Lot size - bug?

[drolles]

All,

I’ve been doing some work with position sizing. I have been using the standard:

var nLot = Math.round(Strategy.getPositionSize()/2);

I have found this code in a number examples on this forum.

I’m having a little problem with this code. I’ve been trying to simulate 2 contracts – i.e. setting the Lot size to 2 before the backtest begins. I was my strategy wasn’t exiting ½ the position when it was supposed to, so I did some debugging Printlns on this. The Lot size doesn’t appear to half if the number of lots is 4 or below? Has anyone else found this? Could someone from Esignal please comment?

Excerpt from code:

debugPrintln("Strategy.getPositionSize() = "+ Strategy.getPositionSize());

var nLot = Math.round(Strategy.getPositionSize()/2);

debugPrintln("nLot = "+nLot);

Strategy.doCover("Paid for Stop", Strategy.STOP, Strategy.THISBAR, nLot, paidstop_num);


Kind regards,

Dan

[eSignal_AveryH]

Dan,

From what we can see the syntax is correct and this snippet of code should work.

Others viewing this thread might be able to provide you with additional support if you would post your code to this forum.

AveryH
eSignal Support

[drolles]

Avery,

Thanks very much for your reply.

Kind regards,

Dan

[TGafford]

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