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Post From: Issue with Copied Trades (No. of Contracts + SL Location)

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User538960 - Posts: 29
Dear SC Support Team, I have been using your trade copier for quite a while now, and it has been a good experience (apart from some things I would like to have added concerning contract distribution and adjusting TP order locations...but that's a different story.) But today (after downloading the current SC version 2419 (I don't know if that has anything to do with it)) something odd happened in the chart/the account I copied a trade to: I copied with factor 2 ("Allocation Trade Account Multiplier") from the original chart. 4 contracts were filled on the initial entry and then 2 more were scaled in on one occasion, so I ended up with 6 MES contracts in the chart/account that had the issue. So far so good. After 4 ticks of profit were reached (the first target), 4 of those 6 contracts got filled and the stop loss of the remaining 2 contracts was supposed to be moved to break even +1. In the orginal chart that worked fine (just with fewer contracts); however, in the chart of the account I copied the trade to I was pretty surprised to see that the SL had moved to BE+1 (based on average entry price), BUT there was still another SL order present at the original location (30 ticks above the initial entry price). PLUS, the contract quantities were totally wrong everywhere! There were only two open contracts remaining, so, there should have been a quantity of 2 in the (proper) SL order and also in the limit order at the next profit target. However, there were 4 contracts sitting at the "original" SL position, 3 contracts at the moved "BE+1 SL", and 3 contracts at the limit order at the next target! I had to quickly change the quantities manually! I attached a screenshot with annotations to illustrate the issue. (In an earlier trade this morning (no scale-in; all 4 contracts filled at once) some weird "phantom" SL had also remained in the original position in the chart; so it was not a "one-time" problem.) Bottom line: It was completely messed up. I have not changed any settings compared to Friday, the only difference (apart from having used SC version SC 2417 back then) being that I copied the trade to another account (setting that one up in the "Order Allocation" Window accordingly) and using factor 2 as the "Allocation Trade Account Multiplier" in that one (the other one was using "1"; maybe that factor 2 plays a role in the problem? Or the scaling-in?). Do you have any explanation for this occurrence? Is there maybe a bug in SC release 2419? This issue is rather worrying (I'm using the copier to copy trades between evaluation accounts), so I hope we can sort it out soon. Thank you very much in advance for your effort and feedback.


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