Exiting Longs (or shorts) one at a time rather than all at once?

[ag987654321]

Hi guys,

Has anyone noticed if you are running a strategy that can be long and short that the move from long to short happens all at once?

I am trying to write a strategy that is going to scale into and scale out of positions rather than exit the whole positions and goes short. I have tried to do this by avoiding using {default quantity} and using a fixed amount of 1 but no luck so far...

That will let me accumulate a position (one at a time) but when the sell signal comes along the strategy sells the whole accumulated position and goes short 1.

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Alex

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

There are two things going on here if I understand you correctly:
1) You are scaling into your reversal so you will have both a long and a short trade/orders open at the same time.

You cannot be both long and short within the same market literally.

2) To prevent orders from being both long and short the orders to enter have an embedded method to close opposing orders automatically. So when you enter a long position and you already have a short position open, the long position is automatically closed.

This link has information on this:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/Overview36.html

[ag987654321]

Nope that is not what I am asking.
don't want to be "long" AND "short"

What i want is if I am long 10... and i get a sell signal- i would like to sell 1 (net possie of 9)


On the next sell signal I would like to sell another 1 (net possie of 8)

and on the next buy signal buy 1 (net possie of 9)

and so on...

can this be done?

Thanks
Alex

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

To scale out you will need to scale in. There is only one ExitLong() for each EnterLong().

This link has an example:

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3751