Reversing Position Help

[rickek 10]

Could I have some help seeing if I wrote code right?

I wrote down what I want it to say in normal language and then the code is below it. I thought I did it right because in back-test is works perfectly but when doing it in demo testing w/auto it sometimes does and other times doesn't. This is the part of my code that is causing a problem. The rest seems to be doing good.

 

Here is what I want to say

if the 2 bar average crosses under the 17 bar average then sell one contract at next bar at market. if in a long position already, cover the position and sell another short.

 

if the 2 bar average crosses over the 17 bar average then buy one contract at next bar at market. if in a short position already, cover the position and buy another long.

 

Here is the code I wrotebegin

 

If average(close,2) crosses over average(close,17) then buy next bar at market;

If average(close,2) crosses under average(close,17) then sellshort next bar at market;

 

end;

 

 

*An example of it some times working is that the auto demo short one position, then it bought 2 the next cross (one to cover and one to go long), but then it only short-ed one the next cross. It shows 2 "shorts" on plots but only excuted one. Then in a different market it short-ed 2 when a cross happened but there was no long position to cover.

 

***I think my problem might be in the wording of buy/sellshort. If I only use sell it just closes out of the position and doesn't reverse.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Edited March 19, 2009 by rickek