# How can i increase the size of my total trade on autotrade **URL:** \ **Category:** C2\ **Created:** [August 10, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-size-of-my-total-trade-on-autotrade/7185 "2013-08-10T14:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JACKEINHORN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@JACKEINHORN](https://forums.collective2.com/u/JACKEINHORN)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-size-of-my-total-trade-on-autotrade/7185/1 "2013-08-10T14:04:52Z")
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**Author:** ![JACKEINHORN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@JACKEINHORN](https://forums.collective2.com/u/JACKEINHORN)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-size-of-my-total-trade-on-autotrade/7185/2 "2013-08-10T14:06:17Z")
HOW CAN I INCREASE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT I AM TRADING USING AUTO TRADE ---
**Author:** ![IgorSmirnoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8c91f0/32.png) [@IgorSmirnoff](https://forums.collective2.com/u/IgorSmirnoff)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-size-of-my-total-trade-on-autotrade/7185/3 "2013-08-10T15:26:05Z")
On the Auto-Trading FAQ page ([http://collective2.com/about-autotrade](http://collective2.com/about-autotrade)) it says: "See a trade you like? Increase its size. (Or decrease the size of trades you don’t like.)\*" That’s great, but I don’t know how a trader could accomplish that if the system developer is issuing market orders while the auto-trader is sound asleep or busy doing something else, for example. Generally speaking, and I thank you for bringing this up, I would like to know if the auto-trader can set up some kind of default value for the size of each trade. For example, if the trading system says : “Buy 100 shares of IBM”, can the trader set up the auto trade Collective2 platform in such a way that it will always trade 10 times (or any other multiple he/she likes) the amount of shares (or contracts, lots, etc…) the system developer wants us to buy (or sell short)? Sorry if that question has already been answered elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![MatthewKlein](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/matthewklein/32/21382_2.png) [@MatthewKlein](https://forums.collective2.com/u/MatthewKlein)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-size-of-my-total-trade-on-autotrade/7185/4 "2013-08-10T19:24:40Z")
Igor - That’s exactly how it works . When you set up AutoTrading you choose a “scaling percentage” which determines how large your trades are relative to the trading system’s model account . Try it out in a Simulated Brokerage account to see how it works . ---
**Author:** ![IgorSmirnoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8c91f0/32.png) [@IgorSmirnoff](https://forums.collective2.com/u/IgorSmirnoff)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-size-of-my-total-trade-on-autotrade/7185/5 "2013-08-11T14:40:10Z")
Thank you Matthew, I just experimented with the auto-trade feature for the first time, like you suggested. The Collective2 subscriber has indeed the possibility of choosing the size of each trade in advance, by selecting a percentage in the “Set your Trade Scaling Percentage” section. Here is what it says exactly: "Scaling Percent tells your broker how big to make your trades. Trading at 100% will trade at the same quantity as the trading system. Trading at 200% will double the trade size." So in other words if a Collective2 subscriber likes a Forex trading system for example, but the system developer is always trading 1 mini lot (while the Collective2 subscriber only trades standard lots), all he has to do is set the percentage to 1.000% (that’s one thousand), 5.000%, 10.000% or even more, depending on his risk appetite (and the size of his wallet). Or the trader can do the opposite and choose 50%, 25% or even 1%, if he/she has a very limited trading capital. ---
**Author:** ![MatthewKlein](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/matthewklein/32/21382_2.png) [@MatthewKlein](https://forums.collective2.com/u/MatthewKlein)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-size-of-my-total-trade-on-autotrade/7185/6 "2013-08-12T09:32:53Z")
You have the basic idea, Igor. Yes, you can use scaling percentages greater than 100% to make trades larger than the Model Account, and less than 100% to scale downward. However… AutoTrade is constrained by real-life factors, such as the indivisible nature of future contracts, for example. You can trade only 1 E-Mini S&P contract - not .5 contracts. Autotrade will round down when the scaling math results in a non-integer, but will round up to 1 contact when the result is less than 1. MK