Price for trades

I’m sure I’m just overlooking something really simple here…but I was working on a system that opened a trade first thing at open price and closed the trade end of day at close price. I created a simulated portfolio for that. But the only item I see on the general screen says “Price for transactions” and it’s “next open”, “next close”, “previous close”, etc. How do I set the system or change a setting somewhere else so if, for instance, the criteria is met in the backtest and I’d buy on open and close on close, I can get those prices in the backtest to see how it would have done?

Thanks

We don’t do that. Each day’s transactions can only have a single price associated with its transactions. We only have end-of-day pricing, so testing intraday trading is not something that we are able to support.

Thanks… how would I get todays open as the price for entry. So I have a bunch of criteria set and I want to open on the next day’s open. How do I set that price?

Hi michael, I’m not sure if this is the question you’re asking, but here’s a screenshot from in the simulation where the option of trading at the open can be selected. I’m unsure if there’s a way to trade at both open and close in same sim. It’s not something I’ve looked into. (I think what is shown below is what is described in your OP, so this probably doesn’t help - sorry).


Thanks. Maybe “next open” is what i was looking for. I interpreted that to be the next open after the first day…but maybe that means the next open after the signal, i.e. today if the signal was as of yesterday. Let me run some tests.

Thanks