Libraries: Exposure Cap: one position limit per symbol across all your EAs
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Exposure Cap: one position limit per symbol across all your EAs:
Four EAs on the same symbol, each one honest on its own: each checks "do I have a position?" with its own magic number, sees none, and enters. On a demo account this reached 22 contracts on a symbol meant to carry 1, and a watchdog had to close 16 positions in one morning. The cap belongs at the door, not after the fact. ExposureCap::Allowed(symbol, lots, cap) sums the volume of every open position on the symbol - all magic numbers, manual trades included - and refuses the order BEFORE it is sent when it would breach the cap. One log line with the three numbers (held, requested, cap) says why. Deliberately simple: gross exposure, no netting of longs against shorts, no per-EA quota. It is a check, not a lock: two EAs deciding on the same tick can both pass; in practice EAs on different charts decide on different ticks. The demo script prints held / cap / room for the current symbol and shows the refusal line. Nothing is traded.
Author: Joao Prata Silva Yglesias