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Post From: Problems with Stop Orders when trading Euro Futures

[2013-10-01 17:48:59]
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User30668 - Posts: 108
Hello SC Support,

Today I traded Euro Futures (6E) with SC for the first time and I encountered a problem with the Stop Orders.

So, when I place a parent entry order I can see both child stop and target orders pending in the Trade Dom and charts, as normal.

However, the moment the parent order is filled, the stop order disappears from the Trade Dom and from the charts.

I can still see the order pending on IB TWS and I can manage or cancel it from TWS. When I scale out using the SC Trade Dom I get this pop up message from TWS:

“The price 0.00 does not conform the minimum price variation of 0.0001 for this contract.”

So I run some tests and I came to the following conclusions:

- The same as described above happens with all parent, child or single orders, as long as they are Stop or Stop-Limit orders;

- When I place an entry Stop (single) or Stop parent order I can see the order in the Trade Dom and in the charts for less than one second and then it disappears;

- I think that it is not a problem caused by TWS as I am able to place this kind orders directly from it with no problems;

- SC is working perfectly with Crude Oil Futures (CL), using the same instance and the same Trade Dom;

- There is no related message on the Message Log nor Trade Log;

- It is working normally in SIM mode, without any problem;

- I can cancel the “non-visible” orders using the Trade Window or from the Orders and Positions window – it shows the order as “open” in the status row;

- The only thing I found that is not normal is in the Orders and Positions window – the Price row shows a value of 0.0000 and the Price 2 row shows the correct order value (i.e. 1.3525). I believe that the problem might be related with this last point as in the Sim mode I can see the complete price in both Price and Price 2 rows.

Unfortunately and despite all my attempts to figure out where the problem is I couldn’t find it.

Your help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2013-10-01 17:52:35