3. How can I get the price at which buy executed?
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How can I get the price at which buy executed?

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    Hello. I'm trying to make a exit strategy that clears a position if the current price is lower than the price at which buy executed for the last time, for example, like the below.

    if self.price_executed < self.dataclose[0]:
    self.order = self.sell()

    I wonder how I can get the price of the last buy execution .

    Thank you for reading this!

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  • There is

    def notify_order(self, order)

    event in strategy.

    Read the quickstart: https://www.backtrader.com/docu/quickstart/quickstart.html.

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    The notified order contains two fields:

    • order.created

    and

    • order.executed

    The second contains further fields like price, to indicate the matching price. As pointed out by @Maxim-Korobov , the QuickStart contains code using it:

    self.log('BUY EXECUTED, %.2f' % order.executed.price)
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    @backtrader

    Thank you for your answer! I'm following the QuickStart and now I understand that the command shows executed prices, but I actually don't understand how to use it in the function to compare the two prices. Here's the error I get and what I tried.

        Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\PYTHON_SOURCE\temp.py", line 159, in <module>
  cerebro.run()
File "D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\backtrader\cerebro.py", line 794, in run
  runstrat = self.runstrategies(iterstrat)
File "D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\backtrader\cerebro.py", line 919, in runstrategies
  self._runonce(runstrats)
File "D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\backtrader\cerebro.py", line 1294, in _runonce
  strat._oncepost(dt0)
File "D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\backtrader\strategy.py", line 267, in _oncepost
  self.next()
File "D:\PYTHON_SOURCE\temp.py", line 108, in next
  if order.executed.price < self.dataclose[0]:
NameError: name 'order' is not defined



def next(self): 
    self.log('Close, %.2f' % self.dataclose[0])

    if self.order:
        return

    if not self.position:
        if self.stoch[0] > 80:
            self.log('BUY CREATE, %.2f' % self.dataclose[0])
            self.order = self.buy()
    else:
        if order.executed.price < self.dataclose[0]:    #ERROR OCCURS HERE
            self.log('SELL CREATE, %.2f' % self.dataclose[0])
            self.order = self.sell()
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    administrators

    You need to keep a reference to the order notified in notify_order, to later use it in next.

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    @backtrader
    I'm sorry. I'm new to Object Oriented Programming and Python. Do you mean that I need to add order to next as a method parameter? I wonder why def notify_order(self, order): can get order.executed.price when it occurs error in def next(self, order):
    I would appreciate it if you could give me an example code, if it doesn't take too much of your time.

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    Since your nickname is also nullpy, the assumption is that also Python is not your strongest point and not only OOP.

    A very sincere recommendation is to polish your Python skills before using backtrader or any other algorithmic trading platform. A winning algorithm is not going to be so simple and will have several interactions between not only methods of the same class/instance but with many other.

    In any case: def next(self, order) doesn't exist. The signature of the method is in every code sample def next(self). No order is sent to next.

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    @backtrader
    Yes, I think I should study more on the language. Thank you for your recommendation. I will try to find ou how the program works!

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