Chart Trader-Why cant I close my order?
Demo and Live Ninja behave quite differently.
When Demo trading with an open position hitting the Close button would close EVERYTHING, pending orders included.
My first day coming back to live trading I wanted to manually close a profitable position and followed the usual procedure. Nothing happened.I right clicked to cancel all orders- nothing.Flatten position - nothing. I had to manually place a limit order and wait for the price to fill. Of course by this time my position had shrunk considerably.
Quoting from the help screen:
"Closing a Position or ATM Strategy"
On all entry windows there is an action button "CLOSE" which will close a position or a strategy depending on what mouse button is pressed.
When a position or strategy is closed, NinjaTrader goes through the following process:
Assume we are long the SP Emini contract at an entry price of 1000.
So am I missing something? Do I need to place a limit order so Ninja can move it for this to work? If so this works differently from trading demo. Last time I went from demo to live I also encountered strange glitches and nasty surprises like this which I won't elaborate on here.
I want to depend on my software but I feel Ninja often lets me down.
I am running 6.5.0.6
When Demo trading with an open position hitting the Close button would close EVERYTHING, pending orders included.
My first day coming back to live trading I wanted to manually close a profitable position and followed the usual procedure. Nothing happened.I right clicked to cancel all orders- nothing.Flatten position - nothing. I had to manually place a limit order and wait for the price to fill. Of course by this time my position had shrunk considerably.
Quoting from the help screen:
"Closing a Position or ATM Strategy"
On all entry windows there is an action button "CLOSE" which will close a position or a strategy depending on what mouse button is pressed.
When a position or strategy is closed, NinjaTrader goes through the following process:
Assume we are long the SP Emini contract at an entry price of 1000.
- Identifies any working sell limit orders
- Cancel all other orders
- Modifies the price of the identified working sell limit orders below the market so that they get filled instantly
- Submit a sell market order if necessary for any left over contracts that are not covered by the identified working sell limit orders
So am I missing something? Do I need to place a limit order so Ninja can move it for this to work? If so this works differently from trading demo. Last time I went from demo to live I also encountered strange glitches and nasty surprises like this which I won't elaborate on here.
I want to depend on my software but I feel Ninja often lets me down.
I am running 6.5.0.6
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