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I know these are basic but gonna ask you gurus anyway
a) Bracket orders are completely held at server including initial trigger order? meaning if i place a bracket order and shut down before it triggers, still it might trigger since they say all smart orders are at the server?
b) Just for confirmation, if the initial trigger order is executed and then i shutdown, i am assuming profit and target are held at CQG servers
c) i know i can place fixed targets and stops and maybe even a trailing stop BUT can i make it start at a wider stop say 25 ticks and then once the price move say 8 ticks in my favor bring the stop to BE? and then trail with certain offset. Any suggestions are welcome. Here is an example
Initial stop 25 ticks
Price moves 8 ticks in favor, then move stop to BE+1 - this itself would be sufficient
Then for every 5 ticks of price movement in our favor, move stop by 1 tick - nice to have
d) Could not find multi stops/brackets i.e. 1st contract Profit/stop different from 2nd contract profit/stop etc ThinkorSwim has it, Sierra has it, Ninja of course has it
If i place a Buy order below market, its a Limit
If i place an order above the market, it executes immediately - what i want is to make that a STOP order
Same for Sell side.. where below the market i want to make it a STOP
b) Also I was not able to scroll down with a Mac mouse - i fixed that my switching to a windows mouse.. strange
here's another way to do it (it's actually quite simple) : press "Ctrl", and the order type button on the DOM is going to change from default LMT to STP. Then you can place your stop order
you can enable limit/stop mode on the DOM preferences and that will automatically allow you to place the order type that you want without switching back and forth. See pics
You can set stops by dragging from the price to the stop portion of the DOM. This is in the CQG DOMtrader videos
Using the Control to change everything to Stop works but
even when i make it Limit/Stop mode everything is still limit
Same in Demo and same in live.. this screenshot is from my live Amp acc
see screenshot