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The quantity is 0 while the cash holdings are above 0, how I can fix this?
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Fred Painchaud
Hi Eduardo,
Just a simple assumption: did you verify that quantity is really 0 and not a very small value close to 0 but not 0?
For instance, it looks like you have 0.0018 USDT worth of BTC. That points towards a very very small amount of BTC… like 4.4e-8 or so.
For crypto, you need to manage quantity using the Cashbook. Maybe that's something you did not do so you end up not exiting your positions completely?
Fred
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Eduardo Barros Verez
Hi, I started using a version 1.0 of my algo in live and it made some orders correctly. Those 0,0018 are BTCUSDT if you look at the simbol in the right side it shows the BTC symbol same as ETH and XRP (although I have 0 XRP). Later I put version 2.0 in live with those orders of version 1.0 already closed, so the algo correctly views the cash/quantity of what the version 1.0 have made but it doesnt reconize it as algorithm holdings. My question is: Will this afect in the future when I want to sell with this formula: if self.Portfolio[symbol].Quantity > 0 ? or what about this one: self.MarketOrder(symbol, -(self.Portfolio[symbol].Quantity ) ?
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Eduardo Barros Verez
Hi, so I fixed it by just redeploying in version 1.0 the code of version 2.0. Watch what I said in the previous comment:
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Fred Painchaud
Hi Eduardo,
Glad you solved your problem.
Side note: Crypto does not trade as equities in QC. Refer to
You must not use self.Portfolio[symbol].Quantity but the CashBook. So you need to use, to determine the amount of BTC you hold, for instance, self.Portfolio.CashBook["BTC"].Amount.
Fred
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