Coding of stops

[sectorbets]

Hi David--

I think this was mentioned before, but it would be a great help if the various stops could all be coded differently so we can see how our trading systems are actually working. I liked it a lot when you changed the coding to Protective Stop, but how about Trailing Stop, etc. Now I have to go thru the trade data base by hand and make a best guess as to whether Normal Exit was really a trailing stop or not.

Thanks so much,
Rick

[David Samborsky]

The problem is that the Protective Stop is internal to the RecordTrades function whereas the Trailing Stop is not part of the RecordTrades function.

However I may look at a way of enumerating the Normal Exits.

[sectorbets]

Thanks as always...if only all my software vendors were so terrific!!

[DeeCee]

Hi David,

I have recently purchased TradeSim Enterprise and I am really impressed with its capabilities and speed.

I have been exploring TradeSim's stop loss capabilities as I conduct a number of system tests and I keenly endorse Rick's suggestion below.

I would love to have the "Exit Status" column in the trade database indicate if the trade exit was due to (a) a tailing stop loss, or (b) protective stop loss, or (c) a normal exist (ie all other indicators).

Best regards

David

[David Samborsky]

I will look at encoding the exit trigger to represent user exit status ie User Exit 1, User Exit 2 etc.