Easylanguage NetProfit Strategy with midnight issues

March 1st, 2020, 09:17 PM

Hello,

Looking for some help on an easylanguage coding spot where I am stuck.

Im using a daily profit target / daily profit loss method whereby it will stop trading once either threshold has been hit.

I have seen some other code posted along these lines and to some degree, for the most part they work. However, the problem that I am running into is the fact that "NetProfit" resets at midnight.

So, trading the e-mini S&P beginning at 1700 CT and running till 1515 CT the next day for example, at midnight which is in the middle of the trading session the NetProfit resets and essentially takes all the math calculating the daily profit and daily profit / loss targets back to zero and doesn't do what it is intended to do.

In other words, if the goal has been hit for the next day before midnight (starting at 1700 and say target has been hit by 2100) it will stop trading as it is supposed to.

But, at midnight it will think its ok to trade again since everything reset and the intention is that it would not start trading again until 1700 the next day.

If someone could provide the missing pieces I would greatly appreciate it.

Here is the portion of the code that I am having the issue with:

Variables:
DailyProfit (0),
DailyLoss (0),
YesterdayNet (0),
TodayNet (0),
DayPL (False);

If date <> date[1] then begin
YesterdayNet = NetProfit ;
End;

If MP = 0 Then Begin
TodayNet = NetProfit - YesterdayNet;
End;

If -DailyLoss < TodayNet And TodayNet < DailyProfit Then
DayPL = True
Else DayPL = False;

I have also tried the following and still issues:

If (date = date[1] and time > 1659)
then begin
YesterdayNet = NetProfit ;
End;

If MP = 0 Then Begin
TodayNet = NetProfit - YesterdayNet ;
End;

if date = date[1] and time = 2359
then begin
PrevNetProfit = TodayNet ;
End;

if date <> date[1] and time = 0000
Then begin
TodayNet = PrevNetProfit - netprofit;
End;

If TodayNet < DailyProfit Then
DayPL = True
Else DayPL = False;

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

ABCTG · March 2nd, 2020, 03:52 AM

Hi bruiser,

welcome to futures.io. You could simply move the resetting of the net profit value to the time of your choice, for example after 5 PM.
You can accomplish this for example by using below code snippet:

Code

Variables:
bool resetAllowed ( false );

//allow the reset again for the new day
if Date <> Date[1] then
   resetAllowed = true ;

//check for the time based reset
if Time > 1700 and resetAllowed then
begin 
   resetAllowed = false ;
   //update your variable here - for example YesterdayNet = NetProfit ;
end ;

Regards,

ABCTG

March 4th, 2020, 12:43 AM

Thank you very much!

Greatly appreciate the help!

March 21st, 2020, 02:31 AM

One other question along a similar line:

This works with regards to what it is supposed to do. Resets profits to zero at specified time and with P&L / Loss parameters set it would stop trading once target is met.

However, it works for the specific code on the market that it is activated on.

If I am trading 3 different markets for example, it would run the parameters individually on each market and stop trading accordingly for that particular market.

Trying to figure out what I would need to implement in the code to have it look at the combined P&L / Loss for the account for the day / markets traded for the day.

For example: If we set the day P&L target to $500 in the code it would keep taking new trades until that market either hit the $500 profit target or the daily loss amount was triggered.

But, if were trading 5 markets for example, I want to be able to have each individual market look at the profit / loss overall for the day before taking a new trade. So, if $500 has already been hit for the profits it would not enter new trades in any of the other markets since the daily goal has been hit. Regardless of the fact that each particular market may not have had a trade.

I hope that all makes sense, and I am pretty sure it is something rather simple I am missing.

Really appreciate the assistance.

Thank you

Easylanguage NetProfit Strategy with midnight issues

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