First off, when doing a strategy with multiple targets, there is a quantity for each target, which seem to conflict with the overall quantity. Like, if I have in my strategy for target 1 with a qty of .01M, target 2 with a qty of .01M, and an overall qty of .04M, I wind up with .03M at target 1 and .01M at target 2. Huh, wha? Shouldn't the qty be like a percentage or a multiplier. Like if I had a qty of 1 for target 1, and qty 2 for target 2, and an overall qty .04M, I would wind up with .04M for target 1 and .08M for target 2. Something like that, right?
And, speaking of the Qty field, I believe that .01M equates to what many forex brokerages would call a "mini lot" and .1M equates to a "standard lot". I know of course that other brokerages allow for other sizes and even micro lots. And of course other types of instruments, like stocks, trade in different quantities. But, based on the instrument being traded, the qty field should make sense. Like, I can put in a value of 1 in the qty. I assume the brokerage would reject such an order, but, it lets me put it in, and trade it in the simulator.
And the qty up/down buttons, at least for forex, it seems to default to up/down .1M. Maybe this is adjustable via settings in the Instrument Manager? At any rate, I'd much rather this default to .01M, at least for now. Maybe .1M when I get bolder.
Nor does the up/down buttons force the value to be rational. Say I had a bad value in there of 1, instead of .01M. I hit the up button, and it comes up with a silly order qty of 100,001. In other words, I think I should configure the instrument to trade in, say, .01M, and it would only allow values that are multiples of that, 1 mini lot, 2 mini lots, etc.
Then I need to know how to close part of a position. Why can't I just click on the value that I hold, and change the qty, and have it likewise change the qty on the stop and limit?
Or am I seriously not understanding something?
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