kricka
25 Apr 2013, 08:57

Hi,

Forgot to mention it but the HotKeys should be applied to instrument level as well!

kricka
25 Apr 2013, 07:27

Hi,

there is a third part company that have devoloped an excellent macro program for Windows. I use it at lot in trading. Maybe you guys can have advantage of it too. Macro Express Pro. Search the net and you'll find it.

Though I think this feature should be a priorety for cAlgo to implant,. namely HotKeys for the robots! To start and to stop a robot.

Thanks..

kricka
24 Apr 2013, 18:42

Hi,

thanks Scott for your suggestion. Its a workaround but a function in cAlgo to take care of the problem, would be nice :).

kricka
24 Apr 2013, 00:10

Hi,

thanks for the complete code. I've implanted it and tested it for several days, and came to this conclusion, it works perfectly! 

Great coding for sure! 

Thanks..

kricka
20 Apr 2013, 06:31

Hi lec0456,

I've been trying as well to be able to place certain variables on a specific place on the chart. Seems at the moment we're bound to TopRight-Left, BottomLeft-Right, and Center. I manage to use a "space" varibale to fit more info into these places. Its a workaround and the best solotion would be a X and Y coordinates for easy layout. Hope a upgrade is coming soon on the Drawtext method, we definitly need it!

kricka
20 Apr 2013, 05:26

Hi,

your backtesting result sounds promising. Why do I not get the same result? Please give me your complete code.

Thanks..

kricka
18 Apr 2013, 21:34

Hi,

thanks for your reply. I've already used up all the  StaticPosition placements on the chart and manage to use a space variable to cramp in more info on TopLeft, TopRight, Center and BottomLeft and Right positions. An upgrade on the StaticPosition with X and Y is highly needed for layout pruposes. Hope it will come in the future.

kricka
18 Apr 2013, 21:03

Hi,

the above is correct but I could not get the code itself to work. got the first to print to log ok.

Print("Triggered at {0}", Account.Equity);

the logic in the code seems to be right but only the first piece is triggered.

protected override void OnTick()
{
    if (!isTriggered)
    {
        if( Account.Equity >= Target3)
        {
            isTriggered = true;
            trailingEquity = Account.Equity;
            Print("Triggered at {0}", Account.Equity);                                    
        }
    } 

Hope you have some more suggestions. Thanks..

kricka
11 Apr 2013, 05:36

Hi,

What I'm after is just to be able to place a variable on a specific place on the charts, not including any other info then to show the specific variable. 

For example I want to place the "balanceprocent" variable to be shown on the chart on Y 20 and X 20 coordinates. A matter of placing it on the right place for easy viewing.

A piece of code. Please.

Thanks..

kricka
09 Apr 2013, 23:10

Hi,

I have implented the above code suggestions and after a few modification to fit my code and after some trial and erros, I got it to work in the backtesting. I also have tested in in rela time and it worked as well there too. Thanks for understanding my logic! Excellent coding from your side!

I have  a question about traling the Account..Equity if that is possible. I'll Give you my logic below.

if (Account.Equity >= Target3)

trail the Account..Equity with the distance of the variable in "traildistance". With other words it will trail up with Account..Equity until it will retrace and then the "traildistance" will stop out and close positions.

Thanks once again for your superb support!

kricka
03 Apr 2013, 01:13

Hi, I will respond to your last logic with these lines.

1.Going through or equal to "Trigger1", it will close the positions if it retraces to "Stopout1" before it reaches "Trigger2". close all positions at Stopout1, 100% correct.

2. Going through "Trigger1" without retracing to "Stopout1" and going through or equal to "Trigger2" then retracing to Stopout2, close all positions at Stopout2.

Tried the latest code suggestion and I do get 2 error message saying.

A local variable that has not been submittet is used: targetlevel1

A local variable that has not been submittet is used: targetlevel2

On these 2 lines in the code:

bool targetlevel1; 

bool targetlevel2;

If I use private I'll get maybe 10 error messages.

The following code works though and can compile without errors but the code then is not carring out the stopouts.

bool targetlevel1 = (Account.Equity >= Target1);

bool targetlevel2 = (Account.Equity >= Target2);

Hope you have some more ideas of writing the code.

If I just use one line of code like: if (Account.Equity <= Stopout1) it works 100%, so my code before this instance is correct.

Thanks..

kricka
02 Apr 2013, 01:47

Hi,

I've tried the different suggestion during the long weekend and so far I have not been able to get it working to my satisfaction.

Maybe by renaming the Target1 and Target2 to "Trigger1" and "Trigger2" will make it more clear what I'm after, namely when some of these triggers is hit the Stopout1 and Stopout2 will come in action. The triggers are not a means to close the positions, just a trigger that when hit  and then retrace to Stopout1 and Stopout2, they will take care of closing the positions.

Thanks..

kricka
29 Mar 2013, 23:36

Hi,

I'm working on somehing very close to your latest suggestion and after the weekend when the market is in full action again I'll have a chance to test it out. Just one thought though. The Target1 and Target2 needs only to be fullfilled once to be "True". Then the purpose of the bool maybe needs to be broken to save the first "True" as a fact. A break of the loop maybe be the right answer at that time, continuing  the looop will give it a "False" statement before reaching the Stopout1 and Stopout2. Hope you understand my logic.. :).

Thanks you for you support so far, just great in my opinion!

kricka
29 Mar 2013, 08:36

Hi,

I tried the above code and it gave alot of error messages. Tried also different ELSE IF and could not get any to work.

Maybe ELSE IF is not kompatible with cAlgo. Anyways maybe you have some other ways to get around the else if.  

Thanks...

kricka
28 Mar 2013, 08:07

Hi,

thanks for your quick reply. 

The scenario I describe is in the same code, trying to lock in profits and limit drawdowns on different levels, when it comes to account protection.

This is what the code looks like but I  cannot get it to work the way it should. Hope you have some ideas how to code it right.

bool targetlevel1 = Account.Equity >= target1;

bool targetlevel2 = Account.Equity >= target2;
     
     if ( targetlevel1 == true && Account.Equity <= stopout1 )

     if  (targetlevel2 == true && Account.Equity <= stopout2 )

  {
	    Trade.Close(position);

              }
           }
        }
    }

kricka
24 Mar 2013, 05:00

Account.Equity, Account.Balance.

Account.Equity, Account.Balance.

These I would like to call in the indicator interface to be able to build an indicator displaying, equity curve, balance information.

Maybe you have a work around to get this info into an indicator? Or will it be a future upgrade?

Thanks..