Hello,
I am new to this amazing Quantra community and surprised by the trading platform Blueshift. Just a question: the algos stop Friday evening. Do they automatically start Monday morning, or should we start ourselves manually (and closing at the broker platform all positions)?
Thank you!
Best regards from Lisbon,
Mario
Hi Mario, at present we have a max run period of one week and you have to manually start the algo everytime. Whether you need to close all positions with the broker before the algo start depends (on some aspects of API supported by the brokers). For some brokers (FXCM) we need that. For others (e.g. Alpaca) it is not a requirement. Note, for the latter cases, the existing positions will not be visible to for the new start. The algo will always start with a clean slate and zero positions at each fresh start from its point of view.
We are also working on a restart feature, where you still need to start your algo manually, but it will remeber the context (positions, trades etc at the time of last stop) and will continue from there. This will make the effective run period virtually unlimited from the current one-week cap.
Thanks a lot, Prodipta, and congrats for the good work. I am really enjoying the platform.
All the best,
Mario