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One little ol' programmer?
Jim Bronke
Phoenix, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Simms" <prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mark Baze" <mark_baze@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: Addendum: "New Orders" dialog box problem
> Mark - nice workaround....
> and note, be sure to mention this bug to that little programmer that Omega
> hired
> to fix TS2000i bugs.
> He currently is reviewing line-by-line all estimated 1 million lines of
code
> in TS2000i.
> Maybe he can find this one.
> Maybe not.
>
> Anyone betting ?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Baze [mailto:mark_baze@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:59 AM
> > To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Addendum: "New Orders" dialog box problem
> >
> >
> > Regarding my previous post about only a single "New
> > Orders" dialog box appearing even though the
> > EasyLanguage code contains *both* a protective stop
> > and a target limit order to be placed, as I'm watching
> > now in realtime, I forgot that there is an even worse
> > problem:
> >
> > When an entry order signal is generated, e.g., from a
> > market order to buy at close, initially 3 dialog boxes
> > appear, one saying place a Market Order, one saying
> > you now have an Open Position, and one saying that
> > your order has been Filled. The single protective
> > stop dialog box that I was referring to earlier
> > actually does not appear until the close of the
> > *subsequent* bar. Further, *neither* the protective
> > stop order nor the target limit order are sent to the
> > Tracking Center until the close of that subsequent
> > bar.
> >
> > Thus, for example, if one is working off of 15 min
> > bars, it takes an additional 15 min after generation
> > of the entry signal for the single dialog box with the
> > stop order to appear and (worse) for the stop and
> > limit orders to appear in the Tracking Center.
> > Fifteen minutes is a lifetime in futures trading.
> >
> > As a workaround, I write into the code language to
> > have the stop and limit values immediately displayed
> > as text on the screen beside the entry bar.
> >
> > Is this what other people have to do as well or do I
> > not have something set correctly so that the stop and
> > limit information is sent immediately to the Tracking
> > Center?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
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