Hit the Limit or Melt the Market - Order Types

What order type do you use most for auto/quant based trading?

  • Market Fill Order

    Votes: 1 50.0%
  • Limit Fill Order

    Votes: 1 50.0%
  • 'Human' Interface Worked Fill

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    2
  • Poll closed .
Post to encourage discussion regarding your automated system's preferred order types and/or method of actualizing your cause to enter/exit a position in a market.

I'm sure much has been said about this in the past, but as technology and the nature of the markets have changed so much in recent cycles, I think a new exchange could be fruitful for everyone.

Primary Arguments: Does your program normally conduct business through market orders or limit orders?

Tangent Arguments: Are there people who are using a 'human' fill mechanicism? What are other alternative and popular methods besides market and limit for fully automated trading?

Tangent Arguments: What additional coding have people found necessary or helpful above and beyond the standard market/limit uses?

Tangent Arguments: To what degree have you had to change your order method to better complement or in some cases compete against your broker?

Tangent Arguments: All about liquidity. What are the perspectives regarding the changing liquidity situation, the sometimes absence of effective market makers (thinking of a recent Trader's Mag. article), and what to do when your boat is too big for the harbor.


Hopefully we'll get a number of good post here. Thanks guys.
 
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