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  One of the goals is to also gather things which have already been posted by community members. Always retaining the copyright they have posted, as for example: Docs - ZigZag indicator for live trading If you believe you have something to contribute, post it and it will be considered, just like anything else, but picked up things (initial idea) will be mostly related to indicators.
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  @algoguy235 said in StopTrail(Limit): @backtrader I have the same question as @Michael172. No you don't. His question is about a specific approach to the market he has and you claim that Interactive Brokers is doing something ... but this isn't actually the case. @algoguy235 said in StopTrail(Limit): Why is the trailing stop based off close It is not. Please read again the description of the functionality and the answer given above. @algoguy235 said in StopTrail(Limit): For example if my trailing stop is set to trailamount=20, if the high bar has a close of 2800, and a high of 2810, the stop price should be 2790. That's how IB implements a trailing stop. This is plainly WRONG. IB uses the LAST available price to calculate the stop. If it used the high it could be using a price which is very OLD and miles away from the current LAST price. This could lead to immediate execution of the Stop, which would make the trailing functionality *pointless Even if it seems incredible, the LAST price is always the CLOSE price. In most cases it is just a temporary close because the current bar isn't closed. It can of course be the LAST, the CLOSE and the HIGH, all at the same time (and even the OPEN and LOW if one is operating only with ticks)
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  @planet-winter said in Anyone use backtrader to do live trading on Bitcoin exchange?: hi @mariano-bengeldorf. When plotting the open plot is a process stemming from your console script. Closing the plot will end the script as well. If this is not the problem or in general you can try backtesting with CSV files for example. They are certainly stopping your data feed and thus your script. Makes sense if you want to backtest over bigger time frames as well, having the data ready without loading data from the web API all the time. There are as well parameters to the ccxt feeds I don't remember as I don have my code ready. historical=? or so to ? Thanks @Planet-Winter , closing the plot doesn't stop the script. Will try the second alternative. Many thanks
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  Hello, I am trying to achive an strategy based on the alligator indicator. I'm constructing the indicator in the init function: params = dict(lrperiod=89,jaw_wind=13,teeth_wind=8,lips_wind=5,) def __init__(self): hi_lo_avg = (self.data1.high + self.data1.low) / 2.0 jaw = btind.SmoothedMovingAverage(hi_lo_avg, period=self.params.jaw_wind, plotname='Jaw')(8) teeth = btind.SmoothedMovingAverage(hi_lo_avg, period=self.params.teeth_wind, plotname='Lips')(5) lips = btind.SmoothedMovingAverage(hi_lo_avg, period=self.params.lips_wind, plotname='Teeth')(3) But when I'm running the strategy using multiple Data (2 Time Frames) is not doing any trade and is not ploting the indicator. I look further and looks like is not getting the correct data feed for the indicator. I see in multi_example that they iterates the indicator over the datas[i] but my first data is seconds (I don't want tha calculate anything there) just in the second data feed (hourly data).
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  Done. Solution : It gets the datasx if I move the indicators into the init of the class (strategy). I am trying to do a Data Replay, calculating the indicators in a higher Time Frame but trading in the close of the smallest time frame. Is this the right approach?