On NT7, when selecting a strategy to work on a chart, there is the option to enable "sync account position".
What does this do?
If I start a strategy on a chart and the strategy is in the middle of a trade (it for example is assuming a long position was opened 3 bars ago were the strategy to have been enabled sooner) but my real live position is not open (I started the strategy late) then when the strategy closes out the trade (that it thinks is open), my real live position (which isn't really long because I enabled the strategy late) will now open short.
So if the strategy was to close a long, and I wasn't long in real life, I will now be short in real life due to the strategy working with what it knows regardless of my real account position.
I would have thought "sync account position" would tell the strategy that I'm not long and that when it goes to exit long it won't open a short for me. It would rather do nothing and continue until it opens a position and is synced with my live account so that my live account only opens the position when the strategy is opening a position.
But this doesn't seem to be working like I wrote. It still will open my live account going short in the case described above, where I'm really not long in real life but the strategy thinks I am because it's in the middle of a trade when I start it, and the strategy will go to close long position and that will make me in real life open a short position.
So what does "sync account position" do?
Thanks a million.
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