Can't Cancel Live Orders: Pre-Submitting Orders and How to Stop Them

[Newant]

Hello,

So this week, my cash value fell under the $2000 margin requirement on Interactive Brokers. I decided to switch all my strategies this morning to the Sim101 account, but unbeknown to me, I couldn't start up one strategy as I kept getting this error:



I went to go check my Orders & Trades section in the IBKR portal only to realize that I have pre-submitted orders yesterday on the live account.

1) I found a link to a previous support ticket which suggests that the order is stuck in the local NinjaTrader Database. Should I generate a new NinjaTrader DB?

1a) If I were to generate a new NinjaTrader DB, would copying my current files (historical data, templates, strategies, etc) be as easy as merging certain folders?

2) Is there a setting that I can change on NinjaTrader that will stop my strategies from sending pre-submitted orders to IKBR?


Thanks,
Anton Abramovych

[NinjaTrader_Giovanna]

Hello Newant,

Thanks for writing in.

Have you contacted your broker to verify if you have any open live positions?
Are there any open positions in Control Center > Positions?
If so, are you able to right-click and select 'Close position'?

If you were to generate a new DB, you would not be able to merge the old DB with the new one.

The is not a built-in setting within NinjaTrader that would stop my strategies from sending pre-submitted orders. This is a behavior that you may want to build into your strategy.

Please let us know if you have further questions.

[Newant]

I haven't contacted Interactive Brokers per se about this matter, but I have seen a pre-submitted order yesterday that I closed today.

There is an open position on FISV with a quantity of 2, it should be 1 but I'm curious to see what'll happen on exit.

Wait, so I can't just take the bin folder and replace it with the new DB's bin?

What if I cancel them automatically instead with Time in force, would that work?

[NinjaTrader_Giovanna]

Hello Newant,

Thanks for your reply.

You are able to create a new DB, however, you cannot merge/combine 2 DB files, if you replace that file, all of your data will be lost. If you want to keep that data, rename your DB file instead.
If you are able to build a strategy that cancels an order automatically, rather than rely on the TIF to close and order, then that can be utilized.

Please let us know if you have further questions.