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"Master Strategy" execution not always the same

Posted: May 10 2011
by atata
MC DOM - "Strategy Parameters" "Master Strategy"
I've started to experiment with "Strategy Parameters" "Master Strategy".
Overall I believe MC has the right idea regards to the easiness of setting up an automated strategy however I am not getting all the time what I am expecting.

I've set up a very basic strategy to buy 3 contracts and sell 1 at let say for the example at 8 pips/ticks gain than the 2nd position at 15 pips/ticks gain and than the 3rd target is 100 pips/ticks. Sometimes the strategy will execute properly and the orders are at IB and the DOM as expected however sometime the profit target is only 1 sell order for 3 contracts rather than as desired above. Stop seemed to be ok.

It seems this most likely would happen when the fill does not happen "in the same time" for the 3 contracts.

atata

Re: "Master Strategy" execution not always the same

Posted: May 12 2011
by Stanley Miller
atata, this seems to be important issue. However we need a lot of details in order to reproduce the issue on our end. If possible please make a video of the issue (or set of screenshots) and post it here or send to support@multicharts.com.

Re: "Master Strategy" execution not always the same

Posted: May 12 2011
by Guest
well, this is going to be tuff for 2 reasons. I am "trading for a living" therefore limited time and on the machine I am trading on do not have any software I could record with and I don't intend to install one either. Hope you understand.

Basically trade the cl on an IB paper account after hours and you shall be able to reproduce it as well.

Re: "Master Strategy" execution not always the same

Posted: May 13 2011
by Stanley Miller
atata, unfortunately we were not able to reproduce this on our end and your description is not enough to consider this as a bug. Please make at least a couple of screenshots next time you'll see this behavior.