Counting pips on all open positions

kricka
04 May 2013, 19:19

Hi,

the robot calculating this is not making any orders or positions only closing positions.

Hoping for a answer on this.

Thanks..

cAlgo_Fanatic
07 May 2013, 09:54

To calculate the total pips for all open positions you can use this loop:

    double totalPips = 0;
    foreach (var position in Account.Positions)
    {
        totalPips += position.Pips;
    }

kricka
09 May 2013, 10:08

Hi,

great, works just fine!

I do have another question regarding pips.

What if I would like to calculate pips on all open positions and also on all closed positions.

Total pips with other words, since I started the robot.

Hope to get a reply on this too :)

Thanks for all your fantastic support!

cAlgo_Fanatic
09 May 2013, 16:50

You can have a robot that calculates the pips of all positions closed that were opened by the same robot. To do this add the positions in a List (see List example) in the OnPositionClosed event:

private readonly List<Position> _closedPositions = new List<Position>();
//...
protected override void OnPositionClosed(Position closedPosition)
{
    _closedPositions.Add(closedPosition);
}
//...
protected override void OnTick()
{
    double totalPipsClosed = 0.0;

    foreach(Position pos in _closedPositions)
    {
        totalPipsClosed += pos.Pips;
    }
   //...
}

Calculating the pips of all closed positions of the account is not currently possible. Access to historical orders will be added soon to the API.

kricka
11 May 2013, 17:05

Hi,

good to hear you are working on adding it to the API. Then it will be possible to calculate this for a robot, not making any orders. Is this the case if you would like to calculate total commission as well?

Thanks..

cAlgo_Fanatic
14 May 2013, 11:56

Yes, it applies to commission as well.