Paper Trading Forex from EFS

[knick20]

I can Paper Trade Forex from the PT dialog boxes, but not getting and response to the PT function calls within EFS. No EFS errors, but no trades show up on the Broker window.

I'm instantiating the PT onbect per the doc'n:
var oPTB = new PaperTradeBroker();
sPaperTradeSymbolEFS = getsymbol();
vPaperTradePositionEFS = 100000;
oPTB.Buy(sPaperTradeSymbolEFS, vPaperTradePositionEFS, PaperTradeBroker.MARKET);

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance...

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Knick20,

I notice your getSymbol() call has a lower case s. Try a capital S first and see if that fixes things.

I would think that the way it currently is, you should be getting a "must provide a symbol" error. Do you have any conditional statements surrounding your oPTB.Buy() call? If so, put a debugPrintln("hello"); statement just before your .Buy() call and see if "hello" prints to the formula output window (Tools-->EFS-->Formula Output Window). If "hello" is not appearing then double-check your conditional statement.

Here's a piece of code you can test with just to make sure the paper broker is working on your end. If this works for you, then your problem most likely has to do with the getsymbol() call or your conditional statements.

function preMain() {
    setStudyTitle("test");
    setPriceStudy(true);
    setShowCursorLabel(false);

}

var oPTB = new PaperTradeBroker();
var sPaperTradeSymbolEFS = getSymbol();
var vPaperTradePositionEFS = 100000;
var bFlag = false;


function main() {

    if (getCurrentBarIndex() != 0) return;
    
    if (bFlag == false) {
        oPTB.Buy(sPaperTradeSymbolEFS, vPaperTradePositionEFS, PaperTradeBroker.MARKET); 
        bFlag = true;
    }
    
    return;
} 

[knick20]

Paper Trading from EFS

Many thanks, Jason! Sorry to bother on such an obvious syntax error.

Didn't mention in the original post, but I also had left setComputeOnCLose() turned on. Put in a work around to enable trading on bar intervals only (first-tick-of-new-bar), and fixed the getSymbol() - and was able to get EFS papertrading to work.

Curiously, I also had to avoid using the getHolding() and getPending() functions. Probably something I'm not doing right, I need to check deeper before sounding alarms. Thanks again.