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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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