Matthew:
1) Where are the instructions to set up autotrading of our OWN system? OR do you have to subscribe to to your own system to set up autotrading?
2) How do we get the C2 futures symbols (Aus $ such as @AD) to sync with our Broker’s symbols (which is 6A)? In my first attempt, only a couple got through to the broker. The rest did not.
3) Under “Relative profit targets & stops?” - the “T” function is defined as the Trade Entry Price. If we use T ENTER (in the LIMIT or STOP box). is this the same thing as the “current market price” [or is it only usable in the “Profit Target” or “Stop Loss”]
4) I have noticed that SOME trades that are parked for the next day disappear. [yes, I changed the park-until date to the next day] If we park a DAY order until the next day, will some instruments be flushed overnight?
5) If you are going to repeat some orders daily, is it possible to store them instead of re-entering them every time?
- Just go to the Setup AutoTrade page and you will see your own systems in the list of possible systems to AutoTrade (along with systems you subscribe to, which are not yours).
2) Perhaps I don’t understand the question. All AutoTrading software – from Gen 1 through Gen 3 – takes care of symbol translation for you. You do not need to worry about it. Are you suggesting that you are writing your own AutoTrading software and want to know how to do symbol translation? Please clarify and I will try to provide a more helpful answer.
3) Relative profit targets and stop losses can only be used in the “profit target” or “stop loss” entry boxes. You can’t use them in the limit/stop entry boxes.
4) There is no reason why an order that you park until the next day should disappear. If you can give me the specific signal id of such a case, I will look into it.
5) Currently that feature is not available, although the “quick ticket” strip at the top of the order entry ticket does remember last-used quantities of a given symbol (of course this is not exactly what you want).
Perhaps I don’t understand the question. All AutoTrading software – from Gen 1 through Gen 3 – takes care of symbol translation for you. You do not need to worry about it. Are you suggesting that you are writing your own AutoTrading software and want to know how to do symbol translation? Please clarify and I will try to provide a more helpful answer.
hmm - only one got through to the broker demo, out of many…
Open E Cry Demo? They don’t support all symbols on their demo accounts (they do support all symbols in live accounts). We are trying to get a list of the symbols they do and do not support for demo accounts so we can post it.
I have a related issue on 4)
When I have gone to ‘un-park’ an order it then instantly goes live, I had (incorrectly) assumed that by unparking it the details would then appear in the order screen and I could then confirm it or adjust it first if necessary.
It means that if you’ve parked something and later want to change it you have to cancel and replace it but I think this is misleading to subscribers because they don’t see parked orders, they only see them when they go live, so the first they would see of this order is a cancel and replacement and they won’t know what it’s cancelling and replacing.
As subs don’t see parked orders until they go live anyway then unparking an order should repopulate the order screen first where it then awaits confirmation just like when you currently go to open or close a trade from the open positions screen.
This site says only that they don’t accept pit contracts.
But today it rejected @AD, @CD, @SF, @LE, @HE, @S, @BO, QCL (all at nearby, very liquid months). Only ZW got through (I put in @W). It rejected > 90% of the non-pit contracts I put in
As I said before, they do not support all contracts in demo accounts. The list has been recently changed. We are working on getting the most recent list.
Parking an order was meant to allow system developers to really, really quickly unleash an order (and have it ready to do so). It wasn’t designed to first allow you to look at it, change it, examine it. Yours is a reasonable feature request, of course, but it’s not the way the feature is currently designed.
More problems:
1) When you X the "quick ticket" strip at the top of the order entry ticket" - it seems impossible to get it back. The other components, like the Park Orders frame, does toggle.
2) When you use the O relative function in the Stop entry box, it auto parks the order several minutes AFTER the open (eg, 8:32 for an 8:30 open). It should release a few minutes BEFORE the open??? Or does O function not work if released before the open? This is not documented, so hard to tell…
When you enter an “O+” relative order (i.e. an order that is relative to the market’s opening price) the time the order is processed by C2 varies with the symbol and instrument. Electronic symbols are processed 90 seconds after the market officially opens. Pit symbols are processed 120 seconds after the market opens. The reason for these delays (and for the longer delay in pit-traded instruments) is that we need to make sure we get an accurate “opening” price from the quote feeds. Markets often post opening prices with some lag. Pits are particularly slow at posting opening prices.
And point 1: 1) When you X the "quick ticket" strip at the top of the order entry ticket" - it seems impossible to get it back. The other components, like the Park Orders frame, does toggle.
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