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Date/Time: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:18:24 +0000
Post From: Sierra Chart's order management system: Request to Add new feature
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| User212054 - Posts: 1 |
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First I want to say thank you for being responsive to user requests with new features, especially given the tone of the user on this specific request. I ended up here after similarly hoping to find a solution for graphically adding stop loss/take profit orders to a "naked" position. The OCO Limit and Stop for Position is an incredible solution and does exactly what I was looking for. The engineering point about the two orders having to be placed as one operation was enlightening, as I'd never considered the technical logistics of what happens on the Tradingview platform with that specific feature. For anyone else reading, according to some quick research I did, some aspects of a working order can be modified (e.g., price, quantity) but "linking" two orders together after they are already working is not possible, because they already exist as independent instructions at the server or exchange level. This is why the SC engineer made the point that it is not possible to enter the orders separately. They *must* be entered as a single operation. The best idea I could come up with for how the feature works in Tradingview is... if, for example, I first drag the SL slider to set a stop loss stop order, that order is now working. Then if I drag the TP slider to set a take profit limit order, TV recognizes both of those orders were set via the "drag from position line" feature and should thus be linked, so TV then invisibly(?) cancels the initial stop order and resubmits it with the OCO relationship to the new limit order. This is partly confirmed by some documentation I found related to Tradingview: "When using OCO bracket orders via TradingView, it is best practice to trade solely via TradingView (do not use multiple trading platforms) since there is high risk of working orders not syncing." So it seems like Tradingview is handling a lot of that trade management logic client-side. I know SC greatly values stability/reliability, so I suspect doing a behind-the-scenes dance with working orders to cancel and resubmit to manage OCO relationships is something that on principle will simply never be implemented. As it stands, the "OCO Limit and Stop for Position" feature does essentially the same thing, and in a (seemingly) more robust and reliable way, so any traders looking for the Tradingview functionality should probably just adjust to this better way of doing it. |