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Restrict strategy entry to third bar after market open
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Good Evening, I have spent countless hours looking for how to set time parameters for my strategy and I just cannot seem to locate what I need.  I want my strategy to only look at candles starting with the open of the trading day.  As of now my strat...
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Change Conditional Order Time Intervals
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Hi Pete, I'm sorta a newbie on thinkorswim, but your tutorials have helped me out a lot. Yet, I cannot get my conditional orders to work. I think the reason for this is that the time intervals are all in days rather that minutes. Is there any way to ...
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BUY Until Close Condition Met
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Hi Pete, I have written a simple back testing program for my strategy and I am now stuck. The program works fine, except that if an additional buy condition occurs before my sell condition is triggered, it just ignores the additional sell condition (...
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Issues While Backtesting
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Im having some issues backtesting a basic ADX-Stochastic strategy. When running it for some reason some of the orders are going through at price of $1. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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Sending order to buy different option strikes
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Hi Pete, Is it possible to send orders to buy different strike prices at $.5 per contract? For example using SPY, , I would like to have sent 1 instruction to buy 371Call at .5, then 370C at .5, 369C at .5 all expiring on Monday Thanks
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How can I script reverse order or multiple conditions for exit order?
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This is complex in my head, but surely there is a simple solution. I am working on exit orders for back testing. Specifically I want to exit when one of two or more conditions presents itself first, exiting at a hard target OR when another particular...
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Time based exit
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do yo have a script that exits a trade long or short at the end of the day?  I would like to add it to a strategy on think or swim
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HiLoActivator based order for TOS
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Hello Pete, I hope you are doing well. I have tried to do study based order with TOS using HiLoActivator. Had the settings for MKT, GTC, 15 min chart, extended hours unchecked on both sides buy and sell. The set up was to open if it crosses above the...
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Set order size based on net liquidity in strategy
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Hi Pete, in a strategy is there a way to dynamically adjust tradeSize in the AddOrder function to buy as many shares/contracts as possible (or a percentage of the maximum possible) for each new order, based on net liquidity? And then sell the same nu...
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Tick aggregation period in Conditional Orders
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Hello Pete: Had a question on Aggregation period. Below link shows that Tos support Tick aggregation period, but when I place the following condition in the conditional area then I get lots of reds and script isn't valid, also by default on top left ...