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Tutorial Step - Initial Balance vs. Balance

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As you can see, the initialBalance is defined in the Session Base Asset. This is just a matter of choice!
We defined it in the base asset because it makes sense for our trading idea, which intends to sell some bitcoin we hold to rebuy it at a cheaper price.
But we can't use the value of the initialBalance for our target size! Can you see why?
The target size we define is valid for each position the strategy will take. If it was the initialBalance and we lost some bitcoin in the first position, we would get an error in the second position, as—by then—we wouldn't have that much bitcoin any more!
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Testing a Trading Idea - The Other Stages — TOC

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1. Testing a Trading Idea - The Other Stages Tutorial

2. Tutorial - The Other Stages

3. Tutorial Step - Taking a Position

4. Tutorial Step - Initial Targets....

5. Tutorial Step - Look Around!

6. Tutorial Step - The Target Rate

7. Tutorial Step - How Do We Go About It?

8. Tutorial Step - The Target Size

9. Tutorial Step - The Whole Balance?

10. Tutorial Step - Initial Balance vs. Balance

11. Tutorial Step - It's The Balance!

12. Tutorial Step - There It Is!

13. Tutorial Step - Copy The Node's Path!

14. Tutorial Step - Circling Back!

15. Tutorial Step - Time to Talk Execution!

16. Tutorial Step - Let's Do Some Reading!

17. Tutorial Step - Execution Algorithm

18. Tutorial Step - Market Sell Orders

19. Tutorial Step - 100% of 100% = ?

20. Tutorial Step - Create Order Event

21. Tutorial Step - Simulated Exchange Events

22. Tutorial Step - Close Stage Event

23. Tutorial Step - Back to the Order

24. Tutorial Step - Here's The Thing!

25. Tutorial Step - It's All About References!

26. Tutorial Step - The Tricks of the Trade

27. Tutorial Step - Position Management

28. Tutorial Step - Phase 1

29. Tutorial Step - Managed Stop Loss

30. Tutorial Step - Entry Target Rate

31. Tutorial Step - Managed Take Profit

32. Tutorial Step - Closing a Position

33. Tutorial Step - Initial Targets

34. Tutorial Step - How to Find Stuff

35. Tutorial Step - And the Winner Is...

36. Tutorial Step - Target Size in Quoted Asset

37. Tutorial Step - Market Buy Order

38. Tutorial Step - This is it!

39. Tutorial Step - We're almost done!

40. Tutorial Step - First Backtest!

41. Tutorial Step - Ready to Rock....?

42. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Position

43. Tutorial Step - The First Position

44. Tutorial Step - Chronology of a Position

45. Tutorial Step - Manage and Close

46. Tutorial Step - Time Frame Matters!

47. Tutorial Step - Warning!

48. Tutorial Step - Confusing?

49. Tutorial Step - Slippage

50. Tutorial Step - Actual Size

51. Tutorial Step - Size Placed

52. Tutorial Step - Order Management

53. Tutorial Step - Back to the Position!

54. Tutorial Step - The Key Moment

55. Tutorial Step - March 18th

56. Tutorial Step - March 28th - April 1st

57. Tutorial Step - Sep 5th - Sep 14th

58. Tutorial Step - The Prediction Game

59. Tutorial Step - Is There Room For Nuance?

60. Tutorial Step - What is the Nuance?

61. Tutorial Step - What's Next....?

62. Tutorial Step - In The Mean Time!