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[User Discussion] - Profit Rule Flattening can cause position to vanish during replay?

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[2019-10-29 19:19:21] #1 [Go To First Post]
j4ytr4der_ - Posts: 918
I'm using replay and displaying order and position lines on my charts. I'm monitoring 4 charts, 2 candles and 2 renko. I'm in an open trade moving my way, and gradually adjusting my stop as the trade progresses. At some point suddenly I notice my order lines disappear, even though price clearly (according to candle and renko charts) never traded to my stop. A quick check of the Trade Activity Log shows the position was entered but never exited (there is no timestamp for the exit and no P&L displayed). As far as I can tell this is still an open trade, however the Trade Window shows no open P/L, and there are no indications on my charts that there is an open trade. Clicking Flatten on the Trade Window also does nothing so there is definitely no open trade. Also if I look at Period Stats for "today", it does not reflect the phantom missing trade at all, though I can see its entry on the Trades tab, just no exit. On closer examination, I noticed the DOM said it was locked. I am using the automatic profit/loss locking feature to help enforce discipline. What appears to have happened is my initial Profit Trigger Value was hit, and a short while later the position was flattened even though it had not hit my actual stop level. But, the exit of the trade was not recorded, leaving me in this confused state. Is there a bug here somewhere? Is there any way to get the Trade Activity Log to correctly reflect the trade? Going back in time the trade has now disappeared and does not re-enter, so I am manually entering it again to try and get things back on track. I do tend to speed up time a lot once I enter a trade just to cram as much entry/adjustment practice into a session as I can. Is this somehow related to adjusting playback speed?

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