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===== How does Lock built-in arbitrage strategy work? ===== | |||
Lock Arbitrage is a type of financial trading strategy where a trader seeks to profit from price discrepancies between related financial instruments by creating a locked position. A locked position means no net exposure to market risk because the long and short positions offset each other. | |||
Step1. - It opens the first order by signal, trails it, and after the closing trigger is hit, opens a hedging position on the opposite account. | |||
Step 2. It closes both positions once Min time or Min Pips trigger is hit. | |||
After that, it starts over. | |||
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'''Diff to open''' – distance between price on slow and fast to open the position. | '''Diff to open''' – distance between price on slow and fast to open the position. | ||
'''Units''' - select units points or percent for difference to open calculation. the percent is useful for | '''Units''' - select units points or percent for difference to open calculation. the percent is useful for cryptocurrencies arbitrage. | ||
'''Max spread slow 1''' - maximum allowed spread for the left side broker. | '''Max spread slow 1''' - maximum allowed spread for the left side broker. | ||
Revision as of 13:36, 27 June 2023
How does Lock built-in arbitrage strategy work?
Lock Arbitrage is a type of financial trading strategy where a trader seeks to profit from price discrepancies between related financial instruments by creating a locked position. A locked position means no net exposure to market risk because the long and short positions offset each other.
Step1. - It opens the first order by signal, trails it, and after the closing trigger is hit, opens a hedging position on the opposite account.
Step 2. It closes both positions once Min time or Min Pips trigger is hit.
After that, it starts over.
Enabled - controls if the instrument is allowed to trade or not.
Name – instrument name on feeder.
Lot size 1 – lot size to be traded on the left side account.
Lot size 2 - lot size to be traded on the right side account.
Digits – how much digits instrument has in decimals.
Spread SL - please check this box if you want to calculate Stop Los like percent from the spread.
S/L – hidden stop loss for the position in points, if box "Spread SL" is not checked and in percent from the spread, if box "Spread SL" is checked.
T/P – hidden take profit for the position.
Min profit – how much profit the order should get (in points) for system to start trailing on this position.
Pips for Min Profit – reserved, not used.
Trail distance – the distance (in points) that is used for trailing on position.
Trailing units - Points / Present . The software can calculate trailing stop in points or like percent from instrument's price.
Order lifetime – the maximum time the position can be opened.
Slippage 1 – for instant execution brokers or FIX API brokers if you use limit orders - maximum allowed distance from requested price for the left side account.
Slippage 2 – for instant execution brokers or FIX API brokers if you use limit orders - maximum allowed distance from requested price for the right side account.
Commissions1 - you can set commissions for round turn for your left side account.
Commissions2 - you can set commissions for round turn for your right side broker.
Diff calculation method - please select one of 3: Standard, Reversed, SpreadCorrected.
Standard
BuyDiff = FastAsk - SlowAsk
SellDiff = SlowBid - FastBid
Reversed
BuyDiff = FastBid - SlowBid
SellDiff = SlowAsk - FastAsk
SpreadCorrected
BuyDiff = (FastBid - SlowAsk)
SellDiff = (SlowBid - FastAsk)
Include spread - check this box if you want to include the spread for differ to open calculation. The slow broker's spread will be extracted from the difference to open.
Diff to open – distance between price on slow and fast to open the position.
Units - select units points or percent for difference to open calculation. the percent is useful for cryptocurrencies arbitrage.
Max spread slow 1 - maximum allowed spread for the left side broker.
Max spread slow 2 - maximum allowed spread for the right side broker.
Max spread slow -
Max spread Fast - maximum allowed spread for the fast feed.
Bid offset 1 - constant distance between bid on fast and bid on the slow left side broker (in points)
Bid offset 2 - constant distance between bid on fast and bid on the slow right side broker (in points)
Ask offset 1 - constant distance between ask on fast and ask on the slow left side broker (in points)
Ask offset 2 - constant distance between ask on fast and ask on the slow right side broker (in points)
Offset Calc – controls if the offset recalculation is used on instrument or not.
Comment - internal identifier. The comment should be different for similar instruments.
Diff limit – maximum allowed difference for arbitrage signal.
Curr Diff 1- current difference for between fast feed and the left side broker.
Curr Diff 2- current difference for between fast feed and the right side broker.
Max Diff 1 – the maximum difference between the fast feed and the left side broker that was detected during software was running.
Max Diff 2 – the maximum difference between the fast feed and the right side broker that was detected during software was running.
Curr Spread Slow 1 – current spread on the left side broker (in points)
Curr Spread Slow 2 – current spread on the right side broker (in points)
Curr Spread Fast – current spread on feeder (in points)