Buying and selling in a backtest?

[fflaque]

I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong here I've tried everything, in this code if i have going long and short it looks ok but if i just want to have it short and covering but not going long it doesn't recognize going short, could anybody tell me what i'm doing wrong?

I believe you have to use Strategy.doCover or Strategy.doSell which will close your position.

[fflaque]

yeah i was about to post that i figured it out...thanks though

[fflaque]

actually does something look wrong with this code ?

if (Strategy.isInTrade() == true && (Strategy.isShort() == true)) {
hi = high();
if ((hi - nTradeEntryPrice) > .005){
nStopLevel = hi;
Strategy.doCover("Loss stop out", Strategy.STOP, Strategy.THISBAR, nStopLevel);
}
}

You will probably figure this out ... the only thing that I see that you could add is a Strategy.ALL flag. Otherwise, all looks well... your command structure is similar to working code I have.

One other implementation of the strategy that I use is Strategy.doCover(sAction,Strategy.CLOSE, Strategy.THISBAR,Strategy.ALL) where sAction is my text message. I use this to exit at the end of trading hours.

btw, unusual avatar

[FibbGann]

That Avatar is just what I needed to break the ice this morning.
LOL

To funny

[fflaque]

thanks for the compliments on the avatar, it was either that one or the fat kid going crazy...anyways i thought it looked good too but if i comment out that stop the code works fine, but if i leave it in the indicator doesn't show up...any ideas?