Documentation
Time Targets (close all trades based on a given time of day) were removed in 2.2.
General
- Day Start Balance - your starting balance for the day; all calculations are based on this value. If left unset, SwingFish Helper tries to detect the day's starting balance automatically.
- Day Start Drawdown - your starting drawdown, leave at 0 unless you already had drawdown before starting. This auto-updates whenever the drawdown grows larger than the set value. The value is always negative, even though you enter it as a positive number.
Hedging
- Hedge Active - enable/disable the hedging features.
- Hedge Max Loss (%) - the bot automatically starts a hedge at "X%" loss, covering all positions on the same symbol.
- Margin Call - a hard "no questions asked" drawdown level in percent. If reached, the bot closes all positions on the account. Active even when hedging is turned off - set to 0 to disable.
Warning! The Take-Profit (TP) features are for temporary use only - never trade the money meant to cover them!
Take-Profit
- TP Active - enable/disable the take-profit features.
- Auto Cancel - turns TP Active off again once it has triggered once, leaving all other protections active but without further take-profits.
- TP Equity - a cash value (not %) for the ending balance you expect. Once your equity reaches this amount, all trades on the account are closed.
- TP Profit - a cash value (not %) for the combined profit you expect across all trades.
Example: account balance is 100, bot active, TP Profit set to 10. Once a trade pushes your equity to 110, all trades on the account are closed.
If active, TP Profit takes priority over TP Equity, which is then ignored entirely.
Performance & Logging
- Fast Mode - when active, equity and drawdown are checked every 100ms regardless of price movement; when off, checks happen once per incoming price (per tick). This can cause high CPU usage - if you run SwingFish Helper multiple times, only enable Fast Mode on one instance.
- Play Order Sounds - plays a sound whenever orders or hedges are executed.
- Enable Overlay/Log - writes a file to disk that can be read by OBS or other software as an overlay.
- Add PnL to Overlay - adds realtime profit/loss to the overlay file.
- Overlay Wife-Mode - shows combined PnL (current position plus already-realized profits).
- Use HTML - outputs an auto-refreshing HTML file for use on a website.
- Clear on Exit - empties the overlay file when the bot exits.
In order to play sounds, write logs and check for updates, SwingFish Helper may need internet and filesystem access, which is why you may be asked for full-access permission. We do not collect or send any data to our servers.
