I've coded a Kelly money management signal for Multicharts off of the risk capital set and I've been getting the error: [EXCEPTION} Floating-point invalid operation.

I've searched for the solution, and found that others have gotten around the problem by removing the scenario where their equation divides by zero.

I've tried to identify where there is a zero that I'm dividing by, and attempted to add exceptions however the error persists.

I havn't put any code in my signal code to associate to the money management code.

Any advice is appreciated.

//#Number of Units = Account Total * Risk Capital * ( Kelly Ratio % - Win % Change Buffer )
//Kelly Ratio = % of trades that win - (1 - % of trades that win) / ($ Winnings per trade / Expected Loss per trade)

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Vars:
GL( 0 ),
GP( 0 ),
NWT( 0 ),
TT( 0 ),
Tradevolume( 0 ),
Equity( 0 ),
ProfitFactor( 0 ),
WTP( 0 ),
KellyCriterion( 0 ),
Kelly( 0 );

//Equity
Equity = Round ((InitialCapital + NetProfit + OpenPositionProfit),0);


//Kelly Criterion Variables
GL = grossloss/numlostrades;
GP = grossprofit/numwintrades;
NWT = Numwintrades;
TT = Totaltrades;

//Kelly Criterion Calculation
kelly[(NWT/TT) - (1-(NWT/TT)/(GP/GL))];

//Entries
If Entryprice > 0
Then pmms_strategy_set_entry_contracts(0,((Equity * Kelly)/Entryprice));

//Exceptions
IF GL=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm GL=0");
IF GP=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm GP=0");
IF NWT=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm NWT=0");
IF TT=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm TT=0");
IF Tradevolume=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm Tradevolume=0");
IF Equity=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm Equity=0");
IF ProfitFactor=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm ProfitFactor=0");
IF WTP=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm WTP=0");
IF KellyCriterion=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm KellyCriterion=0");
IF Kelly=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm Kelly=0");
If Entryprice = 0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm Entryprice=0");

BrianMichaelWall,

it's a good practice to add checks for every division done within your code. The code snippet below contains several divisions without "protective" checks and these might cause the error.

Without any trades any reserved word returning the number of trades (or winning/losing trades) will return zero for example.

Regards,

ABCTG

BrianMichaelWall 

I've coded a Kelly money management signal for Multicharts off of the risk capital set and I've been getting the error: [EXCEPTION} Floating-point invalid operation. I've searched for the solution, and found that others have gotten around the problem by removing the scenario where their equation divides by zero. I've tried to identify where there is a zero that I'm dividing by, and attempted to add exceptions however the error persists. I havn't put any code in my signal code to associate to the money management code. Any advice is appreciated. //#Number of Units = Account Total * Risk Capital * ( Kelly Ratio % - Win % Change Buffer ) //Kelly Ratio = % of trades that win - (1 - % of trades that win) / ($ Winnings per trade / Expected Loss per trade) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vars: GL( 0 ), GP( 0 ), NWT( 0 ), TT( 0 ), Tradevolume( 0 ), Equity( 0 ), ProfitFactor( 0 ), WTP( 0 ), KellyCriterion( 0 ), Kelly( 0 ); //Equity Equity = Round ((InitialCapital + NetProfit + OpenPositionProfit),0); //Kelly Criterion Variables GL = grossloss/numlostrades; GP = grossprofit/numwintrades; NWT = Numwintrades; TT = Totaltrades; //Kelly Criterion Calculation kelly[(NWT/TT) - (1-(NWT/TT)/(GP/GL))]; //Entries If Entryprice > 0 Then pmms_strategy_set_entry_contracts(0,((Equity * Kelly)/Entryprice)); //Exceptions IF GL=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm GL=0"); IF GP=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm GP=0"); IF NWT=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm NWT=0"); IF TT=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm TT=0"); IF Tradevolume=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm Tradevolume=0"); IF Equity=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm Equity=0"); IF ProfitFactor=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm ProfitFactor=0"); IF WTP=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm WTP=0"); IF KellyCriterion=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm KellyCriterion=0"); IF Kelly=0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm Kelly=0"); If Entryprice = 0 then raiseruntimeerror("!!!alarm Entryprice=0");

I'm new to Easylanguage but I notice that you're checking for 0 values after you do the divisions therefore the exception gets thrown and execution halts before you check for 0 values.. You might find the offending 0 value if you move the divisions below after checking for 0 values.

Typically you would check for zero in an if statement before conducting the division.