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Post From: LMAX Trading Issue

[2017-07-21 04:41:44]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Using your submitted Trade Activity Log we can easily tell what the reported Position Quantity was at this time:
I got 2 targets in place, one at 113.61 and the other one at 113.65, with the entry at 113.23.
Last night both targets was reached without any problem but, this morning, when I opened up my platform I saw that I was still into the position with the main order, which was at 113.23.

It is reported as 0 as we would expect. This can be easily verified by simply setting the Date Range to Display to the full date range which includes all of the order fills available for the particular Symbol and Trade Account. The result is on the Trade Statistics tab (Open Trades: Open Quantity).



In the chart where you saw the nonzero Trade Position, was there a Order Fills Start Date-Time set in Chart >> Chart Settings?



In my trading activity log, under trades section, if I set the range date just for today, the 7th of July, I can see one trade on USD/JPY (short) with Avg entry at 113.681 at 2:46:52 GMT with an entry quantity of 213 and an Avg exit price at 113.698 with an exit quantity of 142 and P/L of -24.72GBP without exit date time.

Can you just tell me what is this order and what is happenning?
This is what we see in this case:
Symbol  Trade Type  Entry DateTime  Exit DateTime  Avg Entry Price  Avg Exit Price  Entry Quantity  Exit Quantity  Profit/Loss (P)  Max Open Quantity  Running P/L (P)  Runup (P)  Drawdown (P)  Max Open Profit (P)  Max Open Loss (P)  Entry Efficiency  Exit Efficiency  Total Efficiency  Commission (P)  High Price While Open (P)  Low Price While Open (P)
USDJPY  Short  2017-07-07 01:46:52.000  2017-07-07 05:38:56.729  113.610  113.699  35  35  -3.115  35  -0.028  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%  0.000  113.610  113.610
USDJPY  Short  2017-07-07 01:47:50.000  2017-07-07 05:38:56.729  113.650  113.699  36  36  -1.764  36  -0.044  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%  0.000  113.650  113.650
USDJPY  Short  2017-07-07 05:37:49.951  2017-07-07 05:39:08.244  113.700  113.698  71  71  0.142  71  -0.042  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%  0.000  113.700  113.700
USDJPY  Short  2017-07-07 05:39:00.228    113.696    71  0  0.000  71  -0.042  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%  0.000  113.696  113.696


This is using Fill to Fill Fill Grouping.


So what I did was refresh trade data from service and the "supposed" order on Sierra disappeared.

Technically, this really is impossible to change the reported Trade Position in a chart. We know how this is designed and we also have run several test to see if there is any rebuilding of the Trade List in a chart with this action, and there is not.


So in the end, we really do not have any definite explanation for what you have experienced. We have added some additional logging. And we have instructed you to set an Order Fills Start Date in the chart you trade from. We recommend updating that at least every month.
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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2017-07-21 04:50:13