I give up. I tried for a couple hours to get the example in the help
file of the scale out code to work for futures. I'm just not getting it.
I need a section of code to define the scale out strategy based not on
percent of position size but rather on points. For instance, I would
like to scale out of a futures position after profit reaches 1 point
and scale out further when profit reaches 3 points, allowing the 3rd
and final contract to run out until the sell signal is triggered. I
sure hope there is some code out there that does this.
The example from the help file:
Buy = Cross( MA( C, 10 ), MA( C, 50 ) );
Sell = 0;
// the system will exit
// 50% of position if FIRST PROFIT TARGET stop is hit
// 50% of position is SECOND PROFIT TARGET stop is hit
// 100% of position if TRAILING STOP is hit
FirstProfitTarget = 10; // profit
SecondProfitTarget = 20; // in percent
TrailingStop = 10; // also in percent
priceatbuy=0;
highsincebuy = 0;
exit = 0;
for( i = 0; i < BarCount; i++ )
{
if( priceatbuy == 0 AND Buy[ i ] )
{
priceatbuy = BuyPrice[ i ];
}
if( priceatbuy > 0 )
{
highsincebuy = Max( High[ i ], highsincebuy );
if( exit == 0 AND
High[ i ] >= ( 1 + FirstProfitTarget * 0.01 ) * priceatbuy )
{
// first profit target hit - scale-out
exit = 1;
Buy[ i ] = sigScaleOut;
}
if( exit == 1 AND
High[ i ] >= ( 1 + SecondProfitTarget * 0.01 ) * priceatbuy )
{
// second profit target hit - exit
exit = 2;
SellPrice[ i ] = Max( Open[ i ], ( 1 + SecondProfitTarget *
0.01 ) * priceatbuy );
}
if( Low[ i ] <= ( 1 - TrailingStop * 0.01 ) * highsincebuy )
{
// trailing stop hit - exit
exit = 3;
SellPrice[ i ] = Min( Open[ i ], ( 1 - TrailingStop * 0.01 )
* highsincebuy );
}
if( exit >= 2 )
{
Buy[ i ] = 0;
Sell[ i ] = exit + 1; // mark appropriate exit code
exit = 0;
priceatbuy = 0; // reset price
highsincebuy = 0;
}
}
}
SetPositionSize( 50, spsPercentOfEquity );
SetPositionSize( 50, spsPercentOfPosition * ( Buy == sigScaleOut ) );
// scale out 50% of position
