Pine Script Leverage, Margin Requirements, and Margin Calls
Summary
This educational example explains how TradingView Pine Script represents leveraged exposure and broker margin in strategy settings. When order size is expressed as a percentage of equity, the document illustrates scaling that percentage to represent leverage; it also describes setting separate margin requirements for long and short positions. The included example strategy uses stochastic crossovers for entries and tick-based profit exits, but its main subject is configuring leverage and margin behavior in backtests.
The text explains that the backtester can model margin calls when adverse price moves undermine the account’s ability to maintain a position, and can reject additional trades when available margin is insufficient. It advises treating required margin as broker-specific and frames the script as educational. No strategy performance evidence is supplied, and the example’s settings should not be read as universal broker terms or a validated trading approach.
Key ideas
- Equity-based order sizing can be scaled to represent leveraged exposure in a Pine Script strategy.
- Long and short margin requirements are configured separately and should reflect the broker’s rules.
- Backtests can model partial or full position closures when a margin call occurs.
- Margin availability can also constrain additional entries when a strategy pyramids positions.
- The sample’s stochastic entry and profit-taking rules are illustrative rather than evidence of profitability.
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# PytorchNeuralNetworkAlgorithm
# PytorchNeuralNetworkAlgorithm
## Source (Apache-2.0)
```python
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from AlgorithmImports import *
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
class PytorchNeuralNetworkAlgorithm(QCAlgorithm):
def initialize(self) -> None:
self.set_start_date(2013, 10, 7) # Set Start Date
self.set_end_date(2013, 10, 8) # Set End Date
self.set_cash(100000) # Set Strategy Cash
# add symbol
spy = self.add_equity("SPY", Resolution.MINUTE)
self._symbols = [spy.symbol] # using a list can extend to condition for multiple symbols
self._lookback = 30 # days of historical data (look back)
self.schedule.on(self.date_rules.every_day("SPY"), self.time_rules.after_market_open("SPY", 28), self.net_train) # train the NN
self.schedule.on(self.date_rules.every_day("SPY"), self.time_rules.after_market_open("SPY", 30), self.trade)
def net_train(self) -> None:
# Daily historical data is used to train the machine learning model
history = self.history(self._symbols, self._lookback + 1, Resolution.DAILY)
# dicts that store prices for training
self.prices_x = {}
self.prices_y = {}
# dicts that store prices for sell and buy
self.sell_prices = {}
self.buy_prices = {}
for symbol in self._symbols:
if not history.empty:
# x: preditors; y: response
self.prices_x[symbol] = list(history.loc[symbol.value]['open'])[:-1]
self.prices_y[symbol] = list(history.loc[symbol.value]['open'])[1:]
for symbol in self._symbols:
# if this symbol has historical data
if symbol in self.prices_x:
net = Net(n_feature=1, n_hidden=10, n_output=1) # define the network
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(net.parameters(), lr=0.2)
loss_func = torch.nn.MSELoss() # this is for regression mean squared loss
for t in range(200):
# Get data and do preprocessing
x = torch.from_numpy(np.array(self.prices_x[symbol])).float()
y = torch.from_numpy(np.array(self.prices_y[symbol])).float()
# unsqueeze data (see pytorch doc for details)
x = x.unsqueeze(1)
y = y.unsqueeze(1)
prediction = net(x) # input x and predict based on x
loss = loss_func(prediction, y) # must be (1. nn output, 2. target)
optimizer.zero_grad() # clear gradients for next train
loss.backward() # backpropagation, compute gradients
optimizer.step() # apply gradients
# Follow the trend
self.buy_prices[symbol] = net(y)[-1] + np.std(y.data.numpy())
self.sell_prices[symbol] = net(y)[-1] - np.std(y.data.numpy())
def trade(self) -> None:
'''
Enter or exit positions based on relationship of the open price of the current bar and the prices defined by the machine learning model.
Liquidate if the open price is below the sell price and buy if the open price is above the buy price
'''
for holding in self.portfolio.values():
bar = self.current_slice.bars.get(holding.symbol, None)
if bar and bar.open < self.sell_prices[holding.symbol] and holding.invested:
self.liquidate(holding.symbol)
elif bar and bar.open > self.buy_prices[holding.symbol] and not holding.invested:
self.set_holdings(holding.symbol, 1 / len(self._symbols))
# class for Pytorch NN model
class Net(torch.nn.Module):
def __init__(self, n_feature: int, n_hidden: int, n_output: int) -> None:
super(Net, self).__init__()
self.hidden = torch.nn.Linear(n_feature, n_hidden) # hidden layer
self.predict = torch.nn.Linear(n_hidden, n_output) # output layer
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
x = F.relu(self.hidden(x)) # activation function for hidden layer
x = self.predict(x) # linear output
return x
```Shown in full with attribution under the source's licence. Licence: Apache-2.0
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