how to bracket the price when ATM strategy is on?

[leontancfa]

Hi. I have set a ATM strategy of 2 ticks profit target and 6 ticks stop loss.

I want to bracket the price, and by that I mean I want to set a limit buy below the price and limit sell above the price. (If possible, I want them to One cancel another.) When one of the limit orders is filled, the profit target and stop loss are put in place.

But when I set a limit buy order, and then try to set a limit sell order, I get an error message saying that "You can't submit an exit order to a strategy until any of its entry orders has been filled."

How can I work around this?

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_VinceB]

In order to do this you need to right click in the DOM and enable 'OCO Order' and do the following:
- Select or set up your ATM Strategy
- Submit Buy Stop order above the market
- Re-select or change the ATM Strategy
- Submit Sell Stop order below the market
- After one of the orders is filled, disable 'OCO Order' via the right click menu

[leontancfa]

In order to do this you need to right click in the DOM and enable 'OCO Order' and do the following:
- Select or set up your ATM Strategy
- Submit Buy Stop order above the market
- Re-select or change the ATM Strategy
- Submit Sell Stop order below the market
- After one of the orders is filled, disable 'OCO Order' via the right click menu

on the right click menu, I see the hot key for OCO order is CTRL+Z, but when I used that, the mouse becomes a magnifier. (I'm using ATM in chart trading.

[NinjaTrader_VinceB]

Please don't use the hotkey, but enable via the right click menu.

[laserwolf]

so much clicking to do something so basic, which every other DOM i've traded does with exactly 2 clicks. is this fixed in version 7?

[NinjaTrader_VinceB]

Hi Laserwolf,

Nothing is broken so nothing needs to be fixed.

I will pass your suggestion on to development so they can add it to the list of future considerations.