bracket orders, child orders...

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bracket orders, child orders...

Postby quark » 08 Sep 2009

Hi

How can I write bracket orders in Multicharts?

Let's put a very simple example
An strategy that place a sellshort at stop at 5000, and tied to that order, another stop loss at 5100.

I mean, I don't wan't my computer to send the first order and then the other one. I need it to send them together to the market, that will execute the stop loss if the first one is fulfilled, even if I loose my connection.

I'm not be able to find any example.

regards

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 11 Sep 2009

Dear quark,

In case of IB, you just need to use SetStopLoss and SetProfitTarget statements; they will be handled as a bracket order automatically.

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Postby aljafp » 13 Sep 2009

Dear quark,

In case of IB, you just need to use SetStopLoss and SetProfitTarget statements; they will be handled as a bracket order automatically.
Andrew, quark's request is that the stops are executed even if internet connection goes down.

I thought that MC keeps the stops local on the PC ?
Or am i mistaken such that they are actually sent to IB ?

thanks

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Postby TJ » 13 Sep 2009

Dear quark,

In case of IB, you just need to use SetStopLoss and SetProfitTarget statements; they will be handled as a bracket order automatically.
Andrew, quark's request is that the stops are executed even if internet connection goes down.

I thought that MC keeps the stops local on the PC ?
Or am i mistaken such that they are actually sent to IB ?

thanks

you can easily test and observe the order behavior with IB's papertrading account,
or IB's demo system.

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Postby quark » 14 Sep 2009

Hello

SetStopLoss and SetProfitTarget are documented as not working properly, at least in TS. In the Backtesting seems to work well, too well, but in real time it doesnt. The problem is the way it's implemented in the platform, it uses data from the bar before it has happened.

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 15 Sep 2009

Dear Sirs,
I thought that MC keeps the stops local on the PC?
Or am i mistaken such that they are actually sent to IB?
Orders are actually sent to IB.

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Postby aljafp » 16 Sep 2009

Dear Sirs,
I thought that MC keeps the stops local on the PC?
Or am i mistaken such that they are actually sent to IB?
Orders are actually sent to IB.
that's great, i may consider using MC to auto trade then.
thanks for the reply


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