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Forum: NinjaTrader

May 23rd, 2011, 05:27 AM

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Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

I meant profit target is irrelevent if we're just...

I meant profit target is irrelevent if we're just comparing stop loss.

I don't see the problem with OCO for this, esp when you could have the strat set a flag to turn OCO on/off. However, the way...

Forum: NinjaTrader

May 16th, 2011, 07:12 AM

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Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

I believe I'm right in saying that overfills and...

I believe I'm right in saying that overfills and rejections are pretty much the same in both cases. i.e. the same default behaviour will occur.

(profit target is irrelevent here - we're talking...

Forum: NinjaTrader

May 14th, 2011, 05:37 AM

Replies: 34

Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

I don't think it's so different for stop loss, as...

I don't think it's so different for stop loss, as an example. Issuing the stop loss is one call, and the extra thing is just cancelling it when the position is closed (and even that is automatic if...

Forum: NinjaTrader

May 12th, 2011, 05:21 AM

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Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

If you don't have that attitude with managed too...

If you don't have that attitude with managed too eventually you'll be in trouble.

Forum: NinjaTrader

May 12th, 2011, 03:52 AM

Replies: 34

Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

Yes, please do. I've now started with...

Yes, please do.

I've now started with unmanaged, and it does seem the way to go. I deliberately started with something hard - bracketing, stop and reverse and all handling partial fills. It seems...

Forum: NinjaTrader

April 29th, 2011, 01:29 PM

Replies: 34

Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

Thanks for the reply. I wasn't so much looking...

Thanks for the reply. I wasn't so much looking for examples, more opinions. Was switching to unmanaged a good thing, was it easy, do you always use it now, even though managed might do what you want,...

Forum: NinjaTrader

April 29th, 2011, 12:28 PM

Replies: 34

Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

What I mean is, apart from...

What I mean is, apart from connection/overfill/rejection, which are largely handled in unmanaged, what complex stuff stops you enhancing managed to include longstop/shortstop bracket without too much...

Forum: NinjaTrader

April 28th, 2011, 10:34 AM

Replies: 34

Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

Thanks for the answer. The main critical...

Thanks for the answer.

The main critical considerations listed are rejections, overfill and connection/resync, much of which is sort of handled in unmanaged anyway.

As an example, I can't...

Forum: NinjaTrader

April 28th, 2011, 07:35 AM

Replies: 34

Unmanaged vs Managed orders

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Posted By Xeno

Unmanaged vs Managed orders

Hi,

I'm getting a bit sick of managed orders in Ninja and am thinking of switching to unmanaged.

Did anyone do this switch and decide it was really worth it, to the extent that you now always...

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