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Post From: Efficient Bracket Order Entry as command string
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| User272232 - Posts: 3 |
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Hi, I am a discretionary intraday "swing" trader (not scalping through the DOM) fading the market at specific levels and am pre-planning my trades in Excel. This means that I know my precise entry price, stop size, target, and lot size ahead of entering a trade at all times. Also, my stop size and therefore lot size changes on every trade since I am using a fixed $ risk for each trade and my stop is based on market structure. From what I understand the only way to enter a bracket order is to manually enter quantity, order type, entry price in the order entry panel, then click the targets tab and again manually enter the stop and target offset/price and only then being able to execute. Or you can save a standard configuration with a fixed stop and target. But then it is always the same stop size and target offset and I'll have to move those around on the chart once the order is sent to match my precalculated Stop and Target prices. This all takes a lot of time and is prone to errors. What I would like to do is: Pass on a command string to SC which will then execute an order based on it. Basically, a command-line looking something like this: "Order=Side:Buy,Type:Limit,Qty:1,Entry:4500,Stop:4495,Target:4510,TIF:GTC". My question is: Can I achieve something like this through ACSIL? Ideally, there'd be a button in one of my control bars that would cause an input dialog to pop up asking me for the command, and once I press enter the trade executes. If you see another way, of course please let me know. Basically, it is the command-line functionality provided as in the Tradestation platform: http://help.tradestation.com/10_00/eng/tradestationhelp/tb/placeorder_advanced_parameters.htm Thanks for your answers in advance ! Cheers Date Time Of Last Edit: 2021-12-06 12:52:00
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