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How to access open profit/loss within another study?
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| [2019-11-09 21:43:51] |
| j4ytr4der_ - Posts: 918 |
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I'm interested in creating a stop level based on a percentage of open equity. I found the Trading: Profit/Loss Text Study which is great, but doesn't appear to be accessible from any other study. Is there a way to fetch this number from within another study so that I can use it in a formula or calculation? |
| [2019-11-12 05:02:18] |
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There is a field of data accessible by ACSIL and also within the Spreadsheet System for Trading study which does have the profit/loss for all symbols being traded.
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| [2019-11-12 15:29:02] |
| j4ytr4der_ - Posts: 918 |
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Oh ok but no way to access it from an alert study? I'm not into ACSIL or Spreadsheets yet.
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| [2019-11-16 02:29:19] |
| j4ytr4der_ - Posts: 918 |
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Anyone else have any idea if it's possible to retrieve the open profit/loss from another study? I just want to be able to trigger a trailing stop once there is a certain amount of open profit. So far all my attempts to get this data have failed. Still hoping there's some way to get it just from a simple study. |
| [2019-11-16 02:39:50] |
| Sawtooth - Posts: 3992 |
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Try this: - Add the Spreadsheet System for Trading study. This is the only study that has this datum. - Put this formula in cell O3: =$J$10 This makes the value accessible to other studies via the spreadsheet's ID#.SG# Caution: This is an autotrading spreadsheet study: - Do not put any formulas in columns K-N. - Put a 1 in cell J28. |
| [2019-11-16 03:26:14] |
| j4ytr4der_ - Posts: 918 |
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Very interesting, thanks Tom! At the moment I've managed a workaround, using Frederik's AVG Fill Price study and then doing the math to determine the distance from the current price to the fill price. Only really works easily on single lot trading though so I'll look at the Spreadsheet System approach as well. Thanks again!
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