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Adding Shares to an Existing Order
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Adding Shares to an Existing Order
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Vinay Elite    Posts: 640 Joined: 12/9/2011 Location: Planet Earth  User Profile |
"While in trade, it is possible to increase the amount of shares on a position." But I am unable to do it because "Add Order" button is greyed out. Moreover various Tabs shown in the help file like Pending Orders, Open Orders etc. are not visible in my installation. (OT2013 Pro PR-2M) | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage   Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
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| Vinay Elite Posts: 640 Joined: 12/9/2011 Location: Planet Earth User Profile |
Originally written by 291234 on 6/8/2013 1:36 AM I found out that this is by design. You cannot add more shares to an existing position if it was opened with a trade plan. The trade plan has to be removed first. Can you enlighten me about the reasoning behind this behavior? What about the OT help file topic "Trading with OmniTrader/Trade Plans/Adding Shares to an Existing Order" which states that: "While in trade, it is possible to increase the amount of shares on a position." [Edited by Vinay on 6/8/2013 4:58 AM] | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
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| Jim Dean Sage  Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
Wow that is interesting! Key question - if you do that (remove change reapply), how does the newly-reattached TP know what step is currently in place? If the TP involves scaling in or out, how can it know what events have already transpired? | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
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| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
1. Position was already taken using initial Trade Plan with 600 shares entered but not yet exited. 2. Init TP is cancelled but position remains, and new TP replaces it. I presume that the NEW plan will ENTER an additional 400 shares, so now the broker sees 1000 shares Long. 3. The new TP does not know about the init 600 shares so those shares are UNMANAGED at this point. When the TP finally exits, there will still be 600 shares needing manual handling. Is this correct? If so, then I suggest that you do not recommend to people to delete and replace trade plans with new ones once the trade is in progress ... many folks might miss what's going on. OT NEEDS A FORMAL MECHANISM for increasing # shares, yet STILL MAINTAINING the management by TP of the entire position. I hope I'm wrong about this, btw. | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
1. Position was already taken using initial Trade Plan with 600 shares entered but not yet exited. 2. The TP is cancelled but position remains. 400 shares are then added to the position. 3. Attach new TP. Now you have a trade plan managing 1000 shares with stops managing the 1000 shares (unless otherwise directed in your TP). | |||
| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
Please explain in detail ... pictures if necessary. Step 3 needs elaboration. Thanks. I hope you are right. But I just don't understand how the new TP knows to only ENTER 400 more shares, but that it has to EXIT 1000 shares. Normally that would create an error in the TP since the in's and out's would be unbalanced. [Edited by Jim Dean on 6/10/2013 12:14 PM] | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
2. Right-click blue chevron & remove the TP. 3. Right-click blue chevron & add 5 more shares to the existing position. 4. Right-click & remove the TP again. Due to the how the Trade Manager & the TP work together it's necessary. 5. Right-click & apply the TP (any TP you want with wherever you want the stops placed). Now there is a TP managing 15 shares. If you want a multiple step TP that handles the 10 share order separate from the 5 share order you could have a TP that does so.  Attached file : Untitled1.jpg (78KB - 756 downloads) Attached file : Untitled2.jpg (17KB - 720 downloads) Attached file : Untitled3.jpg (103KB - 727 downloads) Attached file : Untitled4.jpg (74KB - 730 downloads) | |||
| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
Here is the point ... in your final snap, it says "Buy 15 shares of Apple" So, once you submit it, won't that cause OT to BUY 15 SHARES? I'm sorry but I just don't follow what is happening, when. Does the second step, with 5 shares, fire off the buy order? if so, how does the third step know NOT to buy anything? I have absolutely no clue how two different trade plans could manage different pieces of the 15 shares, as suggested by your final sentence. THIS IS WHY (amongst other reasons), up till now, I've traded manually. The interface is just plain confusing to me. Sorry! | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
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| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
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| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
Just have 1 stop sell 33% of the position & another sell 67%, or something like that. | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
It knows there's an open position for 15 shares - it's in the paper portfolio (or broker). | |||
| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
I think I'm getting it now. Thanks for your patience. I'm so used to modifying TP's as a part of a STRATEGY that I struggle with the "dynamic mod's" possible via chevrons. Is it true that if a trade "starts off" via a STRATEGY, that once it becomes active (automatically), the chevrons appear and these mod's you are describing can be done, without modifying the Strategy itself? Dumb question but important to me. THanks again. | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
I believe the only way that a strategy TP could become active automatically is with OmniPilot. So if that happens & there is an active position with a TP then yes it can be modified as described above. Keep in mind once the TP is actively managing a position the strategy is no longer a part of the process, save for one Pilot setting to close positions on exit signals. You can even make changes to the strategy TP & the TP that is managing the position won't be affected. | |||
| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
Thank you again! | |||
| Vinay Elite Posts: 640 Joined: 12/9/2011 Location: Planet Earth User Profile |
1. What is the rational behind having to follow such a circuitous route for a simple task like adding more shares to an existing order? Why the "Trade Manager" interface comes into picture? 2. If the only way to achieve it is the steps you enumerated above then what the "Add Order" button on the "Orders" tab in the Trade Plan is meant for? I would imagine that this is the most logical and intuitive place to add shares to an existing order. | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
As far as I know, trade plans never had the ability to add shares to existing positions, it's still a feature request. The Trade Manager & Quick Trade interfaces came later & they were implemented with share adding already in mind. I agree that the above method isn't ideal. Hopefully at some point an improvement can be made to the trade plan interface to do this with an easier method. | |||
| Vinay Elite Posts: 640 Joined: 12/9/2011 Location: Planet Earth User Profile |
1. It is NOT possible to add shares to an existing order using Trade Plan interface, for that we need to use Trade Manager interface. It is for this reason we need to remove Trade Plan and and attach Trade Manager to add more shares to an existing order. 2. Since we want to manage our trades through Trade Plans and not through Trade manager (which was used just to add more shares due to limitation of Trade Plans), we need to remove Trade Manager and attach Trade Plan again. This time in the Trade Plan interface the Orders items like Quantity, Buy & Sell buttons, Trade Calculator etc will be greyed out since we already have position there. However we can apply any Trade Plans and change conditions to manage our trade. The Trade Plan is "aware" of our existing positions and can manage them as we want. | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
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| Vinay Elite Posts: 640 Joined: 12/9/2011 Location: Planet Earth User Profile |
2. I find it easier to add shares using Quick Trade interface instead of Trade Manager. Is this also a valid approach? [Edited by Vinay on 9/20/2013 3:22 AM] | |||
| Barry Cohen Sage Posts: 6308 Joined: 1/19/2004 User Profile |
You can use Quick Trade to add shares instead of the Trade Manager, sure. |
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