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[amibroker] Re: Specifying an exact SellPrice for FirstProfitTarget when ScaleOut



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OK, thanks - but I'm still confused :)

How would I specify the actual ScaleOut price for a trade, eg:

I buy 10 contracts at 100.00
I sell (ScaleOut) 5 contracts at 100.05
I sell the final 5 contracts at 100.09


Alex


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Graham <kavemanperth@xxx> wrote:
>
> Scaling is all done using Buy and BuyPrice
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Graham Kav
> AFL Writing Service
> http://www.aflwriting.com
> 
> 
> 
> On 30/10/2007, dralexchambers <dralexchambers@xxx> wrote:
> > Hi - I'm using the code supplied in the manual for partial exit
> > scaling out on profit target stops (Manual: example 4, page =
> > "Pyramiding (scaling in/out) and mutliple currencies in the 
portfolio
> > backtester").
> >
> > The code snipet for scaling out on TP1 is as follows:
> >
> > FirstProfitTarget = 10; // TP1 at 10% profit
> >
> > //....rest of code ...//
> >
> > if( exit == 0 AND
> >    High[ i ] >= ( 1 + FirstProfitTarget * 0.01 ) * priceatbuy )
> >    {
> >        // first profit target hit - scale-out
> >        exit = 1;
> >        Buy[ i ] = sigScaleOut;
> >     }
> >
> >
> > I am confused how you specify the actual SellPrice for the 1st TP
> > above? All we did in the code was set a sigScaleOut marker, but 
not a
> > price at which this should be done - I think???
> >
> > I would like to specify an exact SellPrice for TP1 of:
> >
> > ( 1 + FirstProfitTarget * 0.01 ) * priceatbuy
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
> >
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