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Strange - equity changing unnecessarily...
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 Post subject: Strange - equity changing unnecessarily... Post rating: 0   New post Posted: Tue 13 Jan, 2009, 09:37 

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This is so weird. I was testing my script and it opened a couple of positions in accordance with its internal logic. However, after an hour when it closed all the positions, the Equity of the account kept changing and onAccount was being triggered almost every second even though ALL POSITIONS and orders were CLOSED.

Can someone give me an idea as to why this might be happening????
 
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 Post subject: Re: Strange - equity changing unnecessarily... Post rating: 0   New post Posted: Tue 13 Jan, 2009, 12:11 
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Was you testing your strategy on real-time platform or in historical tester?
If it was real-time platform, then was there anything in Position Summary?
 
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 Post subject: Re: Strange - equity changing unnecessarily... Post rating: 0   New post Posted: Tue 13 Jan, 2009, 15:51 

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Thanx for responding so soon. I was testing it in real-time, not historical tester. And there was not a single position open... nothing under Orders or Position summary. Any idea what it could be?
 
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 Post subject: Re: Strange - equity changing unnecessarily... Post rating: 0   New post Posted: Tue 13 Jan, 2009, 16:30 
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Ok, this is not weird at all :) When you close your order, you get some profit or loss.
This P/L can be in different currency than your account currency. Money from your account will be withdrawn or added at 21GMT at Settlement ("end of day" procedure).
For example, if you have profit JPY 2000 at 12:00 GMT, it is USD 20. But, it can be USD 25 at 21:00 GMT. To show you actual equity, we recalculate P/L to USD (or to your account currency) during the day.
 
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