Hello,
I use an automated strategy and I can use it manually as well, of course. The strategy consists of going in at the low of a retracement. This problem I am having is a little strange and hard to explain but here goes.
I was trying to enter a trade at 611.7 on the Russell. It was a market order. The entry of mine says 612.9, a huge 12 tick difference in price. This was not during news or anything, so I do not understand the huge "spread", plus, this is a DEMO account.
Not only that, the candle I entered is nowhere CLOSE to 612.9. If you look at the attached picture, it did not hit 612.9 until the next candle, roughly 5 minutes after my entry.
Lastly, I reloaded my chart just one minute later, refreshing my data. My candles were totally different, and that is a big deal to me. My entries are pretty exact: and I enter only on candle that open above my moving entry. Well on the chart I took the trade my candle DID open above it, but when I refreshed, it showed that it was opened BELOW my Moving average (look at pics). What? Does this have something to do with it being a range chart or something? And why is my entry just floating in space (look at pics)?
Attached in this thread is the two pictures.
ALSO: I used an ATM strategy that if I am +5 in profit, my Stop Loss is moved to break even +1 . . . . But my exit says negative five in the pictures, and that was never touched either. As you can see, that SL is floating in space as well.
I use an automated strategy and I can use it manually as well, of course. The strategy consists of going in at the low of a retracement. This problem I am having is a little strange and hard to explain but here goes.
I was trying to enter a trade at 611.7 on the Russell. It was a market order. The entry of mine says 612.9, a huge 12 tick difference in price. This was not during news or anything, so I do not understand the huge "spread", plus, this is a DEMO account.
Not only that, the candle I entered is nowhere CLOSE to 612.9. If you look at the attached picture, it did not hit 612.9 until the next candle, roughly 5 minutes after my entry.
Lastly, I reloaded my chart just one minute later, refreshing my data. My candles were totally different, and that is a big deal to me. My entries are pretty exact: and I enter only on candle that open above my moving entry. Well on the chart I took the trade my candle DID open above it, but when I refreshed, it showed that it was opened BELOW my Moving average (look at pics). What? Does this have something to do with it being a range chart or something? And why is my entry just floating in space (look at pics)?
Attached in this thread is the two pictures.
ALSO: I used an ATM strategy that if I am +5 in profit, my Stop Loss is moved to break even +1 . . . . But my exit says negative five in the pictures, and that was never touched either. As you can see, that SL is floating in space as well.
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