Kill switch feature

[sebasira]

Is there a way to implement a kill switch functionality? Let's say that I want to stop an @Strategy from receiving ticker updates (or maybe receive them but not making any operation).

Because I did something like that on my implementation and my custom Strategy has a way to stop creating new Positions but I can not stop those position from being closed with TickerUpdates

[straumat]

@sebasira at this moment, there is no way to do that as positions are supposed to be managed automatically by Cassandre.
To be sure of what is required, do you just want positions to not be closed automatically? (meaning all non-closed positions will not receive tickers updates) or do you want to be able to stop received tickers for a period?

[sebasira]

What I'd like is to have the possibility to freeze the Positions of a Strategy. And just pause them until whenever I want.

Maybe a FREEZE status? With a freeze and defrost methods. I'm just thinking out loud. Because this way I can turn on/off the bot from a dashboard. Also if the bot has several Strategies I can leave some ON and other OFF.

[straumat]

@sebasira ok, last question to be sure, so what you want is to be able to stop one or several opened position to be automatically closed by Cassandre? so if you want to froze a strategy, you will just call freeze on every strategy's positions ?

[sebasira]

Yes!

so if you want to froze a strategy, you will just call freeze on every strategy's positions ?

And also why not another methods at the Strategy level to freezes and defrost all positions?

The idea is to stop the bot (or only some strategies of the bot), without stopping the whole application.

[straumat]

@sebasira the question is the level to choose.

• Being able to stop the bot.
• Or being able to stop a strategy.
• Or being able to stop an opened position.

I think I will add an autoclose property in PositionDTO with a method setAutoClose(boolean). And maybe add a parameter to the constructor. This way, I will allow users to use positions in two ways (automatically managed or not).

And i will add a method in strategy to set auto close to all its opened strategies.

[straumat]

Feature available in5.0.8-SNAPSHOT.
A method setAutoClose(long, boolean) is now available in strategy.

[straumat]

I close. Reopen if any problem