Debugging Holding-Period Rules Alongside Exit Conditions

Summary

This brief BigQuant forum exchange addresses a report that a configured holding period of ten days did not trigger a sale. The response points to the strategy’s complexity, which includes both profit-taking and stop-loss logic, as a possible obstacle to diagnosing the behavior. It recommends testing the holding-period rule in a minimal position-management setup first, then adding the other exit logic after the isolated test works.

The exchange offers a practical debugging approach for algorithmic strategies: reduce interacting rules to a simple case so the source of unexpected behavior can be identified, then reintroduce complexity incrementally. It does not explain how the platform implements the holding-period setting, show the underlying strategy code, or establish the actual cause of the reported issue. The suggested procedure is therefore a troubleshooting heuristic rather than a verified fix or general guarantee about BigQuant’s behavior.

Key ideas

• The user reports that a ten-day holding-period setting did not trigger a sale.
• The strategy also contained profit-taking and stop-loss rules, making the behavior harder to diagnose.
• The response recommends testing the holding-period rule in a simplified position setup.
• Additional exit logic can be restored incrementally after the isolated behavior is understood.
• The exchange offers a debugging heuristic but does not confirm the cause or provide a verified fix.

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