"buy to cover" stop order submitted as market order

[hairymug]

I have the following code:

ExitShortStop(Close[0]+(ATR(3)[0]*.5)* numAtrsS,"SE");

But all the orders were submitted as "Market"... ( I verfied this in the log)

Since I do not use market orders in my strategy, why were "stop" orders converted to "market"?

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello hairymug,

Thank you for your post.

What does the Orders tab of the Control Center report the orders as?

Can you provide a screenshot of your Log tab displaying the order as market?

[koganam]

I have the following code:

ExitShortStop(Close[0]+(ATR(3)[0]*.5)* numAtrsS,"SE");

But all the orders were submitted as "Market"... ( I verfied this in the log)

Since I do not use market orders in my strategy, why were "stop" orders converted to "market"?

ExitShortStop() is a Stop order. Stop Orders are market orders for any broker, and NinjaTrader honors the tradition. If you want to use StopLimit orders, then do so. the call is ExitShortStopLimit().

ref: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...tstoplimit.htm

[hairymug]

<<ExitShortStop() is a Stop order. Stop Orders are market orders for any broker, and NinjaTrader honors the tradition>>

Wel then how come the other "stop" orders were listed as "stop" Orders??

[hairymug]

Patrick,
The Orders tab has them as "Market"...
BTW; All my entries were marked as "stop" (as expected)

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello hairymug,

Thank you for your response.

Please send me your log and trace files for today so that I may look into what occurred.

You can do this by going to the Control Center-> Help-> Mail to Platform Support.

Please reference place this thread in the subject of your e-mail: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ad.php?t=70325

Please list 'ATTN: Patrick - 1199264' in the body of the e-mail.

[hairymug]

Thank you,
One thing; I had just set up my VPS and the time was off for the first half of the day...

[koganam]

<<ExitShortStop() is a Stop order. Stop Orders are market orders for any broker, and NinjaTrader honors the tradition>>

Wel then how come the other "stop" orders were listed as "stop" Orders??

It does not matter what they are marked: what matters is how they are handled.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello hairymug,

Thank you for sending in those files.

I do see the BuyToCover orders as market. I am also seeing that the short entry is filled but no orders are submitted until a disconnect occurs and then a re-connect, in which case we see the market orders.

Can you send your strategy .cs file to platformsupport[at]ninjatrader[dot]com with this thread in the subject line and 'ATTN: Patrick - 1199264' in the subject line?
You will find the strategy .cs file under (My) Documents\NinjaTrader 7\bin\Custom\Strategy