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gawdib
31st December 2003, 12:45 AM
I found this sentence an page 10 of the pyramid article:
...it can reach higher levels. When the ‘Pyramid Trades’ option is enabled and if TradeSim cannot take a level ‘0’ trade then no other trades in the pyramid will be taken unless the ‘Favour PYRAMID Trades’ option is DISsabled. Pyramid Trades based on...

I was puzzled, so I did a search in this ARTICLE and the main manual.Nothing came up.

later I found the following P 16
but it is called something different
(�� Favour TRADE Pyramiding When this option is checked (ENabled) TradeSim favours trades, which form part of a trade pyramid rather than single isolated trades. For example if a level ‘0’ XYZ trade is pending and TradeSim has the choice of taking an ABC level ‘0’ trade which appears in the trade database manager before a level ‘1’ XYZ trade then normally TradeSim would take the ABC trade before the XYZ trade. However if the ‘Favour Trade Pyramiding’ option is enabled then the XYZ trade will be taken because it is the second trade in a pyramid whereas the ABC trade is considered to be an isolated trade even though it may be part of a pyramid trade in the future. Note: Even though a trade pyramid may comprise of X number of trades it does not mean
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Could you please provide a bit more information about how the two different things work? ie "favour pyramid trades option" when DISabled versus favor trade pyramiding ENabled refers to. Where is the first one found etc? thank you, regards, geoffrey