is there a way to track how many days a position is held or when it was entered?

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is there a way to track how many days a position is held or when it was entered?

posted Mar 18, 2017

hi,
i want to close a position at Nth day, i need to be able to track what date the position is first entered.

please help if you know how to do this.

thank you very much,
jude

4 responses

i found out how to do this..

just keep track it of in a context variable.

James Hutchison

if the server hosting the script resets (which happens often in live trading) you'll lose your information. You can't use the context as long term storage

Hi, James.
Do you know a good approach to track entry date and other information of positions? what's the boilerplate mechanism?

James Hutchison

the boilerplate is to do the painful task of calculating when you would have entered a position.

There might be api functions to retrieve that information from the broker but I don't remember seeing it.

This is why most algos use buy and sell signals that operate regardless of what your current position is

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