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BlueHorseshoe

Strategies with Multiple Exits

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I'm looking to combine multiple entry/exit methods, each currently programmed as individual strategies, into one strategy.

 

Each source strategy has it's own specific exits (profit targets, stop-losses).

 

How can I prevent one source strategy's exit order (eg 'setstoploss(500)' ) from exiting a position generated by an entry order to which it is not applicable? Is there an easy way to link marketposition with the specific entry order that caused it?

 

I do have a method of doing this, but once again it's a very convoluted approach and I was wondering if there is a simpler method?

 

Many thanks,

 

BlueHorseshoe

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Name the entries and reference those names when exiting. Try this on 5 minute @ES with time set to exchange time.

 

if t=900 then begin
   buy("strat1") 3 contracts next bar market;
   buy("strat2") 5 contracts next bar market;
end;

if t=1000 then sell("fe s1") next bar from entry("strat1") market;
if t=1100 then sell("fe s2") next bar from entry("strat2") market;

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You will have to write out the logic for each target and stop.

 

var: pt1(5), pt2(10), SL1(5), SL2(10), ntry(0);

if t=900 then begin
   buy("strat1") 3 contracts next bar market;
   buy("strat2") 5 contracts next bar market;
   ntry=c;    
end;

sell("sl strat1") next bar from entry("strat1") ntry-SL1 stop;
sell("sl strat2") next bar from entry("strat2") ntry-SL2 stop;
sell("pt strat1") next bar from entry("strat1") ntry+pt1 limit;
sell("pt strat2") next bar from entry("strat2") ntry+pt2 limit;

setexitonclose;

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Ultimately you need to make sure your system allows this, otherwise you get issues regards average prices.

To a large extent it is all about accounting, but you still need to use what ever system allows you to do this easier. I separate longs in one account and shorts in another to allow multiple opens sometimes.....its a pain but easier to work with rather than having systems cut and then reverse.

 

As per Onesmith, are you using Easylanguage (i think thats it?), whats the broker allow, do they allows mulitple entires and exits...or do they amalgamate.

dont you have LIFO, FIFO issues in the US (I dont know too much about these but have seen issues raised by others)

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Ultimately you need to make sure your system allows this, otherwise you get issues regards average prices.

To a large extent it is all about accounting, but you still need to use what ever system allows you to do this easier. I separate longs in one account and shorts in another to allow multiple opens sometimes.....its a pain but easier to work with rather than having systems cut and then reverse.

 

As per Onesmith, are you using Easylanguage (i think thats it?), whats the broker allow, do they allows mulitple entires and exits...or do they amalgamate.

dont you have LIFO, FIFO issues in the US (I dont know too much about these but have seen issues raised by others)

 

Thanks for your reply. The language is EasyLanguage and the amalgamated strategy would only need to establish new positions from flat (nor would longs and shorts be held simultaneously). The goal is to ensure that a position established under one entry condition is not then exited according to the exit condition attached to a different entry.

 

Oh and I'm not US-based - I'm in the UK, though in Rainy Snowdonia rather than Sunny London :)

 

Cheers,

 

BlueHorseshoe

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You will have to write out the logic for each target and stop.

 

var: pt1(5), pt2(10), SL1(5), SL2(10), ntry(0);

if t=900 then begin
   buy("strat1") 3 contracts next bar market;
   buy("strat2") 5 contracts next bar market;
   ntry=c;    
end;

sell("sl strat1") next bar from entry("strat1") ntry-SL1 stop;
sell("sl strat2") next bar from entry("strat2") ntry-SL2 stop;
sell("pt strat1") next bar from entry("strat1") ntry+pt1 limit;
sell("pt strat2") next bar from entry("strat2") ntry+pt2 limit;

setexitonclose;

 

Doh! - so that's why other programmers name entries . . . That should be all the info I need to make this work - thanks OneSmith.

 

BlueHorseshoe

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BlueHorseShoe ?

 

You could find the "NWT Exit Suite"

 

One of the many things it gives you is the ability to link exits with a pre-named strategy.

So when you apply the Signal, you give it a name. It will then only work with orders that match this name.

 

There are heaps of other benefits.

  • Exit orders have names that match the reason for the exit. ie TS_LX (Trailing Stop Long Exit)
  • The Exit Signal can activley display on the chart the exact style of exit that is work ie SL, BE, TS etc
  • Importing this Signal also gives you a function that allows you to easily display text from with in a signal. Even print it vertically.
  • Because each exit type ie SL, BE, BB, TS, ST etc has it's own name applied, an output summary can now be generated detailing how many occurrences of each exit.
  • Numbered exits that match the trade log.
  • Etc Etc Etc

 

Neil.

 

Below is an example chart showing a trade as it moves from a PA (Price Action StopLoss) to a NC (Naked Close Stop) to a BB (Big bar Stop) back to a NC, NC, NC and final exit. You can also see that it plots the Green triangle at exactly the stop level.

At the top, the Entry Signal also writes "Session1 Start" vertically. To do this is just a single function call. Print_Text. Print_Text can also display all kinds of graphic characters.

 

attachment.php?attachmentid=29066&stc=1&d=1337686231

 

 

 

Here shows the usual Multicharts trade log but you can see that each of the exits has a proper name assigned so that stats can be collected on the number of times the exit was used. Ie how many BE (Break Even) exits were there ???

 

attachment.php?attachmentid=29068&stc=1&d=1337686231

 

 

 

 

Here is a summary report that combines all of the relevant (IMHO) information for a system.

Note that stats in the middle that count the various exits and qty of hits on each.

 

 

attachment.php?attachmentid=29067&stc=1&d=1337686231

 

 

 

Neil.

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Is the reason you didn't post the code for this because I have to pay to see it? Or did you inadvertently not post it?

 

BlueHorseShoe ?

 

You could find the "NWT Exit Suite"

 

One of the many things it gives you is the ability to link exits with a pre-named strategy.

So when you apply the Signal, you give it a name. It will then only work with orders that match this name.

 

There are heaps of other benefits.

  • Exit orders have names that match the reason for the exit. ie TS_LX (Trailing Stop Long Exit)
  • The Exit Signal can activley display on the chart the exact style of exit that is work ie SL, BE, TS etc
  • Importing this Signal also gives you a function that allows you to easily display text from with in a signal. Even print it vertically.
  • Because each exit type ie SL, BE, BB, TS, ST etc has it's own name applied, an output summary can now be generated detailing how many occurrences of each exit.
  • Numbered exits that match the trade log.
  • Etc Etc Etc

 

Neil.

 

Below is an example chart showing a trade as it moves from a PA (Price Action StopLoss) to a NC (Naked Close Stop) to a BB (Big bar Stop) back to a NC, NC, NC and final exit. You can also see that it plots the Green triangle at exactly the stop level.

At the top, the Entry Signal also writes "Session1 Start" vertically. To do this is just a single function call. Print_Text. Print_Text can also display all kinds of graphic characters.

 

attachment.php?attachmentid=29066&stc=1&d=1337686231

 

 

 

Here shows the usual Multicharts trade log but you can see that each of the exits has a proper name assigned so that stats can be collected on the number of times the exit was used. Ie how many BE (Break Even) exits were there ???

 

attachment.php?attachmentid=29068&stc=1&d=1337686231

 

 

 

 

Here is a summary report that combines all of the relevant (IMHO) information for a system.

Note that stats in the middle that count the various exits and qty of hits on each.

 

 

attachment.php?attachmentid=29067&stc=1&d=1337686231

 

 

 

Neil.

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Is the reason you didn't post the code for this because I have to pay to see it? Or did you inadvertently not post it?

 

Well that's a nice hello.

 

In the first paragraph I wrote, I posted a link to another forum where it could be download.

This enables me to only have one site where I can share my updates.

The moderator of this forum edited my post and removed this area of it.

That's why the first line reads a bit funny. "You could find the "NWT Exit Suite". It was a paragraph a few lines in length.

 

Neil.

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