gareth-h-jones
06 May 2017, 11:16

I have finally got to the bottom of the behaviour I am seeing.

If i place the orders with very large SL and TP then they are still available when I call Find.Position.

So it seems their SL or TP are being hit however there is nothing in the logs to suggest the positions are being closed and the history also does not show these positions being closed.

So could someone please tell me how the SL and TP functionality work

gareth-h-jones
03 May 2017, 11:11

RE:

gareth-h-jones said:

I have a simple algo that I am working on at the moment where a call is made to open or close a position and righ at the start 2 variables are set up containing a buy or Sell position.

If a buy position is open and a opposite signal is received the position should close and vice versa

The problem is after the first couple of call the Positions.Find method is returning null even though there is a position open.

So to be clear at the start it is populating my variables with the open positions and then stops.

When a new buy position is created it is always created with the label "BuyPosition" and Sells are created with"SellPosition"

Is there some behaviour that I need to be aware off ?

 

private void OpenClosePosition(char b_type, double current_high, double current_low)
        {
            var BuyPosition = Positions.Find("BuyPosition");
            var SellPosition = Positions.Find("SellPosition");

 

I have identified what the issue is 

when I open the position using

var result1 = ExecuteMarketOrder(TradeType.Buy, Symbol, 10000, "BuyPosition", ((Symbol.Ask - stoplossprice_sell) / Symbol.PipSize), ((Symbol.Ask - stoplossprice_sell) / Symbol.PipSize));

But then I try and find the position using  var BuyPosition = Positions.Find("BuyPosition");

For some reason this does not work even though I only have 1 position open with the label "BuyPosition"

If I open using  ExecuteMarketOrder(TradeType.Buy, Symbol, 10000, "BuyPosition");

Then it works I would appreciate it if somone could explain why this doesn't work