Tagging on Sell? by Levitikon

Levitikon

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Is there a way to add a tag to a Sell order? Loving the tag for the buy, but it doesn't seem complete if I can't also add a tag to the Liquidate.

I might be using it wrong, but I'm attaching statistical info on the buy as a tag so that when reviewing the orders in a backtest, I can see why orders were bought. It would be cool also to attach some info on the sell that ties back to the original buy such as profit/loss and other interesting data.

I originally put all this sort of info in the Log, but I run out of space too quickly for it to be reliable.

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Levitikon

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Jared Broad

Hey Levi, happy to help but please please post an example of this not working if you can.

AutomatedMachine

1k ,

I'm reviving this old thread because I'm in the exact same situation. when I use a simple line such as the one below, I see the sale process in the Trades log of the backtest, but the Tag column is blank. The tag works perfectly using the SetHoldings method. Levitikon, did you find a solution for this?

Liquidate(symbl, "test");

AutomatedMachine

1k ,

For anyone else who is interested, the solution I came up with is to just use SetHoldings, but assign a value of 0.

SetHoldings(symbl, 0, false, "Your Tag Here");

Alexandre Catarino

We have submitted a patch to fix that issue. Thank you for the report.