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Hi!!! I just went live with my first algo trader today (C#). Newbie to algo trading, novice coding experience. As a trial run, I'm attempting to trade based on two EMAs using GDAX. Everything is syncing with GDAX, but I'm receiving the following error when a trade is attempted:
19:15:00: Brokerage Warning: Order failed, Order Id: 23 timestamp: 1/28/2018 12:15:00 AM quantity: 0.03793578 content: {"message":"Margin currently not available for BTC-USD"}
First and foremost, I have no clue why it's timestamping 12:15:00 AM when the current time is 19:15:00.
Here's what I'm using:
using System;
using System.Linq;
using QuantConnect.Indicators;
using QuantConnect.Models;
I've never told it to trade margin (that I'm aware of), thus I'm not sure why I'm getting this error. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks
Quant Trader
//Set brokermodel
SetCash(100000);
SetBrokerageModel(BrokerageName.InteractiveBrokersBrokerage, AccountType.Margin);
I guess you need to add this to the initialize() . Tip: Try to copy some algo's which are in the lean github and then start changing things.
Check this out: https://www.quantconnect.com/forum/discussion/2747/crypto-trading-on-quantconnect/p2
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Ted Smith
Thanks Quant Trader. Here is the line of code I was missing:
SetBrokerageModel(BrokerageName.GDAX, AccountType.Cash)as stated on the last line of the crypto section in the documentation:
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