John W Elite    Posts: 654 Joined: 10/11/2012 Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia  User Profile | Brian, Yes I did throttle back. However I throttled back at the portfolio level because the portfolio had all strategies set to 20%. Theoretically you can throttle back at the strategy level using the Allocation %, or at the Portfolio level using the trade Multiplier % ASSUMING all strategies in the portfolio are at the SAME % per trade. In the example I gave earlier there was no "Allow Settings to Reduce Trade Size" because OV was set to trade 20% of equity per trade, and since OV thought it had only used 80% equity, it made room for one more trade of 20%. So OV was doing what I had instructed, to use the available cash up to 100%, either in 5 trades of 20%, or 5 trades of (10+10+20+20+20) + a sixth trade of 20%=100%. Unfortunately at the broker this sixth trade takes the account to 120%, so if it's a 2X margin account it takes the account to 240% and a margin call will result at end of day! [Edited by John W on 3/24/2016 7:05 PM] | |
