Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

View droyad's full-sized avatar

Robert Wagner droyad

View GitHub Profile

Stop Loss Kata (original source: https://gist.github.com/gregoryyoung/1500720) Developing solutions when time is involved is tricky, but testing when time is involved is yet another problem.

A trailing stop loss is a term used in financial trading. For a very in depth explanation you can read here (http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/03/080603.asp) and here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_(exchange)#Stop_orders), however we do not need a huge amount of background in order to do the kata as we are going to limit the problem a bit.

Say you buy into a stock at $10. You want it to automatically get sold if the stock goes below $9 to limit your exposure. This threshold is set by subtracting 10% from the original position. The term "trailing" means that if the price goes up to $11 then the sell point becomes $10, if it goes up to $15 then the sell point becomes $14, maintaining the original 10% margin of $1.

The kata is to create something that implements a trailing stop loss and to do it with TDD.

@droyad
droyad / 0_reuse_code.js
Last active August 29, 2015 14:25
Here are some things you can do with Gists in GistBox.
// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console