLastBarAfter() keyword to your script.

January 9th, 2016, 07:45 AM

Dear Jura, thank you for answer.

I've not specified it because this is a Portfolio trader signal code, so is calculated tick by tick.
For this, i expected just 1 time per minute.

Best regards
No Erocla

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