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Hmm, No. It looks like everyone here is repetitive In not being able to do a simple favor for me. Trade that game to prove discretionary is not gambling or post their log of their long term automation working.
I don't ask or require complicated things. I just feel like everyone is hiding in excuses and denial.
Do you guys trade your systems unattended? If so, how do you handle unforseen errors? My strategy enters orders by calling an ATM. I had a strange occurrence once trading the CL, where my entry order got filled, but CL did one of its wild spontaneous moves, and by the time by associated stop from the ATM got sent to the broker the market had moved enough that my stop order fell on the wrong side of the market, so my broker rejected the order, and since the target order was an OCO with the stop, it got canceled. The end result is I ended up with a trade in the market with no stop and no target. I was at the machine when it happened so I killed the trade manually, but if I was not there it could have been bad. How do you guys handle that?
I have a monitor strategy. If the monitor dies, I get notified (text/email) Each of my strategies notifies me when it makes a trade. The monitor notifies me every half hour, while in a position, of open positions, P&L and any working orders (so I would spot a missing stop) Did Ninja not detect your situation as some sort of overfill?
It's not perfect, but it gives me fair bit more confidence.
I don't remember getting an error in NT. I think that may be because my strategy uses an ATM, and the ATM does not return any errors, it just showed the stop and target order in an 'Orange' color, I guess because it never got confirmation back from the broker. I have to think about some code to prevent that in the future.
So you are saying that your monitoring strategy is a totally separate strategy that picks up active orders and emails them, so in this situation the email would show an entry order, but no stop or target?
Yes, although some stuff is notified from the strat itself and some from the monitor. I think a working order actually comes from the strat itself. I don't know if you can get the working orders in a monitor strat, but I know for sure you can get the positions and account equity.