7.5 Position

Position on an asset is usually checked from within a Strategy with:

• position (a property) or getposition(data=None, broker=None)

Which will return the position on datas[0] of the strategy in the default broker provided by cerebro

A position is simply the indication of:

• An asset is being held with size

• The average price is price

It serves as a status and can for example be used in deciding if an order has to be issued or not (example: long positions are only entered if no position is open)