Why strategy orders are not executed?

March 19th, 2021, 03:12 PM

I wrote 2 signals to open a long position according to the prior bar's height. Buy stop 1 tick above the prior bar's high and place a stop loss order 1 or 2 ticks below the low of the prior two bars. Take profit when the target reaches half of the risk. Now my signals show the entries and exits on the chart but however, it cannot execute orders at real time. The platform does nothing except drawing the orders on the chart and yet no real order is placed. I don't know what's gone wrong. Please help.

March 19th, 2021, 03:29 PM

Below is the code for the entry signal. Max_Risk is the maximal risk tolerated for each trade in dollar amount and PerContract_Risk is the maximal risk tolerated per futures contract.

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using PowerLanguage.Function;
using ATCenterProxy.interop;

namespace PowerLanguage.Strategy
{
[IOGMode(IOGMode.Disabled)]
public class MackBuyStop_Open : SignalObject
{
// Create the inputs
[Input]
public double Max_Risk { get; set; }

[Input]
public double PerContract_Risk { get; set; }

public MackBuyStop_Open(object _ctx) : base(_ctx)
{
// Give the inputs a default value
Max_Risk = 880;
PerContract_Risk = 300;

}

private IOrderPriced enterLong;
private double TickValue, PointValue, BarRisk1, BarRisk2;

protected override void Create()
{
// Create the orders
enterLong = OrderCreator.Stop(new
SOrderParameters(Contracts.UserSpecified, EOrderAction.Buy));

}

protected override void StartCalc()
{
TickValue = Bars.Info.MinMove / Bars.Info.PriceScale ;
PointValue = Bars.Info.BigPointValue ;
Output.Clear();

}

protected override void CalcBar()
{

BarRisk1 = ( Bars.High[0] - Bars.Low.Lowest(2, 0) + 2 * TickValue ) * PointValue ;
BarRisk2 = BarRisk1 + TickValue*PointValue;
//Output.WriteLine(Bars.Time[0].ToString("d-M HH:mm:ss")+" StrategyInfo.MarketPosition = {0}\n", StrategyInfo.MarketPosition);
if ((CurrentPosition.Side == EMarketPositionSide.Flat) &&
( Bars.Close[0] - Bars.Open[0] > 0 ) &&
( (Bars.Close[0] - Bars.Low[0] ) / (Bars.High[0] > Bars.Low[0]? (Bars.High[0] - Bars.Low[0]):1000000) >= 0.6 ) &&
( BarRisk1 <= PerContract_Risk )) //((double)(Bars.High - Bars.Low) + 2 * TickValue)
{
// Output.WriteLine(Bars.Time[0].ToString("d-M HH:mm:ss")+" StrategyInfo.MarketPosition = {0}\n", StrategyInfo.MarketPosition);
// Output.WriteLine(Bars.Time[0].ToString("d-M HH:mm:ss")+" BarRisk1 = {0} BarRisk2 = {1}\n", BarRisk1, BarRisk2 );
if (BarRisk2 <= PerContract_Risk)
{
enterLong.Send(Bars.High[0] + TickValue, (int)(Max_Risk/BarRisk2));

}
else
{
enterLong.Send(Bars.High[0] + TickValue, (int)(Max_Risk/BarRisk1));
}

}

}
}
}

March 19th, 2021, 03:30 PM

Below is the code for exit signal.

namespace PowerLanguage.Strategy
{
[IOGMode(IOGMode.Disabled)]
public class Mack_Single_Target_Exit : SignalObject
{

private double TickValue, PointValue, BarRisk1, BarRisk2;
private double Amount1;
public Mack_Single_Target_Exit(object ctx) :
base(ctx)
{
Amount = 880;
PerContractRisk = 300;
}

[Input]
public double Amount { get; set; }

[Input]
public double PerContractRisk { get; set; }

protected override void StartCalc()
{
TickValue = Bars.Info.MinMove / Bars.Info.PriceScale ;
PointValue = Bars.Info.BigPointValue ;
}

protected override void CalcBar(){
if (StrategyInfo.MarketPosition <0) Output.WriteLine(Bars.Time[0].ToString("d-M HH:mm:ss")+" Market Position = {0} \n", StrategyInfo.MarketPosition);
if (StrategyInfo.MarketPosition == 0) Amount1 = 0;
if (StrategyInfo.MarketPosition > 0 && Amount1 == 0 ){

BarRisk1 = ( Bars.High[1] - Bars.Low.Lowest(2, 1) + 2 * TickValue ) * PointValue ;
BarRisk2 = BarRisk1 + TickValue*PointValue;
if (BarRisk2 > PerContractRisk)
Amount1 = BarRisk1 ;
else
Amount1 = BarRisk2 ;
}

if (StrategyInfo.MarketPosition < 0 && Amount1 == 0 ){

BarRisk1 = ( Bars.High.Highest(2,1) - Bars.Low[1] + 2 * TickValue ) * PointValue ;
BarRisk2 = BarRisk1 + TickValue*PointValue;
if (BarRisk2 > PerContractRisk)
Amount1 = BarRisk1 ;
else
Amount1 = BarRisk2 ;
}
CurSpecOrdersMode = ESpecOrdersMode.PerContract;

if (StrategyInfo.MarketPosition != 0){
GenerateProfitTarget(Amount1 / 2);
GenerateStopLoss(Amount1);
Output.WriteLine(Bars.Time[0].ToString("d-M HH:mm:ss")+" Market Position = {0} Risk Amount = {1}\n", StrategyInfo.MarketPosition, Amount1);
}
}
}
}

March 19th, 2021, 03:44 PM

Below is the chart marked with entries and exits. However, in real time, there is no order sent out.

Why strategy orders are not executed?

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