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Trading Control Error

Can someone please help me find the error in this algorithm?

It used to work well, but suddenly stopped working.

Thanks,
Vai

2 responses

It has to do with the number of orders in a day.

Hey Vaibhav,

I think the problem is coming from this line which states that no more than 2 individual orders can be placed per trading day (not bar).

set_max_order_count(2)  

And because the algorithm is run in minutely mode, there are a lot more than 2 orders being executed per day since 'handle_data' is being called every minute. If you'd like to still use the 'set_max_order_count(2)' in your algorithm, you could throw a Try/Except block around your order statements and this will only execute the first two orders of any given trading day.

I've attached an example of how you would go about doing this, so feel free to ask any questions you might have about it!

Thanks,
Seong

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