Prevent Stop or Stop Limit orders above the market

[daven]

I have a strategy that runs pretty well, but at least once a day I get the error message "sell or stop limit order can't be placed above the market". When I get this message, it crashes the strategy and stops it. Is there a way to test against the bid ask, in the case of a stop to prevent placing this kind of order, or modify it before it is placed to prevent crashing the strategy?
DaveN

[pkuskopf]

I'm also concerned about this.

When I test my script against Market Data Recorded data with CalculateOnBarClose=true, I've noticed the same thing happens if I enter a Stop order correctly but there is coincidentally a gap in the market after that bar and the Stop is then above/below the market at the time the order attempts execution.

When executing against a real datafeed/broker account, I would be highly surprised if NT would wait for the first tick of the next bar to check this situation. Surely the order is despatched immediately, and the broker would normally just treat it as a Market order if the price had, in the interim, gapped past the stop.

Any comments?

Peter

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,


Yes, you could use a condition like this prior to placing the order to check if the bid/ask are above or below your order price:

if(my_entry_price < GetCurrentBid())
{
//your entry here
}

You can also use GetCurrentAsk().
These links will help:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/GetCurrentAsk.html

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/GetCurrentBid.html

[uupsa]

Hello together,

I am working with StopLimitOrders and I use the condition from post #3. So far I get no failure message from NT anymore. But I still have some questions. Which of the following conditions would work probably using StopLimitOrders?

1. stop_entry_price < GetCurrentBid() -> this works...
2. stop_entry_price <= GetCurrentBid()
3. limit_entry_price < GetCurrentBid()
4. limit_entry_price <= GetCurrentBid()

Thanks a lot for your help!
Regards
Michael

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Michael,

Those should all be fine.

Depending on the market when trying to place the Stop order equal to the Bid, it might get rejected.
This depends on how fast the market is moving up or down in that instance.