Hello everybody,

One of my trades opened by my strategy is closed only with 6 pips positive. I tested my strategy over and over again and it will not close that position.
Is it possible that "somebody" can close our positions, manually?!?!?!

I'm very confused!!!

Regards

You can run the contest platform in the "view only" mode, also manually closed not possible.

Was it closed late Friday? If so I'd guess it was because the leverage changed from 1:100 to 1:30 for the weekend.

I'm not 100% certain, but I think the historical tester will only use a constant leverage and won't alter it for weekends as it would do in a live scenario.

If you run your tester and change the leverage (through the account button) to 1:30 and see a different final equity then it's quite likely that this is what happened. Note that running on 1:30 would mean that your order that made 6 positive pips would not open so the final equity will still look different to what happened.

understand.... thank you guys....

Hi ethernum,

to not have those leverage cuts effect your position in any unpredictable way I found it helpful to just close all positions on friday afternoon, e.g. in the onBar method with a construction like the following:

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
c.setTimeInMillis(askBar.getTime());
int day_of_week = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
int hour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);

if (day_of_week == Calendar.FRIDAY) {
if (hour >= 16) {
closeAll();
return;
}
}