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Forum: Platforms and Indicators

August 1st, 2018, 04:17 AM

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Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

As a follow-up to this thread, yesterday I had...

As a follow-up to this thread, yesterday I had another event such as the one in the OP. This time it was a live trade.

By analyzing the ms timestamps (thanks sam028) I could see the following
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Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 16th, 2018, 04:26 AM

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Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

I have automated the task above with the...

I have automated the task above with the following batch file

start /d "C:\Program Files\CQG\QTrader\Bin\" /b logcln32.exe
timeout 300
wmic process where name="cqg.exe" CALL setpriority "high...

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 13th, 2018, 11:22 AM

Replies: 21

Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

By the way, there's another quick step that I...

By the way, there's another quick step that I took to ensure any potential delay from my platform's point of view is minimized, and that's change the priority of the platform in Window's Task Manager...

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 13th, 2018, 07:37 AM

Replies: 21

Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

Yes, that would be how a bracket order works, at...

Yes, that would be how a bracket order works, at least that's also how CQG interprets it.

The code would have to account to where the market is, though, because when you place the stop further...

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 13th, 2018, 04:21 AM

Replies: 21

Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

Thanks Ian, it wasn't 3:00 PM EST, it was 3:00 PM...

Thanks Ian, it wasn't 3:00 PM EST, it was 3:00 PM UK time (I provided Sam the timezone in my previous post).

Actually I do have a video of my trade, so I know exactly what took place and when....

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 12th, 2018, 05:31 PM

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Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

No, unless I misunderstand what you're saying,...

No, unless I misunderstand what you're saying, "working" means: I placed the limit order, now the limit order is active in the queue ('working'). It was a limit order so it was just sitting there...

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 12th, 2018, 03:12 PM

Replies: 21

Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

Thanks very much for the insight Sam. So...

Thanks very much for the insight Sam.

So the bracket buy limit on Monday:
15:02:19.973 - In Transit
15:02:19.975 - Working
15:03:24.839 - Fill

The stop which should have been triggered but...

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 11th, 2018, 05:50 PM

Replies: 21

Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

Thanks David for sharing your experience. ...

Thanks David for sharing your experience.

Firstly, I agree that it should be something quite unusual, but in the last 2-3 weeks it happened twice already to me and now it happened to you. I...

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 11th, 2018, 04:01 AM

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Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

Thanks iantg, have you experienced how that works...

Thanks iantg, have you experienced how that works with market spikes?

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 10th, 2018, 12:02 PM

Replies: 21

Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

sam028 this strikes me as something you also...

sam028 this strikes me as something you also would be able to offer an insight about

Forum: Platforms and Indicators

July 10th, 2018, 11:56 AM

Replies: 21

Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

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Posted By xplorer

Market spikes Vs. Bracket Orders - how does your platform handle that?

So yesterday I had what could be termed as 'freak accident' trading-speaking.

I had placed a bracket limit order on a swing which I hoped could provide some small support.

Just as price...

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