Exercise

Specifying orderside in add.rule()

The next critical argument to specify in your order is orderside, which can take two values: either long or short. In quantstrat, long and short side trades are siloed off separately so that quantstrat knows whether a trade is a long trade or a short trade. A long trade is one that profits by buying an asset in the hopes that the asset's price will rise. A short trade is one that sells an asset before owning it, hoping to buy it back later at a lower price.

For your strategy, you will want to take only long orders.

Instructions

100 XP

The add.rule() command from the previous exercise has been loaded into your workspace.
Define your order side as long by specifying the orderside argument.

Take Hint (-30 XP)