I'm trying to write a simple iron condor strategy to get a handle on how options work at QC. Everything mostly seems to work: Iron condor set up 3 weeks before monthly expiration date. However, for no reason that I can discern, when placing the orders, the strategy randomly omits anywhere between 1-4 of the legs. Has anyone experienced a similar issue? What could be the cause?
self.Log("Underlying: {} ......... {} {} {} {}"
.format(self.Securities[self.underlyingsymbol].Price,
self.otm_put_lower,self.otm_put,self.otm_call,self.otm_call_higher))
self.Buy(self.otm_put_lower, 1)
self.Sell(self.otm_put, 1)
self.Sell(self.otm_call, 1)
self.Buy(self.otm_call_higher, 1)
2015-08-28 09:32:00 : Underlying: 198.41 ......... SPY 150918P00192000 SPY 150918P00192500 SPY 150918C00204500 SPY 150918C00205000
2015-08-28 09:32:00 : Time: 8/28/2015 1:32:00 PM OrderID: 9 Symbol: SPY 150918C00204500 Status: Submitted
2015-08-28 09:32:00 : Time: 8/28/2015 1:32:00 PM OrderID: 9 Symbol: SPY 150918C00204500 Status: Filled Quantity: -1 FillPrice: 1.39 USD OrderFee: 1 USD
For example, on this date, instead of placing four orders (put buy/sell & call buy/sell), only one order is placed, with no error or anything regarding what happened to the other orders.
Link Liang
Hi Benjamin,
I'm using the Iron Condor algorithm from our tutorial (using SetFilter), and I cannot reproduce your issue. Could you please share your algorithm or at least start/end date so that I could address this issue in detail?
Thanks for your support!
Benjamin Ettinger
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