I submitted a request for service to Equis about three weeks ago but unfortunately there is no response up to this moment . I wish it is not a problem as the title which can be really solved .

I meet a situation recently . I wrote a system test . I set all the bars of delay for entry and exit to zero . I wrote this test for options . Please note that it is not un-realistic as there are still 15 minutes market running for the option market in my place so I can open a position exactly by the closing price of that day . There are still plenty of time to do anything (15 minutes ) . When I set the bars of delay to zero and when I set the entry price as the closing price and when I set the points to cut lost , say 150 points . Problem came .... Even when I supposed to entry to buy on a closing price which is higher than the open price ( white candle ) and it keep rising after the signal day . When the volatility of the signal day which is bigger than the 150 points I set . It will trigger the stop lost moving . The system tester return a wrong result for that trade . The open position size was the closing price but the cut lost price is aroung the day low price . It should never happen if the market keep rising !! .

Did anyone meet this kind of situation same as mine ? I wish it could really be solved . I am very disappointed about the performance of MS now ...Can anyone help please ?

thanks , Roy .

I am really very disappointed that I received NO response from equis up to this moment .

It has been about a month since I ask for help .

Unluckily , the programming language of MS does not has the function like " entry bar " , I can hardly tell the program to stop base on the entry price of the entry day or number of bars to stop it after entry . Some discussions here suggested me to use the function "value when " but there are still a lot that it cannot be done by this command . If I want to get out of the position no matter what happen after N days which N is variable based on some criteria or even fix . If there is a command in MS call "entry bar' . It is easy to write by just set the exit criteria valuewhen (entrybar) >= N , something like that to exit to position .

I am using EOD version of MS . I was planning to upgrade but after this ... I should really think about it as MS seems has a lot of restriction that cannot realize easily what we want to do .I really wish equis to listen to us but not just issue upgrade every year with minor improvement .

Let me contact you and see what can I ask you for help when I get home and write to you in the weekend . Thanks .

Dear Pyradius :

To exit the position by an inactivity stop , I knew this for a long long time ago .

What I would like to do is about options trading . I wish to set the exit at the last day of month base on the entry day . If there is a command about what I said . It could be easy to exit the position SELECTIVELY by this month or next month . eg . if the entry day is about the end of the month , let say , after 15th of the month . The exit could be set at the end of next month .

There are still a lot of functions that equis can improve for us . New version are issued almost every year but is there any substantial improvement based on the users request ? I think the fact is a little bit dissappointed ....