Hi everyone,

I coded a simple strategy where I want to draw lines for a trailing stop.
Since I dont have any lines on the graph, I checked the print log. There it seems that even when I enter a long trade, the market position doesnt turn to 1.
Since I have a trailing stop, I suspect that the long trade is stopped out immediately, but even when I put the stop very large nothing shows up.
Whats wrong here? Hope you guys can help!

Thanks!

This is my code


input: NumTicks(10),
Length(14);
Vars: Avg(0),
TickVal(MinMove/PriceScale),
Trail(0),
MP(0);

MP = Marketposition;
Avg= Average(Close,Length);

if Close crosses over Avg then Buy next bar at market;
TL_New(d[1],t[1],Avg[1],d,t,Avg);

Setdollartrailing (NumTicks * TickVal * Bigpointvalue);


if MP = 1 Then
Begin
Trail = maxlist(Trail, Low - (NumTicks*TickVal));
Value1 = TL_new(d[1],t[1],Trail[1],d,t,Trail);
Value3 = Text_New(d,t,Trail,"*");
end;

if MP = 0 then Trail = 0; [/COLOR]

I just tried your code (TS v10) and it works for me on a 25 tick and 1 minute RB charts:




Here is the code I used (I commented out the things I believe are your custom functions):


input:
NumTicks(10),
Length(14);


Vars:
Avg(0),
TickVal(MinMove/PriceScale),
Trail(0),
MP(0);

MP = Marketposition;
Avg= Average(Close,Length);

if Close crosses over Avg then Buy next bar at market;

//TL_New(d[1],t[1],Avg[1],d,t,Avg);

Setdollartrailing (NumTicks * TickVal * Bigpointvalue);


if MP = 1 Then
Begin
Trail = maxlist(Trail, Low - (NumTicks*TickVal));
//Value1 = TL_new(d[1],t[1],Trail[1],d,t,Trail);
//Value3 = Text_New(d,t,Trail,"*");
end;

if MP = 0 then Trail = 0;

.... one more thing my wife mentioned regarding the setdollartrailing function: make sure to set 'Use Look-Inside-Bar Back-testing' in the Strategy Properties, otherwise your results will look too good to be true, and rightly so. We use 1 minute in our settings for our time-based charts.

I hope this helps.

vmodus 

.... one more thing my wife mentioned regarding the setdollartrailing function: make sure to set 'Use Look-Inside-Bar Back-testing' in the Strategy Properties, otherwise your results will look too good to be true, and rightly so. We use 1 minute in our settings for our time-based charts. I hope this helps.

Dear Vmodus, sorry for the late reply but this really helped!
Especially the advice about the look inside bar back testing, your wife is a tradestation coder too? That must be awesome both of you doing the same at home!

JBroex 

Dear Vmodus, sorry for the late reply but this really helped! Especially the advice about the look inside bar back testing, your wife is a tradestation coder too? That must be awesome both of you doing the same at home!

You're welcome. It does help to have two brains on some of the problems we try to solve. Sometimes it works, too.