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OmniTrader Feature Requests
Trade Plan Refresh? |
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John J![]() Posts: 272 Joined: 8/3/2010 Location: Leduc, AB ![]() | Hi Barry, If I happen to update a TP under Edit->Trade Plan, it won't update any strategy which uses this TP as well. If I want to use the latest TP update in the strategy, I have to first deselect it and then reselect it under Trade Plan Source. This is usually not a problem if there's just one strategy. However, with ATM one may have for instance 10 strategies. If I want to use the very same updated TP in all of them, the repeated deselect/reselect gets tedious. Would it be possible to incorporate a refresh button as described below? ![]() | ||||
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Jim Dean![]() Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA ![]() | Or, just automatically refresh :-) Glad you mentioned this. I never noticed that “what seems natural” wasn’t happening, since I normally rename with Save As when I change things. | ||||
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John J![]() Posts: 272 Joined: 8/3/2010 Location: Leduc, AB ![]() | Hi Jim, Yes, what we see in the TP Editing Template is just a derivative of the original TP hence the heading "Based On". If they automated the refreshing, it wouldn't allow for derivatives of the original TP to exist (i.e. it would always get overwritten, which may not be desirable). | ||||
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Jim Dean![]() Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA ![]() | I thought that’s what the Save As button was there for. Maybe I’m missing something. No worries. | ||||
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John J![]() Posts: 272 Joined: 8/3/2010 Location: Leduc, AB ![]() | Try for yourself If you're unaware of this, I suspect there a lot of others being unaware.... | ||||
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Barry Cohen![]() Posts: 6338 Joined: 1/19/2004 ![]() |
That's by design. With the exception of OL code, strategies are supposed to be self contained, so that if you share a strategy you don't also have to share a trade plan. And as such, you are able to make a change to a strategy's trade plan separate from the global template.
I see your argument why this can be useful, but the way it is now is also useful. Imagine having 10 strategies using the same trade plan, but each has a different parameter or setting. Then you change the trade plan template, it updates all 10 strategies to now be the same. Even worse - you wouldn't even know what strategies changed. Of course, there could be added UI telling you which strategies would change, warnings, etc, & the trade plan code is very complicated, so a change like this could potentially lead to other issues.
You don't have to click a different trade plan. Just click the dropdown once & select the same trade plan. | ||||
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John J![]() Posts: 272 Joined: 8/3/2010 Location: Leduc, AB ![]() | Hi Barry, I think you misunderstood. A Refresh button would ONLY refresh the TP displayed in the Trade Plan Source drop down window, which only applies to the specific strategy that it is attached to. So other strategies that use the same TP would be unaffected (eg. you would have to click the refresh button on each one of them). | ||||
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Barry Cohen![]() Posts: 6338 Joined: 1/19/2004 ![]() | I see, yes I misunderstood. You're asking for a button that does with one click what you currently get with 2 clicks. | ||||
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John J![]() Posts: 272 Joined: 8/3/2010 Location: Leduc, AB ![]() | Exactly Barry.. |