Recent content by dogarrhea

how do you get one or the other to cancel 100% reliably? I imagine there's some latency where you could potentially hit both of your orders if you are doing it manually.

So what you do is: 1. create a limit order 2. create 2 more conditional limit orders based on the limit order a. condition is that original limit order is executed and cancel if one or the other closing orders is executed This wouldn't work when you have multiple closing orders...

The problem isn't so much "putting real money" in but separating each strategy so their orders to interfere with the orders of the other strategies. In the OP, I mentioned the problem of cross orders getting repriced.

This is the problem. If you say, put in a bracket order for stock A order #1, and then another bracket order for stock A, order #2, then order #1 gets executed, it messes with order #2 even though it's still waiting around. And even if it didn't mess with it, and order #2's parent order got...

I am trying to have multiple sessions in TWS. Each session has its own strategy/algo/whatever trading in that session. Is this possible? I would imagine that if you set up 10 real accounts, you can have 10 paper accounts as well, and therefore have 10 different sessions/trader...