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Hi!
Is it possible to setup stopmarket is a way that only reduces the position?
for example, if i have a position of +1000, and stop market of -3000, when stopmarket is triggered, i'll end up with a position of -2000.
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Jack Simonson
Hi Armin,
Sure, this is absolutely possible. All you need to do is assign a negative integer to the number of shares argument in self.StopMarketOrder(). You can view more documentation on Trading and Orders here.
Armin Ranjbar
Yes but if the new negative order is larger than standing order, position will flip, right?
Apollos Hill
I don't know know if that is possible but you could definitley backtest that and let us know. I don't know why you would want to do this. when i originally read your post title, I was tinking you were asking if you could decrease your risk.
say you are Long 2000 shares,
some signal triggers and you want to cut risk so you
Short 1000 shares
Now you are long 1000.
This could protect UnrealizedGains
Armin Ranjbar
Hey,
the reasoning behind it is simple: trailing stop loss to close the entire position.
Jack Simonson
Armin,
You could place a Stop Market Order that uses the minimum, or maximum, between a group of values. Using this logic, you'll never place an order to sell more than your current long position, or vice verse if you are closing out a short position. I've attached a backtest below that show's how this can be implemented.
Although Trailing Stop-Orders are not available as order type yet, a Trailing Stop-Order type will be added soon to LEAN. Follow this issue on GitHub to track the progress and you can see an implementation of a hack to mimic Trailing Stop-Orders here.
Armin Ranjbar
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