Hi,

I'm hoping someone would be able help or point me in the wright direction for using the IOG with buy at market.

My apologies if this has already been posted as I've looked around and could not find anything. This is my first trying to script anything so i do apologies if my question/ observation is stupid/ obvious.

The issue I'm having with IOG is that it appears to be placing the trades at the top of the candles instead of when the IF statement became valid. I've attached the screenshot of this

With IOG off it buys at the next bar as it should.

 

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[IntrabarOrderGeneration = True] Inputs: wmalength (50), wmalength1 (1), Take_Profit (20), Stop_loss (20); vars: wma (0), wma1 (0), TickSize (minmove/PriceScale), tp1 (Take_Profit*ticksize), sl1 (Stop_loss*ticksize); wma = WAverage(close,wmalength); wma1 = WAverage(close,wmalength1); if marketposition = 0 then begin if wma1 > wma then begin Buy ("Go Long") 5 contracts next bar market; end; end; if marketposition = 1 then begin Sell ("L_TP") next bar at (entryprice+Tp1) limit; sell ("L_SL")next bar at (entryprice-SL1) stop; end; CurrentAsk

Initially i used the currentBid function but this gave the same results hence i tried the 2 wmas

 

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if Currentbid > wma then begin Buy ("Go Long") 5 contracts next bar market; end;

Thank you in advance as I've spent the entire night trying to figure this out. With no Luck.

Try changing your stops and targets to a market order and see if it makes a difference. It seems like whenever I use limit orders, I run into orders at the high/low of the bars sometimes, instead of the open close.

Just a thought, might not make a difference. (and yes, I realize those are exits and your concerns are with the entries, but it's worth a try)

1) Do you have "Build minute and daily bars based on tick data" configured in QuoteManager for EURUSD?
2) How many entries/exits would you like to "allow" (Format Signals->Properties->Enable Intra-Bar Order Generation setting; can be set to one of three settings)
3) Do you have the Bar Magnifier enabled? (Format Signals->Properties->Backtesting->Backtesting Precision->Use Bar Magnifier; set to to 1 tick resolution or whatever you want)

With the above enabled, I get (with your signal/script)...



Hope that helps...
-Guy

p.s. don't forget when using IOG, "Next Bar" really means "Next Tick" and "This Bar at Close" really means "Next Bar" - gotta love IOG

thank you Fu510n,

the Bar Magnifier worked, it enters as it should. So frustrating, so much keayboard bashing for a single tickbox.

Quick question, is there a way to get/set the open/low of the entry candle so to use for Sl or other entry points?

ie, if buy executed on candle 3 from the left then it's open = c3_open, low = c3_low. or something like that?

SlowCarry 

thank you Fu510n, the Bar Magnifier worked, it enters as it should. So frustrating, so much keayboard bashing for a single tickbox. Quick question, is there a way to get/set the open/low of the entry candle so to use for Sl or other entry points? ie, if buy executed on candle 3 from the left then it's open = c3_open, low = c3_low. or something like that?

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If you want to refer to the open 3 bars ago, then use Open[3] or O[3] etc for high, low etc..

sptrader 

************************************************************************************ If you want to refer to the open 3 bars ago, then use Open[3] or O[3] etc for high, low etc..

sorry the 3 was just an example the, as in the open, high low ect. of the bar where the entry was triggered. The entry could of been 2/5/7/xx bars back from the current bar but i would like to have the values of the entry bar.

Well i managed to get the count bar thing but it appears that its not using the actual values of the candle but rather substitutes the lows/highs with open/close.

From read so far it appears that MC reads only the Open/close of historic bars. Is there a way to makes it read the entire candle?

My very "i seriously need to learn better syntax" if loop.

 

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if (count1 = 0 ) then begin if (barssinceentry > 0) then begin count1 = count1 +1; if (barssinceentry > count1) then begin count1 = count1 + 1; end; end; end;

SlowCarry 

Hi, I'm hoping someone would be able help or point me in the wright direction for using the IOG with buy at market. My apologies if this has already been posted as I've looked around and could not find anything. This is my first trying to script anything so i do apologies if my question/ observation is stupid/ obvious. The issue I'm having with IOG is that it appears to be placing the trades at the top of the candles instead of when the IF statement became valid. I've attached the screenshot of this With IOG off it buys at the next bar as it should.   Code [IntrabarOrderGeneration = True] Inputs: wmalength (50), wmalength1 (1), Take_Profit (20), Stop_loss (20); vars: wma (0), wma1 (0), TickSize (minmove/PriceScale), tp1 (Take_Profit*ticksize), sl1 (Stop_loss*ticksize); wma = WAverage(close,wmalength); wma1 = WAverage(close,wmalength1); if marketposition = 0 then begin if wma1 > wma then begin Buy ("Go Long") 5 contracts next bar market; end; end; if marketposition = 1 then begin Sell ("L_TP") next bar at (entryprice+Tp1) limit; sell ("L_SL")next bar at (entryprice-SL1) stop; end; CurrentAsk Initially i used the currentBid function but this gave the same results hence i tried the 2 wmas   Code if Currentbid > wma then begin Buy ("Go Long") 5 contracts next bar market; end; Thank you in advance as I've spent the entire night trying to figure this out. With no Luck.

are you talking about backtesting???

Thanks for you help Bimi, but Fu510n fixed the problem for me.

SlowCarry 

Well i managed to get the count bar thing but it appears that its not using the actual values of the candle but rather substitutes the lows/highs with open/close. From read so far it appears that MC reads only the Open/close of historic bars. Is there a way to makes it read the entire candle? My very "i seriously need to learn better syntax" if loop.   Code if (count1 = 0 ) then begin if (barssinceentry > 0) then begin count1 = count1 +1; if (barssinceentry > count1) then begin count1 = count1 + 1; end; end; end;

Can you include the code where you're trying to access High/Low vs. Open/Close? Not sure if you're using MessageLog() or not, but you might want to debug that way as well,

e.g.

 

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MessageLog( "[", TotalTrades+1:0:0, " | ",             FormatDate("M/dd/yyyy", DateToJulian( Date )), " ", FormatTime("hh:mm:ss tt", DateToJulian( Date ) + (TimeToSeconds( Time_s ) / 3600 / 24)), " | ",             CurrentBar + MaxBarsBack:0:0, " | ", BarStatus( 1 ):0:0,             "] Open=[", Open:0:4, "] High=[", High:0:4, "] Low=[", Low:0:4, "] Close=[", Close:0:4, "]" );

You can replace "High:0:4" with "High[count1]:0:4" if desired, etc.

Just a thought - need more input