I'm trying to set up autotrading in a paper account using an intraday strategy. I think I am doing everything right but I don't get any trades at the end of the day when I know there are several trades that should have been placed. I have back tested the strategy and it give me trades. The strategy buys on 2% dips.

Here is what I do to set it up it up 2 hours before the market open:

- Add the strategy to the strategy monitor.

- Adjust the Strategy Activation settings as follows;
Account: PaperAccount2 (the account is configured for $50k)
Data Range: 1 day
Position Size: Position Option ( configured to have only 2 open positions, fixed amount $5k)
Scale: 30 minutes
Source Data: Nasdaq 100 (dataset created with 30 minute interval)
Automatic stage orders box checked
Automatic e-mail box checked

-Activate the strategy in Strategy Monitor.

-Login to Fidelity

-In Orders, select "PaperAccounts" from the Autotrading Drop down menu

-Click the Update button.

-At this point the "Next Run" column for the strategy says 10:00 am EST, which makes sense since this is when the first 30 min bar is completed.

I leave the computer on with Wealth-lab running. When I come back at the end of the trading day, no buys show up in the Paper Account2.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

Please visit this FAQ and see which case(s) applies to you:

FAQ | Strategies and WealthScript > Alerts are not triggered.