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Stoploss Help

I'm trying to implement a stop loss that sells after a position drops 5% from the price at the beginning of the month. I'm getting a new error. I would appreciate any help or examples of a stop loss strategy using pipeline to direct me.
Thanks

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Hi Crawford,

It appears as though the error you are getting is from references to context.stock as it is not defined anywhere! I see that you are using the implementation for trailing stop-loss that David Edwards posted about here. This is definitely a good way to implement it, but it should be noted that his code was designed to track this for only a single stock. I've made some modifications to your algo so now, stop-loss values are stored in a dictionary, allowing David's code to be extended to multiple securities.

I hope this helps!

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