Adding a trailing average true range stop loss to my SMA strategy

Created at 18 Nov 2020, 21:18
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alexbevan099

Joined 14.11.2020

Adding a trailing average true range stop loss to my SMA strategy
18 Nov 2020, 21:18


Hello lovely people of Ctrader,

 

I am having issues with adding an ATR stop loss to my algorithm. it is sending me nutty. I am still a newbie to ctrader and i do not have an awful lot of coding experience. I have been able to add a regular stop loss to my code but i wish to add a ATR to my code, so that my trade will automatically cash out once it hits a certain atr value in terms of the stop loss. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
SMA Crossover wuith ATR stop loss
//
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

using System;
using System.Linq;
using cAlgo.API;
using cAlgo.API.Indicators;
using cAlgo.API.Internals;
using cAlgo.Indicators;

namespace cAlgo
{
    [Robot(TimeZone = TimeZones.UTC, AccessRights = AccessRights.None)]
    public class SampleTrendcBot : Robot
    {
        [Parameter("Quantity (Lots)", Group = "Volume", DefaultValue = 1, MinValue = 0.01, Step = 0.01)]
        public double Quantity { get; set; }

        [Parameter("MA Type", Group = "Moving Average")]
        public MovingAverageType MAType { get; set; }

        [Parameter("Source", Group = "Moving Average")]
        public DataSeries SourceSeries { get; set; }

        [Parameter("Slow Periods", Group = "Moving Average", DefaultValue = 10)]
        public int SlowPeriods { get; set; }

        [Parameter("Fast Periods", Group = "Moving Average", DefaultValue = 5)]
        public int FastPeriods { get; set; }

        [Parameter("Stop Loss (pips)", Group = "Protection", DefaultValue = 20, MinValue = 1)]
        public int StopLossInPips { get; set; }



        private MovingAverage slowMa;
        private MovingAverage fastMa;
        private const string label = "Sample Trend cBot";

        protected override void OnStart()
        {
            fastMa = Indicators.MovingAverage(SourceSeries, FastPeriods, MAType);
            slowMa = Indicators.MovingAverage(SourceSeries, SlowPeriods, MAType);
        }

        protected override void OnTick()
        {
            var longPosition = Positions.Find(label, SymbolName, TradeType.Buy);
            var shortPosition = Positions.Find(label, SymbolName, TradeType.Sell);

            var currentSlowMa = slowMa.Result.Last(0);
            var currentFastMa = fastMa.Result.Last(0);
            var previousSlowMa = slowMa.Result.Last(1);
            var previousFastMa = fastMa.Result.Last(1);

            if (previousSlowMa > previousFastMa && currentSlowMa <= currentFastMa && longPosition == null)
            {
                if (shortPosition != null)
                    ClosePosition(shortPosition);
                ExecuteMarketOrder(TradeType.Buy, SymbolName, VolumeInUnits, label, StopLossInPips, null);
            }
            else if (previousSlowMa < previousFastMa && currentSlowMa >= currentFastMa && shortPosition == null)
            {
                if (longPosition != null)
                    ClosePosition(longPosition);
                ExecuteMarketOrder(TradeType.Sell, SymbolName, VolumeInUnits, label, StopLossInPips, null);
            }
        }

        private double VolumeInUnits
        {
            get { return Symbol.QuantityToVolumeInUnits(Quantity); }
        }
    }
}


@alexbevan099