Lock Arbitrage

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)