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When coding a strategy, is there a way to set a maximum allowable number of positions? Say I'm using a trend following strategy and using a pyramiding system to add more positions on pullbacks. Is there a way to make the strategy only add a certain number of additional positions? My goal is to do this in order to keep from becoming over-leveraged.

Many thanks.

No, you should count number of opened trades manually. Like that:

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function tradesCount(BuySell)
    local enum, row;
    local count = 0;
    enum = core.host:findTable("trades"):enumerator();
    row = enum:next();
    while row ~= nil do
        if row.AccountID == Account and
           row.OfferID == Offer and
           (row.BS == BuySell or BuySell == nil) then
           count = count + 1;
        end
        row = enum:next();
    end
    return count;
end

function enter(BuySell)
    if tradesCount(BuySell) >= MAX_POSITION_COUNT then
        return;
    end
    ... open a position
end


Victor.Tereschenko wrote:No, you should count number of opened trades manually. Like that:

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function tradesCount(BuySell)
    local enum, row;
    local count = 0;
    enum = core.host:findTable("trades"):enumerator();
    row = enum:next();
    while row ~= nil do
        if row.AccountID == Account and
           row.OfferID == Offer and
           (row.BS == BuySell or BuySell == nil) then
           count = count + 1;
        end
        row = enum:next();
    end
    return count;
end

function enter(BuySell)
    if tradesCount(BuySell) >= MAX_POSITION_COUNT then
        return;
    end
    ... open a position
end


Thank you. Where in the code should I copy/paste that? Sorry, I have next to no experience coding. The extent of my code writing education was writing HTML in notepad and checking it with Netscape Navigator back in the 90's. LOL

U can past tradesCount(BuySell) function anywhere, outside existing functions.

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 if tradesCount(BuySell) >= MAX_POSITION_COUNT then
        return;
    end


U can past at the beginning of enter function.
Or try something like this.

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if tradesCount (BuySell) <MAX_POSITION_COUNT then
enter ("Long");
end

Thanks Apprentice. I'll see what I can do with it and report back.

I figured out how to set a de facto max positions in strategy wizard. I just added this to the end of the activation point logic:

.and. countLongPositions( symbol ) < 4

...and the same goes for shorts. Just add countShortPositions( symbol ) instead of countLongPositions( symbol ).