Sides isolated

The regular Allowed sides setting stops TradersPost from entering positions on the opposite side of your strategy. Sides isolated goes further by not allowing any signal to exit an existing position on the opposite side.

Example: If your strategy is set to Long and you currently have a short open (whether from another strategy or because you placed it manually), a buy signal will not be allowed to exit the short position. TradersPost won't exit that short or enter a long.

When the current position is on the allowed side (e.g. strategy is Long and you have a long position), action=reverse can still exit that position and enter the opposite side; reverse is not blocked by Sides isolated in that case.

A resize that reduces or flattens a position is an exit, so Sides isolated blocks it on a position that is on the opposite side, exactly as it blocks an exit.

When to use it:

• You're running multiple strategies and don't want one to interfere with positions opened by another.
• You manually place trades and don't want your automated strategy exiting them.