Steve Mayo Legend  Posts: 414 Joined: 10/11/2012 Location: Austin, TX  User Profile | I discussed that with both Ed and Hans during the bash. They both said its working as designed. Coming at it from the OT mindset, they say "buying Power" is NOT the same as "leverage". All that setting does is give OV more money to trade with, it does NOT scale up/down the trades as we might expect. The only thing that scales trades is the allocation setting column on the strategy & portfolio pages. The Max Allocation setting in the configuration will then filter out any trade that exceeds its setting UNLESS you have the ALLOW box checked.....its confusing, which is why I suggest just setting your strats at whatever end result you want, otherwise I can say from experience that it is way too easy to forget something simple (like that non-intuitive Buying Power setting) that can get you into trouble. :-) If you ARE using the 10,000% hack, you have to scale up both the Buying Power AND the Max Alloc settings equally or it will result in (unintuitive) trade filtering like you are describing. | |
