Close Open Position on Startup

October 18th, 2013, 07:44 AM

I asked NT support for help with this and they said what I'm trying to do isn't supported. So, I thought I would ask you all to see if anyone has an answer

When enabling my strategy I want to test for open positions in my account and close them without disabling the strategy. I'm using the following code which closes the open positions but it also disables the strategy.

Code

if (this.Account.Positions.Count > 0)
{
	for (int count = 0;count<this.Account.Positions.Count;count++)
	{		
		position = this.Account.Positions[count];
		openposition = this.Account.Positions[count].MarketPosition;
		avgprice = this.Account.Positions[count].AvgPrice;
		if (openposition != MarketPosition.Flat)
			position.Close();
	}
}

October 18th, 2013, 04:29 PM

MWinfrey

I asked NT support for help with this and they said what I'm trying to do isn't supported. So, I thought I would ask you all to see if anyone has an answer

When enabling my strategy I want to test for open positions in my account and close them without disabling the strategy. I'm using the following code which closes the open positions but it also disables the strategy.

Code

if (this.Account.Positions.Count > 0)
{
	for (int count = 0;count<this.Account.Positions.Count;count++)
	{		
		position = this.Account.Positions[count];
		openposition = this.Account.Positions[count].MarketPosition;
		avgprice = this.Account.Positions[count].AvgPrice;
		if (openposition != MarketPosition.Flat)
			position.Close();
	}
}

Do you know why it disables the strategy?

If it is because of the close command, you might try just using a normal sell on the next bar or similar.

Mike

October 19th, 2013, 01:36 PM

Big Mike

Do you know why it disables the strategy?

If it is because of the close command, you might try just using a normal sell on the next bar or similar.

Mike

yes the close command apparently disables the strategy same as pressing the close button on the chart trader closes the strategy. A normal sell or buy don't work as the positions are account positions not strategy positions. At least that's my suspicion because they don't work for sure. I've also tried synchronizing the strategy and account positions on startup of the strategy and can't get that working either.

Close Open Position on Startup

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