Symbol.TickValue

property · Symbol · cAlgo.API.Internals

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Gets the monetary value of one tick. This is the monetary value of one tick of the symbol when you started your cBot or initialized your indicator. Its not updated in real time and it remains constant.

Definition

C#Python

double TickValue {get;}

api.Symbol.TickValue: float

Returns double

Examples

C#Python

var riskAmount = Account.Balance * 0.01;
var stopLossTicks = 200;
var volume = Symbol.NormalizeVolumeInUnits(riskAmount / (stopLossTicks * Symbol.TickValue), RoundingMode.Down);
Print("Volume risking 1% with a {0} ticks stop loss: {1}", stopLossTicks, volume);

riskAmount = api.Account.Balance * 0.01
stopLossTicks = 200
volume = api.Symbol.NormalizeVolumeInUnits(riskAmount / (stopLossTicks * api.Symbol.TickValue), RoundingMode.Down)
api.Print(f"Volume risking 1% with a {stopLossTicks} ticks stop loss: {volume}")